A lot of times I get some rather random songs stuck in my head. I’ll hear a word or phrase and BAM!, I’m suddenly humming a song I haven’t heard in 5 or 10 years. Such is the case when I got the Squirrel Nut Zipper song The Ghost of Stephen Foster stuck in my [...]
In the sharp transition from high school to university, you are generally bombarded with a vast array of strange, exciting and bewildering new ideas and concepts. I knew that the conservative hand-holding of high school was well and truly behind in me in one of my freshman English classes in which my tutor introduced us [...]
These two photos are both of architecture models… just at different scales: one big, one small. Both are made of blue foam, a common model-making material, but models aren’t commonly 20 feet long or tall enough to stand inside. A Model is a project by Radim Louda, who describes the project using a verbal flip-flop: [...]
For the past few days I’ve been Augusta, Georgia visiting my boyfriends family for Thanksgiving. I’ve never been to Georgia before so this has been a really fun trip, seeing brand new things and experiencing a culture very different from the one I’m used to in California. During the trip I’ve been taking a ton [...]
Hurry! Originally $180! Now 7.99! That’s over 95 percent off! An appropriate Space Suit for Black Friday. Alex Tweet
At this time of year the online design community is inundated with holiday gift guides in which the calendar is a prominent feature. Before you start groaning and rolling your eyes I am not getting swept away with festive season mania (well not yet – I’m not making any promises for the future); however, I [...]
