Too Much Art, Not Enough Genius.

I am writing this post is because I don't want to write my evil twelve page research paper. My life has been tripping me out the last couple of days. Weird things have been happening to me. Most which I don't want to share but still I feel like everything is one big dream. Vague? You bet. I'm happy. Here is the remedy... Wake up and dance in your underwear to this song. Then drink a Jamba Juice & eat some chocolate chip pancakes. Snuggle into the afternoon. Have tickle tortures and fake fights. Sit down and read Into The Wild for the tenth time while listening to instrumentals like this one. Paint your nails red. Abuse the phrase YOLO. Make up silly stories to this song.Stay up all night long laughing then do something unexpected. Be sung to sleep. Above everything else, avoid doing homework like the plague. 

Waving At The Taxis.

I've been reading this book titled The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Bolton and I absolutely adore it. It is some serious mind candy. Here are a few things that I have been thinking about regarding architecture lately. 

- All buildings, like people, fade and disappear making it hard for us to attach to them. 
-People will posses some of the qualities of the building they are drawn to.
-Architecture may well possess moral messages; it simple has no power to enforce them. It offers suggestions instead of making laws. It invites, rather than orders us to emulate its spirit and cannot prevent its own abuse. 
-We may need to have made an indelible mark on our lives, to have married the wrong person, pursued an unfulfilling career into middle age, or lost a loved one before architecture can begin to have any perceptible impact on us. 
-It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.  

All I want to do is design beautiful buildings..