The ever name changing collective of imhotep 2021, and meat pallet have been reimagined as Global Sand Architekten, and submitted an entry to the Sukkah City competition. The sukkah city team is Vivien, Hannah, Justin, and Myself. In short the sukkah is a temporary structure used in the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which is a harvest festival. Each year there is a sukkah built in Union Square, this year there was a design competition for it, and 12 will be built.
Our non-winning entry involved a lace cube, some falsified ruins, and floating trees. It was somewhat hectic putting this board together. Judging by the winners designs shown on the internet, we were way off with our design language, laughably off. Regardless, I like how it turned out, and hopefully the winners can get these things built correctly, because if so I think Sukkah City will be pretty amazing event.
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Published on August 30, 2010 1:02 pm.
Filed under: ARCHITECTURE, NYC, competitions Tags: sukkah city
This was done last night for the glitter competition. Click image for large version.
Overall I’m very glad I took the time to do it because once it got going it was pretty fun. Glitter is a ridiculous material to use on any kind of rendering of anything. The general degeneration of my concept in the days prior was a good exercise as well. I generally ask the question of “How retarded can this become so it may possibly become the opposite of retarded?”
Another funny aspect was trying to scan/photo document the thing. I eventually settled on scanning and stitching it up in photoshop, because the text was completely illegible in photos. It looks much better in person, which is probably the case with all the entries to this competition.
Note to self, do not start working @ 6pm on a Sunday night on a spring forward weekend, especially if you have to wait for glitter glue to dry before scanning, because the next day at work will be brutal. Yesterday was brutal.
Thanks to everyone I talked to about the bad ideas I had, and even bigger thanks to everyone who somehow made them badder. I’d say I got it to about 50% of what I wanted to do. But given the outside factors involved, is a pretty good amount. I wanted to make a much more involved where’s waldo-esque drafted drawing, but it kind of ended up looking like a info pamplet or something, which is ok especially considering the time.
Update 08.11.2010: Winners
Published on March 16, 2010 7:43 pm.
Filed under: ARCHITECTURE, NYC, Uncategorized, brooklyn, competitions Tags: all that glitters is good
In no particular order, this is a doublebow that hannah and I saw from the top of our apartment building a while ago. This was right after a storm, I actually think it was raining. June and May were really rainy, like seattle, like 25 out of 30 days were raining. July was sunny.
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Published on November 4, 2009 12:04 am.
Filed under: NYC, awesome, brooklyn, reviews Tags: Recap
I got a job. It’s a junior architect position at Daniel Goldner Architects which is great. I started Thurday.
In other news, we’re like 70% moved into our new place. The last of the move will take place this Saturday.
The cat really likes the new apartment.
Sunday we should be done with everything. I can’t wait.
Published on January 31, 2009 1:35 am.
Filed under: ARCHITECTURE, NYC, apartment, awesome, moving Tags: new job
I return to New York more or less unemployed and look for work. In the process of updating my portfolio and resume I made this for my 5th year project, The Vomitorium. It feels like a really long time ago but I’m pretty pleased with the results. It sort of cracks me up because it’s a heavily photoshopped image of an analog model that was built to look like a digital model. I like the aesthetic. I also posted a not as good night shot, and some other news after the cut.
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Published on January 17, 2009 1:29 pm.
Filed under: 40K, ARCHITECTURE, NYC, apartment Tags: moving, update
thanksgiving was great. we (hannah and I) had friends (Gary, Doris, Laura, Jefferson, Nick, Justin, Vivian, Megan, Ikbal, Nathan, Nomes, and Ben) over. There was a lot of food words do not do this justice, i posted some poor pictures which will maybe help. it was a feast night like none other and it was glorious. it basically made me thankful for everything. above is an image of justin cutting some of the enormous turkey we had. I will suggest to kieran hebdan that this should be the new image for whatever next four tet project he does, because look:
here’s his album Pause, it’s the same awesome thing! i think the justin one is awesomer!
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Published on December 4, 2008 2:36 am.
Filed under: NYC, apartment, awesome, music Tags: feast night, four tet, thanksgiving
