Unsolicited Dreamer

[ghostskillkids]

When your school friends start having kids of their own they’re too grown for sleepovers. Smoking cigarettes like red vines. drinking red wine out of sippy cups.

We are all growing up in different directions. Got facial hair and dreadlocks, nose rings and pregnancy scares. We just can’t...

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This is pretty dang amazing

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This is wicked cool! Street view imagery used to create amazing animations of the American landscape.

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Stories are data with a soul.

— Brene Brown Watch here inspiring TED Talk about vulnerability as the impetus for for life.

[findcolin]

I would like to say it’s life, but it isn’t life… It’s something that everybody needs, but they don’t actually get. It’s so much more than shelter, but it has to be shelter as well… The real difference between architecture and building is something to do with the spatial quality; it’s an emotional thing; it’s design as opposed to a mere accident of building.

Jim Eyre on Architecture (via findcolin)

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"The way in which architecture is made needs to be completely rethought if we're to go beyond bricks and mortar to engage the challenges of the next century." A fantastic video by MIT's Architecture department on the future of innovation in materials, fabrication, architecture, and urbanism

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A great read on many themes we discussed this semester

[travelsofanarchitecturestudent]

Close, Closer is a series of exhibitions and public programmes which aims to challenge and question the role of the architect in contemporary society. This site aims to collect a crowd sourced answer to this question - something we questioned throughout the semester of the Dreamers course. 

[pianoaround]

I’ve devoted 3 years of my life to making Piano Across America.

This is a Biggest project I’ve ever done in my entire life.

LANGUAGE OF THE UNIVERSE:

A web series documenting our travels to Central America and the Importance of Music in our Lives.

Help us take it to the next level.

Please Share this link: http://kck.st/WqW0nn

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This is awesome and inspiring.

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Check out this short and fantastic series on the evolution and genesis of creation and innovation called Remix Everything. I think this ties in quite nicely with the ideas I was exploring in my recent research paper about DFA students hacking our education and utilizing shared knowledge for social innovation. Also be sure to watch the extras after the credits roll. 

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[atavus-blog]

Christopher Whiteburch - The Purge, 2012

Photos Via [Julie]

[hokiehopeforsandyhook-blog]

This poem by Rashani Rea means a lot to me; maybe it can offer some comfort to you:

i’m a simple gopi fallen to her knees, singing endless praises like the wind sings through the trees.

filled now with wonderment distilling into grace, i find traces of you everywhere through your...

[hokiehopeforsandyhook-blog]

Friends and fellow Hokies, “We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning… We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again… We will prevail....

[unsoliciteddreamer]

This now, more than ever.

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It is no exaggeration to affirm that a journey by bicycle is like none other; it is a thing apart; it has a tempo and a style of its own.

James E. Starrs

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“Responsible architects think very much in terms of the whole community.”

Walter Gropius