Alvarado House

10:00 AM |





Terry & Terry Architecture, an revovation firm in San Franciso, Calfornia has outdoing themselve in an extreme renovation, on a home called the Alvarado House. The front of the home remain the same however the interoir and the back has been completely taken down and redone increasing the space and modernizing the home as a whole. The rear side of the house has been open up to make space for new bedroons, bathrooms, dining room and living space. A large stair and patio is added to the outside.

Other infomation:
  • Project Team: Alex Terry AIA, Ivan Terr


  • Engineer: Santos Urrutia Structural Engineers Inc.


  • Landscape Architect: Outer Space Landscape Architecture

  • General Contractor: Timberline Construction



    • When passing by the street, Alvarado House appears to be part in the neigborhood,retaininge same look and style. The front view is sample of what a proper home should look like. It must be exceptable for the community. However the insde and the backside can go as far as one imagination takes you. The way the house appears is the same as that of men. The way we represent ourselves in largely limited by what the soceity deems worthy. The way we act is also the same. People must behave the proper way but under that layer we hides our individualty just as Alvarado House has done.



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    Words from shadows

    9:53 PM |

    Fred Eerdekens is an artist who create artwork through the play of light and shadow. He arranges the position of everyday objects so when light hit it on a certain angle, words are spelled out. Eerdekens' choice of materials ranges from wires, cotton balls, food container, to household plants. The characteristic of the objects are taken into consideration to create variety in fonts and beautiful typography.


    View without the correct lighting, the metal wires, the piece to the left appears nothing but a total mess. It would just be wired bits sticking out of a wall. However art doesn't have to be beautiful or even make sense. People enjoys art because they can relate to the work or understand the message the work sends out. In this case the "message" is given in a literally through typography. Fred Eerdekens advises people to take notes on what is around them, suggesting that little thing like how an object is place can tells us how the person who placed feels.



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    RGB exhibition

    1:35 AM |


    Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla created RGB, a very special series of wallpapers for Jannelli & Volpi, the famous Italian wallpaper brand. Inspired by a famous Virgil phrase “Color est e pluribus unus” from the poem “Moretum”, describing the blending of colors, they overlap three different images each one in a primary color into one surface. The resulting image becomes bizarre with its colors mix up and the lines and shapes intersects. Through colored lights, of red, green and blue filters, the layer of the opposite color is reveal while hiding the other two. 



    The three layer all portrays an animal kingdom but each one has their own specific kingdom giving the piece unity in theme but also great contrast through species, sizes, and color. Without special lighting, the colors contrast and fight over which to be seen yet it is through the blending of the combinations that makes it  aesthetically pleasing. In a sense our world is as the wallpaper portray; it is a strange combination of critters splatted a giant canvas called earth. It doesn't even have to be animals, the layers could be compose of culture or country.   



    These works are current shown in the RGB exhibition at Johanssen Gallery at Direktorenhaus, Berlin run through February 10, 2011. Visit http://www.carnovsky.com/index.htm for more detail.

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    Acrylic & Photography

    12:47 AM |





    Alexa Maeda is a 24 year old artist, challenges the ideas of traditional painting through her work which intersect painting with photography and performance. Her work involves cover live models, objects, and the architecture of the installations in layers of acrylic paint. As a result, the subject, foreground and background are unified and appears to be on one plane. The 3D space she painted scenes becomes a 2D plane optically.

    Alexa's says "I paint representational portraits directly on top of the people I am representing. The models are transformed into embodiments of the artist's interpretation of their essence. When captured on film, the living, breathing people underneath the paint disappear, overshadowed by the masks of themselves."




















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    Nyan Cat

    9:14 PM |





    Nyan Cat, sometimes refer to as Pop Tart Cat, is the new internet meme. It is an 8-bit animation depicting a cat with a body of a strwberry flavor poptart flying through cyberspace, and shi  leaving behind a trail of rainbow. It goes with the MAD soundtrack- Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya.

    The original Nyan Cat a  posted on the daily comics site LOL-COMICS by illustrator prguitarman on April 2nd, 2011. The user daniwell loop UTAU synthesized's soundtrack in the background. On April 5th, 2011, YouTuber saraj00n posted Nyan Cat, gaining over one million views in its first two weeks and now approaching five millions. Beginning on April 10th, the Nyan Cat video was picked up by popular blogs and social networking sites including Memebase, Buzzfeed, Tumblr, and Facebook among others.


    Cat has always been a favourite in the net community with the spark of lolcats follow by spaghetti cat, long cat, and many others. Nyan cat combines this highly regard topic with others like itself, such as rainbow and the revival of 8bit art and start our new craze. The bizarre idea and the surreal humour has inspired You Tubers and online art communities into creating dozens of fan-arts and coming.

    familiar anyone?


    http://nyan.cat/ is a site dedicated purely to Nyan Cat where the clip is looped and your time on the page, or how long you nyaned for is logged.

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    3D Fog Projection

    9:14 PM |






     The 3D Multi-Viewpoint Fog Projection Display, developed by Osaka University was unveiled at the interaction 2011 event in Japan. This device creates 3D forms that actually takes up space and appearing as if it has a volume. It unitizes a series of projectors encircling the fog machine and project images of an object taken at different angle onto it. The result is as shown above.

    The research group from Osaka University hope this new technology will benefit healthcare and entertainment industry. I am not sure about healthcare but this is the revolution to entertainment and communication. The 3D Multi-Viewpoint Fog Projection Display can be sum up in a simple word, hologram. It is  something that frequently appears science fiction and has finally taken root in reality. With more work, this device can debut in movies, video games, or even create holographic monsters for a certain children's card game.


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    Rainbow stairs

    8:22 AM |


    In the small gap between the two buildings is a flight of stair painted in the in variety of color as if a rainbow. The location is uncertain but it seems to be in a older, less populated downtown street. The simple idea of a rainbow staircase brighten up the sleepy neigborhood. It modernizes the street, giving it flare and a focal point with a minium cost.

    Adding colors to this otherwise blanche surrounding no doubt lives it life, but it's resemblance to a rainbow may be what really drawing in the eye of people. According to Wikipedia a rainbow "is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere". However, because of myth and fairytales, this phenomenon is often asssociation with magic, wonder, hope, and such. Rainbow is also a reaccuing element in pop culture making it an attraction to a large audience.

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