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

quote from Pierre Huyghe

2008-04-10T16:31:00.000-07:00

"I'm more interested in looking for the transitory than in producing a
conclusion, in traveling in the here and now without going anywhere."

sweet, sweet drawing

2008-04-09T13:08:00.001-07:00

awesome panther-y thing

the roof. the roof. the roof. is. on. fire.

2008-04-09T12:33:00.000-07:00

apparently i'm in the wrong field

2008-04-09T12:30:00.001-07:00

topography as a _table_

2008-04-09T12:27:00.001-07:00

from here

how my head feels

2008-04-09T12:26:00.002-07:00

spiritual journey

2008-04-09T12:26:00.001-07:00

Droste Effect ownz joo

2008-04-09T12:23:00.000-07:00

nice typography

2008-04-09T12:22:00.000-07:00

s'up?

2008-04-07T14:27:00.000-07:00

3d graffiti, reminds me a lot of the paper clothes i've been making:

interesting form

2008-04-07T14:23:00.000-07:00

from here

shipping traffic

2008-04-07T14:22:00.001-07:00

from here

spam as architecture

2008-03-13T15:14:00.000-07:00

yowee!

visualization of earthquake data

2008-03-12T23:25:00.000-07:00

yet another bit of awesomeness from the fellow at flight404:

more assemblage

2008-03-12T22:54:00.001-07:00

inverted mural

2008-03-12T22:51:00.000-07:00

read about it here:

intervalography

2008-03-12T22:44:00.001-07:00

here:

creating sections

2008-03-05T00:04:00.000-08:00

now at sfMOMA, creating sections:

bursting with joy

2008-03-05T00:02:00.001-08:00

from here:

sofa king hot

2008-03-03T23:53:00.000-08:00

by Lee Sam Woong:

ho ho!

2008-03-01T16:59:00.000-08:00

ladies and gentlemen, we have cleaving.

apropos of nothing

2008-03-01T13:46:00.000-08:00

Jeff Koons stuff i actually like:

new york talk exchange

2008-02-28T18:16:00.001-08:00

awesomeness

CAI GUO-QIANG

2008-02-28T17:36:00.001-08:00

kicks your ass and mine...

awesome

2008-02-28T16:57:00.003-08:00

from here...

awareness

2008-02-28T16:53:00.001-08:00

idea: shadows of scissors on paper

2008-02-27T22:17:00.000-08:00

form taken from distorted shadows of scissors on manipulated paper surface.

freakin' sweet

2008-02-27T22:09:00.000-08:00

love it! John Powers inna house. check it, he has a sculpture that looks like a modernist deathstar.

insight

2008-02-27T22:06:00.000-08:00

look at the forms that are created when the lines of the ribbon overlap onto itself. this could be a clue to what i was searching for in the blade/sinous line relationship.

light graffiti!

2008-02-27T12:52:00.000-08:00

from lichtfaktor:

this looks like some cutting

2008-02-27T12:23:00.000-08:00

innnnnnteresting...

cleave

2008-02-27T00:33:00.000-08:00

from here:

more than just floor surface

2008-02-26T10:33:00.000-08:00

bar in Athens:

i need this

2008-02-24T18:00:00.001-08:00

here

digital sculpture

2008-02-24T17:18:00.000-08:00

troika 'cloud'

that font needs more cowbell

2008-02-23T20:47:00.000-08:00

un-fucking-believable. it's a midi moog-like interface for typeface creation. knob twiddling emo guys with cardigans everywhere will soon be creating fonts that possess some wit, loads of irony and a dash of cow bell.

2008-02-22T22:30:00.000-08:00

pluses anyone?

brilliant:

you are here:

analog into transcription:

more cleaving

2008-02-21T17:14:00.001-08:00

found here

void

2008-02-21T17:11:00.000-08:00

by Christian Robert-Tissot

very cute

2008-02-20T21:47:00.000-08:00

...by Ilse Crawford.

stuff

2008-02-20T20:44:00.000-08:00

nice:

via the amazing catalog tree:

the work of Mark Grotjahn:

i lied. here's another

2008-02-14T18:20:00.001-08:00

one more. just because.

2008-02-14T18:10:00.001-08:00

type pervert

2008-02-14T18:09:00.001-08:00

lines rampage

2008-02-14T18:06:00.000-08:00

figure ground, AGAIN?

2008-02-14T17:29:00.000-08:00

from here.

inhale, inhale, inhale

2008-02-14T17:27:00.001-08:00

once i lived....

2008-02-14T17:22:00.001-08:00

2008-02-09T15:20:00.000-08:00

here

apparently not enough

2008-02-09T15:17:00.001-08:00

brodsky & utkin much?

2008-02-09T15:16:00.001-08:00

more graphic goodness + assemblage

2008-02-09T12:08:00.003-08:00

werd

2008-02-08T18:14:00.001-08:00

how to feel miserable

2008-02-08T17:47:00.000-08:00

seems to apply to architecture also. found here.

failure as a means to discovery

2008-02-08T01:41:00.000-08:00

grab:

crash, smash, dash:
sad:

shattering:

more Richard Wilson awesomeness

2008-02-07T18:38:00.000-08:00

Richard Wilson rocks your world.

deformation of plane through attachment of facet to facet

2008-02-06T13:52:00.000-08:00

magnetic curtain created by Florian Krauti...

assemblage, form follows failure

2008-02-06T13:12:00.000-08:00

Richard Wilson, creating spaces by mutating expected forms.

more figure ground bidness

2008-02-04T13:27:00.000-08:00

works by Geraldine Georges

noisey space

2008-02-04T13:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.junmurakoshi.com/main/works/noisy_instrument_01.html

ketubah

2008-02-04T13:07:00.000-08:00

i like how the hebrew text lifts off the paper, in an urgency not often present in typography.

staat

2008-02-04T12:50:00.000-08:00

House of Bols

josef muller-brockman meets daft punk

2008-02-04T12:49:00.001-08:00

work by James White...
the radial planes clashing with a technicolor palette.

things about my thing [in progress]

2008-02-04T12:08:00.000-08:00

cold: i stab you with my icicles

stainless: "i figured if i was going to build a time machine out of a car why not do it with some style?"

ornamental type

2008-02-01T16:21:00.001-08:00

just because...

feltron annual report

2008-01-31T11:29:00.001-08:00

OMG.

amazing annual report! i'm in shock and awe.

dis is MY font

2008-01-28T13:07:00.000-08:00

scissors [ in progress ]

2008-01-28T11:48:00.000-08:00

unexpected vectors produce shadows of the anticipated.

subtractions beget connections beget severed ties beget structure beget fragmentation.

cutting into nothing, cleaving away, permanence in it's division. bleeding from the subtraction.

hands contorted into sharp swishes. carving, cutting, stabbing, freeing.

SCISSORS SWISH THROUGH AIR, CARVE TREE, CUT PAPER, SNAKE, HUMAN, WOLF & SPONGE.

asymmetrical partners joined together to divide the void. using shear pressure to overpower sheer strength.

puncture:

stab:
back stabbing

touchon

2008-01-28T00:06:00.000-08:00

fella named Cecil Touchon cranked out this puppy. seems to be the direction we're headed.

survey says...

2008-01-27T18:15:00.000-08:00

the phrase that Tim will use is:

cleaving breath possesses stolen rapture

someone not there

2008-01-26T12:48:00.001-08:00

"someone great" - lcd soundsystem. surprising how much is surrounding what we usually focus on, eh?

figure ground

2008-01-26T12:33:00.001-08:00

figure ground + typography. the voids created by the closed off letter forms generate an abstract logo. very nice.

knowin' nothin' in life but to be legit'

2008-01-26T11:11:00.000-08:00

don't quote me boy, i ain't said shit...

Love Poem (10 minutes after the end of gravity)

2008-01-26T11:07:00.000-08:00

rapturous!

what happens when water and air meet? play

2008-01-25T13:49:00.000-08:00

these dolphins playing with the interaction between water and air pressures posses the same qualities of the pulsating glass flowers mentioned in my write up of place.