Amazing Shades

I have these sunglasses that look good on everyone. Its amazing really. Want to try them on?

New Urbanism

I've seen this video floating around the internet in a variety of blogs and websites and its a good one, so why not share it here too.

Yay Architecture!!

The Life of an Architecture Student from Peter Hess on Vimeo.

Archiculture Pre-Trailer from arbuckle industries on Vimeo.

No Really, I'm Fine...

Its hard to express your feelings sometimes. That's why I like MoodJam.org, a website that allows you to express your feelings in colors. Above are some of my feelings from the last few months.

I found this other website, WeFeelFine.org, that,

"has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.)"

This information is saved in a database of human emotion, that can be displayed in different visual styles such as "Madness," "Murmers," and "Montage."


And all of this reminds me of Infosthetics.org, a blog entirely devoted to "the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization. More specifically, it collects projects that represent data or information in original or intriguing ways." (They have a post about WeFeelFine.)

And in case you're wondering, it was my friend Stephen that introduced me to Infosthetics many years ago, and you should check out his blogs too (he has a few).

Park in the Air!

Ever since I saw the model of this at the MOMA New York over a year (or two?) ago, I have been waiting and waiting and reading updates and emails and waiting some more for the opening of The High Line. In case you don't already know, The High Line is a park that is being built on top of the already existing unused elevated train tracks along the west side of mid-Manhattan, and part of it is scheduled to open this summer. The Sundance Channel's website is now featuring a series of digital shorts about this park in the air, featuring everyone from architects, to journalists, to celebrities that have been involved over the last few years. Above is one of them, click here to see the rest.

TEXT

I was inspired by Nadine Bouler's post about text and fonts to write a post about my own font. I've actually been developing this idea since high school, when I was really bored in class one day and noticed that I could write my name in simple geometric shapes.

So then I thought, maybe I can apply this concept to the rest of the alphabet. Its still an idea in progress, but so far here's what I came up with:

Walkin' Down Driggs

These are just some of the things I saw this weekend while walking down Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.