Tesla Motors

Tesla Motors announced an electric sportscar that boasts 0-60mpg in 4 seconds. Their website is pretty informative, so I'll leave it to them to give you the facts. Be sure to look at the renderings and colour options. Tesla Motors

Thesis: Shift House

I recently came across an old .mpg file of my aforementioned Thesis Project that I had on one of my older external hard drives. I've uploaded it to myspace and youtube. A brief synapsis follows: The proceeding dialogue explores the possibilities involved in enhancing the role of a prefabricated architecture. Within this line of questioning arise questions on both the architecture's impact on the site and the site's impact on the architecture. The landscape explored in this investigation is one of a shifting nature. These shifts occur due to natural and unnatural influences. Through examination of a shifted site, i.e. a disaster scenario, the restructuring of the architectural dialog can question the way we inhabit disaster-prone instances. How do we approach a small scale project and its possible impact on a larger scale? How do we conceptualize an idea about assemblage and adaption? How do we capture the significance of place with respect to a transportable structure? Does the answer lie in the reflection of movement in architecture as form, as place, or as an approach to living? All these variables contribute to specifically creating a new form of modular architecture and its attachment, rather than detachment to site. As a collective comprehensive conclusion, disaster-responsive architecture responds primarily to the site: its conditions, materials, their characteristics, deployment, the procedure, and incorporation of the long term affects on the building's temporal positioning. I will take this opportunity to clarify the previous statements suggesting the duality of the project's intent. It is best defined as a process that has been defined and refined. Here's the video: Thesis Project: Shift House

Chaotic Beauty

There not much that can be said about the "grotesque" that hasn't already been mulled over with excessive discourse. Yes you can find beauty in it and yes it conjures more intense emotions... A friend of mine sent me this website of a German artist. While I'm not convinced that the words "limited and digital" should be in the same sentence, I am convinced of the shear intensity of this work. From Tim Borgmann's website: Since the mid ninties I have been working mainly as a freelancer in the area of 3D graphics/illustration and animation. Besides my commercial work I spend my time on different personal art projects. While working on art projects, I see image creation as a dialouge between the nascent image and myself. Sometimes the image influendes my work by itself, leads my towards its own direction. Sometimes it's just me, pushing the image into the form I want. Although I tend to be someone who must have total control on every aspect of the creation process, it's very interesting to take a step back and let the image take over some control. Some of the images are available as high resolution limited edition prints. You will find more information under limted edition prints

Buff Monster Interviewed on Archinect

Archinect recently interviewed Buff Monster. Read the interview

new aNYthing tee

I thought this tee deserved some recognition. Made me laugh.

Samhain was in Brooklyn Saturday...

So Yeah, I am well aware that All Hallow's Eve is in reality Tuesday night. That being said, I'm moving Tuesday night into my new apartment and we decided to celebrate this pagan holiday on Saturday [along with most the people in the country]...
We went to the Mad Suspect Halloween Party. Some really great costumes - Eazy E, Eddie Munster, Sashimi, ect. Patrick's got some more pics on his blog, but here are a few shots from night that I took.

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