Someone was frightened by this storm and crawled into my lap to help burn the midnight oil.
—Dorn
Snoozin.
Gaze is featured in Kansas City’s The Pitch Newspaper this month.
That one thread.
—Dorn
What.
—Dorn
“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”
Blue chair.
Michael Hubrich
Starting fresh for the SCAD homestretch
—Dorn
Type find
—Dorn
Scenic picnic area
—Dorn
Say what?
—Dorn
Today’s recreational activity: Hot-face pressure washing
—Dorn
come with me, there’s no time to explain
This has to be my favourite caption ever…
Noritaka Minami - 1972 (2011)
Project description:
"In the city of Tokyo, a building stands as an anachronism in relation to the surrounding urban landscape. The building in question is the Nakagin Capsule Tower designed by Kisho Kurokawa (1934 – 2007), who was one of the leading members of an influential architectural movement in the 1960s called Metabolism.
Kurokawa designed the building with plug-in capsules to promote exchangeability and modifications to the structure over time, theoretically improving its capacity to adjust to the rapidly changing conditions of the post-industrial society. When the building first opened in March of 1972, it was advertised in the media to signal ‘the dawn of the capsule age.’
The irony presented by the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower is the fact that it became the last architecture of its kind to be completed in the world. Furthermore, the building has never undergone the process of regeneration during the forty years of existence. Not a single capsule has been replaced since 1972, even though Kurokawa intended them to sustain a lifespan of only twenty-five years.
The design in reality proved to be too rigid in adapting to the unforeseen political and economic developments in the years that followed its construction. With the building’s system in stasis without fulfilling its original mission of continual growth and renewal, it stands like a monument to a future that never arrived in the 21st Century.
Due to the pressures of the city’s real estate market, plans have been discussed for the Nakagin Capsule Tower to be demolished to make way for a conventional apartment complex. Yet, the building today has coincidentally assumed a new role in the city, becoming a poignant reminder of a path ultimately not taken.”
"Two of my friends committed suicide in a four month span. So I packed my bags and moved to the city, where I ran out of money, then got hit by a bus. Sometimes God slows you down. Sometimes he pumps the brakes."
This mornings walk around an old abandoned government building in the heart of my city. Its been closed down for many years now and there is talk of redeveloping this area as its very run down, but after this morning I have seen it in another light. Amazing!
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