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Fashion??

February 22nd, 2010 5 Comments

I don’t profess to know a lot about fashion, but when I stumbled upon the image above at Stil in Berlin of four models from London Fashion Week in supposedly fashionable garb, I laughed out loud.
Here is what I thought immediately: detective, pirate, porter, old gypsy woman (from left to right).  The two most “wearable” [...]

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Deforestation

January 12th, 2010 1 Comment

I watched Maya Lin’s “Unchopping a Tree” today and it is incredible to think about an issue like deforestation this way.
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Maya Lin – Unchopping a Tree from What [...]

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Top Ten Movies of 2009

December 30th, 2009 1 Comment

As the year draws to a close, it is time to list my favourite movies of 2009.  The criteria I used to select these movies included:

Originality
Quality of cinematography/animation
Quality of acting/voice acting
Dialogue
Execution
How many times I went to see it in theatres

The greatest diffiiculty came in trying to order the list, but I did my best.  Without [...]

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Urban Environments as Living Organisms

December 22nd, 2009 No Comments

I grew up in a small town and have always thought of buildings and construction as mankind making purposeful changes to their structures, be they houses, barns, irrigation systems or roads. The concept of change in this manner, as I took it, was very methedological and systematic: controlled and orchestrated by man.
Now, as a young [...]

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Home is where the heart is

August 23rd, 2009 No Comments

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