Lee Bontecou


"Her sculptures were astounding in its attention to details as she challenged artistic conventions of both materials and presentation by creating sculpture that hung on the wall like a painting. She used industrial and found materials including screen, pipe, burlap, canvas and wire."

Here is the entire Wile E. Coyote code. But you should read 'coyote' as 'architecture student' and 'Road Runner' as the elusive 'great project' (or maybe, the 'critic.') 'Acme Corporation' is a thinly-veiled 'Autodesk and Adobe.'

1. The Road Runner cannot harm the coyote except by going "Beep-beep!"

2. No outside force can harm the coyote—only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products.

3. The coyote can stop any time—if he were not a fanatic.

4. There may be no dialogue ever, except "beep-beep!" The coyote may, however, speak to the audience, occasionally with his own voice or through wooden signs that he holds up.

5. The Road Runner must stay on the road—otherwise, logically, he would not be called "Road Runner".

6. All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters—the southwest American desert.

7. All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.

8. Whenever possible, gravity should be made the coyote's greatest enemy.

9. The coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.

10. The sympathy of the audience must lie with the coyote.

The Godot Machine

http://vimeo.com/12847163

//Movie to Watch:

Encounters at the End of the World, Werner Herzog http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093824/

Nils NormanFrom bomb site to boutique: the playground and its journey from anarchy to economic development tool


"... fixed play" risk-free playscapes"

//on the MiniLoft, from Chermain

"A brilliant alternative to the hotel hustle, these 14 flats – housed in a combined renovated apartment building and award-winning steel-concrete construction – are modern, airy and elegant." - Time Out Berlin

possible adaptation to expat. halfway between renting and a boutique hotel. what differentiates it from a service apartment? is it the lack of the frilly luxury ?

from chermain:

"The beauty of Berlin is its rare mix of all social classes and a huge variety of different functions even in central areas, where other big cities turned monofunctional and cast out their lower social classes a long time ago. The beauty of Berlin is its richness in empty spaces, which hold the promise of future."

on the miniloft newsletter

admired aberrant personalities:

Werner Herzog
Jack White
Eric Owen Moss

be different, make it different.

too much beautiful things to consume.

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it is decided. I will work for a few years in 2 firms, one large and one coutre. Then, i will go for my graduate degree in the Bartlett in London. What im unsure of is where i will work and for how long. That will come with slow testing, but I'm putting a cap at 5 years.

On whether i should work locally or overseas, i think the large firm will be done in singapore. the small one overseas. because it is important to acclimatize myself somewhat to the local industry for post graduation.

bartlett school fee: 16 - 6k

"life is too serious to be taken seriously"