Taco got a little exercise on this Thanksgiving Day
A powerful image of a man with a powerful determination to serve mankind. Photo taken at Cosanti, a sister site.
Another Visit At Arcosanti
Paolo Soleri was a visionary. His concepts from the 1950s which he worked toward his entire life, are as valid now as ever. Arcology - the blending of architecture and ecology as a way for mankind to move into the future in harmony with nature, and with each other. With his own hands, and with apprentices, he started building the first prototype, Arcosanti in 1970. His vision of mega-cities where the personal automobile is not needed, and all needs are obtained locally, is I believe how we are going to have to end up, eventually. He was just way ahead of his time, and the idea just too big to fit into the corporate for profit world we live in. Click his name above to learn more about this pivotal figure in 20th century architecture, and one who should have been taken seriously, but now I think the time is more than ripe for his concepts to be looked at much more carefully.
Peeps working in the ceramics studio, other studio images are of the metallurgy studio.
Z House + Winery Construction Update
Stargazer Lilys
Z House + Winery Construction
A Sunflower
A Few Flowers
That Stair
Z House + Winery Construction Update
Flower Shoot
Bought some flowers yesterday, shot them in my studio today.
First Desert Ride of the Season
My rides in the desert have become nearly sacred to me. The beauty of the desert, and planet Earth as a whole, makes me thankful to be alive to experience it. Monarch butterflies traveling with me in large numbers, westward. Feeling as one with the planet is the best feeling.
My place
Flow
The machines that carriy me
Super green October
Beautiful geology
Mud crackle
Wonder where Man’s first idea of pottery came from…
A still of the still
No power generating today
Each of these are using power, just sitting there
FutureHaus
FutureHaus - Architectural sculpture. Art you live in. Custom Certified Passive House design for ocean view acreage high atop San Marcos, CA, USA. Incorporating a rotunda that’s a calendar time piece, southern exposure protection, use of on-site stone, rainwater collection, 100% solar and a greenhouse. True Organic Architecture borne of the site, it’s relationship to the sun and breezes, the views, and the owner’s needs and desires. Colonizing Earth, in a responsible and artful way.
Experience the construction site with me.
Z House + Winery Construction Update
Z House + Winery Construction Visit
Wet Desert - Exploring In My Explorer
The desert and surrounding mountains are even more beautiful when soaking wet. Photos from the morning after Hurricane Kay had her way with the countryside.
Z House + Winery Construction Update
Z House + Winery Construction Update
Christopher Alexander In His Own Words
What IS that feeling one gets, in/around certain places. Mr. Alexander tries to quantify it, use it and manipulate it.
Client Gift
architectural music composed for me by a client on my birthday in 2008
dEUS - The Architect
Haha - I love this
dEUS - The architect
What is the architect doing?
He is by the riverside
What is he thinking out there?
He is committing egocide
Now isn't that a strange thing?
Well to him it feels just
Well we guess a person's gotta do,
What a person feels he must
He said
I won't throw myself from the pier
I'm gonna go home and shut up for a year
And when the year is over I'll reappear
And have a solution
I've reason to believe that what I find
Is gonna change the face of human kind
And all these years before well I was blind
That's my conclusion
'Cause I'm the architect
'Cause I'm the architect
'Cause I'm the architect
Now the man has understood
That outer space is overrated and too
About all the problems on this earth we should
Worry now to solve them later
And so he's brooding and alluding on a perfect design
He thinks that working on behalf of himself is a crime
He flushes out by the water, a view so divine
He's the architect of his own fate, a man in his prime
He said
I won't throw myself from the pier
I'm gonna go home and shut up for a year
And when that year is over I'll reappear
And have a solution
I've reason to believe that what I find
Is gonna change the face of human kind
And all these years before well I was blind
That's my conclusion
'Cause I'm the architect
'Cause I'm the architect
'Cause I'm the architect
And so he drew himself a pentagon
Thinking it through a geodesic dome
From the coast of Tahiti, to the hills of Rome
Step aside cause the man will take the Nobel prize home
He said
I won't throw myself from the pier
I'm gonna go home and shut up for a year
And when that year is over I'll reappear
And have a solution
Now if these aspirations bother you
Well you are just you, you don't have a clue
I'm sticking to the plan I will see it through
Let there be no confusion
'Cause I'm the architect