tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55332812012-01-31T00:13:11.850-08:00The Great _______ AdventureA Thought Harvester for Daily Dallianceslennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.comBlogger9501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-69148223597038695822012-01-29T23:52:00.001-08:002012-01-29T23:52:18.734-08:00//@ SCI-ARC lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-60447272649434653982012-01-25T11:08:00.000-08:002012-01-25T11:08:33.205-08:00//Ode to Old Friends Things change, people grow, situations move. But sometimes, despite all this, everything is still the same. This is the feeling that one gets with a kindred spirit. This is the feeling I get with John: that the relative space between us remains the same. This same intuition makes me doubt my extended flirtation with all things material. "Everything is the way it is because lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-26737985284819518382012-01-25T11:05:00.000-08:002012-01-25T11:05:58.931-08:00//The Bruce Lee in All of Us Charles is of a different breed. In a nutshell, which his small frame could easily fit in, he is japanese but born in LA and later moved to NY. He studied architecture but worked as a photographer. Now, we work together in the office. He dresses billowy white shirts and walks with bowed legs, slightly hunched like a short japanese version of bruce lee. Two nights lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-69815813835196428752012-01-14T07:04:00.001-08:002012-01-14T07:04:59.650-08:00//Books List! http://io9.com/5874770/all-the-books-were-dying-to-read-in-2012lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-45629442520154386352012-01-14T02:46:00.000-08:002012-01-14T02:46:36.956-08:00//Dream Job Versioning [http://syynlabs.com/]lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-8559950923397804712011-12-22T23:37:00.000-08:002011-12-22T23:37:07.384-08:00//Musical Ghosts   to cut soothe and calmlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-83197938663647581502011-12-11T12:56:00.001-08:002011-12-11T13:18:19.076-08:00::STRANGE FRUIT:: Physical Prototype #01 plants are bio-machines that harvest the sun's light and converts it to alternative forms of energy. strange fruit is a prosthetic that latches onto this cycle. it is a low-cost, distributed system that operates on principle of massive redundancy. 'fruits' of different sizes are then used to power a variety of low-technology devices. this project lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-26052755388981748662011-12-06T21:34:00.001-08:002011-12-06T21:35:22.446-08:00"lennard is currently in Singapore for a year gaining practical architectural experience. He is concentrating on details and on small to medium scale projects."lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-5231228531623473272011-12-01T05:55:00.001-08:002011-12-01T05:57:47.594-08:00Is a Brick Wall more Primitive than Hollow Wall Partitions? A brick wall is simpler and more direct. It has a supply chain length of two: kiln, to wall. A Hollow Wall partition on the other hand, is light. But this lightness has behind it a long chain of research and production. If we are to imagine a new world, I am one to favour the brick wall. The Partition is entangled in a supply-chain lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-8981572979221724512011-11-11T21:15:00.001-08:002011-11-11T21:15:08.169-08:00 //Making Sense of It lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-64130065670346647812011-11-07T06:15:00.001-08:002011-11-07T06:15:06.855-08:00//FRED schematics http://web.archive.org/web/20040223111458/http://www.wollongong.apana.org.au/~ben/fredtute/lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-76112120764571560962011-11-04T17:26:00.000-07:002011-11-04T17:26:17.624-07:00//Being Human The bang bang of the Yea Yea Yeah makes the epidermal barrier vibrate and shimmy shake. Meatilty Human, Lennlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-11194341069288671202011-11-03T05:31:00.000-07:002011-11-03T05:31:59.675-07:00//Explicit/Implicit Phasing between Formal and Natural Languages colours perception. Things go from ambiguity to explicit definition and back and forth. Important to always include the looseness of the Natural Language and interpret it differently through the Formal.lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-60994222740308668552011-10-31T10:04:00.000-07:002011-10-31T10:04:29.805-07:00Visiting Programs http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/makelab http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/istanbul http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/eugene http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/shanghailennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-16816885551163410522011-10-29T03:31:00.001-07:002011-10-29T03:31:44.468-07:00//Neil Gershenfled @ MIT Center for Bits and Atoms: digital/physical information translations, material computing lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-19539633404506386762011-10-29T03:11:00.001-07:002011-10-29T03:11:41.919-07:00//Skylar Tibbits: Geometry as Information Carriers lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-29529348142962886312011-10-29T03:04:00.001-07:002011-10-29T03:04:43.677-07:00//Nathalie Miebach: Encoding/Recoding Multidimensional Information to Form lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-35150345672061949262011-10-09T00:09:00.001-07:002011-10-09T00:17:46.334-07:00//To Read More The light bulb was always McLuhan’s first example when explaining what he meant by his famous mantra “the medium is the message” since it communicates no information itself but rather facilitates a range of behavioral possibilities: “The electric light is pure information,” McLuhan wrote in 1964’s Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. “It is a medium without a message…unlesslennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-68390618370554294072011-09-21T17:22:00.000-07:002011-09-21T17:22:37.924-07:00...putain! PUTAIN. puutaiiin,Hello, The Great ______ Adventure has moved to Singapore, for a temporary but indeterminate period of time. Two days after returning, I have found apprenticeship under the cutest frenchman, Yann Follan. Communication in the office is hilarious. For those who do not know french, this is a great introduction to the language. ah.... putain. "Literally, it means whore. But not so literally... it lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-55972967962164611432011-09-02T07:58:00.000-07:002011-09-02T07:58:32.327-07:00//Epicurean Epiphanies The Tasting Kitchen Philosophy Last night, we had the Chefs Menu at the Tasting Kitchen. The Tasting Kitchen is a concept kitchen along Abbot Kinney in Venice, California where the menu is changed daily, and numbered accordingly. We had menu #774, which approximates to about two years of experimentation. Roast Chicken is, in this writers opinion, the wonderbread of lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-18287578773869259172011-08-21T15:29:00.000-07:002011-08-21T15:31:42.258-07:00//A Map of the Saturday What is a day but a 24 hour journey? French Garden: Destination as Journey On some days, this journey is direct: one wakes up with a map, an agenda. From A - do laundry-  to B - mail books - to C - finish ProjectC. Like in a French garden, paths are direct.  Pleasure is a binary condition derived from reaching the destination: the completion of said goals.  Days lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-38591477901965870202011-08-18T10:23:00.001-07:002011-08-18T10:38:54.861-07:00 founder, apc more quips:Rules of StyleInterview lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-19074894036338067532011-08-13T22:49:00.000-07:002011-08-13T22:49:59.315-07:00To JM: Joanna, you cheating rat. You take my bike, never return it (but constantly say you will), and now, you avoid me. What a weasel you are. This tells me you are of small spirit and poor character. I am sad and disappointed that a friend can mistreat the trust given to them. You no longer have my respect or regard in any matters. No good can come from knowing you: you add no joy or smiles lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-84014741524950726212011-08-09T12:37:00.001-07:002011-08-21T18:48:47.790-07:00 A temporary tribe Deeply thudding beats sonically agitate the ocean of bodies. We pulse like one muscle in spasming twitches. Shaman guides lead us through tight corridors of treble so they might deliver us to echoing caverns of deep sonic space. We raise our hands and caress the viscous, syrupy air, saturated in boysnoise. We are all drenched in sweat and honey love and smile with toothy lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-38595606970729314102011-08-06T09:59:00.000-07:002011-08-06T09:59:39.781-07:00 *the object is just the residue “In traditional philosophy, you have subjects who interact with objects in some way, for example by perceiving them. For Deleuze and Guattari, being a subject or an object no longer matters; the relationships are primary--hence the rhizome, which is not nodes plus roots but rather just roots. These relationships are related to "flows." Almost anything can be lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-8661275160093229032011-08-06T09:57:00.001-07:002011-08-06T09:57:30.752-07:00two-minute rule Try dealing with stuff immediately. When encountered with something, make a decision on it immediately David Allen suggests a two-minute rule: if the task can be done in less than two minutes, do it now. If not, add it to your errand list. excerpt from http://zenhabits.net/once/ lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-74076613189657760102011-08-03T08:26:00.001-07:002011-08-03T10:19:15.475-07:00Thinking Machine: Frankenstein’s Atlantis “[Alchemists] promised impossibilities and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little. They know that  metals cannot be transmuted, and that the elixir of life is a chimera. But these philosophers whose hands seems only made to dabble in dirt have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding places.” –lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-14095222719803759242011-08-03T00:20:00.000-07:002011-08-03T09:10:08.375-07:00def ARCHIVE(lennardYear): Los Angeles, 2010 title = 'The Whale' description = 'Notes to Myself / A Thinking Machine' eulogy = """ This is his diary. \"He is currently an LA-based nomad. He misses Berlin (where he worked for a summer) and is nostalgic about Singapore (his birth city). After watching Hackers (aged 10), he wished he was in New York until he got there, where he realized to lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-64411186061713421172011-08-03T00:04:00.000-07:002011-08-03T00:32:23.199-07:00Today Dan came by. He is well on with Life, arranging little games to keep himself busy. Baking pizza, bread and making meals from the basics is a calming process. It slows and distracts the mind. However, am starting to realize that I need alternative inputs other than computational/textual. If not, the mind gets unbalanced and the personal temperament unpleasant. //Book Thinking Machine, lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-614981262680025232011-07-23T22:51:00.001-07:002011-07-23T22:51:59.652-07:00"if you don't ask, then the answer is already no" -Ben.Clennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-81138272505134633432011-07-13T00:58:00.003-07:002011-07-13T00:58:09.080-07:00"Pigeon Droppings are damaging to our structures because they are acidic and have other compounds that can dissolve especially things like concrete," said Patricia Martinek, the agency's environmental research manager.With its large quantities of bacteria and highly corrosive uric acid, pigeon excrement is partly responsible for disasters such as this bridge collapse, as well as the damage of lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-11358552671143925642011-07-11T23:44:00.000-07:002011-07-11T23:47:31.107-07:00//Artificial Natures The Night is Never Dark in the the Anthropocene Epoch "There is a sense of nature that is historical," said David Gissen in his lecture today at the California College of the Arts. By historical, he means it is constructed. For example, a park, as a version of nature, is a reconstruction of a historical perspective of what nature is. In essence, (nature != natural). lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-88005853803838677832011-07-10T20:39:00.000-07:002011-07-10T21:02:10.791-07:00//Personal Performance Review playing in structured freedom There are 24 hours in a day. Usually, I start a discipline schedule at 9am everyday. Projects keep me occupied dinner. Usually, I can juggle two extended projects at a time. This means things like "design X/learn Y" etc. Sometimes, errands take my time. Errands are things which do not enrich my life, but allow me to live an lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-27449731678888721452011-07-10T11:55:00.000-07:002011-07-10T20:07:07.875-07:00the night goes awry, and all plans for possible magnificence wilt to bile and duress consider supper, served with a movie and blankets to coddle memories that would curdle insteadlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-39009304055134418282011-07-02T10:12:00.000-07:002011-07-02T10:12:54.102-07:00//On UV Radiation, or, why is the sun harmful? UV causes breaks in bacterial DNA, which in turn cause the bacterial SOS response, which stops many cellular activities and up-regulates DNA repair enzymes. If the UV damage is minimal the cells can recover when they enter more friendly environments, but if the damage is significant they will never reproduce again. Ultraviolet germicidal irradiationlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-49386506225794510522011-07-02T09:39:00.000-07:002011-07-02T09:39:20.334-07:00//Differences between Flour Types Wheat flours contain a protein called gluten which, in the presence of water, forms an elastic network throughout the dough. This is the stuff that gives bread doughs their rubbery consistency. The whole point of kneading bread dough, in fact, is to organize the strands of gluten running through the dough into a strong, resilient, interconnected web. It is this lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-90301240319973015562011-06-11T22:04:00.000-07:002011-06-11T22:04:24.796-07:00//Territorial Differences: Mayan vs Aztec Civilizations lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-9200430334418358152011-06-11T16:29:00.000-07:002011-06-11T16:29:44.259-07:00//book notes In 'The Social Animal", David Brooks - author and columnist - takes unrelated studies and relates it to the different chapters of the book: e.g. Morality, Learning, etc. It is, at its most ironic, a categorically rational take on the emerging paradigm of emergence, networks and things working within the unconscious, told through the fictional story of two gen-XYZers growing up and lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-62271830453879506702011-06-11T15:25:00.000-07:002011-06-11T16:00:33.768-07:00// Never Eat Soggy Wheetabix hiking @ the palisades. platitude of the day:"where are we?" she asked"definitely not there..." he pointslennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-40326225396867828852011-06-05T10:04:00.000-07:002011-06-05T10:06:36.525-07:00Of Jan Major and other Minor things Gardening Day started with a lesson in biodiversity over breakfast from Jan Major. Biodiversity, in a nutshell, is about balance and equilibrium. I'd like to think of it as dynamic stasis - a boundary of parameters that allow the most number of processes and products to occur. Too much of one thing collapses the possibility of other thiings occuring. "It will lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-21982164139366754772011-06-04T11:24:00.000-07:002011-06-04T11:24:47.826-07:00Roommates of Past and Present It is my second night in Venice. Yesterday morning, my roommate, Yao, cried at our final goodbye. I woke up in Dan's apartment and rushed down to see him before he left for work. His reaction shocked me: at both the depth and sincerity of emotion. It made me feel contemplative for a while, considering why he might feel so sad. And strangely, the memories of our lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-74485949768873443142011-06-02T11:26:00.001-07:002011-06-02T11:26:59.643-07:00//good self-learning resources http://mitworld.mit.edu/ http://www.khanacademy.org/lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-15532907080825376592011-06-02T11:23:00.000-07:002011-06-02T11:23:27.232-07:00//note to self: Hellicarandlewis, a new-media duo focused on play, post their source codes on GitHub. Good place to deconstruct examples.lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-54240594018976014372011-06-02T11:19:00.001-07:002011-06-02T11:19:38.043-07:00//from CreatorsProject TechnoMysticism, this is hypnotically beautiful. http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/a-poetic-digital-theater-performancelennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-6486185571051273902011-05-29T11:59:00.000-07:002011-05-29T11:59:10.591-07:00//Why are some leaves purple? Typically leaves are green due to the pigment chlorophyll but can be any colour. Leaves are only green because chlorophyll reflects green and blue light while absorbing red. Another pigment known as carotenoids absorb blue but reflect orange and yellow light and a third group of pigments called anthocyanins reflect reds and purples.  It is the various combinationslennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-25072709318395574762011-05-28T01:55:00.001-07:002011-05-28T01:55:42.874-07:00//to elaborate the map is not the territory. the territory isXXX...???lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-89255909774378906292011-05-27T12:34:00.000-07:002011-05-27T12:34:14.247-07:00//Interview from TomorrowsThoughtsToday lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-77194985930262249362011-05-23T02:07:00.000-07:002011-05-23T12:33:11.492-07:00>"How heavy is your heart?"  >>"As heavy as a stone that floats." BoxViolet under the Bridge (She Jumps like a Jellybean) Today, thick white clouds muted the bright Los Angeles sun, toning the atmospheric intensity down to a languid lull. It played off nicely against the night prior with Dylan at the Exchange. (note to self: Manda is an awesome chick.) The Silverlake Jubilee festival playedlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-91797762692875810692011-05-20T23:19:00.001-07:002011-05-20T23:19:58.500-07:00los angeles, till it makes me cry my insides drylennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-14125780306579656042011-05-18T15:26:00.001-07:002011-05-18T15:26:57.472-07:00//TestTest /javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/static/modules/gviz/1.0/chart.js"> {"dataSourceUrl":"//spreadsheets9.google.com/tq?key=0Ar-mLbGeRWpddFlibkhuTlpDX3FYYmpJSjRFaXpKMFE&transpose=0&headers=1&merge=COLS&range=A4%3AA13%2CD4%3AD13&gid=0&pub=1","options":{"reverseCategories":true,"fontColor":"#fff","midColor":"#36c","backgroundColor":"#FFFFFF","pointSize":0,"headerColor":"lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-9209389323456864362011-05-17T13:15:00.000-07:002011-05-23T02:10:41.410-07:00//5July2007, Inhabiting Celluloid Like on the set of Raising Arizona, at the 99cent store - crazy old grannies with leather-ed skins to match their purse and dyed barbie doll hair, thin and stringy. At the entrance, conspiracy theorists - smelled before they are seen - crazy eyes and wild hair. They mutter to themselves, throwing indecipherable phrases at everyone, anyone and no-one.lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-20125734457931888182011-05-15T23:08:00.000-07:002011-05-15T23:43:51.430-07:00//La Dolce Vita, excerpts The Sweetness of Life -- Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) "once again, everything collapses in an exhausted dawn." "... The echo chamber. The Mass at dawn. The final desperate orgy. And of course the touching sequence with Marcello's father, a travelling salesman who joins Marcello on a tour of the night. In a club they see a sad-faced clown lead a lonely balloon lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-66707601003464811222011-05-06T22:13:00.001-07:002011-05-06T22:13:13.578-07:00// To Cook Tomato Soup Noodle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDSvaCkGivE&feature=feedrec_grec_indexlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-81208815969096802832011-05-06T17:04:00.001-07:002011-05-06T17:04:20.797-07:00 note to self: relationship of plant to facade is secondary in this case.  lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-33727694503811843112011-05-03T20:04:00.000-07:002011-05-03T20:04:13.642-07:00//CS106A_Assignment01_Problem03 /*  * File: CheckerboardKarel.java  * ----------------------------  * When you finish writing it, the CheckerboardKarel class should draw  * a checkerboard using beepers, as described in Assignment 1.  You  * should make sure that your program works for all of the sample  * worlds supplied in the starter folder.  */ import stanford.karel.*; public class lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-27237251330802434602011-05-03T18:51:00.000-07:002011-05-03T18:51:15.813-07:00//CS106A_Assignment01_Problem02 /*  * File: StoneMasonKarel.java  * --------------------------  * The StoneMasonKarel subclass as it appears here does nothing.  * When you finish writing it, it should solve the "repair the quad"  * problem from Assignment 1.  In addition to editing the program,  * you should be sure to edit this comment so that it no longer  * indicates that the program does lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-64946516172617491412011-05-03T12:32:00.000-07:002011-05-03T12:39:31.703-07:00//Pictures of the Day These are clippings are a way to think through the random content of the internet and focus it to something more personal. (note to self: 5pix/day limit) Peter Sutherland I like how this photo gives a thingness to air: the smoke possess more body than the bushes from which it is burning from carlovely:luke dixon I like the simplicity of this illustration: lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-25181799421656029082011-05-03T11:01:00.000-07:002011-05-03T11:05:12.800-07:00//Conversations with my Left Hand I STILL haven't gotten off my ass... but I did find this picture off p.cam's blog! National Library, Minsk Soviet Beach Architecture ok. Now I'm leaving. PROMISE. tschues!lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-6290526414831535722011-05-03T10:24:00.000-07:002011-05-03T10:26:23.705-07:00Hello Lennard, Welcome back. Day 01 of freedom was a semi-bust, but that can be excused if today picks up. Today's TODO: _Locate missing files (for all projects) _Finish Karel assignments You can start by getting off your ass and going for your run. You're already an hour behind. shoo -lennlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-52721407732687689942011-05-02T22:44:00.001-07:002011-05-02T22:44:35.941-07:00//NonVisual Immersoin Imagination (story) and Sound http://vimeo.com/10173262lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-65949603437620240212011-04-13T19:25:00.001-07:002011-04-13T19:25:45.337-07:00Grad Sch possibility: http://dm.risd.edu/about/lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-23691395066436730822011-04-11T23:33:00.001-07:002011-04-11T23:33:19.622-07:00to consider: AA Biodynamics in July in SF.lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-74814152534408490932011-04-11T22:16:00.001-07:002011-04-11T22:16:15.468-07:00Summer Must Do Tempest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fouvwilGWclennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-21093382718332399602011-04-08T00:59:00.001-07:002011-04-08T00:59:15.028-07:00MAN, i miss the barbican. its such a delight to walk through. masses over your head, tunnels, views through.lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-8330635451990825112011-03-31T18:42:00.001-07:002011-03-31T18:42:42.614-07:00Oddly, i've had two Morrissey references made to my personality this week from entirely different sources. In the form of "This Charming Man" and "I Like You". Maybe i should consider a closer look at him.lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-48147228165890239922011-03-31T03:07:00.001-07:002011-03-31T03:07:27.467-07:00firm to apply: small projects, kevin mark lowlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-19244192461201570052011-03-28T20:04:00.000-07:002011-03-28T20:04:55.866-07:00//WWII A quick regurgitation. Had a fun conversation with my roommate Yao today while watching WWII documentaries. It was about the relationship of theory and practice, I think. The French army had better military technology than the Germans. Their tanks were stronger and tougher than the German Panzers, yet, the Germans still overrun their forces! It was the Germans, who used more intelligentlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-53766787485976281212011-03-28T19:45:00.001-07:002011-03-28T19:45:59.779-07:00Hello Cher, First, thank you for the song! It made me smile so wide, I played it all night long while working. One is always faced with the dilemma of how literally to read into a song, but I'll take it at half-face value. Thank you, I like you too, very much so actually, and for very much the similar reasons. =) I am quite fond the comfortable oddness of our relations. Its funny you sent me lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-15500417152927984882011-03-24T22:38:00.001-07:002011-03-24T22:38:56.703-07:00Watercoloured black and white photos, ref: HULU, houdinilennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-8540883125376139252011-03-24T02:00:00.001-07:002011-03-24T02:00:57.492-07:00http://vimeo.com/16005999 i want to be free like thislennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-59317660689000497022011-03-23T17:16:00.000-07:002011-03-23T17:38:07.476-07:00http://archrecord.construction.com/news/OnTheBoards/0803taiwan.asp firm to apply: mecanoo, periphiqueslennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-80464069728303640962011-03-23T02:20:00.000-07:002011-03-23T02:25:50.621-07:00firms to apply: Behnisch Architekten, Sauerbruch & Huttonlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-38396304264071269352011-03-22T02:39:00.000-07:002011-03-22T02:39:53.399-07:00Emergent behaviour, and to some extent parametrics as well are perhaps less interesting when applied to the building-discipline of architecture. Instead, I find its capabilities in simulating natural phenomena a lot more interesting in that it can be used as a tool to design processes of erosion, cracking, melting etc toward a soft-specified end goal. For example, the study of a cracking field lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-82117648105646419072011-03-22T01:33:00.001-07:002011-03-22T01:33:54.019-07:00http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=9755lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-49844418300429680002011-03-19T16:42:00.001-07:002011-03-19T16:42:28.713-07:00possible master: http://www.designacademy.nl/MasterCourse/Application.aspx AA DRL RCA NYUlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-61944113956178208012011-03-18T05:07:00.001-07:002011-03-18T05:07:06.882-07:00http://marketplace.tutsplus.com/item/achieve-a-microfilm-machine-look/134632lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-76536436264785635512011-03-16T04:32:00.001-07:002011-03-16T04:32:00.627-07:00//to read http://www.amazon.com/Drop-City-T-C-Boyle/dp/0142003808lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-79977642142000428782011-03-15T18:24:00.001-07:002011-03-15T18:24:13.045-07:00//Robert Sapolsky, Freedom From Religion http://ffrf.org/legacy/fttoday/2003/april/index.php?ft=sapolskylennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-34378873806824982962011-03-13T18:58:00.001-07:002011-03-13T18:58:54.075-07:00Final Board: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/3211040786/in/set-72157612777908074/lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-23107533579739311552011-03-13T14:34:00.001-07:002011-03-13T14:34:00.634-07:00//Ukrainian Markets http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/direct/ukraine/9409814.stmlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-49973778018737875782011-03-12T19:26:00.000-08:002011-03-12T19:26:15.900-08:00"You cannot take the audience response when writing a novel. If not you might as well be in advertising." -Bret EElennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-69257117512260618502011-03-12T16:25:00.000-08:002011-03-12T16:25:30.994-08:00//Agent Based Modelling, Computing Resources and Useful Links (summer project!) http://www.kokkugia.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Scripting_links http://www.researchnodes.org/doku.php?id=digitalcities:variables101 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_modellennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-64262082554635430262011-03-12T15:54:00.001-08:002011-03-12T15:54:08.825-08:00Search for Multi-Agent Systems @ Librarylennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-78473774357643124442011-03-10T20:40:00.001-08:002011-03-10T20:40:21.543-08:00//Dear Lennard Dear Lennard, don't forget to go back to koh samui. Xin Xin's photos of it are amazingly gorgeous. and after thesis, don't forget to appreciate the freedom! don't whine and let it all hang loose for a week or two, alright buddy?lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-23529134044887072092011-03-08T19:37:00.000-08:002011-03-08T19:37:40.198-08:00Public planes nested inside private volumes how the city can entrophy can metamorphosize into another statelennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-32925515669766397592011-03-08T17:21:00.000-08:002011-03-08T17:21:06.487-08:00word of the day: tentisticles //Colonization of Alternative Planes  modernism solved the free ground plane. how can we colonize the other datums: in the air, and underground and in the inbetween //Alice City!  Alice City is an underground city that the Taisei Corporation has proposed to build in Tokyo, Japan, as building underground costs less in the now highly built-up Tokyo. The plan lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-46682202044147693842011-03-07T23:27:00.000-08:002011-03-07T23:27:59.025-08:00"colonisation of air space by winery branches" hack and recode the existing city Visitors would be swept upwards by a series of gentle interlocking ramps that connect the three levels of the bridge, culmination in a park at the top In Singapore, urban planning projects are subject to stringent control by the state. This project resists the formation of a state-engineered “Generic Empire” bylennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-27553564572104391352011-03-06T22:51:00.000-08:002011-03-06T22:51:21.809-08:00 //Mario Testino I wonder what story could be spun to bring this image to life. I want it to live. http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/10-photographers-who-make-youlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-43370824799405027762011-03-06T22:43:00.000-08:002011-03-06T22:43:16.391-08:00//Real Fantasy From National Geographic, a real house that takes after the movie UP. What strikes me as interesting is that if not for the movie, any suggestion of floating a house by balloons would be considered ludicrous. Only after the image had been planted did people consider working the details of it out. And of course it worked. Anything can, only if you try hard enough.  My point is thelennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-46792360448293066012011-03-06T16:48:00.001-08:002011-03-06T16:48:15.000-08:00To consider: kickstartr for Steve Grand, AI scientistlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-75728746303685774722011-03-06T14:31:00.001-08:002011-03-06T14:31:33.189-08:00bouil·la·baisse (bū'yə-bās', būl'yə-bās')  n. A highly seasoned stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish. A combination of various different, often incongruous elements: a bouillabaisse of special interests. [French, from Provençal bouiabaisso : boui, imperative of bouie, to boil (from Latin bullīre , from bulla, bubble) + abaisso, imperative of abeissa, to lower (from Vulgar Latin *lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-51280852349013039662011-03-06T12:54:00.000-08:002011-03-06T12:54:09.134-08:00//I will one day go here. http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/travel/06bahia-bustamante.html?hplennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-45419021550295920172011-03-05T19:48:00.001-08:002011-03-05T19:48:28.954-08:00Dessau Inst of Arch // Understanding Crowds // Grisha Zotov http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdbN0K1iu9glennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-40001785846443099042011-03-05T17:42:00.001-08:002011-03-05T17:42:51.998-08:00Oskar Sala is one of the first electronic musicians.lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-89343072786227514852011-03-05T17:38:00.001-08:002011-03-06T15:16:58.523-08:00time paintings http://www.shinichimaruyama.com/lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-29118141892699525292011-03-05T01:11:00.000-08:002011-03-05T01:11:16.635-08:00http://vimeo.com/awards/about#animation http://www.vimeo.com/9800754 >> Callouts are nice touchlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-34998444205812233162011-03-02T22:04:00.001-08:002011-03-02T22:04:43.947-08:00The mining city of Kiruna is the northernmost city in Sweden. Located far above the Arctic Circle, it endures one of the harshest environments on earth, and one of the most extreme conditions in terms of sunlight. From early December to early January the sun never rises, and from the end of May to mid-July the sun never sets. There is, however, a bigger problem for Kiruna. It is sinking. Mines lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-26132293980973912972011-03-02T21:10:00.001-08:002011-03-02T21:10:00.691-08:00We could think of cities as the territorialization of processes, interdependencies and relations within the territory, which are critically addressed and controlled at various scales by different decision-making bodies, design teams and other agents in a constant process of defining the spaces we live in. These relations have to be understood as emergent form the historical and material lennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-33484892490597657732011-03-02T21:07:00.001-08:002011-03-02T21:07:41.071-08:00song of the moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuN6gs0AJlslennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5533281.post-23428494264532436102011-03-02T04:08:00.000-08:002011-03-02T04:08:27.424-08:00Julie Mehretu I think of my abstract mark-making as a type of sign lexicon, signifier, or language for characters that hold identity and have social agency. The characters in my maps plotted, journeyed, evolved, and built civilisations. I charted, analyzed, and mapped their experience and development: their cities, their suburbs, their conflicts, and their wars. The paintings occurred in anlennrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726606285616546676noreply@blogger.com0