Daniel Burnham

I was wondering who said, "Make no small plans," then I realized it was actually,

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence."

-Daniel Burnham, 1910

I really love this quote. It's inspirational, relevant, and bold. It has gotten me to look into Daniel Burnham's life and works more and more. The wikipedia is always a good start.

100%

Somebody loves US. Icon talks about architecture's revival in America.

Recent time killer: Legion of Doom and Justice League of America. Notice the TWO gorilla/ape mutant villains. What's up with that? King Kong Knock Offs? Fear of strength that comes from the jungle? Black people? ... Note also Solomon Grundy the "Hillbilly Zombie."

Making me hungry this week: USA Today.

"The dump gradually grew into a range of hills that extended nearly a mile, burying the old historic wall underneath it. The decaying medieval fabric of the Darb al-Ahmar district is just beyond. To the west of the park is the City of the Dead, a sprawling quarter of ancient tombs and mausoleums that for centuries have been inhabited by the city's poor."

- NYTimes article about a new park in Cairo, Egypt. Also the source of the photo above.

67.5%

Go Salman. Few have your authority to speak on the subject.

Autobot, Decepticon, or the latest wave in 'pimpin' your ride from Japan?

The toughest mazes I've seen assembled on a single website.

[I haven't read it but plan to soon.] The Future of Transit: 1968.

Over 67% I work one hour for every two I have already completed.
Over 75% I work one hour for every three I have already completed.
Over 80% I work one hour for every four I have already completed.

52.5%

Time for a link dump.

It costs more to own/operate a car in Detroit than any other city in the nation. Another statistic to be proud of. B-side: appreciate art deco hood ornaments. http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
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That's it, time for a dedicated electric scooter lane.

Lego Instruction Books. Lots of them.

A timeline of Duckburg.

Posters for Spaghetti Westerns.

Cool Photography: Edward Burtynsky - check out Three Gorges and Urban Mines.

Making me hungry [you can order Ya-Ya's Chicken for CarryOut/Online].

Printer's Row

I got a visor from The Parlour. I need the visor to make milkshakes and sundaes. The visor helps me. [] I started today at The Parlour. The owner of the company came in for dinner. He is 28 years old. He is worth over 500 million dollars US. Smartmoney says he will cross the one Billion mark before he is 31 years old.

Watch out for Invaders from Space. They are all over the place. So far they haven't landed in the Midwest. [Invaders don't like rust, thus they're avoiding the rust belt. Rust makes Invaders sick.]

NYC rail system will turn 100 this year. Happy Birthday.

Furniture goes on Atkins Diet.

This robot eats flies for power. Guess how it attracts flies. [Hint: not Honey.]

Pictures
+ Circular Cities
+ Earth from Above
+ Crazy Korean Aerial Photos [some duplicates from above, large files]

10%

That is the amount of community service I have accomplished today. That means four hours. I should have another 10% by Friday.

532 Abbott got the hook-up on Dave Chappelle Tickets for this Friday.

It's been a while since I've posted anything worth reading here.

Summer has been over for one week, 2 days. This is how Summer Reading List vol. II turned out.

The Thorn Birds, McCullough
Watchmen, Moore and Gibbons
The Last Don, Puzo
Sanctuary, Faulkner
Fight Club, Palahniuk
Kim, Kipling
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns, Miller
Alias Grace, Atwood
The Gangs of Chicago, Asbury
Deliverance, Dickey
I, Robot, Asimov
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway

I will refrain from comment until I have something insightful.

At Haven House I saw a Cozy Coop. Its front right wheel was cracked and its metal rod pried away the plactic body. Otherwise it was in good shape.

[By the way: Haven House smells like asparagus.]

If Tony is reading this - I registered a Gmail account for TonysCustoms. Call me for the password. Or better yet: take one wild guess. [Click here for Gmail.]

WASTE YOUR TIME: NOW.

FIASCO

I'll make this short because I'm going to watch a new [that's right bitchaz, N-E-W, new] Reno911.

If you play Internet games and spend a fair amount of time escaping from locked rooms try your hand at this.

Some of the textbooks I bought.

Gimcrack.

Rio. I think this is Rio. I have no way of checking that. It's Rio.

Quite possibly the greatest single webpage for Transformers fans ever. [Seriously, you can print off folding action figures of all these robots in disguise.]

A great article from Morning News I should've posted a while back. There's no time like the present.

Jazz-ersizing our way into September

Space: Why Not.

For the impatient and easily amused: observe 'UFO Art' by Jim Nichols.

For the patient: 99 slides with illustrations 'Manned Spaceflight in the 1980s' is an amazing find. I just browsed it. The end is slightly more interesting than the start.

I'm Back

with avengance.

More as week one of semester seven unfolds.

Will Blogger let me put Ø in my title?

Architecture in authoritarian and Eastern regimes. The 105 Builiding in Pyongyang, North Korea is damn-near spooky. If it's not torn out of Orwell's 1984 then it's definately Blade Runner -esque. [link]. Second, Social Design Notes has an informative post about Rem Koolhaas and the Chinese TV project [link].

It's nice to see the Washington Post deal with zoning [link].

Saw a story about Found on Fox News at 10 [at ten it's news at eleven it's history]. Interesting enough to merit a [link].

"Labor and Materials is Iraq's answer to "Extreme Home Makeover" and the country's first reality TV show." Forget prisoner abuse, this is torture on a far larger scale. "On the way back to the station, the crew stops to look at a house whose roof was ripped off. As they film it, a blast rips through the air, and smoke billows from a nearby mosque. The next day, "Labor and Materials" shows footage of the blast, which killed a young boy, as well as of Kadhim's house." Oh, wait. No, I suppose the killing and such is still going on [link].