confessions of a wouldbe d00zer

L.A. Story

2009-10-16T20:17:00.000-07:00

12 hours in LA. that's the plan.

what?

2009-10-16T11:57:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-30T00:39:00.001-07:00

*finally*

indoor projection

2008-10-09T23:39:00.000-07:00

_tight_... from here

neato

2008-10-05T23:38:00.000-07:00

these make me very, very happy

2008-10-04T23:28:00.001-07:00

graphic design and data visualization project of note

2008-09-22T11:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.lilypiyathaisere.com/

girl and giraffe

2008-09-13T20:30:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-13T15:29:00.000-07:00

you really need to see for yourself.

Michael Doyle's wacky poster of doom

2008-09-13T01:48:00.000-07:00

via iso50 blog

pininfarina by Benedict Redgrove

2008-09-13T01:41:00.004-07:00

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

nude by Radiohead

2008-09-13T01:16:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-04T00:28:00.001-07:00

from here

inner-city snail

2008-06-16T13:09:00.000-07:00

there is something brilliant about this

Polish suprematist 3d graffiti

2008-06-16T13:07:00.000-07:00

truth... awesome.

more stuff of the Oded persuation

2008-06-13T17:54:00.000-07:00

apparently an ode to a poet. HOT.

wireframe shoes

2008-05-19T16:58:00.001-07:00

more diagonal movements

2008-05-19T16:54:00.001-07:00

exploded view

2008-05-19T16:50:00.000-07:00

from Holger Pooten photography.

I LOVE YOU BUT I HAVE CHOSEN DARKNESS

2008-05-14T11:25:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-10T21:02:00.000-07:00

...for the Manchester art car show

infinity

2008-04-28T12:10:00.000-07:00

here

yet another derivative of the infamous monster

2008-04-20T23:59:00.000-07:00

everybody be biting the style of the OG monster. tisk-tisk. i think the original monster was much more of a raw _force_. while i never saw it in person, the damn thing seems moody and crankier than any of the derivatives out there, like it could beat the living crap out of the fronter projects. props to the peeps involved in the OG monster. you know who you are. *pouring a Mickeys on to the curb*

coolness in Brussels

2008-04-20T23:56:00.000-07:00

when day-glo orange sticks revolt...

long exposure

2008-04-14T12:48:00.001-07:00

from here