scenes make me nervous.
artists collaboratives make me jealous.


Wham City
is the group associated with Dan Deacon.
Article on them in the baltimore city paper.

http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/index.htm

Ummm... the world is in need of a Claxton cam.

For book club... I think this is something we all can relate to.

Description:
After a successful life in the drug game, twenty-one-year-old Kisa Kane plans to retire -- settle down, find a good man, and raise a family of her own. Done with the thug life, she has everything a ghetto girl would want: plenty of money, drop-dead-gorgeous looks, and two thriving legitimate businesses. Until she falls in love with Sincere Montega, a powerful drug dealer whose down-and-dirty money pulls Kisa back into the world she is trying so hard to leave behind. With lies, cheating, and conflict, Kai, their newborn, may be the only reason for this couple to stay together, but their lives are inevitably changed in the most unexpected way, the only way the streets of Harlem can.

Comments:
"This book had me glued to the pages I stayed up til wee hours of the morning reading this book. Kisa was off the hook. Im not gone lie that chick had made, sexy rich man, good friends, and a caring family. What more could any woman ask for. Danielle Santiago did her thing I can't wait to finish Grindin cuase this book is off the hook too."

"This book was awesome! Praise for D. Santiago...You go Diva...She put it down with this one... "

hopkins art buildings by williams tsien.
the grayish looking bricks are the same red bricks with some sort of splattered "paint" on them. and translucent lettering.

old shit at the walters.

MICA brown center by ziger snead architects. shit weather. bad tiling of panoramas. and cool-shit fritted glass.

the first of my museum-and-building-hopping-in-baltimore posts. these are from the BMA. i have a video of the automated drawing machine by gauthier, the kaleidoscopic pavillion is olafur eliasson, box by judd, and a typical dan flavin. sunday museum hopping is like going to church.

I've been thinking of attempting to initiate an online book club on carlitos. This was brought on because I'm rereading Frampton's Studies in Tectonic Culture and some of his section on tradition left me scratching my head. I'm not sure how well it would work. I would enjoy the obligation to write a response and have more time to proofread my thoughts as it were. It might be a little more difficult to engage when conversations take place over several days.

All of this questioning is rendered moot by a new thread on Archinect. This will allow us to see how an online book club might work. And as its already architecture oriented, it will be a very applicable model.

I also don't read enough these days and I thought this 'encouraged' reading might help me regain my appetite for books. I still like buying them, just don't get around to reading them quickly.

cue the miami vice theme music and fire up google image search in your browser,
for some damn-suave kirk gridley.

not really worthy of a post, but these green lines in the concrete are from where water spills off of a linear series of oxidizing copper canopies.

could be a great trick. more subtle and compelling than the parking garage.

also appeared as my post at EenPerDag for 05/24/07

"passed" on to me by a friend in the medical research field.

Looking for a new bikini for Inherwonker... These are just some of the highlights.

revised the bed i was working on to better proportions, more like the original drawings, and trial and errored the headboard height for minimum height while still comfortable. added a center rail instead of a suspended support. but in doing so messed up the slat bearing--i think it will be beneficial to make the slats a connected system instead of individual pieces. the cuts are all a little too loose, i think im going to pack the joints with felt to make them tighter [in the mockup atleast] and dampen any creaking.

I understand that this is not typical of Carlito's... but I figured that it plays such a large part of Ryan's life that it is possibly something that needs to be addressed. They have added vitamins to Diet Coke, so is it now acceptable for Ryan to drink nothing else?

Inspired by the new Interview site (http://www.interviewmagazine.com/) I put together a rough of a jar site. The idea is that the window will be as wide as the month. Nothing fancy. Just good old fashioned scrolling, flipped horizontally.

Ignore the script. Its a pick-up from my other jpg. Feedback is welcome.

I've been following this comic for the past month or so as they took Dilbert away in the local paper. This plotline started on April 30th. I enjoy that they are throwing in esoteric info to typical comics routines of silly threats and 'zap, bam, pow' violence. Not esoteric to us, but to most of the comics readers.

"...I'll hit you so hard Andrea Palladio won't be able to make your face symmetrical again!"
"Oh Snap!"

print i gave my sister, framed in their nursery.$20 dollar ikea blanket test. 70"x110".
placement was a little looser than i would've liked, but in typical fashion i just sort of did it.
back side of the blanket is black.