Using Virtual Paper to Save the Environment

If I was free of Architecture school I would really like to do something like what Alvar Aalto did with his summer home. Just have a nice place to be and experiment with design. Recently I have been dreaming of how nice it would be to have a large plot of land in Alaska or somewhere just to try the ideas that pop into my head. I have the feeling that most architecture students would like to be able to just start building, and do whatever they want.

There are some major problems with this though. One is the fact that most of us don’t have the financial backing to anything of a reasonable scale. The other is the fact that there would be no force driving the design other than whatever interests me, and good design needs constraints to work around and flourish. So I need to think of something else to devote my design drive.
This semester I am enrolled in a relief and screen printmaking class, which I have found that I truly enjoy. I like the idea that prints can be easily distributed to a large amount of people, art for the masses. I also enjoy the challenge of how to create an image when you are limited by what can be done with relief or screen. You have to think of alternatives to what is used in other art forms or how to adapt those techniques to use in print. I also like to think of how little do I need to portray in the print for the image to make the point I want to make.

Another possible avenue for creative interest is guitar. I have accepted the fact that I will never be a great guitar god just about from day one, but for whatever reason guitars interest me any way. I am very interested in guitar design and the creation of tone. I accept the fact that I am a gear junky. For a while when I saw a guitar I could not resist the urge to tell the nearest person the make, model, hardware facts, woods used, tonal characteristics, and so on. It just interests me all the little details that go toward sculpting a tone. I sometimes wonder why I’m going into architecture rather than guitar design.



Just as a quick personal bias Gibson beats Fender

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Captain Planet is probably the most bas ass environmentalist.

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Play List
I feel music is one of the most powerful agents in any movement. There are way more songs out there that contribute these are just the ones that I know and enjoy which is hardly skimming the surface.

Beatles Mother Nature’s Son
Jack Johnson The 3 Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Clear Blue Skies
Rush The Trees
R.E.M Fall On Me
R.E.M Stand
Talking Heads (Nothing But) Flowers
Bruce Cockburn If a Tree Falls
Pixies Monkey Gone to Heaven
Joni Michelle Big Yellow Taxi
Julian Lennon Saltwater

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There are thousands of social problems, but there is one problem that is common between all of them. For the most part nobody is doing much to change or fix these social problems. I feel that there is no greater problem with our society than general unwillingness to better our society.
I came to this realization after trying to think of a social problem that I would like to write about. The more I thought about it the more social problems I thought of, and every single one was worthy of just as much attention as the last one. In every case there was something that needed to be done. I was beginning to wonder how there could be so many problems then I realized it was because the majority of people are not acting. We all agree that poverty and homelessness needs to be eradicated but how many people are acting. Our society seems to have this belief that as long as we understand that we the problems facing our society are bad and we say the right things, that’s enough. Now I understand that this may feel like a personal attack to some people and that they are thinking up ways to defend themselves. I understand that many of us have done good thinks to help; I think that people are good by nature. Have we done enough? I am just as guilty of this as anyone else. I’ve done many good things in my life, but now I wonder if those deeds were just the bare minimum. I feel that they we because I can easily think of many others things I could have done to help. I just feel that as a society we are unwilling to put in a true effort into these other problem. That is why I feel this is our greatest social problem our general lack of social responsibility.

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The flow of energy is an interesting subject to ponder; I have recently been reading passages from the Taoist book the Tao Te Ching which explores many topics about how we view the world. One reading that I think addresses the issue is the 25th reading, it goes like “There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao. It flows through all things, inside and outside, and returns to the origin of all things…� I think it is fascinating that the color of like the soil of an area can be seen in the buildings of a city and that from that a whole persona of the area can be created.
There is a connection between everything. A building can influence the building being built across the street. And as that influence continues a whole city can be built and the whole think is connected.

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