Good News, New Stuff and Things to Share

First, the good news. Start­ing June 21^st I will no longer be unem­ployed! After more than 8 months of incon­sis­tent income, over­whelm­ing stress and gen­eral eco­nomic slumps — I will rejoin the work­ing class. Awe­some, and I have 3 weeks off until then to work on odds and ends with­out dwelling on the future.

I put up this weeks mix­tape. You can lis­ten to it, or down­load it on the side­bar to the right. Um, the lan­guage is NSFW. But so is leav­ing the win­dow open. I guess try it out with head­phones first before you start a dance party in the office. This will be a weekly thing, unless I find it to be too much to keep up on. For now, no prob­lem on that front. Enjoy.

30 Days of Cre­ativ­ity starts today. I made a mix to kick things off. I have a few ideas in my head and sketch pad that I am going to try and get more devel­oped. One of them includes a remodel exper­i­ment for my family’s house down in Flo­rence, Ore­gon.  It’s a really great mid-century ranch style house. Some other things will show up here before or after that. This 30 day project will be my moti­va­tion to really kick my port­fo­lio into high gear.

“30 Days of Cre­ativ­ity is a social ini­tia­tive encour­ag­ing peo­ple to cre­ate stuff, any­thing, every day for 30 days.

This is your excuse to buy that tub of Play­dough, unbox your Erec­tor set, or dust off your Holga. You might be work­ing on one huge project for 30 days straight. Maybe you are cre­at­ing some­thing new thing every day. (That’s the best way to par­tic­i­pate!) It could be as sim­ple as tak­ing a pic­ture of your out­fit for 30 days to some­thing as involved as a writ­ing a song or mak­ing a movie every day.” — MAKE Mag­a­zine Blog

#30daysofcreativity — A How To Guide from 30 Days of Cre­ativ­ity on Vimeo.

Finally, some­thing to share. I’ve been try­ing to share at least one project/design a week that inspires me. Today I am shar­ring the Palmyra House located in Nandgaon, Maha­rash­tra, India. This has been fea­tured on a few archi­tec­ture blogs. So it may look famil­iar. It was designed by Stu­dio Mum­bai Archi­tects.

What I like most about it is the inte­rior use of very dark and rich woods, along with nat­ural stone and con­crete ele­ments. It has a strong tex­tural aes­thetic — almost rough look­ing. Still though, the end expe­ri­ence that I observed from the images it that the the house has a quiet and soft feel­ing. The house has great East­ern Asian design ele­ments as well, to unify the mod­ern design with tra­di­tional fin­ishes. More images and obser­va­tions are avail­able over at Con­tem­po­rist.