Radio Silence
I'm in San Francisco, apartment-hunting, and have found myself a little stuck for reliable internet access at the moment. Sorry to leave everyone with nothing better to look at than the Sodium Hotel, but it might be a day or two before I'm posting here again.
Then again, it might only be a few hours...
Either way, wish us luck finding a place – this city is already a bit confusing.
Then again, it might only be a few hours...
Either way, wish us luck finding a place – this city is already a bit confusing.
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Welcome to the Bay! I just discovered your blog a couple of months ago, shortly before my fiance and I moved from the Venice/Santa Monica border up here to SF to look for new architectural pursuits. I had loved your references to our hood in LA, and can now look forward to more for our new home!
Alison
Good luck, Geoff.
welcome and good luck! Make sure you try YoYo's for lunch at the new job.
The Bay Area is a pretty cool place, you might want to check out this interview I did with Bay Area rap legend Del tha Funkee Homosapien, in which he talks a little bit about the Bay's urban landscape...
http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/
...but mostly we just talk about sci-fi and hiphop so don't get your hopes up.
Welcome to the Best Coast, bldg b homie! I hope you'll be spreading thoughts/events up into Seattle now even more. In hopes of getting us on your acrobatic mind...:
You're probably familiar with sound artist Bill Fontana? His recent show at Western Bridge in Seattle was unreal and made me think of your musings - industrial objects in a blackbox studio were mic-ed as they "listened" to the industrial urban landscape of SoDo outside. Their modulated version of the landscape was piped into the rest of the space outside the blackbox. Walking through the warehouse space you felt enveloped by a new, ghostly urban dimension just beyond reach.
http://echosounddesign.com/media/ObjectiveSound.mov
http://www.westernbridge.org/
Fontana is also a consultant at NBBJ Design, local architects.
Also, local artist/architects Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo dba Lead Pencil Studio recent project out in the Western WA landscape: full-scale "architactural double" made from scaffolding & construction netting (scroll to "Maryhill Double")
http://www.lawrimoreproject.com/leadpencilstudio.html1.html
Finally, an article in local paper The Stranger entitled "Suburban Shacks & High-Rises: A Brave New Contemporary Art Project in Bellevue"
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=279255
- it's a rough beginning of what's really starting to happen around here...
At 4Culture www.4culture.org we're working on politics-as-conceptual-art a la Edi Rama :) aka art influencing urban development, creating architectural space. http://www.theshunpike.org/eal/
Best luck come visit us,
Paige
Congrats on the move. Just moved here myself from Boston. One bit of advice for apartment hunting. If you are using Craigslist, go during the week if you can. On the weekends, 30 other people will be there for the open houses as well. I was surprised by the competition here...
Geoff,
Welcome to the bay area, if you have the urge, you should take a look at the three finalist submissions for the Transbay Terminal project. Each one deserves a look and each proposal towers over 1000 feet, surely a new dimensional figure in the San Francisco skyline.
A person of your urban caliber deserves to live in Oakland.
I was going to recommend a punk collective warehouse for temporary landingpad, but, well, OK, never mind. (Besides, I haven't been to that warehouse in 5 years... It might have been torn down and turned into condos.)
Well, we're settling in Cole Valley. I'll bundle up and install lots of rotating fans to blow the fog away.
Thanks for the tips, meanwhile. And, once I'm settled, hopefully there'll be some BLDGBLOG events up there, so maybe we can all say hello in person.
And, Paige, I'll check out all the Seattle links, too. Thanks!
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