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Norman Foster Foundation | Online Masterclasses

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Bookcase Porn

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Oyler Wu Collaborative | Silver Lake, LA

(source: giraffe.la instagram)

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Puzzled #1, Puzzled #2, Puzzled #3, Puzzled #5, Puzzled #6 | Frank Gehry | 2011

Credit Artspace.com

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“Guy Raz: A lot of the people that we talk to on this show are motivated by, you know, wanting to change an industry or change the way business is done or to change the world or to make money. I think everybody would agree that they wanted to make money, that isn’t you… where do you find the motivation to make this company run and thrive? Yvon Chouinard: Well… you know, one of my favorite quotes is, If you wanta understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. Because there saying, “this sucks & I’m gonna do it my own way” and I have a background of… I was always the shortest guy around, I could play sports pretty well ya know, team sports, but when it came time for a actual game I would fumble the ball. I realized that the best thing to do is invent your own sports then you can always be a winer. Thats what the entrepreneur does, they just say this is wrong, I’m gonna do it this other way. If you wanta be successful in business, you don’t go up against Coca-Cola, these big companies, they’ll killya. You just do it differently. You figure out something that no one else has thought about and you do it a totally different way, and so, breaking the rules, you have to be creative. Thats the fun part of business actually. I love breaking the rules. Guy Raz: But I mean you must still live by certain rules. I mean is there like a philosophy that kinda guides you? Yvon Chouinard: Well I’ve been a student of kinda Zen Buddhism most of my life. I believe in the more you know the less you need. I’ve been fishing, fly fishing, with one fly, one type of fly in different sizes and I’ve limited myself to that for a whole year and I’ve caught more fish than I’ve ever caught in my life. I realized that all of these hundreds of thousands of different fly patterns and different colors and different shapes are totally unnecessary. You can replace all of that with knowledge and technique. Its a good lesson for me. The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. Cause everything pulls you to be more and more complex and so I think what I learned from fly fishing is that if we have to either were forced or we decide to go to a more simple life, its not going to be an impoverished life, its gonna be really rich.”

— “How I Built This” From NPR - DEC 12, 2016 - Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard

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Kings Cross | Allies and Morrison | London

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Daniel Libeskind

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Christo & Jeanne-Claude

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New York by Gehry – Frank Gehry

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Rethinking Highways in Cities | Peter Park (Former City of Milwaukee Planning Director) gives a presentation on the removal of the Park-East Freeway Spur 20 years later. Followed by a Panel of Milwaukee City Leaders discussing the proposal to remove a spur of Interstate-794 between Downtown and the 3rd Ward.

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Making a Stand | Michael Pinsky & Studio Bark

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Cyclopean Cannibalism | Matter Design & Quarra Stone

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“Waterfall 2004” by Olafur Eliasson The Hall Art Foundation, Vermont, USA image credit: Olafur Eliasson

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Cloudscape | Ariel Weiss

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How Psychoactive Drugs Alter Spider Web Construction

In 1995, scientists explored how different drugs influence spider web construction to understand their impact on behavior and motor skills. This research was initiated due to a zoologist's request to alter the time garden spiders build their webs. The team administered various psychoactive substances, such as amphetamine, mescaline, strychnine, LSD, and caffeine, observing changes in web size and shape rather than timing.

Low caffeine doses led to smaller webs with uneven radii, while higher doses resulted in even smaller, irregular designs. Each drug induced different effects: sleeping pills caused drowsiness and incomplete webs, Benzedrine created zigzag patterns, marijuana resulted in missing inner sections, and scopolamine disrupted directional sense.

The study highlighted how drugs affect spider behavior, offering insights into the broader impacts of psychoactive substances across species.