I was eating lunch in the park today and watching geese squabble over the crumbs I dropped, and I came to another startling, yet obvious realization. Geese and other animals are very hierarchical, as are humans. Animals’ hierarchies are based on ability and seniority, while ours are based on which ones of us have amassed the most shiny objects.
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Found this for $1 at a local flea market. Pre-Sputnik speculation on satellites and what they might be used for. I wonder if anyone then would have believed there would be literally thousands of them in all shapes, sizes and uses in orbit half a century later.
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Finally out of school, recovering in PA. Tonight I am going to try to fulfill one of my life goals: catch a live mole. They’re everywhere, but I’ve never seen one alive. Will report on success of mission.
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The Boeing X-51a Waverider recently sustained a speed of mach 5.1 for around 3 minutes. Why do we need a vehicle capable of flying over 5 times faster than the speed of sound? Because we can. For the hell of it. It dawned on me that in many ways, it’s very similar to an art project.
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Rainy day
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Went to St. Louis over the weekend to see architecture (and eat barbecue). We visited the Pritzker Gallery by Tadao Ando, the St. Louis Cathedral/Basilica, the new wing of the St Louis Art Museum by David Chipperfield and others.
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Model made for an architectural computing class. I made this about a year ago, but my professor didn’t give it back to me until now. I modeled it in Rhino, then used that model to generate cut plans in autoCAD. I then laser-cut the pieces from MDF, birch plywood and paper and assembled them.
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Buiilding by Mies on the IIT campus. This building is usually unremarkable but it was raining on the way to class and it was all clean and shiny. The exterior steel is not actually structural, it only serves as an outward indication of the actual structure inside the wall. This runs counter to most people’s idea of Mies as never using material for purely aesthetic purposes.
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