mohit.santram

risin’ dough!

these pastries were rising really well. mmm mmm good.

alex is now hungry! he’s always hungry.

day 18: noise

day 17: hello butter cup

day 16: 2nd Avenue

day 15: the reversal

day 14: french fries of sanity

day 13: crisp black on white

day 12: straight edge

day 11: black

day 10: the laser’s edge

day 09: trippin’ the light fantastic

day 08: the edge

“ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you… i will follow!”

day07: don’twalkstoprun!!

day 06: patterns

day 05: one 2wo thr33

thing-a-day: day 02 - petey

ahem, i think *someone* needs a breath mint…

This Old House

When I was ten years old, if not younger, I started watching This Old House with my parents on PBS. For some reason, I was hooked. I watched as often as I could and looked forward to seeing the weekly progress with Bob Vila and Norm Abram. I could go on about my obsession with the show and how I started visiting contruction sites in my neighborhood, solely to pretend I was Bob or better yet, Norm. A friend and I would scavenge the site looking for carpenter’s pencil and woodworking relics. It was really comical in an odd sort of way.

Oddly enough, though I became a woodworking enthusiast (I took wood shop three times in high school); I never used my passion to study architecture. Instead I followed my interests in computers and blah blah blah. But in the past several years, my appreciation of architecture, construction, and woodworking has been coming back. Maybe I’m getting old, who knows.

Over the summer when I went driving cross country, I made it a point to go to Falling Water to see Frank Lloyd Wright’s epic masterpiece. Along with stops to the Ray and Charles Eames house in Santa Monica, I checked out houses and buildings all over the country. Two weeks ago, I went to Denver for the day and spent some time studying the new wing of the Denver Art Museum. Designed by Daniel Libeskind, the new museum wing boasts some rather impressive angles and form. If nothing else, just the design and construction challenges alone require a hefty amount of thought and planning. I now have a reason to head back to Denver for a visit. Who knew?

Getting back to This Old House, the team is currently working on rebuilding a modern house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The home’s owner, George Mabry seems an interesting study. He’s been working on the redesign of the home for over 6 years or so. Needless to say, I’ve been glued to the tv set every Sunday or Monday night for the past two months. My trusty TiVo has been recording the episodes for me, along with all the New Yankee Workshops, as I’ve been secretly contemplating selling everything and buying a workshop somewhere upstate. I’m hoping to watch as the This Old House crew finishes the project, and then travel up to Cambridge to see the house myself. Trouble is, I wonder if George would consider this “home stalking”?

A few links, including a project description from This Old House:

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tvprograms/houseproject/overview/0,16542,1062246,00.html

http://www.icynene.com/TOHCambridge.aspx

http://www.kcts.org/seriesdetail.asp?N1=THOH

http://www.denverartmuseum.org/

I also plan to visit MIT and see the new Computer Science building. It’s an impressive piece, hopefully you’ll see some pictures on flickr by the end of February!

http://www.buildings.com/Articles/detail2.asp?articleID=100736

http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa05/tech/wollman/html/slide_12.html

http://www.cio.com/archive/051504/mit.html

liar!

liar!

Originally uploaded by mojo!.

five years into it, and he’s still lying.

these days

ever have one of those moments where you wondered where all the days went?

or even how it was tuesday yesterday and suddenly today is monday?

yeah, i thought so.

further drawings and a nod to david’s trace

i spent a great deal of time today thinking about how best to rework the animation. i listened to the song several times over and reviewed the first draft animation several times today. chris ault was at itp today unannounced, i meant to ask him about the animation, though i’ll have to send him an email instead. i rewrote the lyrics and thought about alternative ways of presenting the slides.

http://flickr.com/photos/mojo/48181610/

http://flickr.com/photos/mojo/48181728/

it took me 65 slides for 34 seconds of animation, 5 minutes means at least 200. of course i’m sure i can use a bunch of slides over again, though my thought process for this song is makng me look for further inspiration outside the song. Michel Gondry did the original video, which i watched as well. the stunning thing Gondry did in my opinion was to integrate Beck into the scenes he spliced from the movie, yet in a non cheesey manner. gondry’s deadweight video lacks a certain punch that many of his (gondry’s) others exhibit, though i’m able to watch a video effectively advertising a movie and not be repulsed.

i started the trace method which david outlined in his piece tonight. i hadn’t thought about a simple trace as a work around to my ineffective (and unassisted) hand drawings. the one i worked on yesterday didn’t look so much like beck as it did a caricature.