L.A. Story

12 hours in LA. that's the plan.

what?

every major milestone i've been working towards in for the past 2+ years has been obliterated. Pratt turned out to be a house of pain. New York, triply so. in my explorations, i've found a place that seems perfect, MIT, but the requirements for admission place it, at minimum, two years out. and i can't help but be concerned that MIT would consider me a subpar applicant, even with the college level Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology courses they require.

what have i been doing since i left Apple? i don't honestly know anymore. i thought i had established a path to something that would be an expression of me and result in true happiness. yet the goal of just studying architecture keeps getting further and further away, with less and less certainly of anything except more and more work to take each step. i'm not enrolled anywhere. there are no prospects to be enrolled anywhere. back in San Francisco, with no clear or even sketchy vector.

i guess i should just keep searching. is there anything to be found, in me or for me in the world?

modular fridge

*finally*

indoor projection

_tight_... from here

neato

these make me very, very happy

graphic design and data visualization project of note

http://www.lilypiyathaisere.com/

girl and giraffe

from mcsweeney's 22: F. Scott Fitzgerald apparently kept a list of 32 ideas, which he published, but did not live long enough to realize. one of those ideas was simply, "girl and giraffe".

spaghetti cat is watching you

you really need to see for yourself.

Michael Doyle's wacky poster of doom

via iso50 blog

pininfarina by Benedict Redgrove

...it came from the 60's to do battle with us all.

nude by Radiohead

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo

you really gotta let it play for a little while to fully appreciate it. yes, i know the first 30 seconds is annoying. just bare with it... it's worth it, dear readers (of whom there are none).

apropos this post, there is also Paul Slocum, who makes synths out of dot matrix printers...

check out this wonderfully haunting interlude, by Mr Slocum.

so much wonderful

from here

inner-city snail

there is something brilliant about this

Polish suprematist 3d graffiti

truth... awesome.

more stuff of the Oded persuation

apparently an ode to a poet. HOT.

wireframe shoes

more diagonal movements

exploded view

from Holger Pooten photography.

I LOVE YOU BUT I HAVE CHOSEN DARKNESS

because i didn't really get to go into anything at the presentation, here's my spiel:

My chosen title was: "I love you, but i have chosen darkness". why do i choose this descriptor? as a indication of the mindset of the person traveling through darkness, getting a sense of the beauty and wonder surrounding her, but then plunging back into darkness. The title also serves as a reference to the ecstatic religious experiences that were often the subject of Baroque sculpture, as in, "I Love you" (humanity addressing god), "...but I have chosen darkness" (humanity continuing to be human, versus existing in the revelatory light). i'm not a religious person at all, but i find it fascinating that religious leaders of the Baroque co-opted the corporeal, sensual experiences as a means to relate to the divine.

the handwritten words that you see in the darkness are quotes from a book called, "Art & Ecstasy", my favorite being, "Let me alone. I am in love", which is what an aged Bernini said to an assistant who tried to spirit him away from a marble sculpture after an 18hr day.

please note: there is a grey screen artifact that for some reason popped up when i uploaded to youtube. please disregard that.

wireframe lamborghini

...for the Manchester art car show

infinity

here