Bits and pieces...

"Global.Is.Asian"

- words on the wall of the NUS Law Faculty

Had the first sketchbook class today... and turned out it wasn't a sketchbook class but the professor told us we've unwittingly all been entered for a pavilion design competition for the NUS Law Faculty. Excited but well...part of me wants vacation ("It's my RIGHT! For goodness' sake!") and another part wants to go all out since I didn't manage to do that during semester.

Oh well, the new studio rules:

1.NO PHOTOS

2.NO COPIES

3.NO COLOURS

4.NO TRACING PAPER

5.NO SHALLOWNESS

Hmm.. thanks to rule no 5. I realise that if I'm now so much more of  a thinker, it's because of archi... The phrase "Think out of the box" has become a sort of mantra in this increasingly design-driven world, but I think for us, we've been taught to consider the box, put ourselves inside it (since architects still must always consider the reality and  practicality of design), but then we punch through the walls of the boxes, we dismantle the sides, we  push through and strecth the box to breaking, so much so that people won't recognise the box anymore. And all these are done from INSIDE the box. Nice pseudo-philosophy,no? ;p

Anyway, moving on to that eternal conflict between architect and civil engineer, everytime I meet my civil engineer friend and end up making jokes on them, I'll console them with this phrase "But c'mon, architects dream and we need a civil engineer to realise that dream..it's very important!" Then, yesterday I met a church friend, whose civil engineer friend told him this: "An architect's dream is a civil engineer's worst nightmare." Oh wow that puts a sharp end to my "we-need-you-civil-engineers-to-realise-our-dreams" argument.... Let's hope my friend's friend doesn't end up spearheading the "Away with Architects!" movement..

Moving again to a random direction,  Ren recently said, "I think Youtube is the beginning of the decline of society." I'm too sleepy to discuss that at length but that sentence came out as we're talking about amateur porn (At this point I would like to assure the readers that the conversation merits a mere Parental Guidance rating,not a Restricted one.)

Amateur porn. What a concept. I thought people only do porn movies (that's Professional Porn, mind you) because it's lucrative..but apparently now there's a group of people who just film themselves doing it and puts the video on the net for THE WHOLE WORLD to see. There is something rather disturbing that people would, voluntarily and with full conscience, take something very,very,very private and make it public display. (Well one could say blogging is about the same.. but then the things I blog about are things that are personal, but maybe not THAT personal..)

Wonder what's the motive.. what motive could be worth it?

 

Ah well, that's people for you.