airplane porn

based on a strange conversation with jordan and bob with captions.



for those into "vintage" or mature stuff.




yeah take it.



doesn't the classic sometimes look the kinkiest?




now look up and smile. oh yeah. moneyshot.

Thanks to Jordan for this


http://www.imeem.com/theblackangels/

The full stream of the aforementioned album by the Black Angels.

Hell yes.

The Black Angels

This is a new track from The Black Angels off their upcoming album Directions to See A Ghost

The Black Angels- Dove

Gotten via YANP, so i can't take credit for this thing at all.

A little too blah for my tastes. I like the Black Angels but it sounds a little overproduced and not quite what i'd want from a band as raw as the Angels. Still, I'm looking forward to seeing them at Lollapalooza.

first installment

I'm starting a new thing which could basically be a thesis in a way.

I've always noticed that somehow evil villain bases in cartoons portray a certain amount of architectural merit, whereas the bases of the "good guys" typically embody a neoclassical or rather office building ascthetic. For example:
Hall of Justice: Base of the Super Friends (Superman, Batman, Seaman, etc etc)



vs. the Legion of Doom, their nemesis.





Argue as you will on the ascthetics of these two, but I believe the Legion of Doom have more going for them than the Super Friends. For one, the place is so different that anything normal or seen at the time of its inception. Today, architects are starting to create similar building types and curved, glossy surfaces. For another, the context is extremely different, and would be more to contemporary architect's liking than the traditional urban park context shown in the Hall of Justice.

More to come later.

so.... i'm really really surprised i'd never listened to these guys way back when.
pretty freaking amazing. listen to their cover of Rock Lobster

Insane kind math metally. Think Breather Resist type stuff before that sort of thing was happening and even before like metalcore and stuff.... like a chaotic Madball.

www.myspace.com/botch

This is a pretty sweet project. its scaffolding on a building in Paris. looks cool though.

plasma studio

here's a sweet firm that i found on archinect and which has some awesome work. i just randomly selected one that i'm trying to rip off right now. its a hotel called the Cristall Hotel.











www.plasmastudio.com

too much time....

not having studio or really anything productive to do really isn't good...

here's a rather "racey" picture which I've entitled "Frank Gehry gives Rem Koolhaas a Golden Shower". Please don't be offended, but rather look at it in a conceptual light. Aren't we all, through our constant formal search for the "cool" or the "pleasant" just giving theorists a metaphorical "golden shower"?

rotondi house.
no cd's for this thing. they just started building. kinda cool.

back from l.a.

back from l.a.
this is a funny image of a fire extinguisher from the salk institute.

L.A.

Late late late tonight, I leave for LA.
Twill be quite fun I'm sure.
rides and marshmallows and all that jazz.
but seriously, I have a feeling it will just be me, lots of architecture kids, some alcohol, and way too much to do in too little time.
we have tours of (in order of my excitement):
Morphosis (Thom Mayne)
Roto (Michael Rotondi)
NMDA(Neil Denari)
SciArc(Hernan and those guys...)
Frank Gehry Tech
Frank Gehry Office
Graft Lab

randall stout

www.stoutarc.com

i'm not sure how to feel about this guy. like the form and stuff, but just don't get the space.... maybe too generic?

chatanooga-holmberg bridge



Bunde Fire Station


Melittabad Aquatics Center

these are from a dude whose exhibition i randomly walked in on in London. pretty sweet graphics.
www.barnbrook.net

some cool bikes

rendering

final review was friday... went pretty well. got some good feedback and my project prompted a debate among the reviewers which i guess is good.
reviewers were:
Michael Speaks
Julia Smyth-Pinney
Peyman Jahed
Jason Scroggin
Mike Jacobs
Hillary Bryon
David Biagi

Kind of intimidating... never had so many reviewers on a single jury.