Inspirations for INTIMATE FRICTIONS:::

Missing you.

It's been sometime since I've posted. More to update later.

In the mean while- I have been asked to take part in the Gestures Show at the Mattress Factory.

More to come soon. I am working with a collection of folks.

check them out!

Nina Marie Barbuto - maker who energizes an architecture which needles and challenges self definition. http://ninamariebarbuto.blogspot.com/

Dee Briggs - artist who works with fearless lyricism in raw material. http://www.deebriggsstudio.com/about/dee-briggs/

Nick Durrant - interactive designer who thrives on strategic thinking. http://www.plotsite.net/

Jeremy Ficca - architect and educator devising news ways to construct forms of elegance. http://www.cmu-dfab.com/

Pablo Garcia - artist, architect of the conceptual investigation, seeing no media as too new or old to be passed through a prism. http://www.pointprojects.com/

Jenn Gooch - artist who bears clear witness to the world we recognize but dare not know. http://www.jennifergooch.com/

Ling He - specialist in a world of architectural fiction and fantasy.

Matt Huber - architect-thinker and writer who will refine all definitions and leap to new conclusions.

Nick Liadis - architect of sound, theorist searching for a tectonics of music.

Transformazium - creative collective rooted in Braddock with revolutionary practice. http://transformazium.org/

Gill Wildman - activist skillfully capturing the imagination and generating fresh forms of engagement. http://www.plotsite.net/

Spike Wolff - artist, architect, educator who continually provokes new readings of our reality.

This was SOOO one of my projects

Read about what they are doing in COLORADO- thanks tree hugger.


But they for got the part about harvesting the homeless's plasma!Gross i know but It was what I was talking about in 2007.

back breaking

I know I have been lagging in posting. I have been making things happen.
I just feel that I need to at least address the media issue right now. Human expression is something that is protected under some governments and denied under others. People express information through media. Media includes contextual landscapes and technology. The action always goes back to the person and the translation of information in media. Foot prints in sand is a translation of time and being in media. Displacement and change of ink and pixels is a way to translate and convey information through media. The documentary was current until last week. please share.



Fuck media control.

writing on the walls.

This installation project by
slovakian artist roman ondák is a living infographic. By plotting of visitors’ heights, the mean
will become increasingly apparent over the four months at the temporary stedelijk.
I am in love with the layering and personal interaction. This reminds me of the playroom we had in the basement of the house I grew up in where when my friends came over we would document our heights and our names amongst other self-expression graffiti. It's something so simple that every age can understand yet the implied aspects are phenomenal. I am curious to know if there is a stop animation or other documentation for this piece to then become a piece on its own.

I also wanted to bring up mr. Mel Bochner's work in relation to this. Though one could see it as artistic antics, I feel his work as a precedent is really powerful and playful.

what is a paradigm?

We keep talking about shifting it but ... what is it.. Georgio- take it away!



also- when will metaphor be dead in architecture? aka when are we going to stop using metaphor as means to creating the real? or even why are we just not creating the "metaphor" in the first place...

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ASSume the worst.

new poem!

Leas(t) Renewal Line

Your pine cone fiction-airs lost me on the highways to Georgia and back. I was saving bricks for your motor-less boat fantasies but the overnight drive took away your libido. I wore out some other rubber made man parts with my wicked insides. Your tips didn’t miss much, just maybe 4 hours of reproduction. I heard you say

it is

a waste of electrical endeavors but when the bitch can lick her gaping wounds the only remedy is a cork. The lunch box is in the fridge next to my aromatic arches aching for some structure or support and other things your bubble gum vending machine fingers relentlessly forget. There might be some sweets and nothing home right

about time

the dogs swallow these meat feeding paws. If it was tears you were after, those legs should have left the shoes in my mouth and the door crooked. Naked or not, knock knock jokes can’t win a watermelon at this un-fair ground. Are you wondering

that I

haven’t lost all my change of heart and pennies to a grown man? Too bad movies are more romantic when insensitive sound makers are directing. Ever hear the story of the goat and the porcupine. The porcupine only died when it did know realize it had to

live alone.

a second year architecture student project for sale on craigslist....

WTF?!!! Who built this?! How awesome? and I am in awe- its on craiglist....

park(ing) day pittsburgh 2010

The SNOW IS COMING!!!!!!!!! Here is our installation for Park(ing)Day in Pittsburgh! Check out the website as well with links to other wonderful parks!

no future in green architecture?!...

Thanks dwell for keeping my dreams alive!

Park(ing) day Pittsburgh!!!!!!

I guess it's that time of year again! The time to turn parking spaces in to Parks!!!Come down to Wood Street to find Emily Rice, Dawn Hirsh, and my self in a snow-apocalypse! ahh!!!

trailer condo.

CRAFT- O - TRON !!!!!!!

Check this out!!!!!


“THE REBIRTH OF THE VENDING MACHINE! The Travelling Pittsburgh Craft-O-Tron gets plugged into a new purpose!!"

Steel Town's Etsy's new marvel: "Tronny" the retired cigarette vending machine turned Craft Vending Machine has completed its makeover and has been stocked with a dazzling variety of some of the best handmade items in the 'Burg!! Check out the progress and get a sneak peek of the crafts here: http://artist.to/pghcraftmachine/

The lights will be turned on and the Craft-O-Tron will begin its new mission: to spread the news of the handmade scene in Pittsburgh and begin its journey through the city's cultural events, hot spots, and beyond! This craftstoric event will take place at the machine's temporary home: Wildcard in Lawrenceville.

It will be caught on video and posted on the facebook page.

Be sure to become a friend of the machine and follow it's trek and message: Buy local! Buy handmade!

Art THIS!

Seunghee Park. She's korean and colorfully touching new levels. Check her awesome out.

THINK TANK!!!

I want to just make sure you know that Jenna Kappelt and I are starting Awesome Gallery and Awesome Studio. The studio can also work as a think tank.. but we plan on having alot of sexy ideas.... and well... idea's that have SEX!!!!

info systsems...

David McCandless makes infographics. These simple, elegant ways to see information boil down the too complex or too big, small, abstract or scattered to otherwise be grasped by most ( at least while just looking at it with out being bias or being in an information overload). Also his topics are sometimes quite comical. McCandless's work is if the Processing diagrams of Casey Reas and Ben Fry where frozen in space and time.

presto chango

This awesome project by Gary Chang, a Hong Kong architect, is quite insperational. He transformed his pint-sized living space —a typical Hong Kong cramped 330-square foot apartment— into a super-efficient, super awesome 24-room bachelor pad with the help of an ingenious system of sliding walls, panels, and gizmos.

Recently, the New York Times profiled Chang and his amazing mini-mansion. Great way of downsizing! When Chang talks about the living conditions of the apartment when he was a child is quite shocking in comparison to his home now.

Via YahooGreen.

um.. sustainable?

other spaces....

Hello Heterotopia.. Jackie Tileston is one trippy painter. She mixes
Chinese and Tibetan landscape motifs in a flux of empty and full, atmospheric and graphic, abstract and figurative, quiet and psychedelic.
I really enjoy this part of her statement.... " A recent rereading of Foucault's' 1967 "Of Other Spaces - Heterotopias" essay was an inspiration since it perfectly defined the intent of much of this work - to create paintings in which several different locations or spaces are made to coexist within one space. In some ways, any of my paintings could be called heterotopic - "juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are themselves incompatible." Ideas of how we construct our realities and selves through language, social structure, geography, etc. offers a seemingly endless band of possibilities - my work as a painter is knitting the world together in a kind of visual globalism."