production

renderings are now being made and the lyout for our presentation boards/booklets are being developed.  Things are falling into place.  Suhwing!

iKonyk and Versa

A member of iKonyk and two members of Versa went shooting just outside El Paso the other day.  Our mission was to discuss design, -itches, and beer.  Its a pretty good area and I would rate it a 7. There were no rabbits or coyotes to shoot but we did find empty beer bottles. So not too bad of a bad day.  A-Ram (arnulfo) was reluctant to shoot at first but he and Hollywood (victor) handled themselves like true champs.  Your uncle Josh is proud of you. 

Base completed

The base for our physical model was completed over the weekend.  Special thanks to Frank Beasley and Jose Juarez for helping.

New urbanism

New Urbanism in downtown El Paso

Interesting article from elpasotimes.com regarding downtown living and the revitalization effort. 

Master Plan Schematics

Example of Urban Plan in Macedonia

The graphical scheme of the Detailed Urbanist Plan for a settlement within the Municipality of Aerodom within the City of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Study Models

I'd Like That

Check it out, this is a tip from your uncle Joshua.  I was thinking the other day as I was sitting in the studio and I figured out the key to a relationship and how to make it work.  When you first meet somebody, you find out they like you.  Usually a friend of a friend of theirs say, he or she really really likes you, and it kills you, it floors you, sends you to the ground.  Then you get their phone number and you call them up and you say "Yeah, that's a really great phone conversation, can I see you some time?" and then they say "I'd like that." 

Nothing feels better than "I'd like that". So now, your blood pressures' goin, you're six feet off the ground, you can't sleep, because of "I'd like that". So you hang out for a while, and you call and you talk on the phone all the time, and then you drop the bomb, what feels like the bomb, you say, "You know what, I've been thinkin about you a lot." And she goes, "Ahhhhhhh!" And you go "What happened?" and she goes, "I'm sorry, I just, I just, I just, that's, I've been thinking about you too." 

Bam. Higher into the sky.  Now you're up to "I'm thinkin about you." Then however number of months pass, it makes you feel comfortable saying it, you say "I gotta tell you something." They go "What?", you go "I'm in love with you." And nothing in the world sounds better than "I'm in love with you." And then maybe she starts crying, or maybe he goes "*gasp*". And all the sudden you're like "I'm in." But now "I'd like that" and "I've been thinkin about you" doesn't work. Now we're at "I'm in love with you." Then maybe some day it'll move up to "I love you." Fast forward, now you're like "I love you a lot; I love you more than anything in life." 

It's a threshold that keeps movin up. Fast forward, like six months, six weeks, whatever the case may be, now you're on like, "I want to marry you." "I want to impregnate you with my love." "I wanna, I wanna just send my love to you."  Then you say this line, and you know you've used this line before, "I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel." So now he or she starts askin, "Do you love me?" and you start goin, "Of course I love you." "Well say it." And then it becomes "Say it twice." And it goes "Say it three times." And then, you cross a really interesting point, where all the sudden it becomes "I hate you, I hate you." And you go, "Oh my god she hates me." And now it's like "I hate you more than anything." And then it's like "We're over." And then they go "No we're not." And you go "Yes we are." 

Now the words completely do not work at all, you're left with nothing. You're throwing punches under water. You're done. You know what the moral of that story is, if there is one. Never, ever, ever, ever underestimate the power of "I'd like that."