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reality-vision

2008-05-15T13:39:00.001-07:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] This week the new Price Center opened at UCSD. Super-slick modernist stuff. But, oh, ooops... the bottom corner of the building; it's already chipped!

reality-vision

2008-05-13T14:18:00.001-07:00

Testing my first official 'utter'.

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Sandro utterz

2008-05-13T14:13:00.001-07:00

Testing my first 'utter'. Hoping this goes through to the blog.

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reality-vision

2007-06-07T20:09:00.001-07:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] At yet another opening at the MCASD, we have work by Wiliam Feeney, who plays with the fetishes, fears, and aspirations of the North American male. The piece shown below allowed visitors to experience an escape from the oppressive clutches of a 'standard' school desk (admission fee: 1 quarter).

reality-vision

2007-04-23T18:00:00.001-07:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] A house for 'botanica'. This is a public project that inspires a framed, itemized consideration of nature. Like the protective glass cases (and greenhouses) of British lore, it protects the plants inside. But these plants are already dead, in water-filled vases... collected and replaced time and time again. Here the surrounding nature is mutilated so that the short-lived 'instructional example' may continue to enlighten one more day.

reality-vision

2007-04-06T15:53:00.000-07:00

Reality vision [as seen in San Diego]: Robots at the MCASD. Woodbury students take apart 'mobility machines' and reassemble them into 'drawing robots' (in 2 weeks):

reality-vision

2007-04-02T18:16:00.001-07:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] Center for Magnetic Recording Research. Orthogonal-stratigraphic vision of the act of 'recording'.

reality vision

2007-03-31T16:54:00.001-07:00

Reality vision [as seen in San Diego]: Another 'new' home in San Diego. This time, however, although the entire block is being updated, the corner 'hut' remains. This is a corner of contrasts.

reality-vision

2007-03-31T16:53:00.001-07:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] New 'uber-residential' development in San Diego. Worthy of note, neighborly contrasts, and 'the little shack that was left behind'.

reality vision

2007-03-25T19:02:00.000-07:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] It is into the year, away from X-mas, that these 'light-scapes' attain enhanced architectural meaning, so,... here it is:

reality-vision

2007-03-17T14:27:00.001-07:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] Happy St Patricks. Today I bring you a vision of what this day might be (or not), conceptually...

Suburban Landscape

2007-03-12T15:39:00.000-07:00

Recently, Dwell published this interesting 'take' on suburbian sprawl. Designed into the agricultural landscape, out of existing 'organic' material, perhaps this could be considered 'pre-sprawl':

reality vision

2007-03-05T17:59:00.001-08:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] Behold the 'accidental' beauty on the perfect surfaces of the new/avant-garde Warren College at UCSD (home of Cal Institute of Technology):

reality-vision

2007-03-05T17:37:00.001-08:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] Nice juxtaposed detail, at a parking structure, of course.

reality-vision

2007-03-03T12:10:00.001-08:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] When stores stay open during the remodel of a mall, a new 'use' aesthetic develops.

Striation +

2007-02-20T15:59:00.000-08:00

Striation and origami, always nice:

deep surface

2007-02-20T15:56:00.000-08:00

A recent trend shows the interstitial 'diagram' 'available' between surface and volume, through modern prototyping processes:

colorization

2007-02-20T15:52:00.000-08:00

This image offers an alternative to shape and symbol-making. "How about making form out of color, and 'effecting' unexpected vectors?":

reality vision

2007-02-18T15:53:00.001-08:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] The endless hallways of the self-storage world, might hint at ways of ordering our fuzzy lives:

reality-vision

2007-02-13T07:18:00.001-08:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] The 'message' building at UCSD, still legible.

reality-vision

2007-02-13T07:09:00.001-08:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] On my way to research at UCSD, I ran across these striking ['struck'] sculptures:

contextual imagery

2007-02-04T12:55:00.000-08:00

I am very interested by the interaction of images with their surrounding physical space (at that moment of 'interactivity', they are no longer simply 'graphic design', but become part of the 'architectural space-experience'). The following couple of images leverage 'environmental design':

And these create portable contexts:

reality-vision

2007-02-04T11:55:00.001-08:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] This building looks like a boat. Remember Le Corbusier? Here, however, the building also sounds like a boat, its massive volume echoing sounds from the nearby bay.

reality-vision

2007-01-21T10:53:00.000-08:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] Unabashedly, JC Penny defies the notion that retro has to be 'retro'.

reality vision

2007-01-21T09:36:00.000-08:00

Reality vision: [as seen in San Diego] The new branch of the MCA opens its doors at the 'right' end of the downtown train station.