Hull, Massachusetts (Wind Turbine)

This summer I was able to work with my professor, Lefteris Pavlides, on the work that he is doing with wind turbines in Rhode Island. I helped him work on a powerpoint presentation that he presented to the RI State Legistlature, amoung other groups. Anyway, I went with him and a group of interested people to Hull, MA to visit an operating turbine. Lefteri is in the foreground of this first picture.The turbine looks better with people next to it.
Notice the plane in the center of this shot. I like that.

Portland, OR

This past August I went to Portland, Oregon to visit my friend Toph. It was great to be there and great to see him. We went on this hike, to where I don't remember, but I had the opportunity to see views like this! (The picture doesn't do it justice.)I had never seen trees with moss like this one has. It's pretty good moss.
More amazing moss. (Taken while I am in a caveish thing.)
This was also my first chance ever to photo really amazing skies from a plane. (This picture wouldn't work without the plane wing.)
Awesome clouds. . . needs a plane wing.
Perfect.

Marcia Wake's House

This house is like no other I have ever seen, or may ever see. It was designed by Marcia Wake who is a friend of my family. She also did most of the construction with the help of her family. This project was just a pleasure to take pictures of.Yes I realize this is a chair and not a house. It was also designed by Marcia though.



I love the way the house seems to be looking up!
It wasn't until I had taken may pictures that I realized how intentionally the rocks were used. . . and how successful Marcia was with them.
The interiors have even more detail than the outside. I liked the use of the stone floor in the bathroom, and you can see the custom cabinets under the sink.

Friends' Websites

Myninjaplease
This includes, but is not limited to, the words of the great Ryan McClain.

Joe Pollack's Site
Joe and I were contemporaries at RWU, and I am honored to say that.

Robert Thomas's Site
Robert and I were Boyscouts together. That started everything.

Toph Cyll's Site
Topher and I have known eachother forever, literally. (In terms of my consiousness anyway.)

Jesse Hautala
Jesse doesn't have a website that I know of, but he deserves a shout-out. This site is talks about a recent gig of his.

Liou's Site
I met Liou in Catania, Sicily. Some of the best days of my life. He is now in the East! Why not right?

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