Shanty Like a Step Up From Cardboard, Not Like The Best Part of Being a Pirate.

So i spent the past couple of days making a little shanty, it was a lot of tiny pieces of wood, the whole things probably 4 inches long. It's still not completely done and is just a piece of a larger work.

so you can see the underside of the roof, and the windows:

and then a pre-roof/stilts shot from earlier:


I'm still not sure of what i think of it all, but I think it has the potential to fit well in the larger whole.

There are Better Uses for Volcanos than Magma Storage

I started out going to school for architecture, and i still love it, there is something beautiful about a well designed funtional space. Now the realities of the actual practice of architecture and the limit's of comfortable collective imagination brought alot of that crashing down. Well That and the temptation towards that sinister and amorphous siren: Conceptual Art. (parents talk to your kids about conceptual art before someone else does)

in Any case i've continued to doodle in a semi-architectural manner, though almost always of a fantastical nature. Like say a cloud factory that purifies and vaporizes the sludgy river Des Peres into pretty clouds, or The giant Cannon that fires locomotive sized Artillery shells at West County. (yes harmless doodles, pay no attention to the 12 story tarp)

side note: i wish i had been better at documenting my work.

the Point of all this was to say i found something cool:

Mr Jesse van Dijk is a conceptual artist and illustrator from The Netherlands. Project Indigo is this huge project creating a ficticous seaside vertical city, and its pretty amazing stuff.

heres one of my favorites: