Sorry for the lack of post the past week, interim thesis presentations are coming up and this juggling of a research job while getting a masters thing leaves me with little time to update this site.(i’ll be back to daily postings soon! i’ve bookmarked alot! and thanks for the email recommendations! i’ll be posting them soon!) Here’s an update of a diagram, working models and some of my thesis mates, Ahana and Chuan Dian.
also say hi to the new macbookpro! (she still hasn’t been named yet, suggestion?)
*dear mac fan’s please don’t burn me on a stake from running windows 7 on a mac, but there’s no decent FEM analysis on a the mac OS yet.
**also dear Mcneel if your reading this, i’m banking on you guys to release Rhino 5 for mac when its out, please make it a 64 bit version. your irhino beta rocks btw. kthxbai!
from some old guy who smoked way too much cigars in the 1950s
“Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. That is the reason why technology and architecture are so closely related. Our real hope is that they will grow together, that some day the one will be the expression of the other.”
Mies van der Rohe delivering a speech at the Illinois institute of Technology
To be released on The Beatles website on 7th Dec, the 16gb apple shaped flash drive will come preloaded with 14 remastered songs from the legendary band.
Line Drawing of Hollings College on a plate. The brutalist building was also known as the “Toastrack” *heh heh it is an educational institute in South Manchester designed in the 1950s by LC Howitt. Love the perspective!
I blogged about a pair of Eskuche headphones before and this is another one that caught my eye. I love the retro beige gloss finishing on this one it reminds me of this old plastic clock i have in the living room that is as old as i am.
By Architect Minsuk Cho from of Mass Studies ….but the more impressive thing is that it was constructed by some school kids. (i don’t think you count this as exploitation, they really look like their having fun!) Check out the video
Random human driven aggregator of anything that floats your boat.
email jon if you have anything bouyant or cool (or both) at jldlin@gmail.com
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