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Two years ago my friend Danielle gave me a munny doll. I restarted the munny three times in a little under two years. This is close to finish on the final design. You can see my poor spraypaint job on her muzzle.
Munny is designed as a selfportrait.
Two, white, shoot-through umbrellas. High right and low left.
Bare bulb strobe behind.
Comments? Criticism?
There is no perfection. Only progress.
Founded in 1970, Arcosanti is an arcology designed in the Brutalist style by Paolo Soleri to serve as a self-sufficient community on a desert mesa near Cordes Lakes, Arizona. The buildings that comprise the complex, despite being a work-in-progress, were mostly built between 1971 and 1980, with more sporadic work on a few portions of the complex being completed as recently as 2008. The complex is the result of the design philosophy of Soleri, being an example of his theory of an arcology, combining ecology with architecture, making a dense, self-sufficient community that works with the natural landscape, and an alternative to urban sprawl and more conventional development patterns. Soleri guided the project until his death at the age of 92 in 2013, with further phases of construction being planned. However, Arcosanti has struggled to grow beyond a commune of 150 people, taking on a form and size comparable to a traditional pre-industrial rural village, rather than a town or city with thousands of residents as envisioned by Soleri. Most residents of Arcosanti are like-minded, which is required for the community’s ability to function and operate, and consist primarily of artists, environmentalists, farmers, and sustainability advocates, whom each contribute their skills to the community. In addition to the permanent residents, temporary residents whom spend five weeks attending workshops at the site. Despite its shortcomings, Arcosanti’s relationship to the surrounding environment, radical approach in design, philosophical background, and self-sufficiency are key points that are valuable to consider when designing buildings for sustainability and environmental consciousness, along with being an excellent example of Brutalism, which harmonizes nicely with the surrounding desert landscape.
The buildings at Arcosanti include the boxy, rectilinear Visitor Center, which appears like a medieval tower rising from the edge of the Mesa, with an open pier foundation that provides shelter to visitors entering and exiting the Visitor Trail, the half-domes for the Ceramics Studio and Metallurgy Foundry, various resident apartments, which demonstrate varying exterior characteristics, a barrel vaulted canopy over the central plaza, known as the vaults, a laboratory that houses a greenhouse and woodshed, allowing for food to be grown more efficiently and for items to be crafted by residents, the East Crescent, which contains resident housing and surrounds a central amphitheater. The site also features a swimming pool, gardens, resident cabins, which mostly date to the first stages of construction in the early 1970s, a self-contained wastewater management system, and guest rooms for visitors. The main complex of buildings are arranged at the edge of a mesa, overlooking a canyon, with smaller buildings located further down into the canyon and in the bottomlands along the Agua Fria River.
Arcosanti provides a counterpoint to the modern development pattern, one that is more sensitive and respectful to the landscape and the natural environment, and a design that fosters a strong sense of community, all of which are lacking from most new development being built today. Residents are able to quickly walk to work and to amenities within the community, reducing the dependency on cars and mechanized transportation. Additionally, buildings are designed to be energy efficient, incorporating passive strategies for thermal regulation and lighting. The complex, owned by the Cosanti foundation, remains a work in progress, with only ten percent of the proposed buildings being complete, and cover a very small area of the larger property owned by the foundation, with most of the land being left in its natural state or utilized for agriculture. Tours are available for visitors, along with overnight stays in the guest rooms at the complex, and the complex continues to house and foster a tight-knit, vibrant community.
Just a short walk away from the Austin Convention Center. The coffee is fair trade, organic and custom roasted by hand in small batches.
Enjoy a few minutes of fresh air on your way to a proper caffeine fix.
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Shot at the now closed & soon to be demolished Scottish & Newcastle Brewery site at Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. Incidently 50 yards up the road Sean Connery was born.
Vi & Pops pencil...
started sketching my little girl...cousin asked for one of her little girl - and just now a request for another cute little girl :o
for terri. 5 layers, 30x30"
didnt have my camera OR my phone so I snapped a pic with my laptop's photo booth thingamjig.
gonna finish cutting this tonight.
Working on some more capes...Just need to sew them up at this point. Hoping to get them done in the next few days.
(sorry the colors are a bit wonky in this pic)
Seen at the Brickhouse. Maybe Obama really does have a posse
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The site is like a war-zone on one side, there were 'bits' of building flying around, chunks flapping in the wind and a poorly covered stairwell i had 'forgotten about' on one side and on the other were carefully organized piles of used building materials.
I was really hoping they were going to continue demolishing the building until there was nothing but the front facade, it would have been sweet photo.
March 29.
It has been so hot that it's hard to get to good shots. Some were taken in the mid afternoon and some in the evening. Just documenting the progress of the garden for the midseason point for the year.
YAY! All of my detail work is finished! Now all I have to do is wax (first the details of these 20 small pieces, then the bottoms of the other 30 bigger pieces) and dip into the glaze!