Avant-garde

Advance guard?

Supposedly 'unique'. Approaching subjects differently. Experimental.

No, I don't think this post is going to completely rely on avant-garde and I wish I could go into depth with it.. But it's interesting how people apply it to things. I kind of envy those who have innovated minds to think of amazing things that can be beneficial or just useless. So... I would kindly like to forward this to architecture.

About six months ago, I discovered Bjarke Ingels.
A Danish architect who found BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) and creates mind-blowing buildings. Not only are his buildings sophisticated eye candy for the public, but the way they are designed copes with nature or the environment. He also spoke at TED in mid-July.

His designs can often be questionable, like his plan for Azerbaijan. You're just kind of sitting there like, "Holy shit. It's so fucking awesome." But then again, those buildings are being built in a randomass place, Zira Island. Another thing is, visiting Zira Island will be one hell of an investment. It's lavished to every end possible, but that's what you should expect from a resort. And it's the same with numerous apartment complexes he has designed.

Well, I wouldn't truly know how much rent would be and stuff, but assuming it would be a bitchin' investment....
More architects/designers should kind of adapt this hybrid of advant-garde-pragmatic thinking and take it to the next level. Like.. making this shit affordable, yadig?

Also, I would really love to see architecture and topology applied together. Möbius building.. hurhurhur.

I'd love to live in this damn apartment.

Happy Birthday

Cheers to my best friend who would have turned 16 today. He will always remain a special person who forever changed me.

Surprise, surprise.
I have no motivation. Time to complain complain complain. You know, I'd hate to say I'm depressed because I'm probably not. Just.. stupid. My bad weeks have been continuing and actually, those weeks have now officially turned into months. So, three months of shit. Coooool.
I hate complaining. Complaining is really bad. Because, I don't have it that bad. It honestly could be worse, but I have no choice and it truly disgusts me. This further brings on the fact that this year, I have become even more disgusted with myself. Durrrrrrrr..
Jeez. I can't even help myself let alone others. Extreeeeeeeme anti-motivation.

I feel great.
Fuck sarcasm.


I could really go for a 4th of July right now. I had a SHITTY one this year. Wait, no, I didn't. I spent 8 hours with my good friend, Justin, that day. It was great. But that evening was terrible. Oh well.

I love America.

I miss Irene's house.

I hate the fact that I keep putting this off on Fridays. Because what happens is that I don't get to give myself time to thoroughly think about of what I want to write. Another thing is I keep limiting myself on what I want to write, but that's probably because I hate what it becomes. I should've made this a private blog.
It's hard being 'myself' because that's the kind of person I don't want to be and I constantly get criticized about it.
I could totally refer to Tuesday's quick write, but I don't feel like dedicating my whole blogpost to it even though it's highly recommended. Especially since I'm all over the place right now.

I need to commit.

BioShock

This is for Ricky >:l

So I have recently rejoiced with a game called BioShock (I bought it during black friday). I've only played it once and it was a short lived experience..

This first-person shooter takes place in an underwater city called Rapture founded by a business man, Andrew Ryan. Despite the great technology in this game, it's set around the 1960's. You play as Jack, the main character who was first introduced as a survivor of a plane crash which conveniently took place near Rapture's secret entrance. You enter Rapture as an only hope and is guided by a man named Atlas via radio. You then set off to seek higher ground and help Atlas save his family. You encounter splicers (think intelligent zombie), Little Sisters (girl displayed in picture who harvest something called ADAMs), Big Daddies (also in picture, they protect Little Sisters), plasmids (rearranges your genetic code to have an 'ability'), and tons of machinery (turrets and stufffffffff). Read BioShock's synopsis (since I suck at summarizing).

This game scares the bloody hell out of me. It's so eerie. Especially since it's set in the 1960's and you can hear splicers around saying weird ass shit. I kind of think the Big Daddies are cute because they protect the Little Sisters and they're just so adorable :> But I have to kill them D: bawwwww. Nevertheless, badass game. Interesting storyline with plot twists. Apparently it was inspired by the novel I wanted to read, "Atlas Shrugged".

I'm nowhere near done with the game since I can only play during broad daylight or if someone's with me, harharhar. I'm such a whimp. But yeah. I'm fucking psyched for BioShock2. That's about it.