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While tooling around the intertubes, I happened upon this little bit of blog advice from 2002: If you’re a woman who hates men, make sure to use a lot of odd misspellings, such as womyn and grrls to let men know that you hate them. Make lame comments about how all men are pigs in case [...] Matt Zeitlin makes the case that doctors refusing to give tubal ligations to women under thirty is okay because: …everyone under 30 could use some soft paternalism, and permanent decisions of this nature ought to be extensively thought through, and then thought through some more. Doctor’s also have extensive personal and collective wisdom on [...] This video at Here in Van Nuys documents the love affair between Reyner Banham and LA (a relationship which should join Woody Allen and New York in the Pantheon of man-loves-town couplings). My favorite part (aside from Banham’s beard, which is intimidating) is when he goes to the Watts Towers (Of course! It’s [...] Plus, if rebuilding New Orleans means letting the Corps of Engineers have another go at creating urban art, I’m all for it. Maybe they could get NEA funding. Los Angeles was the first place I chose for myself, and I love it dearly. Particularly West Adams with its beautiful Arts & Crafts homes occupied by working class folk. I’m moving back soon, but until then I can watch this video: [coolplayer width="480" height="380" autoplay="0" loop="0" charset="utf-8" download="0" mediatype=""] One of the problem with arguments that New Orleans shouldn’t be rebuilt (7/20/07 post, no permalink) is that they ignore our government’s history of rebuilding towns in hazardous environments. In 1993 Malibu had its worst fire since the 1930s, killing 3 and doing $1 billion in damage. The town occupies the narrow strip of [...] These new development plans for Abu Dhabi seem like a case study in bad urban planning. To quote what irks Archidose about the projects: :: The assertion of authorship at the scale of the city, Annie Choi’s letter “Dear Architects, I am sick of your shit.” (via PartIV) is all hilarious, but this is my favorite part: And then you say now I am designing a lifestyle center, and I ask what is that, and you say it is a place that offers goods and services and retail opportunities and I [...] I think Yglesias’s “stolen” graph does a lot to show that there are two discrete quanta of Democrats, at least with regards to budget issues. If the Democratic and Republican parties represented left and right economic views, respectively, one would expect the lines showing degree of Republican-ness (for lack of a better term) with [...] My editor has called an end to the bashing of deceased modernists, living hacks, and shrill monuments. Instead, I present the wonders of the Brick Testament: Justice! I love that there are now smirking legos. Brilliant. Go “read” a few verses, it’s good for the soul. Ok ok. So the drawing below doesn’t actually depict my narrative. But there’s no way I had the dedication (or technical skill) to show bodies and toxic waster twisting about in three dimensions. But I was able to put together that nice two-point perspective of the tunnels…take it or leave it. So this is a little embarrassing:
A memorial for Hurricane Katrina was one of the first projects assigned in my architecture design labs. Wanting to differentiate myself, I decided to try for a memorial in the tradition of the Holocaust museum (i.e. not soothing). My memorial was an aquarium. The water was [...] Is that a banana in your skyline…or are you just happ—no, no. It’s definatly a banana. Hopefully, allegations that the tower is a to scale version of developer Sandor Shapery’s anatomy are unfounded. Unfortunately for the residents of San Diego, I doubt the project will be built as long as Shapery offers this defense of his [...] |
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