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2010/06/07
Scripture Mashup
And now that my soul might have joy in you, arise from the dust my sons, and be
men, and be determined in one mind and in one heart, united in all things!
Awake my sons. Shake off the chains with which ye are bound, and come forth out of obscurity. Put on the whole armor of righteousness, that ye may be able to stand against the whiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood
But. . .
· against principalities,
· against powers,
· against the rulers of the darkness of the world,
· against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth,
and having on the breastplate of righteousness that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day.
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.
men, and be determined in one mind and in one heart, united in all things!
Awake my sons. Shake off the chains with which ye are bound, and come forth out of obscurity. Put on the whole armor of righteousness, that ye may be able to stand against the whiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood
But. . .
· against principalities,
· against powers,
· against the rulers of the darkness of the world,
· against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth,
and having on the breastplate of righteousness that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day.
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.
2010/05/26
Mormons and the Public Square
This will be a live feed of the event that will take place on Monday May 31, 2010 from 9am to 1pm eastern time. Please tune in if you can! Some friends and I along with the John Adams Center have worked hard to put this together.
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2010/03/23
2009/11/30
Convergence
If my last post I spotlighted mentors this post is about my peers. Since I first arrived here in LA in early September I was impressed with those around me, and had an overwhelming intuition that there had been a lot of individual inertia to bring this group of people here at this time. I listen to the inspiring stories of my fellow classmates and then reflect on my own background. I doubt that any of them has a less fantastic story that has culminated in their presence here.
The other night I was at a party with some friends. Some of my fellow colleges where there with me. I had a chance to speak with them about their previous life before coming to study architecture. Kyle talked of his previous life as a scientific researcher. He spoke of the almost whimsical and daring move it was to make the decision to move toward architecture. Yet at the same time it was well planned and thought out. I asked about the school application process, why he chose sci arc and how he postured his previous experience in a way that would be desirable to an architecture school. He spoke of his portfolio and its contents including images of the process of converting his car to vegetable oil. His wife Liz who was also accepted had intriguing images of microscope slides in her portfolio.
Another friend who was there that night, Paul talked of reading Deleuze and artistic fellowships in upstate New York. I tend to romanticize things but I don't care how dull you try and make that sound, to me it still sounds exciting.
These stories are valuable and I feel they need to be celebrated and recognized for what they are – amazing. A collection of these legends seems very fitting to me.
The other night I was at a party with some friends. Some of my fellow colleges where there with me. I had a chance to speak with them about their previous life before coming to study architecture. Kyle talked of his previous life as a scientific researcher. He spoke of the almost whimsical and daring move it was to make the decision to move toward architecture. Yet at the same time it was well planned and thought out. I asked about the school application process, why he chose sci arc and how he postured his previous experience in a way that would be desirable to an architecture school. He spoke of his portfolio and its contents including images of the process of converting his car to vegetable oil. His wife Liz who was also accepted had intriguing images of microscope slides in her portfolio.
Another friend who was there that night, Paul talked of reading Deleuze and artistic fellowships in upstate New York. I tend to romanticize things but I don't care how dull you try and make that sound, to me it still sounds exciting.
These stories are valuable and I feel they need to be celebrated and recognized for what they are – amazing. A collection of these legends seems very fitting to me.
2009/10/20
For the love of money
I have always had somewhat of an insecurity realizing that putting my mental emphasis on expression and ideas, as apposed to a concerted effort to acquire capitol. I wondered if it were better to be monetarily driven for a portion of my life and then later pursue my real interests is an ideal plan.
Obviously artists don't do it for the love of money. I am seeing a trend in my world that helps to vindicate my lack of interest in pursuing of wealth. Many of the people that surround me now are people who spend a great deal of there time in artistic expression. Yet they are not destitute, they thrive. This is such a liberating discovery for me. It empowers me to be able to focus on my expressions with increased fervor and be confident that as I do I will be validated by my accomplishment just as my examples are able to.
First, I have met a friend, an instructor here who has his work featured in many galleries and museums throughout the city. His work is particularly interesting to me due to its subject and execution. His name is Jean-Pierre Hebert, we had a nice conversation about his work in the library today. He told me a bit about some of the pieces that he had on display there.
Second is my studio instructor Russell Thomsen who is passionate about what he does and you can tell. One of the things that I admire most about the man is his do or die date with his daughters for bedtime stories every night at 7pm. We have a mutual friend in Brian Spencer, a Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiast, and member of the board of the Taliesin Fellowship. Russell is also an admirer of Thom Mayne and is always referencing his work while suggesting ideas for our projects development. Last night he showed his passion for the art during a studio pinup. He expressed that he does this (teach) because he understands just how powerful space can be and that there is too much of our world that we let slip by with minimal or destructive thought without the use of positive design implementations.
Jean-Pierre Hébert: Sketching Scripts, Scripting Drawings
Artist-In-Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB
Jean-Pierre Hébert (b. 1939 in Calais, France) lives and works in Santa Barbara. From the 70s on, he has pioneered computational drawing and focuses on defining algorithmic drawing processes and translating them into images in traditional and new media. He has been artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara since 2003, and has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2006. More details on Hébert can be found here- at his website
This talk is held in conjunction with Jean-Pierre Hébert’s exhibition in the Library Gallery, Drawings as Thoughts.
Obviously artists don't do it for the love of money. I am seeing a trend in my world that helps to vindicate my lack of interest in pursuing of wealth. Many of the people that surround me now are people who spend a great deal of there time in artistic expression. Yet they are not destitute, they thrive. This is such a liberating discovery for me. It empowers me to be able to focus on my expressions with increased fervor and be confident that as I do I will be validated by my accomplishment just as my examples are able to.
First, I have met a friend, an instructor here who has his work featured in many galleries and museums throughout the city. His work is particularly interesting to me due to its subject and execution. His name is Jean-Pierre Hebert, we had a nice conversation about his work in the library today. He told me a bit about some of the pieces that he had on display there.
Second is my studio instructor Russell Thomsen who is passionate about what he does and you can tell. One of the things that I admire most about the man is his do or die date with his daughters for bedtime stories every night at 7pm. We have a mutual friend in Brian Spencer, a Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiast, and member of the board of the Taliesin Fellowship. Russell is also an admirer of Thom Mayne and is always referencing his work while suggesting ideas for our projects development. Last night he showed his passion for the art during a studio pinup. He expressed that he does this (teach) because he understands just how powerful space can be and that there is too much of our world that we let slip by with minimal or destructive thought without the use of positive design implementations.
Jean-Pierre Hébert: Sketching Scripts, Scripting Drawings
Artist-In-Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB
Jean-Pierre Hébert (b. 1939 in Calais, France) lives and works in Santa Barbara. From the 70s on, he has pioneered computational drawing and focuses on defining algorithmic drawing processes and translating them into images in traditional and new media. He has been artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara since 2003, and has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2006. More details on Hébert can be found here- at his website
This talk is held in conjunction with Jean-Pierre Hébert’s exhibition in the Library Gallery, Drawings as Thoughts.
SCI-Arc Faculty Members Eric Kahn & Russell Thomsen Awarded by Architect Magazine
A single-family residence in Tokyo designed by SCI-Arc faculty members Eric Kahn and Russell Thomsen (IDEA Office) was selected for an Annual Design Review award from Architect Magazine. Also on the project team for Y House were SCI-Arc undergraduate students Adrian Ariosa and Rinaldo Perez; alum Masao Yahagi was the firm’s associate architect in Japan.
Initiated by the magazine this year, the Annual Design Review: Celebrating the Best in American Architecture recognizes work built over the past year in the U.S. or by an American firm. The year jury consisted of architects Aaron Betsky, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Carlos Jimenez, Ralph Johnson and Marion Weiss. The awarded projects will be published in the magazine’s November issue.
In addition to the award announcement in Architect, the Y House will also be featured in Dwell magazine's December issue, and in Japan-based publication JT/Shinkenchiku.
Initiated by the magazine this year, the Annual Design Review: Celebrating the Best in American Architecture recognizes work built over the past year in the U.S. or by an American firm. The year jury consisted of architects Aaron Betsky, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Carlos Jimenez, Ralph Johnson and Marion Weiss. The awarded projects will be published in the magazine’s November issue.
In addition to the award announcement in Architect, the Y House will also be featured in Dwell magazine's December issue, and in Japan-based publication JT/Shinkenchiku.
2009/10/13
New World Order
The Positive Revolution has a multiplicity of applications and an infiltration of industry Positive design is one of those areas. Attending sci arc I have been exposed to quite a few of these initiatives. Two that have positioned themselves at the forefront of my focus are F. Myles Sciotto and his thesis with ambientAlternity. Dealing with using a users brain waves to create a real time dynamic space made specifically for that person. The second is an example given by Christiean Nold and his Bio Mapping which starts to look at the legitimacy of the ways that places affect emotional responses. The last example is Mr. Brown, the president and chief executive officer of IDEO, in today’s NYT's. The example that he used was this:
"The bet was for $50,000. It was offered by George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Company, to the designer Raymond Loewy, in 1940. The challenge was to spruce up the packaging of Lucky Strike cigarettes. Loewy accepted the wager, and Hill asked when he expected to finish. “Oh, I don’t know,” drawled the designer. “Some nice spring morning I will feel like designing the Lucky package... I’ll call you then.”
"Loewy won the bet, and claimed the credit for the subsequent increase in Lucky Strike’s sales."
The point is that design ultimately effects environments which in turn affect people. You know the whole nature vs. nurture question...Nature is a viable piece of the equation. Positive Design attempts to take accountability for that and run with it. Let us employ the most advanced analysis equipment to determine the ways in which we can configure the places which we inhabit for the optimal environments for positive responses. Let us cultivate with our places attributes and feelings such as love, respect, collaboration, the desire for synergy, etc. Why is this not a standard way of thinking? Why is this not a common expectation?
2009/09/23
This world is so chaotic!
I have this architectural history class on Tuesday mornings, and an architectural history class on Tuesday evenings. Then every Wednesday we have a lecture from professional from outside the school. Every other Thursday we are taught by jeff Kipnis an architectural critique. All of these opportunities to receive knowledge may seem counter productive or to be pulling away from the students ability to focus. It seems counter-intuitive to split a focus between all of these great minds, and the things they have to say. Yet amid these divergent perspectives and the ideas that they seek to proliferate I find continuity, pattern, and order. Yet the connections are not always obvious overlaps, sometimes the connections are synaptic leaps only built as I connect the seemingly unconnected. The amazing thing is that the connections do exist and are very pertinent to the conversation that is my education.
The interesting thing is that those connections could probably be described by some mathematical formula, that would take an inordinate amount of time to discipher (not worth the time nor the effort). The point is that there is an idea that organizes the seemingly disorganized and helps us to understand their connections and why those connections matter.
This idea is called chaos theory. I have been avoiding spending any time with it for quite some time but am coming to grips with the fact that I need to embrace an understanding of an essential concept to be understood and developed within my thought processes and cognitive process.
I was elaborating this idea to my father yesterday and he suggested the correlation of this and the biblical reference of Ecclesiastes 11:1. Seeking to find specific references relevant to the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ I found this quotation which describes an idea that is the goal of ambiguous pursuits that have captivated me for years.
"Such motivations for integrating Religion and Psychology seem to make a fundamental error. The quest to have the advantages of one by seeking to directly add it to the other ignores principles of paradox and byproducts, which are that many of the best benefits of this life are not obtainable by direct attempts to make them happen. At times the commands are to "cast thy bread upon the waters" (Ecclesiastes 11:1) or position oneself "last" in order to be "first" (1 Nephi 13:42). Losing one's life in service is the only way to truly find it (Matthew 16:25). Attempts at integration that fail to consider the potential application of these principles may be untenable."
This is just one more piece in the journey of putting all of this together in the hope that it all comes together with some nice picture at the end. Thanks for being patient along that path as I sort these ideas out a bit, for further clarity and depth.
The interesting thing is that those connections could probably be described by some mathematical formula, that would take an inordinate amount of time to discipher (not worth the time nor the effort). The point is that there is an idea that organizes the seemingly disorganized and helps us to understand their connections and why those connections matter.
This idea is called chaos theory. I have been avoiding spending any time with it for quite some time but am coming to grips with the fact that I need to embrace an understanding of an essential concept to be understood and developed within my thought processes and cognitive process.
"Such motivations for integrating Religion and Psychology seem to make a fundamental error. The quest to have the advantages of one by seeking to directly add it to the other ignores principles of paradox and byproducts, which are that many of the best benefits of this life are not obtainable by direct attempts to make them happen. At times the commands are to "cast thy bread upon the waters" (Ecclesiastes 11:1) or position oneself "last" in order to be "first" (1 Nephi 13:42). Losing one's life in service is the only way to truly find it (Matthew 16:25). Attempts at integration that fail to consider the potential application of these principles may be untenable."
This is just one more piece in the journey of putting all of this together in the hope that it all comes together with some nice picture at the end. Thanks for being patient along that path as I sort these ideas out a bit, for further clarity and depth.
2009/09/20
Compact Urbanism, or whatever you want to call it
I would like to say first of all that I have just been an observer of thesis projects being finished and presented here at sci arc, and have to say that I was a bit overwhelmed. There was a wealth of knowledge that I felt frantic to collect considering it is a rare opportunity to have so much research, thought, and application of knowledge gathered in one place. Its to bad that the individuals energies could not be harnessed toward a common goal. Think of the momentum that would be achieved if executed effectively. So look for a future post dealing with the ideas that where collected from there.
While reading an essay for school I came across a project by architectural Godfather Le Corbusier, Rio de Ja Neiro Viaduct city of 1929, which is referred to in Thresholds 13. In Threshold 13 there is reference to a project by Constant Nieuwenhuys called New Babylon elaborated on here and here. Very interesting stuff (if your into any type of urbanism). All of this is great but where I am getting is that all of that lead me to a term UNITARY URBANISM mentioned in the commentary written by Constant Nieuwenhuys about his New Babylon. In looking up this term I have come across some very important definitions, Michael, for ideas that we have been grappling with for some time now. (Thank you Wikipedia) I think that it these terms, along with the ones that you have recently arrived at via Paulo Soleri, can be added to some kind of dictionary, or list of terms to be utilized and developed through development of ideas and theories.
While reading an essay for school I came across a project by architectural Godfather Le Corbusier, Rio de Ja Neiro Viaduct city of 1929, which is referred to in Thresholds 13. In Threshold 13 there is reference to a project by Constant Nieuwenhuys called New Babylon elaborated on here and here. Very interesting stuff (if your into any type of urbanism). All of this is great but where I am getting is that all of that lead me to a term UNITARY URBANISM mentioned in the commentary written by Constant Nieuwenhuys about his New Babylon. In looking up this term I have come across some very important definitions, Michael, for ideas that we have been grappling with for some time now. (Thank you Wikipedia) I think that it these terms, along with the ones that you have recently arrived at via Paulo Soleri, can be added to some kind of dictionary, or list of terms to be utilized and developed through development of ideas and theories.
constructed situation
A moment of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the
collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a game of events.
psychogeography
unitary urbanismThe study of the specific effects of the geographical environment
(whether consciously organized or not) on the emotions and behavior of
individuals.
The theory of the combined use of arts and techniques as means
contributing to the construction of a unified milieu in dynamic relation
with experiments in behavior.
2009/09/10
Unmistaken Child
Whenever you have a few moments, this trailer is worth the watch. It is from a film that documents the quest of a simple disciple to find his reincarnated master:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy9AFwvzmok&feature=related
Think next about the significance of the wise men from the East who watched and searched for the child who would be their great teacher. I can't help but wonder if there were similar beliefs at play. At the very least, do you really think that once the wise men from the East identified the Christ child, that they would have been content to simply go back to their homes in the orient and never communicate again with the great Master who they found in the body of the newborn babe in Bethlehem? Hardly.
I'm convinced there are strong, direct spiritual channels between the mortal Christ and the Eastern wisdom traditions. The powerful cultivation of love pursued by the serious Buddhist practitioners is a ray of hope for me in the collective potential to organize socially into higher orders, based upon the foundational principles of true and pure love (i.e., charity, the pure love of Christ). Indeed, there is strong spiritual significance in the metaphor of the light of the sun rising from the east.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy9AFwvzmok&feature=related
Think next about the significance of the wise men from the East who watched and searched for the child who would be their great teacher. I can't help but wonder if there were similar beliefs at play. At the very least, do you really think that once the wise men from the East identified the Christ child, that they would have been content to simply go back to their homes in the orient and never communicate again with the great Master who they found in the body of the newborn babe in Bethlehem? Hardly.
I'm convinced there are strong, direct spiritual channels between the mortal Christ and the Eastern wisdom traditions. The powerful cultivation of love pursued by the serious Buddhist practitioners is a ray of hope for me in the collective potential to organize socially into higher orders, based upon the foundational principles of true and pure love (i.e., charity, the pure love of Christ). Indeed, there is strong spiritual significance in the metaphor of the light of the sun rising from the east.
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