design to execution: the plug-in house

A modular house fixed around a spine, which to me just looks like a long, strangely distressed hallway.

I don't have coherent thoughts right now, so I will just leave you with another link. I find the dead birds so disarming that I can't figure out if I like this or not.
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Because I'm obsessed with ice, apparently.


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ICE...it's what's for dinner.

This is the final stage in re-telling the vertical farm story. I'm amused at this backwards-fudging of "process"... This is the last thing I'm re-doing for this project, but it's the first thing I should have done during that semester: a study-model of ice.
I froze water in a Brita container which (of course) cracked in the process. The ice responded to the change in container shape, which gave the study model a cool ridge along the bottom. I used a heat gun to carve through the ice (why not?) which is a (bull-shit alert!!) representation of social and/or physical dynamics in Chicago -- how they might shape a building that "thaws" in response. (these could be physical or programmatic changes. probably both.)
Ice collects and refracts color. It splits light into mini-rainbows (I also have some photos of that...) and it freezes clear like glass, in crystalized bands that glitter, in bubbles, or in chunks of rough, white ice that collect light from the rest of the ice-chunk and glow. I got lucky - this model froze in all of those ways, I think because of the mid-freeze Brita-crack.

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Cranbrook's ugly posters made nice wrapping paper after all...

And post-it notes "to/from" stickers aren't a bad touch either.



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One Dozen Eggs = 60 Linear Inches

Photos in elevation didn't work, literally breaking the egg flat didn't work, but a simple pen and paper trace did. For a new project, I'm mapping the cracks of one dozen eggs, and creating a single linear "graph" of these events. You'd think it'd be simple, but things that are spherical, elliptical, endless, infinite, don't want to flat lines, anymore than they want to be broken. These are some photo studies I did, just some observations on the quality of the line that makes up an egg-crack. Much more to come...

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Get Ready for the Holidays ...and smoov Ming Dynasty hand

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galactic mystery solvers

new hit single:

zSHARE - Uno.mp3

alisa, florida-zuelan songstress: lead vocals

casey, yours truly: crucial harmonies

nicole, swedish diva: guitar

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What would it take?

Making sustainable choices fun. Now if we can only figure out how to make escalators run by motion sensors so they are not wasting energy.

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