Indifference

I don't have much to offer these days as far as news. I'm working too many hours, and learning to think once again in a visual world, which is cool I guess, although I seem to be beating myself up over the fact that the only book I've read these past six weeks is the one I wrote, which I did twice, just because it still cracks me up. I wish this meant I'd have something profound to say about design, or life, but unfortunately I'm still in the learning stages, and everything is a bit overwhelming.....................I did watch this great movie last night, Sketches of Frank Gehry. I've always wanted to be knowledgable about architecture - hell I stare at enough buildings every day, let alone waste enough film on them - but my mind doesn't think mathematically, so I feel like I only get things on an aesthetic level. Gehry's an artist, though, plain and simple, and just watching his methodologies, and the way he thinks outside the box, was quite thrilling. I know some people can't stand his work, but everything I saw in the documentary was really cool (so who cares what those hipsters think?) and it got me fired up about a few things, especially when he was building the models, and just made his decisions on an intuitive level, or simply to amuse himself, which led to this great moment where he says, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen" - referring to a building he had just designed - where he then raised his arms up in celebration. Not to mention the scene later on where he says he was "pussy-whipped" when explaining his decision to change his last name from Goldberg to Gehry, which was great to see an older artist still talk like that. Anyway, if you're looking for inspiration, or perspective, you might enjoy it.

Or maybe you won't.

Fuck it though, I tried.