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So as it turns out Architecture is yet another one of our systems that serves us badly while attending to another agenda having to do with personal accolades. It's just not getting the attention that our food system, transport system and land use system has. It should since the built environment is second after our agricultural system in resource use.
Stewart Brand embarks on a fascinating study posing questions that no one seems to ask, mainly, do our buildings really serve our needs. Mostly no, since architects win awards given by judges who don't visit the actual buildings. They just look at pictures. And no one seems to nail them if the roof leaks which apparently they mostly do since so many public buildings have flat roofs. Yep I can attest to that, but I thought it was an exception not the rule. Surely someone's figures out how to make flat roofs not leak. They are so common. He also mentions that Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings always leak. That makes him a fitting icon for Ayn Rand's world view—beautiful theory, but comepletely inflexible and impractical, a museum for the individual artist with no thought to the people who have to live with it.
Having been in a few award winning buildings at Stanford I knew the consequences of having fancy architects do a building. I've heard the complaints. So it was gratifying to have Stewart get on his soap box about it and he's also local so talks a lot about Bay Area buildings. He also comments on how our financing system makes it difficult to build houses or commercial structures slowly enough or incrementally so as to adapt to what's needed. You can only do that if you start with an old warehouse from back when buildings were utilitarian and adaptable.
I've heard Stewart Brand when he introduced Orlov at the Long Now Society wearing his gumboots because he lives aboard an old tug boat. It was Catherine who pointed out that this was his book. He's more well known as the creater of the Whole Earth catalog which was quite influential for me as well. So it was interesting to see him take back his enthusiasm for Buckminster Fuller's dome. (Too difficult for ordinary people to build and fix and it leaked every which way, though to be fair Bucky envisioned the dome as a pre-fab factory built appliance.)
He was also gratifying because he gave me language for what I myself have come to prefer. What he calls the low road building is one that no one cares about so you can do anything to it. I love those situations. He also talks about historical preservation as an overlooked environmental building practice. And he's the first person I've read to speak kindly of the mobile home and travel trailer as permanent shelter.
Published in 1994, I've seen this book around, but never picked it up because I thought it was going to be a stuffy academic deconstructive treatise. Then it was referred to in another book I was reading so I checked it out and was so glad I did, since it gave me so much insight plus it was very readable and anecdotal and now that I'm a rehabber it couldn't be more timely.
HF5415.2.H286 2006
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First the image was converted into a set data vectors in format (x,y,r,g,b), one for each pixel in image.
Then this 5D-data was projected to 2D-space using principal component analysis, The resulting image was rebuilt based on that reduced information.
edensmachine: medievalpoc: aseantoo submitted to medievalpoc: Sir Joshua Reynolds George Clive and his Family with an Indian Maid England, 1765 Oil on canvas Height: 140 cm (55.1 in). Width: 171 cm (67.3 in). Gemäldegalerie, Berlin [x] From Simple English Wikipedia: Lord George Clive was cousin of Robert Clive, founder of the empire of British India. He made his fortune there. Clearly the painter found the Indian nurse’s depiction his greatest pleasure. Is it just me or do the white family look unreal and vacant despite contrasting the dark shades of the back drop. Yet the nurse pops and looks tangible and alive. A lot of people have responded similarly about the contrast between the white colonial family and the indigenous woman in this painting. Even the child is nearly as white and stiff as a corpse…and yet, these images were intentionally idealized in this manner; their very whiteness can be seen as a rebuke to the Indian woman’s vivid, tangible presence here. This has everything to do with Color, Chromophobia, and Colonialism. Chromophobia is marked, not just by the desire to eradicate color, but also to control and to master its forces. When we do use color, there’s some sense that it needs to be controlled; that there are rules to its use, either in terms of its quantity or its symbolic applications (e.g., don’t paint your dining room blue because it suppresses appetite). Please note that I’m not arguing against color psychology; it’s undeniable that certain colors carry certain cultural assumptions and associations, a fact that has led anthropologist Michael Taussig to argue that color should be considered a manifestation of the sacred. But what I am arguing is that there is a pervasive idea that color gets us in the gut: it’s seductive, emotional, compelling. Color, in the words of nineteenth-century art theorist Charles Blanc, often “turns the mind from its course, changes the sentiment, swallows the thought.” According to some art critics, sensory anthropologists, and historians, this mutual attraction and repulsion to color has centuries-old roots, bound up in a colonial past and fears of the unknown. Michael Taussig has recounted that from the seventeenth century, the British East India Company centered much of its trade on brightly colored, cheap, and dye-fast cotton textiles imported from India. Because of the Calico Acts of 1700 and 1720, which supported the interests of the wool and silk weaving guilds, these textiles could only be imported into England with the proviso that they were destined for export again, generally to the English colonies in the Caribbean or Africa. These vibrant textiles played a key part in the African trade, and especially in the African slave trade, where British traders would use the textiles to purchase slaves. According to Michael Taussig, these trades are significant not only because they linked chromophilic areas like India and Africa, but also because “color achieved greater conquests than European-instigated violence during the preceding four centuries of the slave trade. The first European slavers, the Portuguese in the fifteenth century, quickly learned that to get slaves they had to trade for slaves with African chiefs and kings, not kidnap them, and they conducted this trade with colored fabrics in lieu of violence.” Where I differ with Taussig is that there is very little doubt in my mind that using the concept of aesthetics in the manner can absolutely be a form of violence, and that art can be used to subjugate. Say what you will about this being an exaggeration, but I wasn’t the one cleaning the Elgin marbles in acid in the 1800s to better fit a misconception of whiteness…after all, Greek marbles originally looked something like this, much to the chagrin of western aestheticism everywhere: So when you consider the historical context of the painting in the original post, it becomes entirely likely that the stiffness and whiteness of the colonial family is meant as a desirable contrast to the vibrantly alive Indian woman. And you should also consider what kind of ideas you have about her from the painting, and think on how your view of her is affected by the context. Is she somehow more “natural” or “wild” than the family? Is she “earthy”? How is her existence affected by the fact that she is situated below even the child in the composition…do her arms ache from holding her up? I had never seen this painting before it was submitted, and I wonder why that is. There are a lot of things about it that are unpleasant, but the ideas in it influence us anyways.
Researchers Andrew Burnham (clockwise from left), Jeongwoo Han, Amgad Elgowainy and Michael Wang continue to update and expand Argonne’s GREET model. The auto industry and governmental agencies maintain that GREET has become the "gold standard" for well-to-wheel analyses of vehicle and fuel systems.
Photo by Wes Agresta / Courtesy Argonne National Laboratory.
Implementing partners from the Alola Foundation and APSCTL, and official from UNTL with Diana Arboleda.
The basement of a former cheese factory in Kolderveen, The Netherlands, has been transformed into a temporary computer controlled greenhouse.
For 5 weeks, 7 plants representing our 7 world continents have been growing under individually manipulated water and light circumstances, based on real-time analysis of website-traffic on the project-site: http://www.collectiefmei2007.nl/greenhouse
Reserve strength ratio of an offshore platform model showing the plastic utilization near the pileheads.
In the back: Alain Fournié, Head of the Operational Monitoring and Reporting Unit
Face on: David Marsh, Head of Forecasting and Traffic Analysis
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Cadet Orlando Zambrano appears in the monitor while being interviewed by ESPN's Josh Elliott. Zambrano provided color commentary as members of the West Point Parachute team performed a demonstration on the Plain during Veterans Day. ESPN broadcast live throughout the day from West Point. (Photo by Master Sgt. Dean Welch/Dir. of Public Affairs & Communications)
Laura Pavlovic of USAID addresses the IFPRI policy seminar audience.
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According to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, sea ice in the Arctic reached its annual minimum on September 17, 2014. At 5.02 million square kilometers or 1.94 million square miles, this was the sixth lowest amount of ice on record since satellite observations began in 1979. This image, using microwave data from the SSMIS sensor on the DMSP satellites, shows the sea ice concentration on September 17, 2014, along with a yellow line indicating the median sea ice extent for 1981-2010.
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Dr. Ruben Morawicki and lab technician Delmy Diaz use colorimetric analysis to determine protein content of fermented sorghum samples. Fermentation increases protein content and also makes it more available for digestion in animal feed.
Incheon International Airport, Terminal 1 - Incheon, Korea
HDA : Consultant for engineering and design
Client : KOACA -Korea Airport Construction authority
Architect: KACI Architects with Fentress Bradburn
Date : 1994 - 2001
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Both of my daughters were at friends so I drove to the Mall of America to fill a few cups of Legos.
I spent over 2 hours filling 3 cups. A fun challenge to see just how much you can squeeze into the cups.
I wanted to see if this beats bricklink.com in pricing. I ended up with 1852 legos. A good chunk of that number is small 1x1 bricks but I still ended up with some nice parts including x 6x6 plates.
I estimate the value of these bricks at $80 on Brinklink. The cost was supposed to be $48 but I had $35 in Lego dollars so I only ended up spending $13. Not too shabby.
What did I learn from doing the cost analysis?
1. If they have the parts you want you can get a deal.
2. The more unusual but useful parts are the best ones to get.
3. Don't get red or white bricks. You can get those for 1-2 cents on bricklink. Just not worth it.
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