Sites I Support

Portland Buy Local
Buy local! You should do it! We should all do it! This site tell you how, and how to be a cool local business. There's not alot else to say about it.

Riverbank Republic (coming soon)
This is the beginning of a community network. . . I love the idea! Find out about Westbrook, Maine! I had a link here, but the site is not ready to open yet. I have been told that it will be up within six months. When that happens I am sure I will post a notice anyway.

Satellite Lot
The guy I know in this band is Aaron Hautala. The music is great! And I'll vouch for the guy too. He's the brother of my good Friend Jesse Hautala. Satellite Lot is up and coming, based in Portland, Maine.

Toni Buzzeo
Toph's mom, writer, and second mother to me.

WindRI
This may not look like much, but it's the main site for one of my professor Lefteris Pavlides, who is making wind energy happen in Rhode Island.

Jim Cole
I grew up with Jim (I always called him James) and he is now a producer! The movie "Sundowning" is being released in Portland this spring, 2006. The trailer is on his site and its quite good.

me on the web. . .

Record of my Eagle Award (page 49)
Williams College Blog (by Toph)
Macro Project Article ( page 24 in "The Bridge" published by Roger Williams University)
Portland Museum of Art (page 16 i'm listed for working in facilities)

Site I Use Frequently (and recommend)

NPR
MPBN (radio)
Wikipedia

Yearbook: RWU Arch 2006

This is it! This is the final cover! Made by Jeremy Jamilkowski, with initial help from me and Ken Cahoon.

This year I have been working on the architecture yearbook with a bunch of others from our archie class. The whole thing is basically being led by Erika Barko and she is doing an awesome job. It is going to be great to see things finished and published next month. There hasn't been an architecture year book from the graduating architecture class in years, but ours is going to be a full blown example in color! I have been working most on the cover of the yearbook.

This my personal piece. We each got the third of a page to do whatever we wanted. Next to that would be our picture and our name. I imagine that I am jumping out of the cavish tunnel and onto better things.

We are also going to be selling sweatshirts that we designed! The idea is that we are going to sell the sweatshirts to cut the expense of the year books. This will only really work if we sell them to the underclassmen who aren't buying the yearbooks.





So here is my favorite cover that I designed. We ended up deciding to go with a version that has a little more to it, and it is better than this one. I will post that as soon as I get it from Jeremy.Here is the picture that we took to make the design. There is a bit of a story atatched to this picture. The hands belong to Ken, and I took the picture. The writing is not either of ours because I was afraid of messing up and Ken could not physically write on both of his hands. We recruited Tony to do the writing and he did a good job. After doing this we realized that Ken, being left handed, would be blocking the word "architecture" if he used his left hand to "write." The result is a picture that looks cool, but is totally fake.


Last thing: Here is my yearbook picture. It was taken near the town of Enna in Sicily.

Drydock

I talk about this visit on my blog so I will just talk about the pictures here. This first one really shows the size of the cavity: huge.

This next picture was taken because of the awesome window that framed the view. I was standing in a cargo crane cab while I took the picture.




I liked the yellow moorings and the window in this shot.


also see my blog on the drydock

The drydock

I get alot of comments on these pictures. People seems to have some sort of romantic affinity to decaying industry. I do too. Makes me feel secure.


Here is another important missed entry. In February John and I visited his thesis site in Boston: an abandoned drydock. It was both an awesome and sketchy experience. You know, one of those fenced off, but not fenced off well places. They're saying "Do not enter!" and "By all means. . . enjoy!" at the same time.
First, we went down into the pitch black control room. Dripping ceiling, flaking orange paint, and an awesome, very dated, control panel with a big ol' analog clock in the top center. The floor was actually a grate and in some areas we could see down to water. The large vacant hole of the drydock was also quite amazing; just huge!


The last part of our exhibition was to the summit of of one of the great blue cranes! About at the point when I was as high as I was gonna go (and totally exposed to view) I looked out to the harbor and saw a police boat circling. Just circling. I got freaked out, John got freaked out we pretty much ran away. It was all well worth it.

Also see: more drydock photos

RWUArch Poster Child

This is real. Quite a dashing young man huh?



one side/t'other side








Unfortunately for both me and the school, my suit in not up to par.

The Heist!

Please look at this! Toph is a genius for putting it up! Behold. . . "The Heist!"

Just a few notes on this feature film. Toph and I did this while we were in college. . . 2002 i believe (maybe 2003). One afternoon in college we just up and did it. Then, sadly it lay dormant for a long time, until the full release with music this month.

Thesis

As you may or may not know, I intend to graduate in May. That's right, this May, 2006. So until then I have a little work to do on what shall be known from here forward as my "thesis." I am designing a student center for my school (right here at Rogwr Williams University).
I have two links about thesis:
One is my proposal.
And one is my work so far for this semester.
And THIS one is what my good friend Micheal say thesis does to us!

Idiotarod. . . . it happened

This entry should have been made awhile ago. . . I did the Idiotarod 2006 in NYC this year. Describe it you ask? I'll do my best. Here's the simple version: foodfight meets costume party meets marathon. We went from Brooklyn to Manhattan, we pushed a shopping cart, we dressed "upside down," and we even had a few beers in public. . . . it wasn't our fault, everyone was doing it! I guess the police weren't so keen on the whole race though. Oh yeah, if I were to add one word to the list of foodfight, costume party and marathon, I think it would be RIOT. This first picture is us in the heat of it. In the background you can see one of the "team zebras."

in the lower left is our upside down cart. If you can't tell what John and bill are wearing, well obviously its pants! The other picture is the four guys proudly posed with our speed machine.