time lapses, isolated experiences.

Unbelievably it’s saturday night again. Almost a week since the last time I wrote a post and I still don’t know how that happen. It’s interesting how our perception of time can change so much and be so deceiving. More interesting even is that when you do something that is so alien to your life [...]

Always late, always there.

This is dedicated to all the friends and people I met in Libya, India and Bosnia. My friends, here it is, it was ours, it was used everyday but we didn’t think on how to make something with it. Well, Coca Cola did. They stole out sentence and give it to the world, well it [...]

Perversion

Todo ha perdido su significado, todo se mezcla, te venden consignas en chistes, en anuncios, todo ha perdido su sentido y las cosas se han mezclado, ya no sabes de lo que hablas, ni lo que ves, ni lo que compras. Te venden una batidora de cocina que a la vez tiene un gel en [...]

far far away donkey

This is the view from my window these days- I can see the sun and palm trees….

why not?

why NYC looks so cool in videos? “Flight of the Conchords” S 1

missing

I am not missing, I am just travelling, this time around spain, Yes my friend around Spain, and yes I know the places I am visiting, but I am serving as a guide, as a ciceron, but still need to lear, above all to learn when they move or cut the roads because suddenly you [...]

miscellaneous II. the long way to the office

normally it takes me 35 min to go from my flat’s door to my desk at the office. normally I get to the office between 9.3o and 9.45 am official time to start working 9.oo am route to the office. Bow road station. district line one stop to Mile end. Change to central line. 2 [...]

lesson to architects N 33

Don’t fall in love with the wooden louvers. prof. “remove the louvers… they make no sense” girl.”no, I cannot remove them, they have been there since the beginning” prof. “yeah, but your project is not about louvers anymore” gril. “but I love them” prof. “well, you can love a lot of things in your life, [...]

lesson to whoever wants to listen Nº 1024

parcel boundary. definition. 1. I am sorry to say this but why British cannot speak proper English. Parcel boundary = Plot limit, or plot line, or plot boundary.  Parcel is what you sent through the post to other people. Well, back to business. Parcel Boundary. Definition You spent a couple of months doing the layout [...]

lesson to London architects Nº 534 and Nº 716

534.DON’T INVENT THE WHEEL. (Someone already did it a few hundred years ago) Same discussion as always. Each and every time you face a new project same old problems, and same discussion about how we can solve them. Helloooo!! sorry but we have done it before, it should be a no brainer. I mean, if you really want [...]