Notes from the Inaugural BCC Salon...

Ingredients:
2 x 35cm cheap baguettes
150g butter, softened
4 garlic cloves, crushed
2 tablespoons fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves, finely chopped
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh chives

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 220°C/200°C fan-forced. Cut bread into 2.5cm-thick slices (don’t cut all the way through).
2. Combine butter, garlic, parsley and chives in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Spread over cut sides of bread. Wrap each baguette in foil.
3. Bake for ___ minutes or until butter is melted and bread crisp. Ventilate room. Serve.

Photography: John Paul Urizar
Recipe Sourced: http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/24786/garlic+bread

Point of Submission

It's called submission for a reason.

It begins with one's head starting to go numb from thinking to hard about everything all at once.

It ends at an indeterminate point in the middle of the night where good intentions stop hurting and the mind and body just gives in.

It's at this point of giving up that the good ideas begin to flow - free from preconceived expectation - unconscious trains of thought begin to choo choo along like bird calls starting up in the dark.

***

Unfortunately this train's already a wreck and the only 'good thought' was to waste more time photoshopping Mies falling out of his chair...

But it's not to late for you.

(Good luck to all the thesis students out there)

Portraits of Success

To be a successful, well published Architect one needs to first master the art of being photogenic.

A Tribute to the Lion

Today I am going to be a big cat person. I feel like I've seen a lot of lions lately, so this is a 'tribute' post.

These were my favourite lions (and unicorn).

I also generally liked the selective use of gold in the coat of arms.

Buckingham Palace, London

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Surveys

Well just wanted to post an idea I had. After hearing and knowing of graduates who either became disenfranchised with practising architecture or realised it wasn't the best way for them to contribute to architecture or maybe leading to different career paths, I wondered if any comprehensive survey has been done on Architecture graduates.

A possible survey could focus on the paths of graduates taken at 1-2 years after graduation and 3-5 years:

-what current field employed in (practising architecture, architecture related, design related, non related, other (travel, further study)

-what form (FT, PT, casual or contract, self employed).

-Happiness in employment; on work colleagues (support and direction), type of work, etc

- Income (per annum amount or hourly rate)

Of course all done anonymous.

Normally surveys are done to research a point, hmmmm. I think some aspects I would be interested in would be the retention rate in architecture after graduating and whether private practice is supporting graduates adequately?

So thoughts...

Inspired by what Glenn Murcutt said at Re:Hab (very much paraphrasing); that he teaches to contribute to the profession as he doesn't employ others in his practice.

One Person at a Time...

This reflects my general attitude to educating people about what architecture is (based on my limited knowledge at the time) and what we do.

In January (2011) my mum and her partner went on a camping holiday to the South West of our state. Staying in Albany, my mum recognised that the following building was most likely of architectural merit (she liked it) and proceeded to take photos to show me when she returned home. I thought a little sharing wouldn't go astray.

ALBANY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE (AEC), Cox Howlett Bailey Woodland, 2010

Even though this building has been quite controversial, and I have a vague recollection that Albany residents were not big supporters of the design, I do think it seems quite nice. This is another building in the legacy of previous Government architect Professor Geoffrey London. The building is to be “an impressive design which will become the jewel in the crown of the new waterfront precinct", (Hon Michelle Roberts, 2006) and maybe a form of redemption for the Architects that produced the PCEC.

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He/She interrobanged

As a result of reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss and watching season 5 of Dexter, I find this passage of text rather entertaining:

"Yes, you can see the bullet points here, here and here, sir; there are multiple back-slashes, of course. And that's a forward slash. I would have to call this a frenzied attack. Did anyone hear the interrobang?"

"Oh yes. Woman next door was temporarily deafened by it. What's this?"

"Ah. You don't see many of these any more. It's an emoticon. Hold your head this way and it appears to be winking."

"Good God! You mean - ?"

"That's the mouth."

"You mean - ?"

"That's the nose."

"Good grief. Then it's - ?"

"Oh yes, sir. There's no doubt about it, sir. The Punctuation Murderer has struck again."

Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, 197.

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This is the truth

this is the truth

if we turn things upside down
we can't be the best country in the world
I would be lying to you if I said that
Argentina has a great future ahead
that we will be a safe country
that our economy will be strong
that our children will be healthy, get an education and have jobs
before anything you must know
our country does not deserve such things
and I am convinced of this because I know the Argentine people
corruption and hypocrisy are in our nature
I refuse to believe under any circumstances that
we could be a great country in the coming years
thanks to the people's votes
this country is sinking to new depths but
there are even more surprises to come
Argentina has only one destiny
and whether we like it or not
this is what is real

you should know I believe exactly the opposite

this is what is real
and whether we like it or not
Argentina has only one destiny
there are even more surprises to come
this country is sinking to new depths but
thanks to the people's votes
we could be a great country in the coming years
I refuse to believe under any circumstances that
corruption and hypocrisy are in our nature
and I am convinced of this because I know the Argentine people
our country does not deserve such things
before anything you must know
that our children will be healthy, get an education and have jobs
that our economy will be strong
that we will be a safe country
Argentina has a great future ahead
I would be lying to you if I said that
we can't be the best country in the world
if we turn things upside down

this is the truth

Lopez Murphy for president

What a brilliant political ad - I saw it on Gruen Nation. I wish more Australian election ads had this level of sophistication and weren't about scaremongering - hooray for the coming media blackout prior to August 21st. I love the music (it is also in Amelie), it is just so touching. The advertisers won a Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions in 2006 (International Advertising Festival). Unfortunately Lopez Murphy got less than 1% of the vote.

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