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\n\"Saturday<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week was mostly spent in a here-and-there state in the studio. Cleaning things up from a busy prior week in which a very exciting, thoughtful bit of work \u2014\u00a0about three or four months \u2014\u00a0went out to be shared. It’s got a good story, a good set of principles behind it and I just love it to death.<\/p>\n

There was some preparation for two new-ish projects that sit at the core of what people do when they and one design fiction-y project \u2014\u00a0or a project that’s super techie in principle and name and all that but that I’ve pretty much decided I’ll take more of an art-historical start at it. It’s basically a take on “augmented” reality and I’ve made my initial reading\/viewing list as provocations to get things going, which consists of:<\/p>\n

* Jonathan Crary’s Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century (October Books)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

* The entirety of “They Live”
\n* Scenes from “Terminator 2”
\n* Scenes from “Robocop”
\n* Scenes from “Until the End of the World”<\/p>\n

Part of that is to push away from the knee-jerk obvious directions that this could go if it was taken as one of those projects where the name basically tells you what to do. And I think we should stretch our imaginations.<\/p>\n

Just a process note to remind myself about why I got a little prickly along the way. If I remember I lost focus \u2014 there’s an entry in the increasingly relevant book “101 Things I Learned in Architecture School” that I keep forgetting to look up properly \u2014\u00a0but the entry basically says the thing you learn from good work in a good studio is how to do good work. It’s less about what gets tooled and manufactured; less about what gets built and all that. It’s learning how to do what you do better than before. I don’t know how that gets captured and how it gets turned into something tangible. Maybe it doesn’t in a pragmatic sort of way. But, especially working in a small studio in an enormous battleship that is in some aft-chamber, out of sight, under the bilge \u2014 your perspective changes and your expectations shift upwards toward, like \u2014 clarifying, simplifying and translating big lofty ideas. Why did I get prickly? Well \u2014 it’s just eagerness and earnestness and excitement bumping up against the need to be patient and remembering to be satisfied that, at the least, we’re doing all the right things.<\/p>\n

Think that’s it. There’s more, but that’s it for now.
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