Quotes for Today

Traversing sun leads to a new season,
Vernal breath attunes the leaves.
When the sun begins its new pattern, spring follows. The air warms, and the world rejoices. A new breath comes over all things, and even the trembling leaves are attuned to the vernal rhythm. Turn your face to the sun, as flowers know how to do.
-365 Tao

I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion. The knowledge and awareness of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an individual all his hidden energies and put him on the path to choosing respect for "life" instead of for "death."
-Erich Fromm

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Shira Tehrani

Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Take Courage

Places I want to visit ...

Santa Cruz, California

Portland, Oregon

Copenhagen, Denmark

Angkor Wat - Cambodia

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Handmade Nation!

And I gotta get this book! The documentary will be shown at the Summit in DC.

Summit of Awesome!?!

So I Totally have to go to this!!!

My Current Favorite Albums

Bodies of Water - A Certain Feeling
Gold, Tan, Peach, and Grey

Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
No One Would Riot for Less

Cotton Jones Basket Ride - Paranoid Cocoon
Gotta Cheer Up

H.I.M. - Many in High Places are not Well
Coming of Age

Takka Takka - Migration
You and Universe

Dark Was the Night Compilation
The Books feat. Jose Gonzalez - Cello Song
Feist + Ben Gibbard - Train Song

Tenniscoats - Temporacha
Ichinichi

Funny Saturday

"Grandma! Have you seen my bottle of pills? Its labeled LSD."
"Forget your pills! Have you seen that dragon in the kitchen!"
-Joke from a friend

"Wondering what you are thinking right now. Listening to the music at work and thinking about the universal commonness of so much human experience."
"At this exact moment, I am thinking of how butter melts on elbow noodles!"
-Conversation I had

"If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone."
Deep Thoughts - Jack Handey

Saturday

Waves are breaking in my mind
and the memories of your eyes
are chimes in my ears
ringing out sounds
that swim through my veins
my heart beats a rhythm

Some of My Sketchbook Stuff Nov-Jan

Architectural Wonder: The Hagia Sophia

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Featured Architect: Zaha Hadid

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Under Construction, Set 2: ATL

At My Uncle's Shop

Bob Has Safety Lights

Under Construction, Set 1: Smyrna

First Installment of my Featured Architects Series: Frank Gehry

Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, Seattle, Washington
EMP/SFM is a museum founded by Paul Allen to promote the history and exploration of popular music and science fiction (awesome combination). EMP opened in 2000, and SFM in 2004. The museum features a permanent collection and also hosts visiting exhibits. On view now at EMP are Jimi Hendrix: An evolution of Sound; and American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print which features historical American posters that were used to advertise a variety of musical productions. A past exhibit I would love to have seen is Artist to Icon: Early Photographs of Elvis, Dylan, and the Beatles! And now at SFM is Robots: A Designer's Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels. I want to go!
Official Website EMP/SFM

Dancing House (Fred & Ginger) Prague, Czech Republic

Officially the Nationale-Nederlanden building, the Dancing House is the design collaboration of Frank Gehry and the Croatian-born Czech architect Vlado Milunic, completed in 1996. Originally conceived to be a cultural center, the structure now houses the offices of several multi-national firms.
(Could you imagine going to work every day to a building that looks like this? :) I am so curious to know what it looks like on the inside.)
Official website Dancing House

Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis

The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art is a teaching museum at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Frank Gehry's building was completed there in 1993. The museum's permanent collection specializes in American Modernism, ceramics, mimbres pottery, and Korean furniture. The collection also includes works by many contemporary artists. Modernist painters featured in the museum's collection include Roy Lichtenstein, Georgia O'Keeffe, and James Rosenquist.
Official Website Weisman Art Museum

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

A popular tourist attraction built in 1997, the Guggenheim Bilbao is a Modern and Contemporary Art Museum that displays works by Spanish as well as internationally known artists. In addition to paintings and sculpture, the museum features many installation and electronic form pieces. Two of the large scale works on display here are Tulips, by Jeff Koons and The Matter of Time, by Richard Serra.
The museum makes a cameo appearance in the Bond Movie The World is not Enough.
Official Website Guggenheim Bilbao

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Lines

Earth and Sky

A few selected tree photos