Scientists discover animal that lives forever
“Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).”
Got a new board: 6’1” x 18 1/2” x 2 3/16”. Took her for the first ride today and I like it. Also saw a seal in the line up for the first time.
Getting it Together
Hours before the review and things are crazy as ever.. Looking for friends to help tie knots, calibrating the servos and making sure it all works for tonight.
In line with our production discussions of last class, I designed a definition in Grasshopper that you can use to generate custom laptop stands.
Here are a few shots of the definition’s results, ready to laser cut. Click on any picture to enlarge it. The design shown here is a slightly lighter…
My latest bit of class work.
Two Bits of Inspiration
Here are a couple beautiful pieces of work that I stumbled upon and figured would be fun to share as they seem parametrically inspired (but how are we to truly know what has inspired?) I don’t want to cover this blog with inspirational images, but I will occasionally share some of my recent favorites. Feel free to follow my tumblr for the full stream of my personal inspiration.
Al Raha Beach Development, Abu Dhabi
“Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.” - Sir Norman Foster
Walt Disney Concert Hall, CA, USA
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” - Frank Gehry
More From Frank Gehry and even more soon with my presentation…
reblog of my inspiration post for Positioning Parametric Design
The engineers and I handle customer support. When I tell people that, they look at me like I’m smoking crack. They say, “Why would you pay an engineer $150,000 to answer phones when you could pay someone in Arizona $8 an hour?” If you make the engineers answer e-mails and phone calls from the customers, the second or third time they get the same question, they’ll actually stop what they’re doing and fix the code. Then we don’t have those questions anymore.
– The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak (via soxiam) (via superamit) (via joshmohrer) (via adamgotterer) Via Adam GottererThe computer is a powerful tool that can afford the modern designer an unprecedented amount of realism and flexibility with speed and accuracy that allows for rapid prototyping and manipulation of ideas in a form that is remarkably sharable, and thus also affords the designer a similarly unprecedented kind of feedback.
– Matt Ward (via ppd-spr2010) Via POSITIONING PARAMETRIC DESIGNAbout me
I design and develop websites while studying computer science at Columbia University. I am most interested in designing beautiful and intuitive user interfaces.I am currently spending the summer interning at YouTube in San Bruno, California.
Check out more of my creations on my website
