10.20.2008

"Sounds like a plan, Stan"



I've been using it to be lame for as long as I can remember, but I can't for the life of me figure out where it's from. I know a hell of a lot of people know the quote "Sounds like a plan, Stan" too, but no-one really seems to know where it's from. Does anyone know?

Apparently you should reply by saying "I'm down like a clown, Charlie Brown"...

10.14.2008

Clique



If you find yourself in the San Jose / San Francisco area Saturday 18th of October go and check out Clique. It's a bit too far out of the way for me, but would dig to hear how it was!

10.06.2008

1970 modernist architecture

Ran across an example of some sweet modernist architecture yesterday, Villa Spies built on a small island off the coast of Stockholm, Sweden. "Googie" as the style is named after the first coffeeshop that used this style featured many buildings representing the fast paces car-age times with a desire for the galaxy.



At the time many people expected to be living in space colonies by 2001. "Googie" was prominent in the 40's, 50's and 60's and I suspect Villa Spies to be built in a related futurist style on the haydays of this stream. Although this might have been built in the dying days of this awesome architectural style, I still think this is one of the most beautiful examples of Jetson-esque architecture. The round shapes are made in the phylosophy of creating a house around a person rather than placing a person in the more regular square box homes. I just wish there were more homes designed like this so I could actually look forward to living in a futurist Jetson-esque home one day.

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