Advent 2010, Week 1
Let us then throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. – Romans, 13:11-14 Here is Thomas Merton in Seven Storey Mountain: When a ray Continue Reading →
Month: November 2010
Christmas Toys (Just Window Shopping)
(1) Villa Sibi Modernist Dollhouse (2) A-FRAME (3) Xtreamliner Cab (4) Domus Stone Scale Structures (5) Anker Construction Kit (6) ArcheToys
Thank you, Dan Nygaard…
…for your letter in the Op-Ed section of the Wall Street Journal on Saturday/Sunday, November 27-28, 2010. Public Universities Should Cut Costs—and the Hubris For three decades state universities have Continue Reading →
Austerity
My nomination for word of the year. The other would be “unexpectedly”. Related Irish Cutbacks Pile It on for ‘New Poor’ The measures are draconian. The government plans to shed Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving Weekend 2010, Part II
(1) Architecture: Memories, Modernism and Our Concepts of a Misremembered Future (2) The soundtrack to Nostalgia for the Future by Lisa Mezzacappa. The Tent of Tomorrow structure and the crumbling Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving Weekend 2010
(1) Where Time and the Timeless Intersect (WSJ) (2) The Raptures of a Tragic Visionary (WSJ) (3) Shifting Gears: Brian Piper, Bind ’09, and the bike for the new American Continue Reading →
Weekend Retreat
I spent the weekend at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, MA. and took this photo on our way to the Abbey Church on Sunday morning at 6:40. I’m not really Continue Reading →
Weekend 159.0
Metro-North Pulls Ahead Disney Profit Declines 6.7% Advertising students at Northwood University working on Honda campaign (My Alma Mater) “The point is when they want to paint you as nuts Continue Reading →
Epic Architecture
(1) Epic Mickey Director Wants You to Break His Game The developer worked with Richard Garriott on Ultima VI. (2) Sculptures of architecture in plaster – Detailed right down to Continue Reading →