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Posted 14 years ago4 weeks
2 more weeks of design, 2 weeks production ...breathe
2 more weeks of design, 2 weeks production ...breathe
Oh Man
Posted 14 years agoAny Owens Valley Furs????
Posted 14 years agoSorry that my journals are basically solicitations regarding my research nowadays. The geographic spread of furries is REALLY useful, btw. I have a friend who brags about her couch-surfing.. who needs that right?
Any furs in the Owens Valley of California? This includes any city between Bishop, CA and Olancha, CA, but you would know that.
Any furs in the Owens Valley of California? This includes any city between Bishop, CA and Olancha, CA, but you would know that.
Japanese
Posted 14 years agoAnyone want to help me translate some Japanese signage?
AMPED
Posted 14 years ago36 HOURS NONSTOP
so ready
so ready
May the Bullshit Be with You
Posted 14 years agoFeel the bullshit flowing through you. It's in every rock, and tree... it binds us all.
http://www.ruderal.com/bullshit/bullshit.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_urbanism
http://www.ruderal.com/bullshit/bullshit.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_urbanism
Hi
Posted 14 years agoI've nothing much to say but I feel like speaking to 6000 people. Anyway, I'm pretty uptight about school because I've got about 9 days to pull 10 months of research together into one full iteration of an urban design project.
Making things worse is the fact that I'm pinning-up with 5 of perhaps the best UD students in the world today. I'm not as good as them and have only gotten this far because I recant the right concepts about the nested potential of infrastructure and ecology. I also tend to make nice final renderings. Oy.
It's very hard to take abstract ideas about landscape and development patterning, and comparing them to then yield a new synthesis between the two - one that will actually be useful and is not just repeating existing conditions. I know that doesn't make much sense without going into my work, but nobody wants to read a 40 page journal. Part of the reason I can't just project is because a proposal has to be fertilized by process based design.
It's all getting very mind bending. One project seeks to categorize bridge part typologies as quasiobjects which then have predictable agency within the patterning of objects in distant contexts (within the same city). Mine is an attempt to key future ecological scenarios to prepared developement sites across a 300 mile span of desert. Each end is connected by an existing unit of infrastructure reclibrated by the insertion of geofluidical "devices." What a mess.
It's like trying to run through molasses.
Making things worse is the fact that I'm pinning-up with 5 of perhaps the best UD students in the world today. I'm not as good as them and have only gotten this far because I recant the right concepts about the nested potential of infrastructure and ecology. I also tend to make nice final renderings. Oy.
It's very hard to take abstract ideas about landscape and development patterning, and comparing them to then yield a new synthesis between the two - one that will actually be useful and is not just repeating existing conditions. I know that doesn't make much sense without going into my work, but nobody wants to read a 40 page journal. Part of the reason I can't just project is because a proposal has to be fertilized by process based design.
It's all getting very mind bending. One project seeks to categorize bridge part typologies as quasiobjects which then have predictable agency within the patterning of objects in distant contexts (within the same city). Mine is an attempt to key future ecological scenarios to prepared developement sites across a 300 mile span of desert. Each end is connected by an existing unit of infrastructure reclibrated by the insertion of geofluidical "devices." What a mess.
It's like trying to run through molasses.
Anthrocon
Posted 14 years agoI'm going; but only if I find a decent room.
WTF
Posted 14 years agoSorry for two current-events journals in the same day, but this is the best news day we've had in a long time.. well 2 weeks.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/....._n_827256.html
I have this sense of dread that this will happen to me someday...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/....._n_827256.html
I have this sense of dread that this will happen to me someday...
The Koch Call
Posted 14 years agoI read about this in the New York Times of all places:
http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=5045
:) I feel like that explains and exposes everything conservatives have stood for in the last 25 years. I say often that I like conservative ideals, and Nixon is among my favorite presidents. Today, this expose isn't icing on the cake - it is the cake.
http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=5045
:) I feel like that explains and exposes everything conservatives have stood for in the last 25 years. I say often that I like conservative ideals, and Nixon is among my favorite presidents. Today, this expose isn't icing on the cake - it is the cake.
Google Earth Morality
Posted 14 years agoIs it immoral to roll back the Google Earth clock because I need a site developed in the last 3 years?
... My thesis was intended to prevent what has already occurred... Why do my efforts feel so futile? Maybe it's because I chose LOS ANGELES (careful it's coming to a town near you).
... My thesis was intended to prevent what has already occurred... Why do my efforts feel so futile? Maybe it's because I chose LOS ANGELES (careful it's coming to a town near you).
:3
Posted 14 years agoI love you.
Tee Hee
Posted 14 years ago<<Hello everyone,
Tonight from about 7pm to 9pm, the Inflatable in Piper will be re-inflated. If you missed the event last night, or want to experience it again fully-inflated, come on down.
Thanks everyone for coming out last night!
-GSD Inflatables Club.>>
The "student announce" email list comes out with real gems almost every other day...
Including:
"Probably a long shot, but... piano tuning equipment anybody?"
"Computer EXPERT wanted!... My buttmate is having some issues with her laptop. We have cookies and beer."
"Does anyone have a 1/2" ball end CNC bit for polystyrene that I could borrow tonight?"
and
"To the person who built a nest in the 3rd floor men's bathroom... While I am impressed with your craftsmanship, please see a medical professional for your stress problem. If you are an ostrich, congratulations! Baby ostrich!"
Tonight from about 7pm to 9pm, the Inflatable in Piper will be re-inflated. If you missed the event last night, or want to experience it again fully-inflated, come on down.
Thanks everyone for coming out last night!
-GSD Inflatables Club.>>
The "student announce" email list comes out with real gems almost every other day...
Including:
"Probably a long shot, but... piano tuning equipment anybody?"
"Computer EXPERT wanted!... My buttmate is having some issues with her laptop. We have cookies and beer."
"Does anyone have a 1/2" ball end CNC bit for polystyrene that I could borrow tonight?"
and
"To the person who built a nest in the 3rd floor men's bathroom... While I am impressed with your craftsmanship, please see a medical professional for your stress problem. If you are an ostrich, congratulations! Baby ostrich!"
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Photoshop Tutorial
Posted 14 years agoBack to It
Posted 14 years agoI'm back in the American Siberia known as Boston. I like to remind my fellow denizens that we did not end the siege by outwitting the Gage, but rather the British simply gave it up and headed south... history according to Foxer anyway.
I've nothing useful for interesting to say to the fandom. I really want a new fursuit, but after I graduate. Also, no new art until I graduate... at least until I finish Henrieke's badge.
As for my work, I've only just now discovered that a large scale regional land use plan is being made for part of my project site, and will literally be finished a few days before my midproject review. This comes not 1 week after the director of a regional interagency visitor center expressed interest in my presenting my designs to the community... can we say perfect storm?
What sort of art do you like to see from me? These heavily rendered solo pinups? Sketches? The simple toony stuff? Total environments populated by futuristic foxes? Just some one-off curiosity.
I've nothing useful for interesting to say to the fandom. I really want a new fursuit, but after I graduate. Also, no new art until I graduate... at least until I finish Henrieke's badge.
As for my work, I've only just now discovered that a large scale regional land use plan is being made for part of my project site, and will literally be finished a few days before my midproject review. This comes not 1 week after the director of a regional interagency visitor center expressed interest in my presenting my designs to the community... can we say perfect storm?
What sort of art do you like to see from me? These heavily rendered solo pinups? Sketches? The simple toony stuff? Total environments populated by futuristic foxes? Just some one-off curiosity.
San Fernando Valley, Lancaster, Santa Clarita
Posted 15 years agoI'm looking to chat with California furs in:
- San Fernando Valley (living north of the 118, or Ronald Reagan Freeway)
- Santa Clarita Valley
- Lancaster/Palmdale
- California City
- Lone Pine
Speak up if you do!
- San Fernando Valley (living north of the 118, or Ronald Reagan Freeway)
- Santa Clarita Valley
- Lancaster/Palmdale
- California City
- Lone Pine
Speak up if you do!
No Subject
Posted 15 years agoThis saddens me:
http://www.ktvn.com/Global/story.asp?S=13774854
... so do the typos. Reno is awesome.
http://www.ktvn.com/Global/story.asp?S=13774854
... so do the typos. Reno is awesome.
Happy New Year
Posted 15 years agoWisconsin.. all the way.
Do Not Search Yourself
Posted 15 years agoOn ED. I often search myself to just see what crap I've put out there on the net.
I feel bad for others, life is tough.
http://forums.encyclopediadramatica.....d.php?p=295442
Anyway, beyond that amusement, I am bothered by the view most people have on good schools. It's not ok.. so American too.
I feel bad for others, life is tough.
http://forums.encyclopediadramatica.....d.php?p=295442
Anyway, beyond that amusement, I am bothered by the view most people have on good schools. It's not ok.. so American too.
Anyway, About That
Posted 15 years agoI'm a little drunk and I haven't slept more than 8 hours in three days, but that's to be expected given my operative context. Yesterday, I completed my last 'options studio' (choose from a menu of topics). After a while, food, sleep, work, space, and time essentially converge climactically into this blurred tour de-force vis-a-vis rapid modeling of mutliple prototypes generated through 4 months of research. The project was good, created arguments, but you always make peace with those who disagree because the opportunity to even have the debate is a privilege -- without which there is no purpose to what we do here at the GSD.
Now begins my work on my thesis, at once the consummation of thoughts derived or produced after years of reading those who I now sit beside; it is also the nadir of a lifetime's direction. Needless to say, this is a moment to be savored and remembered. It is emotionally charged, but I am ready.
There is a groundswell occurring, the larger wave that followed the few precedents in this set known as landscape urbanism - a process of designing cities and their broader mega-regional context for an indeterminate and more sustainable future. It may seem self-absorbed to talk about it as 'experience' but I see this rather as witnessing something afoot. When the likes of a number of important and infleuntial names, previously unassociated, come to collaborate in untenured but flexible and inquisitive venues, the possibilities for new futures is actually being realized. The way urbanism (which does not equate to city-building) occurs has changed and design has caught up - just in time.
Heaven help me play a part that begins now.
Now begins my work on my thesis, at once the consummation of thoughts derived or produced after years of reading those who I now sit beside; it is also the nadir of a lifetime's direction. Needless to say, this is a moment to be savored and remembered. It is emotionally charged, but I am ready.
There is a groundswell occurring, the larger wave that followed the few precedents in this set known as landscape urbanism - a process of designing cities and their broader mega-regional context for an indeterminate and more sustainable future. It may seem self-absorbed to talk about it as 'experience' but I see this rather as witnessing something afoot. When the likes of a number of important and infleuntial names, previously unassociated, come to collaborate in untenured but flexible and inquisitive venues, the possibilities for new futures is actually being realized. The way urbanism (which does not equate to city-building) occurs has changed and design has caught up - just in time.
Heaven help me play a part that begins now.
D:
Posted 15 years agoHoly Fuuuuck
I'm Tired
Posted 15 years agoI'm tired of being cold. I'm tired of 100 hour workweeks. I'm tired of autocad. I'm worn-out on school politics. I'm exhausted and it's not even close to being over.
Happy Thanksgiving
Posted 15 years agoHappy Thanksgiving. :)
(digs out the Christmas lights)
(digs out the Christmas lights)
Status Update
Posted 15 years agoJust stressed.
This place is getting serious. I chose to work with a very famous designer for my thesis, and now I’m paying dearly. He expects a 24 page thesis abstract next week (despite that I'm 16 pages ahead of my colleagues), and for GIS mapping and multi-site analysis to begin immediately thereafter – 2 months before it’s required.
I guess the most frustrating part of all of this is that after 7 years of this, my best efforts barely make a dent when compared to some of my colleagues. It’s humbling. I cannot let this happen. Anyway, I should post some of my old work on my 'real' account.
This place is getting serious. I chose to work with a very famous designer for my thesis, and now I’m paying dearly. He expects a 24 page thesis abstract next week (despite that I'm 16 pages ahead of my colleagues), and for GIS mapping and multi-site analysis to begin immediately thereafter – 2 months before it’s required.
I guess the most frustrating part of all of this is that after 7 years of this, my best efforts barely make a dent when compared to some of my colleagues. It’s humbling. I cannot let this happen. Anyway, I should post some of my old work on my 'real' account.
