This is a mental log to document my stream of conscious, to be updated
Conversations on Psychopolitics (Oughourlian)
"It is common to see the most recent generations of young people who have been raised without taboo, seeking by any means to experience desire of which they feel deprived, having no genuine desire because the keep changing models and because the give up on their desire when faced with the slightest resistance from the model they have discovered an artificial means of experiencing desire through craving"
The Prince - Machiavelli
Fortune- all causes of historical change beyond the rational deliberation of men.
Choose either fortune or peace.
Fortune needs things to happen.
Peace requires complacency.
America - Baudrillard
"Do we continually have to prove to ourselves that we exist? a strange sign of weakness, harbinger of a new fanaticism for a faceless performance, endlessly self evidence"
Road Poem on December 20th from Crestone
Dior jeans crumpled in the trunk
The water is too frozen for me to brush my teeth
My skin has bathed in the boron
-infused waters
The mountains in the valley feel so reachable
Last night I picked out a star for you
I almost left my shorts behind on the post
Now I’m driving to Salida
All of it seems so silly
from Trinity Test Site
In America nothing is sacred
Witnessing Militarized Disneyland through the lens of disaster tourism.
Jerry was saying there's a fine line between physics and the military technology. Thanks to this we have Mt. Rushmore.
There's something innocent about dogs and children in the confines of a largely airy and windy field about 100yards by 100yards.
The biggest attraction of them all are the people waiting ina line, to wait in a line, to take a photo.
Hobbyists from Minnesota that flew down are surveying radiation levels. I'm equally relieved as I am flattered.
This is a one day event, moreso a fucking funhouse.
My stare is froze upon the landscape picturing annihilation. There's a b&w picture hung on the fence in front of me that reminds me.
Geiger counters beeping ambivalently. I’ll hear them when I close my eyes.
Post Industrial Creativity
Innovation latency is a result of industrialism.
Humans are not machines, our existence isn’t subjected to “production and demand” functions.
The range and diversity of available information now attributes better judgement, entrapping the beneficiaries of cultural production.
There is a parabola between protectionism and innovation.
Fact: When nations focus on increasing patent protection it slightly decreases the level of innovation investment.
How do we advance the innovation environment to be less around control, and more about the investment that facilitates action?
Tokyo Guide from Jake Gevalt
Daikanyama - upscale quaint fashion and books
Shinjuku - youth and ratchet nightlife/ food
Ebisu - izakayas, karaoke and good food
Yoyogi euhara- wine bars, restaurant la and cute residential area
Ginza - high end fashion retail and the famous fish market tsukiji
Aoyama- best fashion retail very walkable beautiful architecture
Aki bahara - ‘electric city’ with crazy anime stuff, electronics stores and maid girls
Jimbocho - used books district
Uebo- east Tokyo shrines and ancient tourist attraction
Manifesto for Clothing Design with Avery Ginsberg and Liam Phillips
Collective Design > Individualized Body > Collective Consciousness
Curiosity for meaning of humanity
Pursuit of excellent uniformity
Designing for contemporary life
How consciousness informs perspective and survival
Clothing found Avery through various cultural sources. Clothing for that reason is a unique thing that has informed his worldview. Complex, question provoking, because of his understanding and unbridled curiosity.
Socially and individually significant, objectively outliving a persons lifespan. Outlasting the body yet made for the body. An essential vessel to explore human culture
Modularity of Creation and Culture
Modularity is the combination of these 3 components:
design (consistency)
supply chain (variability)
lifestyle (individuality)
Modularity expressed in-situ. It’s a language spoken in different dialects.
Invisible Cities - Calvino
“Memory is redundant. It’s repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist”
Hempcrete
(Lime + hemp) gets you all benefits with half the weight, with 10x the insulation. (R70 value) Can withstand as much pressure as concrete.
Wrap hemp and lime around a structural frame.
Cut holes in the bricks for electrical
Hemp houses are not only termite-resistant but they are also fire-resistant, and they can prevent the growth of mold.
1250sqft is about ~$12,000 (w/ shipping being about $2.8k extra)
Micro Factories
Imagine… a network of micro factories enabling folk architecture both volume and scale appropriate.
Less energy. Fewer materials. Smaller labor force.
Highly automated Rapid prototyping for high-mix, low volume products
Low volume Customizable products, lower cost, flexibility
Micro factories order small quantities of high-quality materials as needed. This is because a micro factory requires the product to be ordered first before it’s produced.
They can fit into existing spaces - in a way, a factory within a factory.
Once a product has been finalized, a micro factory can replicate the process and increase production by building out more tooling stations.
A traditional factory achieves cost efficiencies by producing large quantities of the same product and distributing it through a wide network. SPECIALIZATION
Micro factories can work locally with a relatively small number of customers and deliver products directly to consumers. this eliminates costly overhead as does the scale and size of the production facility and workforce