orange zoom zoom

This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever spent money on but...I like it.

It is also a perfect ying yang to the boxy, utilitarian Element...

zoomzoom=funfun and it's copper mica red!!! (orangish)

napkin sketch competition

The firm had the ubiquitous Napkin Sketch Competition this summer inspired by the one in Arch Record last summer, which I did not win...1500 entries...oh well.

So when the firm did it and I went after it...and won 1st and 3rd. Coool.

However there were other sketches that were better than mine in some ways so when I saw the 30 submitted sketches I thought there was only a small chance of winning.

Above is my 3rd place (most amusing) and first place (plaza in center madrid) and one of last years entitled "breakfast"

The bottom 2 I thought were both excellent and worthy...zoom in on the one on the left. I gave my third place prize to the guy on the left because he was an intern and his drawing is amazing.

orange outing

We even let them out occassionally...here is the orioles at the redwings game...fun for all.

orange afield

They are the orangest thing going...they are the orioles of the eastside. Grace's second season under Coach Elliott. Well done Coaches.

Grace does this magic trick where she manages to hit the ball (slightly) with her eyes closed. Boy do the coaches love that.

They won a few games this season...Grace had some hits...her throws to first were better this year and she started pitching. She threw quite a few strikes in her last outing. I think she had fun.

spring orange bring

lost photos

the gang was all here at our place for the belated party for Grace's Communion. We had chicken and shrimp off the barbie...I made 5lbs of shrimp...I thought there would be tons of leftovers but...no...I guess they came out pretty good.

We had a little family "slide show " which we have not had in some time. Good fun.

New Frank Lloyd Wright

I have admired this design for a long time.. super strong horizontals, reminds me of Unity Temple a little...the renderings were looking up from the bottom of a cliff...very japaneese...this design was never excuted ...until 2 years ago when some local Buffalo people paid for the "Wright" to build it.


Nicely executed...door finishes are failing already.


I still can't figure out how he can get the steel to cantilever that far and hold the concrete
panels...dead load way above 50lbs/sf...?

rush rhees at night

the rochester skyline icon is nicely lit up at night. I did some work on the collaborative learning center her a couple years ago...an amusing experience...given that the building housing the rare book collections is in the upper floors of the tower....it will be a roman candle if the thing ever goes up...lots of fun discussions with the fire marshal about sprinklers and rare book colletions.

Diner fun with Gracie and Maria. This is certainly a happy place. The food is the same, the specials are the same. Thay alway have carrots on thursday nights but still we go almost weekly. WE have seen about thirty waiters/waitresses come and go...oh well ...we go...have fun and it's part of life.

C'est la vie.

random shots

Fall's Great

This fall seems more intense this year. The colors are more vivid. The wet summer has really changed things I think. Normally my crab apple loses its leaves in september....they are still on and they are still green...I've seen them change as early as august.

So here's this great tree down the road from me that I gawk at every year because of its brilliance. I finally took the time to shoot it.

Talk about ORANGE!

architectural training

This is anna. she has just announced her desire to become an architect....oh dear...that means lots of jenga training...if only she was a little more into games and competitions

from the vault again

digging up the old stuff for digital archiving has been a monstrous task with some interesting moments of "wow I forgot about that"...sitting in the urn at Frank Llloyd Wright's Unity Temple, Salisbury Cathedral, my friend Dan and I driving across country...heres a few I have blown up...

great pic

Here's my pal Maria enjoying her birthday...she's saying "hi Dimmy" as she comes up the stairs...I had to post ...just love the picture.

an orange entry

Toyota done

Hoselton Toyota had the ribbon cutting...very amusing.

The design comes out of Toyota's national image campaign...I won't mention the architect since he snubbed me on the way out.

Anyway we really just had to figure out how to fit the mask on these buildings. It came out better than I thought. The Owner played a heavy role and made a lot of changes on the fly. They broke away from the national design heavily on the interors...some works some doesn't.

I think I ended up more of the permit dog on this one than I thought but...it was an amusing project in some ways.

The panels we used were required by Toyota..they are pretty cool and really expensive. I did not think they would be so reflective. Hense the cloud shot. They have been selling out of their toyota shipment pretty quickly.

what really happened to rennaissance square??

We had a team meeting to "celebrate" the completion of Rennaissance Square...I summarized our discussions in something that reads like a poem...

ODE TO REN SQUARE

Oh Ren Square
With Moshe SO fair
Trumpets Blare
But Budgets scare
Moshe no dare

So

Associates care
Teams can share!
Redo by Flair

Wait

Consensus in air?
Theatre where?
Half transit tear?

Now

Maggie not share
Council not fair
No help mayor
Cooperation rare


Oh the nightmare
Deadline snare
Funding not there

Well

Outta my hair
All. Take care
So long Ren Square

slightly orange

its like the explosion at the catchup and mustard factory in slow motion...which inevitably yields an orange mess.

Dale Chuhily installation at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden...very cool

orange on green

not your typical color combo but really quite...arresting.

Thanks for the pose Gracie

bring it

Well the Loud Family Blog got to be so much fun that it was time to add to the hysteria with yet another blog. This one wil be more egocentric, creative and well...let's just see what happens.

This one will be more orange for sure.

...definitely more orange