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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:06:08 -0600

"She really inspires me. Not that I’m going to DO anything about it, but I’m inspired."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:32:51 -0500

“She really inspires me. Not that I’m going to DO anything about it, but I’m inspired.”

- F.B.

"Finding death sucks. But being with someone dying is an honour."

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:45:51 -0500

“Finding death sucks. But being with someone dying is an honour.”

- SN, in a nurses’ discussion of their professional presence during births and deaths

"I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation..."

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:53:44 -0500

“I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves. In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.”

- Keith Bardwell, ignorant parish justice of the peace who’s made the news for refusing marriage license to an interracial couple.

Breathtaking pumpkin carving, posted to Flickr by MuddyRabbit.

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:34:56 -0500

Breathtaking pumpkin carving, posted to Flickr by MuddyRabbit.

"I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old..."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:32:17 -0500

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

- John Cage

currently reading

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:31:03 -0500

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

"If we are going to be empowered by interactivity, cinema is DEAD. Sitting in the dark, a crowd..."

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:00:00 -0500

“If we are going to be empowered by interactivity, cinema is DEAD. Sitting in the dark, a crowd staring in the same direction at a parallelogram of light, missing 270º of the world behind you, sitting absolutely still for a feature length narrative, which is now about 120 minutes. Who in bed last night SLEEPING stayed in the same position for 120 minutes?”

- Peter Greenaway (slight paraphrasing per my notes)

"If the question of where to start seems overwhelming, you are at the beginning, not the end of this..."

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:14:00 -0500

“If the question of where to start seems overwhelming, you are at the beginning, not the end of this venture. Being overwhelmed is the first step if you are serious about trying to get at things that really matter on a scale that makes a difference.”

- Liz Coleman

First snow peas are growing in the window! This one is a bit...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:50:00 -0500

First snow peas are growing in the window! This one is a bit bigger than my pinky fingernail.

Onion deconstruction while making a stir fry. (veg + tofu +...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:45:52 -0500

Onion deconstruction while making a stir fry.

(veg + tofu + Sriracha + sweet chili sauce + fresh coriander and mint = 20 minute success)

Little Shop of Horrors: shrunken heads, chocolate anuses, and a fine assortment of teas. (Oh, London!)

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:40:00 -0500

Little Shop of Horrors: shrunken heads, chocolate anuses, and a fine assortment of teas. (Oh, London!):

shove off, roommate. i want to watch this show about roommates.

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

I thrive in cooperative living. That said, I am sympathetic that traditional roommate situations lack most of the framework that makes a co-op function smoothly, and many people move into their first solo place with a sigh of relief.

When I overhear the bashing of a shared living space, I try to illustrate a bit of cooperative housing perspective and advocate the advantages, to show how vibrant and sustainable such a lifestyle can be if approached outside the typical expectations of “being roommates.”

However I bit my lip today. The complaint that folks at the coffee shop were rabbiting on about was THE TELEVISION. How marvelous it is to live alone, so that you can watch the TV that you want, when you want. And sudden cynicism struck me: my existing sympathies toward the difficult of being plain-old-roommates centered on assumed chasms in the standards of cleanliness of the bathroom or the kitchen… maybe on the annoyance of someone paying their rent share late… but what a large part of it boiled down to was people wanted to be the boss of their boob tube.

Everyone asks about the existence of privacy in the co-op. I always found it easy to sneak to another part of the house, or close the door of my room. But many modern people find their privacy in the voyeuristic zone-out watching television, a strange privacy bubble that physically impacts the surroundings by monopoly of light and sound. So we see: everyone is willing to house-share with other people, so long as are the scripted 2D type.

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:46:50 -0500

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”

- HG Wells

22,000 paces walked today in sunshine. St Kilda, Middle Park,...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

22,000 paces walked today in sunshine. St Kilda, Middle Park, Albert Park, Port Melbourne, South Melbourne. These wild bits were among the swan poop surrounding Albert Park Lake. I found a salmon-coloured shell, savoured a spicy veggie burger, and saw a buttery-brown fella wearing his shorts rolled into a buttocks bookmark, perhaps more troubling than if he’d actually donned a thong.

Leaving the foreshore, the neighborhoods were leafy and green. I contemplated fencing a lot (the yard delimination, not the sport). The dozens of photos shot today (theme: fences posing as Mondrian) are likely to evolve into an essay contemplating Australian, US American, and Irish takes on the landscape of land parcels. Is there a term for studying the architecture and anthropology of physical dividers?

media

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:52:08 -0500

Recommended to me:

How Buildings Learn (a book by Stewart Brand)
1 Giant Leap (DVD of the concept band and multimedia collaboration started by Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman)

Independently interested in checking out:

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (a book by Matthew Froderick)
The Principles of Uncertainty (a book by artist Maira Kalman)

"I’m homesick and all, but I just don’t think PBR is going to cut it anymore."

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:36:11 -0500

“I’m homesick and all, but I just don’t think PBR is going to cut it anymore.”

- B.P., touring Germany with his band

The seed pod that launched a thousand curiosities: the gum nut....

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:30:00 -0500

The seed pod that launched a thousand curiosities: the gum nut. I am currently fascinated by Australian seed architecture.

I spotted these “juicies” immediately as relatives...

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:25:55 -0500

I spotted these “juicies” immediately as relatives to the wild sorrel in Chicago. I love the buds, but school kids here munch on the sour stems.

No Junk Mail.

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:19:00 -0500

No Junk Mail.