Absolutely brilliant. Please watch it from the beginning to the end.
Personal accountability is still a long way away …
Today is the most hilarious day in the history of Facebook.
(To understand the context, this was written by a guy who, at 29, moved from Massachusetts to Arizona to attend motorcycle maintenance school - and once arriving in Arizona did not bother getting a job or changing his residency to Arizona because he was receiving higher unemployment payments as a resident in Massachusetts. He then complained, because as a resident of Massachusetts receiving state unemployment checks he had to show proof that he was carrying health insurance, which would come at a cost to him.
When I asked him why he didn’t change his residency, he would say because he wouldn’t get as much in unemployment, and then complain that he had to find insurance. When I asked him why he wouldn’t look for a job to get insured, he’d say he was making more on unemployment than he could working at Starbucks.
…But it’s Obama’s fault that the economy is in shambles…really.)
no more.
![accidently found this during my research on masonry construction.
Marc Koehler comes up with an innovative solution for a small space
[http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com]
The house is located on a very small plot in IJburg, a recently developed suburb of the city of Amsterdam, which triggered the idea of making a vertical garden; nature and culture merge in one structure. The house is designed as a monolithic sculptural mass, contrasted with open collective spaces that seem to have been ‘carved out’ from the solid volume, connecting them to the street, the garden and roof terrace.
The ornamental masonry texture is not only a decorative enhancement of the sculptural mass, but also functions as an underlay for different sorts of climbing-plants to grow up the facade, giving birth to the idea of a vertical garden. This was enhanced by integrating plantbarges on several levels in the facade. The ecological character of the house was reinforced by making use of passive and active solar-energy and an earth heating-pump.
not sure about the whole vertical garden idea. but it surely is a sweet corner.](http://16.media.tumblr.com/zk9JFtnI5pevjc73pMwlzidso1_400.jpg)
accidently found this during my research on masonry construction.
Marc Koehler comes up with an innovative solution for a small space
[http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com]
The house is located on a very small plot in IJburg, a recently developed suburb of the city of Amsterdam, which triggered the idea of making a vertical garden; nature and culture merge in one structure. The house is designed as a monolithic sculptural mass, contrasted with open collective spaces that seem to have been ‘carved out’ from the solid volume, connecting them to the street, the garden and roof terrace.
The ornamental masonry texture is not only a decorative enhancement of the sculptural mass, but also functions as an underlay for different sorts of climbing-plants to grow up the facade, giving birth to the idea of a vertical garden. This was enhanced by integrating plantbarges on several levels in the facade. The ecological character of the house was reinforced by making use of passive and active solar-energy and an earth heating-pump.
not sure about the whole vertical garden idea. but it surely is a sweet corner.
Sound of Music. Belgium Central Station. Best Flashmob Ever.
omg i really really want one.
I bought myself a Special Edition Moleskine Polaroid Pogo for my birthday. I can hook it up directly to my dSLR or send files via bluetooth and it prints them out with inkless technology. Granted the quality is as if you printed a photo out of your printer, but it’s pretty awesome because: 1) the film is really cheap. You can score 60 sheets for about $20. 2) it’s adhesive, so the photos are like stickers. 3) the Pogo is portable, it fits in my pocket and is smaller than even the Moleskine.
It’s the same idea as the iZone, except I can print multiple copies of stuff. I started journaling in a brand new Moleskine entirely with photos. I love my Pogo!
Want.
Ditto.
5. LESS IS NOT NECESSARILY MORE.
Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less is more. One morning upon awakening I realised that it was total nonsense, it is an absurd proposition and also fairly meaningless. But it sounds great because it contains within it a paradox that is resistant to understanding. But it simply does not obtain when you think about the visual of the history of the world. If you look at a Persian rug, you cannot say that less is more because you realise that every part of that rug, every change of colour, every shift in form is absolutely essential for its aesthetic success. You cannot prove to me that a solid blue rug is in any way superior. That also goes for the work of Gaudi, Persian miniatures, art nouveau and everything else. However, I have an alternative to the proposition that I believe is more appropriate. ‘Just enough is more.’
-Milton Glaser
I respectfully disagree. The notion of ‘less is more’ is not simply a play on words or a lighthearted paradox. It is neither underlining the idea that simplicity is at all times better than complexity.
It is merely a comprehensive understanding that simplicity and clarity leads to a good design.
Architect Mies van der Rohe used this motto ‘less is more’ to describe a phenomenon in design where the subject is reduced to its necessary elements, hence minimalism. In the field of architecture, in particular, it corresponds to the design philosophy of arranging numerous necessary components of a building to create an impression of simplicity, by enlisting every element and detail to serve multiple visual and functional purposes.
It is then evident that a Persian rug is far superior because it embraces all the necessary aesthetic elements as a carpet piece that a solid blue rug clearly does not.
And as for Art Nouveau, it is indeed a more apparent and modest illustration of elegance in design, and it origined as a resistance to the cluttered composition and unnecessary decorative elements of the revival tendency of the Victorian Era architecture.
So I say, perhaps “less is necessarily more, and essentially better.”
