an ode to the tattoos i’ve been learning to give

it’s pronounced zine not zine

here’s a little purim/pesach celebration for you

Textiles, materials that surround our everyday lives but are seemingly overlooked. The innovations behind this industry have had profound effects on our world today.

The historical film is a journey into the past. You watch as known narratives or even alternative ones unfold, catching a glimpse of idiosyncrasies, and at times, judging historical accuracy. So if the historical film is a journey into the past, then the historical game, in this case Assassins Creed III, is an experience of that past through the lens of a participant that has a hand in the unfolding of those narratives, occupying space and viscerally reacting to the events that have been coded in.

Outrun your computer and make it crash.

Two things I’ve learned from my furniture making class that I would love to share with you are —

Tangled up nonsense.

The ooey gooey hexadecimal insides of a digital file.

What would happen if we were able to visualize and instrument cities in the same way that a biologist captures details about molecules?

“I will remember you.”

Having autonomy over one’s living space allows for the development of a personal design process: a hyperindividual system of logic that responds to daily rhythm.

the universe in a nutshell

Seeing a complex object as a single line requires us to compress the object’s visual information and allows us to see what lines and edges differentiate it from the rest of the world, while maintaining eye contact with the subject limits improvisation and eliminates pressure to make ‘good’ or realistic art.

Easy enough, right? All I needed was for nothing to go wrong.

As a SMArchS AD, I am currently interested in designing “real” things, rather than representational things that may or may not come into existence. Previously, my MArch thesis at the GSD was interested in conceiving of architecture beginning to end - that is, designing and simultaneously making architecture ourselves. However, this interest inherently means buildings are out of the question, and questions of fabrication and construction begin to surface. This episode introduces topics like “real” construction taken on by architects themselves, how objects smaller than building begin to to take on architectural meaning, and how we might learn to build ourselves by looking at other disciplines, like sculpture.

What if in the near future, a new generation of products is grown by microbes, instead of using materials as we find them?

Full Howz is an architecture podcast by Khorshid Naderi-Azad that seeks to uncover and discuss places and spaces that are “ripe for review.” Inspired by the under-theorized “magical shallow pool typology” known as the “howz,” Khorshid is driven to find other largely untouched gems within architecture we just aren’t talking about. Her process in developing Full Howz is self-driven, but the process of sharing her work - even in the most informal ways - has proved surprisingly fruitful.