As a child I was obsessed with G.I. Joe and owned a small army of them. I came across this picture of a journalist G.I.Joe, which I thought was a good comment on the role of media in today's conflicts. Oh and special shout out to my big sister on this one.

My New Read-Blue Like Jazz

"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened." In Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again, far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant, infinitely loving God. -Blue Like Jazz

Things are swirling with the start of school-So much in fact I'll probably forget a few things. I began my application to study abroad this winter quarter in France. SCAD has a campus in Lacoste, which is in the South of France near Provence. This is a big deal due to the fact that I have been taking French, and it will be the perfect compliment to my education, I have also become fascinated with Parisian culture, and want to explore it in some way for my undergraduate thesis, but am still unsure if it's just too big an undertaking.
Also, In December I'm going to be going on a very awesome trip through major cities in the North-Eastern US. We're going by Plane, Train, and Automobile although I like to refer to it as a 'backpacking trip'. I'll be going through Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston, New York, maybe Philly,D.C., and Baltimore. It promises to be an adventure, but my main goal is to completely focus on the architecture!, and I'll make updates when possible on here during that.

SAH Confrence set for NEW ORLEANS in 2011

photo credit:SAH.org

Is this really what we've arrived at after all these years?

International House, originally uploaded by wojtek gurak. Fliker.

The International House on University of Nottingham's Jubilee Campus by Make Architects, 2008.

Is this really what we've arrived at after all these years?

The Bees are back in town.

PhotoCredit: WV Division of Tourism

School is back in session,SCAD is clearly back in town, and fall-my favorite season-is no where to be found. My first day of class was great. I look forward to my schedule this quarter with extremely small class sizes :), and familiar proffessors, and my biggest class of twenty students all know each other well due to the fact that we've been in class together for the previous three quarters. J'aime ma classe de français! I'm also taking a Savannah Seminar class, which to my delight encompasses a great deal of topics including urban form, and will use Savannah as a case study to discuss much broader (and more interesting) topics. It is less a class that discusses the city square by square, tree by tree(THANK GOODNESS!) As for autumn...It still doesn't exist in Savannah with very high temperatures and high humidity. Nothing like the mountains where the trees are ablaze. In Savannah the trees die and the leaves(green) fall off the trees. Very disappointing. Even the most ideal schedules and classes are still laced with homework readings and assignments. I had better hit the ground running in order to stay ahead of the game, because it's already being laid on thick.

The Internship Finished Product

Ready to Rock

Every year I have to sit at home for two weeks while most of my friends, and most of the local kids my age go off to college. That's perhaps the only down side to the Quarter system. Recently I've been getting ready. Spending time with family-Grandparents, cousins, siblings, and parents. My stuff that is admittably usually scattered from one room of the house to the other has made its way to one big heap. My clothes in heaps in the laundry room, and all else in my car. I've almost made a system-a science rather of moving back and forth. Only knowing that in three months I'll herd it all back into a massive pile and get it all back into my car-ironically boxy in nature, which only confirms the fact that I'm constantly on the move. From Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, and anywhere else my travels take me, at least I'll have my stuff-even if it's in an 'almost' organized fashion.

Did you say it? I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life-did you say it? Make a plan-set a goal-work toward it, but every now and then look around drink it in, because this is it-It might all be gone tomorrow.

The next season of Grey's Anatomy starts Thursday Sept. 24th with a 2hour season premiere 9/8c on ABC.

This is a taste of what I love.

Bustler.com's latest- I love this.

Event Update: The Termite Pavilion at London’s Pestival

If you’re in London this weekend, don’t miss The Termite Pavilion at Pestival, a mobile arts festival examining insect-human interactivity in bioscience, through paradigms of contemporary art, cinema, music and comedy as well as direct scientific demonstration and educational projects.

Photography: Joseph Burns

The piece is in part based on the pioneering work of Dr Rupert Soar and the TERMES project, a team of international experts based in Namibia who have created the first ever 3D scans of termite mounds. Their findings have been a embraced by entomologists and architects alike, and have featured in Sir David Attenborough’s ‘Life in the Undergrowth’ series.

Photography: Joseph Burns

For the Termite Pavilion, a team of architects and engineers selected a central section a termite mound scan and scaled it up to a size which would allow humans to move through it. The structure arrived in kit form and was put together on site. It is made of cross laminated timber, sourced from Austrian spruce, for reasons of sustainability, durability and cost.

Photography: Joseph Burns

The Termite Pavilion is an art and science collaboration between Softroom Architects, Freeform Engineering, Atelier One, Chris Watson, Haberdasherylondon, KLH, and Pestival.

The pavilion opened at the Royal Festival Hall today and is open for visitors until Sunday, September 6. More information on visiting the Termite Pavilion is available here.

Photography: Joseph Burns