Duncan Patterson's Sketchpad

merk!'s first exhibit - the Gladstone's Come Up To My Room 2012

2012-01-30T20:06:00.000-08:00

Coverage of our exhibit at CUTMR 2012 is up at the following sites:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/01/27/come-up-to-my-room-gladstone.html
http://www.photojunkie.ca/archive/2012/01/come-up-to-my-room-2012/
http://theimageinterview.com/cutmr2012.html
http://glowingdoll.blogspot.com/2012/01/cutmr-2012.html
http://www.displaydesignmagazine.com/2012/01/cutmr-2012-toronto-design-week-part-1/

Our's is the red sheety one!

merk!

[image from photojunkie]

3 most popular things to shop lift in the us

2011-11-30T06:40:00.000-08:00

1. axe body spray
2. elmo dolls
3. choice cuts of steak
(from marketplace morning report)

It's kind of an amazing little picture of life, isn't it: getting laid, having kids, & feeding your family?

Thumbs-up, Thumbs-down, Thumbs-sucked Rating System

2011-09-18T15:28:00.000-07:00

Chloe and I have come up with a new graphic system for rating things. It was originally intended for meeting minutes, to indicate various stakeholders' positions on meeting items, but it could def. be adapted for other purposes, like social networking. I see great potential.:

Koolhaas's new exhibit slams historic preservation

2011-05-25T11:54:00.000-07:00

A new Rem Koolhaas curated exhibit at The New Museum in New York explores the real complexity of historic preservation, a complexity to which we are often blinded by the self-righteous assuredness with which those in support of it often state their case. Historic preservation is so inherently flavoured with death-denial and dipped in political agenda it is surprising that so many take at such face-value. Or is that surprising?

Don't get me wrong. Historical preservation has its place, but it should by no means be such a knee-jerk reaction as it so often is. The world becomes laden with so many Pioneer Villages and Colonial Williamsburgs. Give me a Norman Foster British Museum or Reichstag renovation any day.

For more on Koolhaas's perspectives on historical preservation, see the lecture he gave a few years ago at the GSD, here.

The Monster Haus Project

2011-04-17T11:08:00.000-07:00

Here are some images from a project I undertook last year that I never got around to doing anything with. The images were made using a program called Chief Architect that allows you to generate roof planes automatically based on the walls of the house. My initial project was to try and create 'roof-landscapes' but as you'll see I also tried some other things out too.

Enjoy!