Lincoln Memorial in DC

I caught this photo of the Lincoln Memorial down in DC last week. The Lincoln Memorial of course is an important symbol of freedom in the epicenter of the land of the free. It is designed in the manner of a Doric temple, turned on its side. Within is a giant-sized statue of Lincoln, sitting majestically in a chair, looking out over the Mall.

Between Technological Flesh and The Technological Field

My thesis is available for perusal electronically here:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/754357419/72a0997afd66d36a2e2aa37e141cf82e

Get it while its hot! 242 pages of burning technological love. The link will expire, I believe, on Tuesday the 20th of October.

The updated abstract can be found here. This link will not expire, nor is this abstract a working abstract any more.

Images of the Cyborg House

Here are a couple of new images from my thesis project. The focus of my thesis is not exactly design-oriented, but these are a couple of diagrams that I have recently generated for possible inclusion in the work. The first is a better version of the image featured in the last post; the second is a vision of the Bed of the Future.

The bed of the Future is fully automated, and responds to your needs. If you would like to sleep supine, the bed flattens out, but if you would like to read in bed it positions itself upright. This enables a great deal of individual flexibility for you and your bedmate. You may have the two halves of your bed in completely different positions to fit your body, your temperament or your mood. If you wish to be intimate, at the flick of a switch the two halves snap into alignment!

The Joy of Patent Surfing

I only recently discovered the amazing resource of Google Patents but have been having a great time perusing it since I did. Sometimes I find myself drifting by there (internet exploration, if figured as motion, is really a derive) for research purposes and end up totally embroiled, flipping from one patent to another. This happens of course because all of the patents are linked to one another through citation.
It's the images that are the most compelling! What a fascinating graphic lexicon is at work. Line drawings I am fairly familiar with, but these have such strange texture and shadowing techniques and the labels are totally bizarre. Even patent applications from 2009 look hand-drawn, with funny jagged lettering and loopy leaders.
Here's the one that I was looking at today that made me want to share this private form of entertainment. I frankly have little idea what is being described. I recommend not reading anything about the application until you've looked at all of the diagrams in series, it'll be more fun that way.

'spoonangoogle'

I went on a crazy photo-shooting adventure yesterday to try and capture some of the things I have been writing about as images. You can expect a number of examples of the results to be posted here in the near future. Here are the first two experiments, although only the texture is from yesterday's session:

spoonangoogle 1, photomontage

spoonangoogle 2, photomontage

Team North Blog

Just a plug for the folks in the next office. I just managed to check out their progress today and it's really coming along great!

http://www.team-north.com/blog/

Archi-culture film

This looks kind of interesting - coming out soon. It has interviews with Zaha Hadid, a bunch of dirty looking self-pitying graduate students (I can totally sympathize), and most importantly David Byrne:

Archiculture Teaser from arbuckle industries on Vimeo.