February 2012
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How do I get what's in my head onto this piece of...
Get out of my head, architecture.
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Student Hack: Great Google Maps App for... →
It’s a desktop version of Google Maps, but you can save the current view as an image by hitting command-S and enter x2, then dragging the view across and repeat, really quickly and easily getting high-res aerial photos. Then stitch them together in Autostich/Calico or Photoshop.
It saves you screengrabbing tonnes of tiny pictures online because of the keyboard shortcuts and also you save a...
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Confession
Lectures about architectural practice make want to not become an architect. I had sort of already decided that though. So what to do with an architecture degree? I wanted to do graphic design really. Hmm? Hmm.
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Architecture Student Hack
Cutlery trays make excellent drawer organisers for all your architecture junk. Wish I’d known this sooner.
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January 2012
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Tumblr Wishlist
View archive of liked posts
Search tags/content of liked posts
Search for multiple tags at once
Customize and preview a theme before installing it
Like posts with one click on people’s blog main page like on the dash
Read a blog backwards (i.e. chronologically)
Ability to count more than 10 tracked tags (does Tumblr only have 10 fingers?)
SEARCH FEATURE ON THE IPHONE APP
No height...
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Highlights from Coffee With An Architect's Pocket...
Agora: (noun) – The fear of architecture in public places. Amphitheatre: (noun) – Large crowds in seating organised by their dislike of classical music. Architecture: (noun) – Load bearing walls plus optimism. Balustrades: (noun) – Describing a stairway using only hand gestures. Circulation: (noun) – The excitement architects feel when they feel excitement about Architecture. Configuration: (noun)...
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Fuck "fuck context"
It really troubles me how much of Tumblr is made up of images out of context. This blog is almost entirely free of context. In architectural terms, it’s site-less. It’s shape-making. Gestures.
I worry that in posting images I find interesting out of context, I’m removing their meaning. I’ve aestheticised art into an image wall, of unnecessary complexity. Or maybe Tumblr...
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