Anti-Aesthetics

Here's a little college book I occasionally pull off the shelf --The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture by Hal Foster (1983 Bay Press). It includes Kenneth Frampton's essay "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six points of an architecture of resistance." Do I remember reading Frampton's essay? Nope. Like most things you're required to read in school, you don't appreciate them until much later in life.

Book Review: The Mysterious Disappearance of Bay Press by Charles Mudede [The Stranger link]

Detail - Tree Planting, Typ

Ok, so yeah, this is the city's Standard Plan No. 100a for planting a street tree--in case you have an eagle-eye for recycled detail drawings. Hey, it's public domain. I have made a few improvements, however. I've added instruction to keep mulch clear of the tree graft. Also, I visually tried to show "slack" in the ties, although, the tree still looks like it's in handcuffs...

Frugal Google

Loyal from their beginning (over a decade, which is like ten to the one hundredth power in tech time), I've decided to give up on Yahoo! I'm switching to Google. See, Google has this great buy-up called "Blogger" and well, Google has perfected the Really Simple Syndication reader. You'd think this would be easy for any web-based email provider. It's supposed to be simple.

Sorry Yahoo, K.I.S.S.