Author: Matthew
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Martha’s Vineyard Barn Roof Repair
I just got back from a week in Martha’s Vineyard replacing 720s.f. of a 1240s.f. barn roof and doing some misc. repair work. Wood plank and beam, shingles. I had to rip off the old shingles, felt, and replace some of the OSB on the top layer of the stress-skin panels underneath, fascia boards, etc.…
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Final Review – Disrupting Urban Social Structures: Interface and Face-to-Face Physically Manifest through Play
My final review was held on April 14th. Our growing integration with and dependence on the virtual world in the 21st century is juxtaposed with our increasing sense of alienation present within the cities of the physical world. While our archaic social structures and misused public spaces discourage social interaction, Social Networking Sites (SNS) promote…
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Some neat design work! Pavilion at the Hakone Open-Air Museum
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Better research, organize, and write
I thought I’d start investigating better ways of researching, organizing that research (rather than searching for scribbles I write directly on paper printed notes), and writing/ formatting in a different way than Word to Indesign. I stumbled upon a slightly dated list that still seemed worthwhile as a starting point. DEVONthink (database/organizer/everything) Why? Mettel (word processor)
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Another winter reading
Taken from Amazon: “A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity’s greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they’re…
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Francis Loeb Library Today
Spending the day at Loeb Library to read: Neo-nomads : designing environments for living in the age of mental, physical and digital mobilities by Yasmine Abbas Thoughts: – Neo-nomads reflect the current way we as people operate in the 21st century. -Interested in Abbas’ approach to design environments for these people -Are our environments today adequate for the…
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Winter Reading [continued]
Why can’t we get past the Situationists? http://blogs.poly.edu/bsww/2009/02/02/why-can%E2%80%99t-we-get-past-the-situationists/