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The Boondogs abide. For almost a decade, the local pop-rock group's been a study of persistence, releasing new albums about every other year and playing out just enough that their shows always feel long-coming. The central dynamic, too, remains largely unchanged: Lead singers and songwriters and husband and wife Indy Grotto and Jason Weinheimer frame songs (each usually anchors songs alone) as if they're having a conversation, and one that often takes dark turns. But don't mistake persistence for creative sameness. With each album, the 'dogs have built on their formula, which has lately meant albums that deeply deserve an audience beyond Little Rock. Their new record, Take Shelter, a sunnier, bigger sounding rumination on love and loss, easily fits that bill. - Lindsey Millar / Arkansas Times (November 2008)
It is the natural course of things that, over time, beloved institutions will be taken for granted.
Boulevard Bread Company.
The sets of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre's Mike Nichols.
Charles Portis. The Oyster Bar. Those are the first things that we'd put on our miss-terribly-when-they-are-gone list.
We would also include The Boondogs, the Little Rock band led by husband and wife Jason Weinheimer and Indy Grotto.
The Boondogs new CD is Take Shelter (Max Recordings) and it's the kind of record that will be appreciated and even loved, but you have to figure it won't be celebrated - at least not commensurate with the level of the accomplishment.
The reason is that The Boondogs are here to stay.
Weinheimer/Grotto flirted with the big time years back when they won the garage band.com contest, but now they have young kids and have settled down.
Take Shelter will be followed by another album in due course. The Boondogs are as reliable - probably more reliable - than any local business you can name. Lucky us, this smart music outfit is part of our landscape.
Certainly this is part of the story of the disintegration of the old ways in the music business. It's not New York/L.A.
or bust anymore. There are probably tons of bands who are now choosing to stay close to home and cobble together some kind of business model, some balance between the music and the money that has to be made. But how many can make an album as solid and deft, as achingly beautiful as Take Shelter? Odds are it's not many.
Our term for the kind of music The Boondogs make has been "bedroom pop." Weinheimer/Grotto share songwriting duties, trade off on lead vocals and write, asa general rule, relationship songs. But the new album is so lush (though not sickly sweet) that we think we're going to go with "swoon pop" until further notice.
For Take Shelter, Weinheimer and Grotto have recent regulars around them - Isaac Alexander on drums, Chris Michaels on bass and Charles Wyric on guitar. The title track swells and swells yet never loses its lovely bounce. "Superheroes" is a quirky yet completely engaging take on Bible stories about Jonah, Samson and Goliath. "Tongues of Men and Angels" is as delicate and heart-stopping a love song as can be imagined.
The Boondogs' sound comes out of standard rock instruments, although there are flashes of strings and other orchestral flourishes.
You don't have to listen very hard to hear the influence of the Beatles. The melodies are always sturdy yet don't feel too familiar.
And, sure, there are holes in The Boondogs' game. The band rarely cuts loose and, if there's a sense of humor displayed, it's so dry as to be barely noticeable. ("Superheroes," which isn't that funny, is about as close as this band comes.)
Still, this band knows what it's doing, yet hasn't worn out its welcome. The group also hasn't soured on the joy of making its music - there's nothing jaded in The Boondogs' approach. There doesn't seem to be any way for fans in the state not to take this group for granted.
But we don't have any idea how lucky we are. - Werner Trieschmann / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (December 2008)
It's a shame about the Boondogs. It's a shame because a band that creates sublime slices of dreamy indie pop crossed with just the right amount of rootsy rock 'n' roll angst doesn't have national critical and popular acclaim instead of tons of Little Rock indie cred. A band this good deserves a wider audience. So it goes.
The Boondogs might have had a chance, and it might have passed them. Signed to former Talking Head turned producer Jerry Harrison's Garageband Records during the heady days of the dot-com bubble, the band was tossed a small fortune and directed to record a follow-up to its 1997 debut album Smarter Than Some with legendary producer Jim Dickinson at Memphis' Ardent Records. Of course, the dot-com bubble burst, Garageband Records went belly up, and the Boondogs entered record label limbo purgatory. The only output during this period: the 2001 EP Roots Pop for Now People.
What followed was a full album — 2002's This Is the Way the World Ends — and a self-titled EP. Luckily, for both the Boondogs and the Little Rock music scene, Max Recordings started up around the time the Boondogs were searching for a record-label home. And since the band signed with the label, the Boondogs have released two gleaming indie pop albums — 2005's Fever Dreams and 2007's A Thousand Ships. The newly released Take Shelter is the Boondogs third offering on Max Recordings.
Produced by Andre Moran and Boondogs at Lucky Dog Audio in Little Rock, Take Shelter is the Boondogs — with members Indy Grotto (vocals, acoustic guitar and Wurlitzer), Jason Weinheimer (vocals, guitar and keyboards), Chris Michaels (bass and cello), Charles Wyrick (guitar and omnichord), Isaac Alexander (drums) and Dylan Turner (tambourine and shakers) — constructing roughly 32 minutes of shimmering indie pop merged with rowdy, rollicking rock 'n' roll.
The contrasting styles are the outgrowth of the band's two singers/songwriters: the husband and wife team of Weinheimer and Grotto. Weinheimer mostly sings the rough roots rockers, and Grotto balances it with her melodic lo-fi pop. It's the perfect music marriage.
The Good:
Grotto possesses one of those angelic, sugary sweet voices comparable to Aimee Mann or The Cardigans' Nina Persson that smiles while it stabs your heart out with lyrics like "Everybody needs a saviour/But your price is too high, way too high" (on the rolling and rumbling rock 'n' roll treat "Cronies").
And Weinheimer's voice is weary but warm, even when delivering the melancholic "Chasing the Moon" (co-written with Arkansas blues rocker Jim Mize) and lines such as "So I've made it hard on you/Well, you've hardly made a move" (the chugging country rocker "Don't Tell Me No").
But Take Shelter is not just the Grotto/Weinheimer show. Michaels' bass propels the jaunty step of "Talking in Your Sleep" while his cello on "Heaven" adds to the avant-pop interlude. Alexander's powerhouse drumming is the driving force on the harder, rootsier rock 'n' roll moments of Take Shelter (Have I mentioned the excellent "Cronies" yet?), and Turner's tambourine is ever present, adding to the crashing cymbal rhythms of "Talking in Your Sleep" and elsewhere. And Wyrick's guitar? Whether it's a jangling pop-rock ditty (the title track) or the raucous rocker — for Take Shelter at least — "Let's Talk Again," Wyrick's guitar grinds, growls, drifts and chimes throughout.
And Take Shelter's secret weapon is the Hammond organ playing of Al Gamble of Memphis' Gamble Brothers Band. More soulful than his usual funky self on Take Shelter, Gamble's organ pumps provide the canvas for the rest of the band to paint upon on four tracks.
The first four songs of Take Shelter are 15 minutes of the best music of 2008, filled with sing-along choruses (the title track) and soundtracks for a long drive through winter nights ("Chasing the Moon").
The Bad:
It sounds like a small pittance, but on an album of only 10 tunes in less than 33 minutes, one misstep can trip up the flow of the album. Take Shelter's blunder is the biblical-infused "Superheroes," a lazy, depressing-sounding number that references Jonah, Samson and Goliath. It's Take Shelter's one slip. - Shea Steward / Sync Weekly (November 2008)
"Consider the Little Rock curse. With the exception of Evanescence, which seems to be ever-spiraling towards self-implosion, no Little Rock group has managed, over the last couple of decades, to break through nationally in any sort of demonstrable or prolonged way. The Gunbunnies, Greg Spradlin, Ashtray Babyhead/the Kicks, Jason Morphew, Go Fast, Ho-Hum — near dozens have flirted with national success, only to get mired in the major-record-label quagmire. All have their own unique horror stories, but perhaps none can rival the Boondogs'.
In 1999, the Little Rock pop-rock act, fronted by husband and wife Jason Weinheimer and Indy Grotto, beat out scores of entrants to win an online battle-of-the-bands on GarageBand.com. The contest netted the band a $250,000 record contract; allowed them to work with former Talking Head Jerry Harrison (who headed up GarageBand Records) and producer Jim Dickinson; and granted the group recording time at the legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis.
But the label pushed the band to change its sound, and in the end, the Boondogs made, by their own estimation, a quarter-million-dollar coaster. Shortly after they completed the album, GarageBand went kaput, but the Boondogs remained financially entangled with the label until 2002.
Since then, they've released albums just about biannually, recording and performing when and how they've seen fit. Perhaps more than any other local act, they represent the tendency of national-level talent to live and play in Little Rock without grander ambition.
Just about all of the band's members are married with children (Weinheimer and Grotto have two kids), which naturally tempers dreams of nationwide touring and all the other accompanying rigors associated with "making it." In the documentary film "Towncraft," Grotto, then pregnant with her second child, speaks to her priorities: "My son is more important than the music. I want to leave a legacy for him, so he can look back one day, and say, 'Those are my parents, and they did something really cool,' but not at his expense."
"In our mind, we've made it," Weinheimer said. "We've been in a different place where we made this really expensive record and 'making it' was a completely different thing. Now it means making a record that we're proud of, that speaks to us and that people respond to. And that's it. Yes, I want people to hear it. But I don't have to do anything stupid to make that happen."
Earlier this month, the Boondogs released "A Thousand Ships" on Max Recordings, their second with the label and sixth release overall. Much like the group's previous material, the new record is pop-rock par excellence, a dreamy, often melancholy meditation on love and loss that delights even in its darkest moments." - Lindsey Millar / Arkansas Times (June 2007)
"Those poor Boondogs. Still struggling to build a career beyond their day jobs in Little Rock, Ark., and still reeling from their golden opportunity that turned out to be a pyrite pain in the ass (they got the first Garageband.com record deal, right before that much-hyped Web site fell apart and the record was never released), but here they are releasing another under-the-radar set of spare, supple alt-country-rock-'n'-everything tunes.
Core couple Jason Weinheimer and Indy Grotto seesaw between each other's songs, and this time out Weinheimer is the clear winner. Previous outings saw Grotto standing out as a more confident, sweet-voiced singer, and while here she turns in a couple of gems (the melodic "Stranger Inside," the pretty drone of "I Don't Belong"), it's Weinheimer's weary rock that makes these "Fever Dreams" really burn.
His first offering, "Up for Days," sets the tone: Ol' Jason sounds exhausted, hoarse, completely fried, and his tunes bear the weight of his weariness. "Bad Ideas" has that sleepy stomp of an old Teenage Fanclub B-side, and by the time he gets his turn to "Show My Hand," he's barely with us, croaking and scratching at his strings as he nods off like Elvis Costello on the porch at Veronica's Assisted Living Home. The result is creepy and cool -- the kind of music the rock 'n' roll spirit inspires at 4 a.m. (Or the 4 a.m. feedings of the new baby he and Grotto had recently, but what's the fountainhead of rock 'n' roll now, anyway?) This is adult music for the lo-fi kids. But then, we did finally grow up, didn't we?" - Thomas Conner / Chicago Sun-Times (August 2005)
"The record doesn't swerve far from the band's signature dreampopscape even as you can hear deeper colors and textures that betray the ambition of the project. Grotto still sounds like a dead ringer for Aimee Mann, and her "I Don't Belong" and "Can I Count On You" are the strongest here among a dozen jewels." - Werner Trieschmann / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (August 2005)

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Livin' la vida expat in Dubai isn't as snazzy as it used to be
Thousands upon thousands of foreigners made their way to Dubai to grab their own little bit of the wealth.
Of course, that has all come to a grinding halt. Construction is slowing down, and a general feeling of doom and gloom is descending upon the nation.
Things are apparently so bad, that many expats are packing up their belongings and leaving. Of course, when you leave so suddenly, you tend to forget minor things like your mortgage, your car and your credit card debt.
Dubai International airport is reported to be home to over 3000 abandoned cars from fleeing expats. Some of the cars have apology letters taped to the windows, and others have their maxed out credit cards left on the seats.
The expats leave the nation behind for a few simple reasons - Dubai locks debtors away, and anyone without a job loses their visa. The New York Times reports that parts of Dubai are starting to look like a ghost town, with unfinished construction projects and masses of vacant property.
Things are actually so bad, that the government has been canceling as many as 1500 work visas every single day - a number they don't want to confirm or deny.
Unless things turn around very soon, the entire place is probably going to be doomed - Dubai does not have any oil of its own, and the entire economy was built upon real estate and financial services. Now those 2 sources of cash are slowly disappearing, Dubai could soon make the Madoff scam look like petty theft.
Do you (no longer) live in Dubai? Are things really this bad? Let us know in the comments!
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Daryl Feb 16th 2009 5:17PM
If this can happen in "wealthy" Dubai, it can happen anywhere. We have already seen foreclosure victims abandoning their homes in the U.S. Soon people will be abandoning their cars along highways and in the parking lots of discount department stores responsible for destroying American jobs by insisting on buying cheap products made by slave laborers in third world countries. Stop globalism!
Madda Feb 16th 2009 5:18PM
Pablo, FYI unless you are an American citizen you can't apply for welfare.
mskayty Feb 16th 2009 5:32PM
Wow. Ummm...since God and Allah are one in the same, just what are you trying to say?! *shakes head in dismay* You don't actually know, now do you?
justin doty Feb 16th 2009 5:41PM
with regard to people bilking the credit card companies out of millions. What do you expect. I expect that a company who loans money out for whatever purpose to be responsible in whom the do business with. If a credit card company gets screwed out of thousands of dollars because someone doesn't pay isn't that the companies fault for loaning money to someone who can't afford to pay it back. It seems to me this was the problem in real estate. It boomed because everyone was getting approved to buy a house and then crashed because no one could maintain payments on ridiculously priced real estate. Nor could they sell, because their home was now officially worth a third or less of what the bought it for. I agree people should pay their bills, but let's not forget the companies who loaned money out to people who couldn't afford it in the first place?
dan Feb 16th 2009 5:57PM
Some very interesting comments. I just wanted to make a few points. To the collection agency owner. If in fact people do charge up debts like you say, only to try to get out of them via bankruptcy, that is fraud, and it's a crime and they would do jail time if prosecuted. (That was part of the changes made a few years ago to the bankruptcy laws.) That may be 1-2% of all cases, but you just want to pin that type of behavior on everyone. Furthermore, you have a legal duty to inform the police of a crime (fraud) and have them arrested. Oh, wait, you don't actually have PROOF of your allegation? Then you should not make such statements. IOW, put up or shut up. (Comment to others: Collection Agency people routinely make such statements to support justification for their job and tactics. I worked at one once... it's horrible. Yes, there are deadbeats and yes, I'm all for putting deadbeats in jail, but that is not the average person who gets into trouble with debt. Most of the people lost their job, had an accident with no, or too little insurance or got a medical issue that drained their resources.)
To Garrett regarding parallel universes... you really have no idea how close you are to the truth. You see, there are two worlds. The real world, and the world the media wants you to believe is real. I can promise you the truth is not what the media says it is, whether it be an Arab or US based, both use their position of public trust to further their own agenda. NONE of which is any good for you or me.
As always, the truth lies someplace in the middle. As for the subject of this article... Dubai, I can't help but smile a little bit.... after all, who would build a city on an island of sand? Irony at it's finest.
Kate Feb 16th 2009 6:12PM
Indians are generally Hindu, not muslim. If you have nothing of value to add, don't post.
SClady Feb 16th 2009 6:40PM
Debtors prison is a great idea, if they had no TVs, had to do actual labor and lived in barracks.
Not these days
Jeff G. Feb 16th 2009 6:45PM
Hmm wonder what they will do with all those fine luxury vehicles those bastards left behind for the desert to claim... how about giving it to a hardworking 18 year old kid who goes to college and works his ass off at two jobs! instead of seeing these old farts driving around in bentleys when they are gonna die soon anyway... thats life!
J Feb 16th 2009 6:52PM
I say close our borders stop all import and exportation, open all the closed factories and get America back to producing its own products, and while we are at it stop all overseas aid, let the world see just how much they need the U.S. and when they all start killing each other like they did in WW 2 lets just sit back and let it happen.
Angie Feb 16th 2009 7:09PM
Isolationism would do this country a great deal of good and the world would quickly find out how much of a difference the USA makes!
warren buffett Feb 16th 2009 6:53PM
First, justin doty is an idiot. The folks who can't afford these homes have no business buying them. No one is forcing them to buy. Second, jail will only be effective when it made to be miserable. No TV, weight rooms, libraries, etc. Rehabilitation is a myth.
Mermaid Feb 16th 2009 7:03PM
It's sad and nothing to gloat over when a vision like Dubai comes true and then dissolves. Dubai represented tremendous expertise, effort, vast sums of money but most of all faith in a beautiful dream. Why should anyone be happy to see it in trouble? Such people are mean and shallow, lacking their own successes, never contributing anything worthwhile, only feeding off others' misery. The vision of Dubai's builders gave employment and a good living to many workers who now are adrift. I hope the day soon comes its troubles will be over and it bustles again with activity.
Chris Feb 16th 2009 7:12PM
Same thing is happening here in northern Mexico or what some still california. The polititions have screwed this country six ways to sunday.
Jimmy Feb 16th 2009 7:13PM
Lock everyone who won't work up. I would rather pay for them to be in jail than pay for their welfare check and food stamps. At least they don't get to enjoy jail. Vote republican for a fair deal. Democrats give out welfare to buy votes from worthless scum at the expense of working people. Thanks dems. for stimulation illegals and lazy people. They are all getting $300.00 each for there votes. Next they will vote in voting rights for illegals so they can collect these votes.
sungirl Feb 16th 2009 7:20PM
jjoekicker7 and sara: Three of my friends and my niece are all out of work. With the exception of my 25 year old niece who is a recent college grad, the friends have worked 15 years, 8 years, and 5 years for companies. They made purchases buying clothing for work purposes; furniture for their homes; medicines that they needed, all of which were in reason, yet eventually created balances on their credit cards. Do you think incarceration is proper for people like that? How cruel you are. Remember, once a rule is made, it is made for everyone with little or no exceptions. You should think about this.
Shayne Feb 16th 2009 7:32PM
for the collection agency guy... I am trying to pay off a credit card that was tagged with a 28% interest. I started out only owing $1,350. Now because the payments got to be such a joke I owe almosat $4,000. How is that fair man. You agencies are a joke and need to be re structured so people can pay these debts off instead of resorting to bankruptcy.
D Feb 16th 2009 7:35PM
I am a person that owes lots of money for my credit cards and got my car repo. I feel like I have worked hard all my life and then the economy dropped dead. Then everyone else is getting bailed out except small business people. And to top it off, my accoutant thought we should take draws instead of paychecks and now we can not get unemployment because there is no paycheck for them to look at. So now I try to figure out how I am going to make my house payment, electric,gas, food, and all the family members that where working for me in our business. We started another business but not too much work out there and if you fill an application out , there was 100 other people filling them out also. So out there it is not all deadbeats not paying their bills, we are trying as hard as we can to pay them. So no I do not think I should go to jail because I owe bills. I have customers that owe me also and they can not pay me now. Also it does not cost $300 to go bankrupt, it cost $2,000 per person, and $3,000 per small business. So it is not as easy to go bankrupt when you are broke. This is my first time in my life that I have no Health Insurance also, and have paid for 100's of employees for years. And this is what I get nothing and no help out there.
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D, as I told Kathleen, challenge the banks on the credit cards. They commit fraud every time they extend "credit" to people because they don't disclose critical information. Part of it is that they conveniently forget to tell you that the money they're "loaning" you isn't a loan at all. They CREATE it out of thin air by making an entry into a computer. Banks cannot loan their assets.. it's illegal. So they create it, make you believe their loaning it to you so you'll feel obligated to pay it back, and then charge you huge interest rates for money that they effectively GAVE you in the first place. It's an ENORMOUS scam. Have a look at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279
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Apparently the biggest problem that Razor are coming across in Tenal is that they really need a third scimi in their gang in order to tank the 20-man BS gangs that Raiden are capable of fielding in peak euro TZ.
Apparently the biggest problem that Razor are coming across in Tenal is that they really need a third scimi in their gang in order to tank the 20-man BS gangs that Raiden are capable of fielding in peak euro TZ.
dreams are my, erm your reality ?????
Bring 50 tengus to defend a system with 3 tech moons. Run away when we bring 150 dudes. Raiden 2012.
so helpless without ev0ke/init./pl/nc.
so yeah RZR's 20 man roaming gang with two scimitars came across three tech moons that were just coming out of reinforced. what luck!
GoonFleet 2012: how many people can your alliance get into a dbrb fleet
So how did a coalition that was fielding 60 titans a month ago and apparently beating gewns back suddenly failscade to the point that Razor roams are taking its tech?
Instead of worrying about moon goo we decided to have a 9v9 ~honourable~ space match.
Was wondering this myself, I figured he sov loss to RZR was just a fluke because someone fucked up timing or something. Any juicy drama, with Gordon Cain quitting RDN and all, or was that just him getting tired of sov holding and shit?
Come on good RDN posters, spill the beans.
no one could be falling apart over some sov nobody cares about surely
Looks to me like the age-old tactic used against old BOB seems to be working against the new BOB.
Turning pretend colourblind angels from spaceship to madship samurais, one post at a time.
INIT have huge participation issues, haven't seen ev0ke in ages. I saw an NC. gang for the first time in weeks today, though!!!
INIT and IM have had 20 dishonouourable members of blackops camping their station and jewing systems in southwest Venal for the past few weeks. Initially they tried bait and hotdrop gangs that did not work out well for them at all. Even lost a carrier or two in station games gone terribly wrong.
This has resulted in member apathy, attrition, and some nice firesale contracts in N5Y as their average membership sells all their shit in Venal and slips back to Curse.
As far as Tenal goes, you can only rep the same ihubs and POS for so long every day without any fights (except your carriers randomly getting blown up) before you say "fuck it, let's have honor duels at the sun."
If I were a much better (or much worse) poster, this is the part where I compare the CFC leadership to Quintus Fabius Maximus and Team Tech's to Hannibal, but instead I'll leave you to look it up on wikipedia. Also the metaphor breaks down slightly since there wasn't a very good Battle of Lake Trasimene comparison, unless you count the hundreds of maelstroms DBRB crashed into RDN when this all started.
I'm actually annoyed those fights stopped, I have 30 maelstroms (with fittings) basically just circlejerking themselves into a stupor as we speak, because there's fuck-all to do with them since nobody's apparently losing maels at this point.
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I think this tactics has worked against any outnumbered alliance in the history of EVE. Also, we really aren't the new BOB, stop being mean!
I cannot point to single reason why the attendance has fallen in Raiden., as there are multiple reasons.
The primary reason in my eyes is attrition. For a while now we've been having 100% participation more or less, with 200 online in alliance, and 170-180 in fleet, with people having between 2 and 5-6 chars in fleet. This has its positive and negative consequences. When people are really fired up and enjoying EVE, 20-30 people can mean 50 in fleet. However, when we see people get bored of structure grinding, and you lose the same 20-30 players, that's also usually 20 supers, with 30 subcaps on top of it. That's what we're seeing currently, and it hampers the people being online's ability to commit supers, which has been our advantage since the beginning of the non-invasion of Tenal. So in essence, if we have 30 of the regular fleet members not showing up to an op, we lose a significantly larger amount of numbers.
Secondary reasons in my book would be losing Gordon Cain, who was getting fed up with the sov system warfare and needing a wel-deserved break, the alliance leaving Tenal, thus fighting for "some region that isn't our home" and finally some disillusionment with our allies supporting us. The last one is more of a personal opinion, but I've had the impression that most of the allies don't really care if we lose our space, and if we do it was because we weren't good enough. Which is fair enough, but it certainly has but strain on our leadership having to coordinate with different allies having different standings, and then also having to deal with bridging allies around because they can't be bothered to set up titan chains on their own.
A final reason for the current situation is also the impressive stamina of the CFC. Sure they have a lot of pilots, but they also have a very dedicated leadership (from an outside perspective) who manage to get big numbers in fleet over a long period of time.
If PL/NCdot were to move in it would be worse than it is now. It would just be alot more blueballs and less fun than we are seeing now. I mean its clear Raiden doesn't care much for Tenal or space in general other than Tech and the ability to build supers. In the end defending Tenal is a reason to fight but not a forging catalyst to go " One last time into the breach". I think everyone understands this p.much why Gfed hasn't pushed harder to attack and why you + your allies havnt pushed harder to defend. Ultimately its even more evidence that 0.0 needs some attention badly from CCP.
Haven't seen NCdot up north but I know they have been roaming Fade :3
I've noticed that there's a pretty big disconnect between the general consensus of kugu and what's actually happening. It seems enough people have said it in this thread that people are taking it as fact.
I would go with Pharas the Herulian, a Germanic Roman general hunting down the last free tribes in the empire.
According to Agathors translation of Procopius, Martco wrote Like yourself, I am an illiterate Barbarian, but I speak the language of plain sense and an honest heart. Why will you persist in hopeless obstinacy? Why will you ruin yourself, your family, and nation? The love of freedom and abhorrence of slavery? Alas! my dearest Malcanis, are you not already the worst of slaves, the slave of the vile nation of the INIT? Would it not be preferable to sustain at VFK a life of poverty and servitude, rather than to reign the undoubted monarch of the mountain of NPC space? Do you think it a disgrace to be the subject of Mittens? DBRB is his subject; and we ourselves, whose birth is not inferior to your own, are not ashamed of our obedience to the Space emperor. That generous prince will grant you a rich inheritance of lands, a place in the senate, and the dignity of Patrician: such are his gracious intentions, and you may depend with full assurance on the word of DBRB. So long as heaven has condemned us to suffer, patience is a virtue; but, if we reject the proffered deliverance, it degenerates into blind and stupid despair.
I can't say I am concerned about INIT. participation at all, in fact all things considered I am very happy with the commitment from our guys who consistently field a fleet on a daily basis, often whilst allies are unable or unwilling to form. To be fair, I believe any neutral and objective observer would be hard pressed to see anyone from either side of the conflict who consistently forms significant fleets as often as we do. I really couldn't ask more of our guys.
On a second point, I hate to burst your bubble but I think you're grossly overstating the effectiveness/impact of blackops in Venal area. INIT. core spent the last year living in Curse in the most hostile constellation in the game and have no issues with that. A few cloaky gatecampers is irrelevant to all but the newest intake who are welcome to learn from the school of hard knocks (it's not even something that registers on our radar).
As far as ppl moving back to Curse, there is only one (new at that) corp which has gone to Curse and will be leaving us soon. Most corps which join us don't make the cut and find the lifestyle harder than the allure of 'no sov just fights'. Barely 1 in 5 last more than 3 months, it's nothing new.
The biggest threat to our deployment is blueballs; at least we're getting paid. :-D
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Spearhead of DRF no more, Anyway much prefer everyone shooting each other.
I personally noticed some participation issues from you guys a while ago (your super pilots threatening to awox people ratting in n5y if they didn't get into fleet) but as a GSF scout I will admit that you seem to form fleets way more than RDN or NC or the germans combined. Why bother?
But Init show up more often than RDN do. How do RDN know if INIT show up if RDN don't?!?!
Shooting Raiden. tech again in EU prime time, no sight of them except fail bombing run.
INIT should just shoot RDN tech and get some cash money.
Sov in EN-GTB is about to tick over for RZR.
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Why modern architecture is so hideous.
Michelangelo. St. Peter's Basilica, Rome | eternal beauty
Le Corbusier. L'Unite d'habitation, Berlin | modernism
Nobody. Nothing. Everywhere | new world order
At least 90% of all architectural projects nowadays are an absolute crap aesthetically. If we exclude architecture of ultra-ambitious, mega-rich, half-totalitarian regimes such as Emirates or China that number will probably jump to 99%… Think about it! In our wealthy puffed up Western culture only 1 out of 100 buildings worth something in terms of pure beauty and universal harmony.
No one talks about it officially. But everyone knows it. A widely known secret, so to speak.
Modern architecture sucks! Sucks big time. Every barber knows that.
People hate it.
People don't accept it.
People just don't dig it, yo…
Wow! Could be a nice refrain for a rap chorus…
Now keep in mind please, I am a professional architect, a modern guy who likes high-tech gadgets, avant-gardе shows and sexy women. I am not some crazy conservative traditionalist, religious zealot or senile old fart hating bold new changes. Yet I fully agree with the "barbers".
Modern architecture sucks. You know why? Because architects suck. Simple as that. They suck in their central role – role of being Gods presenting world with the original creations. Those creations must follow inviolable Vitruvian Triad* of firmitatis (soundness), utilitatis (utility), and venustatis (delight, beauty). For a long time architects are not in charge of the first two principles anymore. It's all right, though. It is a logical way of moving ahead with the progress. Engineers deal with soundness, i.e. structural principles of building science. Marketing people are responsible for utility, i.e. business aspects of project's use.
So what's left for Architect if not an Ars Venustatis – The Art Of Beauty?
Architecture is a theory. It's a philosophy. It's an Art. A wonderful art with classical canons, rich history and brilliant new ideas. It cannot suck. To blame it would be like blaming a genius thinker Fridrich Nietzsche for concentration camps built by Nazi's or like blaming Prince of Anarchism Peter Kropotkin from XIX century for anti-globalist movement in 2010. It's ridiculous and quite unwise.
Architects to be blamed for ugliness around us. Let's keep them responsible for not being able to transform a fantastic art of "music in stone" into the real life symphonies. Let's ask them why regardless to all amazing technological advances they, architects, provide us with mediocre designs and primitive buildings. Why, as a result of their obvious lack of talent, lack of passion and fundamental dilettantism we must exist in such dull, depressive, dreary Orwellian environment.
*In his work "Ten Books on Architecture" Roman Architect Vitruvius (25 BCE) established the basic principles of architecture which have remained essentially unchanged. These are referred to as the "Vitruvian Triad".
Vitruvius – Ten Books on Architecture, Book I, Chapter 3:
"All these works should be executed so that they exhibit the principles of soundness, utility, & attractiveness. The principle of soundness will be observed if the foundations have been laid firmly, and if, whatever the building materials may be, they have been chosen with care but not with excessive frugality. The principle of utility will be observed if the design allows faultless unimpeded use through the disposition of the spaces and the allocation of each type of space is properly oriented, appropriate, and comfortable. That of attractiveness will be upheld when the appearance of the work is pleasing and elegant, and the proportions of its elements have properly developed principles of symmetry."Comments
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Thanks for the honesty and courage to look our modern day inadequacy "in the eye"! As design professionals we must stop and think for a moment as to WHY we are actually willing to spend at least 1/3 of our lives doing what we do! Yes, business is important and yes, we have to pay our bills, but no, do we have to create and support poor aesthetic standard. There is no such a thing as stagnation; as soon as we stop creating, thinking, achieving, we are spiraling downward into disharmony and ugliness. We have the training and technology; lets not lose sight of the bigger picture.
Just playing devil's advocate, but how do you strive for beautiful/artful designs and concepts, if so much in today's architecture is reduced to numbers, square-footage, commercial space, garage volume, and usability?
David, this is not an excuse to create monsters.
It's not an excuse, it's a fact of life, just like the elections for prez over in the States. Because the dismantling of any attempt to moderate corporate sponsorship of elections, lawyers and officials who have ignored the growing coats of campaigning in a world with high $$$ media communication (can a governor afford to even mount a campaign without tapping into corporate $s? NO!), and the ignorance of the public to these issues, because of these factors, we cannot have legitimate elections anymore.
It's the same with architects, who have increasing been kicked out by the contractors and building parts manufacturers. This means they have to co Pete against the lowest design principles possible, where the bar is set so low you're more focused on getting non contaminated building materials than anything else because you will get sued, not the amorphous supplier in China which will literally pull insane things like disbanding a company if a pissed customer wants his money back.
The design that is available is for prisons… The setup is so bad if you survive being an architect with any ethical values left standing it would be miraculous. The journals love to advertise dream projects, but these are upper class people with upper class contacts, not the average uni grad. Seriously I believe architects have high burnout in today's economy…
Corbusier didn't have theories? He didn't have philosophies?
Should beauty be segregated from structure and function?
Dear Albert; excellent article.(?)
"Modern architecture sucks. You know why? Because architects suck."
You criticize architects because they do not have strong theories, but here comes you; architect with a strong one.
Do you pretend us to take you seriously? There is a lot of bad architecture. There used to be a lot of bad architecture, not only nowadays.
Do you pretend to justify yourself as an open minded person because you like high-tech gadgets, avant-gardе shows and sexy women?. Try a little bit harder…
Keep your sexy women and your gadgets, leave "modern architecture" to the people who take care about it, and who spend lots of hours everyday trying to make better buildings and cities.Let me question something apart from your sexy women and gadgets, do you like modern music, art, film, poetry?… or it also sucks…?
It's quite funny to see how history repeats itself. People from the past, also looked at their "contemporary" architecture with hate, just see what happened at the begening of the XXth, and not just for architecture, but for painting and sclupture. But now, all those production are considered arts…
Making architecture has never been as hard and regulated as it is now. Architects have to think about ecological, economical and social aspects early on in the designing process. Here in Finland the authorities are thinking about restricting window surface area in proportion to the whole building surface because of energy efficiency (a stupid idea), which of course limits allot of what an architect can do. I take it as a challenge though, because that's what architecture is. It's an art form where the artist have to take in consideration a lot of things and that's why I love to be an architect (still a student though). I don't think it's alone the architects fault if "ugly" buildings get built, but I think that architects these days lack a confidence in there own ideas and thus let the client/builder have the last word in everything. I've seen too many architects that have lost there passion for architecture, its sad.
One thing that I also consider as a reason for a lot of "ugly" buildings getting built is the building industry. It's way faster than before and because almost everything is prefabricated there's no chance for the architect to think further on the project and make adjustments on e.g. the building site as it used to be in the old days. The overall designing time is also pretty short. But I take this also as a challenge and don't think it's an excuse for an architect to not be inspired and motivated of his own work and give it all he can. Maybe I still have the optimism of an architecture student whit the world still open of possibilities but I'm going to do my best to not design "ugly" buildings.
You are not exactly being fair there, Albert.
Even judging from a quick look at the photos you put here for comparison: a world-known cathedral vs. residential programs.
The majority of build mass – not only nowadays but since always – is represented by houses and dwellings, single-family houses or multiple units organized in tall blocks, low-rise high-density etc. Given the sheer number of such buildings, you can't possibly expect each of them to come across as 'art forms' or 'eternal beauties' because that's not what they are after anyways. Besides, it's a safe bet to say that no house from the Renaissance, Baroque or any other historical period, none of them looked like St. Peter's Cathedral in terms of beauty and awe.My point is that you are overlooking the different architectural programs and the way they come to form.
If you look into privileged programs from today- such as museums, opera houses, cathedrals, train stations and so on, then i don't think your point still stands, because all of those DO consider aesthetics and can have innovative shapes and forms, no matter if they are considered 'beautiful' by the observer or not.
Gee whiz, does it all suck. We seem to have entered a point in our society when anti intellegence is artistic and the new form of snobbery, because it's 'pure'. Pretentous arseholes are running art and culture now. They always have but the old ones had taste and understanding. From where I stand 'modernists' are living in the past more than traditionalists. Yes, I think art, music, all of which is bland, lame, and commercial. Oh so shallow. Why do modernist snobs reject anything from the past? Becuase they are lightyears ahead of their time and are absolutely genius, that's why, chap.
You've obviously misunderstood Vitruvius's meaning of "utilitas"… i.e. UTILITY (function)… architects are still very much responsible for the translation of a building's use into built form. A particular building type and its function will always have a huge impact on the design process; and this has nothing to do with modernist "functionalism" a-la CIAM. "Aesthetic" and utility go hand-in-hand.
As for the "business aspects of project's use" (as you put it)… what are you referring to, the financial side? Here, again, architects still play an important role. If a client has a specific budget for his/her house, then we can and do work with that. If a property developer needs a certain return on their investment in a housing scheme, we know that that might require a certain density of units per square kilometre (etc etc..), so we adjust the design accordingly. Yes you will always have "marketing people", but their roles are completely different.
And as for "firmitas", yes engineers have largely taken that weight off our shoulders (I'm not complaining!), but an understanding of basic physics is still essential in all architectural education. (it also depends on the project of course.. the degree to which engineers are involved in a skyscraper versus a private dwelling will differ greatly). So i'm sorry, I don't agree that "architects suck", it remains an extremely challenging and rewarding profession.
Architects, in my opinion in general and therefore whole, no longer drive the vehicles of traditional Architecture. Very few at all will fund it, very few will look or appreciate. In academia, you are still teaching students who will have no future in their profession. Yet here you are…
I think what you might be referring to is the business of architecture, not necessarily the practice. It's better to blame the business than the practice. Because you have these students who go to school to become invested in their interest in architecture and get some sort of fulfillment out of what they do. Yet when they graduate and go into the business, a lot of them aren't in charge of their ideas and creativity, their bosses or whoever is in charge of who they work for are. And with that being said, their own ideas get stifled and smother along the process of getting something done and as a result in the end there is little design and creativity. It's all because the stupid business that runs it. And also because of the client's/ whoever is in charge's bad taste. I think you're being a little too one sided on who is reprehensible about why modern architecture sucks. If you're going to blame someone, why are you blaming the architect and not everyone else who is involved, like maybe the client, or the boss or someone who discarded the original idea? The architect had to make sacrifices (and that can include scrapping the original design/idea) just to go along with what the client wanted as well as following the building and construction regulations that the state/region has set. Why modern architecture might suck is because of the business and the fact that the architects don't have the freedom or control as much as they used to in the past.
You hit the nail on the head, so thank you Albert!
I would love to do architecture, I've had a passion for it since I was a child. I spent all my childhood and my current teenage years looking through every single mansion and palace in the world that I can find and drawing my own designs and the blue prints, haha!
I have such a passion for beaux arts! I can not stop drawing my take on one.
However, unfortunately to become an architect you need to be clever to even get into the degree, something I'm not meaning the world has lost out on a potentially good architect becuause of qualification boundaries.
What annoys me the most, is how people are such crowd followers, which is why very few of our current architects have originality. Sure one may make a building look like penis and another make one look like a palm tree, but in reality they are going by the same principles- stupidity and a budget. There's not the work force nor the money to make anything merely nice.
There was a time where being rich meant you had a personalised mansion built with the most finest furniture, with a whole history. Now a days, the rich prefer to 'indulge' in highly priced apartments.
Even those with wealth, with a desire to create something amazing, can't. And Liberalism is to blame. If you want to wanted to say make a mansion like buckingham palace. 1. the council would be involved. 2. there would probably be a legal battle 3. you would need to use eco-friendly materials, (meaning your mansion would probably have to look more on the side of a mud hut) 4. you would need to use solar energy. 5. you would need all these licenses. The list goes on!
Well with that type of attitude, capitalism would of never come about. I think if people are going to build somethin emaculate and it's not going to bring more benefits than harm, then I say let them.
Another thing I wanted to mention, is that all these new houses are useless, over 300k are in the UK. This is just part of the evidence of how pointless modern architecture is.
Nothing is made as good as it once was and I personally blame liberalism more than I blame capitalism, why? because everytime someone tries to make something decent, all these busy bodies have to get in on the act to give themselves a job, and this only prevents such emaculate architecture.
There's no point voicing your opinion to this modern generation of artists, because they're all too fucking useless and have had a load of crap drilled in to their brains. Things are only going to get worse. All these modern houses are falling down after a few years, and 300k of them in the UK are too small for families… it's all gotten to a situation where it's starting to get ridiculous.
It's as simple as this, people have less freedom, meaning we're all opressed to one simple set of principles and that in itself takes away the art of architecture.
And there's not just this issue with architecture. Art too, look at tracey emmins, how can someone who buys a tent from asdas and sticks on some labels naming people she has slept with, be given an MBE? and all; these awards?
Yet someone who can paint a lovely scenery so perfectly, be living on the streets homeless?
If things went my way, tracey emmins would be the one living on the streets, as far as I'm concerned her art is disgusting and is no display of talent what so ever.
I completely agree with you, too many modern buildings are just downright ugly. They're all either boxes, or if it's "fancy" enough, it has some random curves in the walls or roof. Both are ugly because they lack harmony and consistency. I think that a lot of people don't realize that the reason we think that many ancient or old structures are beautiful is because the architects of them made use of fractals (whether by accident or purpose, I don't know), which are everywhere in nature( take a look at a fern, then at a cathedral, you'll see the similarities). It's proven that we are innately attracted to nature, so it would make sense that we are attracted to something that mimics nature. Most modern architecture just doesn't do that. Whether it's a sign of our disconnection from nature, a lost art, laziness, poor economy, etc, I suppose it could be all of those. The thing is, we have the ABILITY to create things so much faster and easier than they did back then, so shouldn't we be using that to create beautiful structures instead of ugly ones?
I also forgot to mention symmetry, also an extremely important element of beauty
Hey i totally agree with, i recommend you to read the texts of Nikos Salingaros and
"Fractal Geometry in architecture and design" by carl bovill.
This will give you an explanation of why modern and contemporary architecture sucks. -
The best style is from 1700-1930 years! So beautiful architecture, doesn't metter Europe or another continents…
I'm 24 yo and I would like to buy an old home/mansion some day.
Best Wishes!
it is hideous because it is the spawn of a decadent capitalist JEWISH SYSTEM that imposes consumerism and destruction of what is noble in the human being , not to mention the enviorement , that's why , and yeah , rate me minus for my comment but think about it
hey! You are totally right!! Good new buildings are few and far between. I think some of the universities in the US and Canada have made strikes in that area though. Here is one that was recently built at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada:
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Modern architecture does not suck, but it looks hideous. It saves lives with it's somewhat futuristic capabilities, it's structure that can defy gravity and withstand enormous earthquakes. But, what I hate about it is that it's so stripped of culture. All I see are white squared walls, and if not a solid wall, it's a glass wall. Then it happens to be shaped by exposed metal trusses, or complex curves.
In my opinion, it just lacks what we had years ago.
I'm sorry, but this is being told by a senile man in taste. I'm in love with the old, and the most beautiful architecture was the 1700′s-1900′s, of course all that architecture was raped away by modern architects. Now buildings, stripped and naked, whore themselves away by being sold to home owners. -
I agree 110% with the notion that architecture today is absolute scheisse. It's bad. It was even worse over the last 50 years (at least today, they use a lot of glass, and glass is better to look at than unearthed concrete bunkers and sewage pipes). However, I'm concerned about your vision of architects (also, don't throw the word "philosophy" around like that; architecture is not a philosophy, because philosophy is a science, not an art, and philosophies are not credos. A better way to say it is "an architect must have a certain kind of vision", although even here, we must be careful, because the modern projects are replete with "vision", such as Brasilia, the vision of a lobotomized idiot who, by rejecting the eternal principles of beauty, is like the logician that rejects the principle of contradiction).
An architect is an artist that specializes in buildings (we might even call him an engineer as well, although engineers may fall under artists of a kind). As an artist in the first sense, his duty is to produce beautiful buildings for human beings. As an artist of the engineering variety, his duty is to produce buildings that are built for use by human beings. What we have today are imbeciles who design crazy or ugly things just because they can, just because their teachers held to some moronic idea about architecture, just because it was not what was before. All of this has to do with the fact that we have lost the proper understanding of art. We don't know what art if. When some guy defecating into a coffee can or submerging a crucifix in a jar of piss is considered art, what on earth do you expect building to look like?
We need to return to seeing architecture as the art of designing beautiful buildings for human use. That's all there is to it, really, and the whole purpose of architecture. Over and done with should be the days of arrogant pseudo-architects who impose their personal psychological afflictions and lack of purpose in life on everyone else. The tyranny of mediocre spirits and minds should end.
Oh, and artists should know their place. They are not philosophers. They are artists. Architecture isn't your place to build a monument to your stupidity. It's
And a reproach: one should love beautiful women, not sexy women. That's another flaw in the modern, cretinous mentality. We have no taste for beauty anymore. Everything must be "sexy" or some other insipid and usually tacky bullshit. If you don't know the difference, start there.
So take home message: begin by asking what man's destiny is. After all, the purpose of life and the purpose of all of man's activity — the subject of ethics — is what determines all of his actions. It used to be that mean's fullfillment was in the infinite truth, beauty, and good of God, and all architecture was an expression of that desire for that wonderful infinite, something that paid homage to the glorious end of man. The end of man today is his end, that is, his undoing. There is no sense of proportion in value (churches were the most glorious), just as there is no sense of proportion in geometry. What is man really expressing in his architecture? A lover's song for Being, or desperation, or perhaps despair, or even death? Architecture, like all art and all activity, is an expression of a person's and a people's values. What are we saying through our architecture? We have more monetary wealth and technology than most civilizations in the past, and yet we care so much less for beauty.
The problem isn't rooted in architecture. The problem is that our civilization today sucks. We are, as Nietzsche said (since you mention him), closeted nihilists. When one unchains the earth from the sun, the earth has no orientation. Except that we cannot unchain ourselves from the sun. We can only deny and rebel against the sun at our own peril.
Well, I think the religious types and traditionalists do have a point. Modernism/humanism/liberalism is a crankish, terrible philosophy that makes virtues out of vices and exalts the pathetic. This, of course, comes straight out of certain elements of Christianity; but when Christendom was being run by aristocrats who at least wanted to present the facade of elitism it was tolerable. Now that the mob has taken over, it's crap.
Add to that city zoning and the influence of state education in general (the government does everything wrong – a little bit of socialism is still socialism) one shouldn't be surprised that absolutely everything built today looks like garbage.
- A nihilistic post-humanist.
As a devout Catholic (and certified traditionalist/religious type/anti-modern/hater-of-modernist-aesthetics/etc.) I will have to disagree with Theophania's comment above about this modernist architecture ultimately coming straight out of Christianity. It comes out of the perversion of Christianity which is Protestantism (specifically the Calvinist kind) with its emphasis on utility, and convictions regarding the ultimate depravity of men -if the flesh is completely corrupt and evil, and only the spiritual matters ("why build a popish cathedral when we can worship in a barn and pat ourselves on the back for our humility) then material things, such as buildings, are going to be purely functional, with zero adornment or beauty. The modernists, whose ideology sprang from liberal 19th century Protestantism anyhow, were just taking the original principles of the movement to their ultimate conclusion in terms of aesthetics.
Modern "architecture" is so ugly in part because it isn't really architecture, no more so than just making a bunch of random sounds constitutes music. Most modernists I've seen, such as Frank Gehry for example, engage in pure anarchy. To even call them architects is an insult to the profession. This is because the architectural profession threw out all of the accumulated knowledge about architecture in the early 20th century and started over again. Hence why modern architecture has no particular style or canon to follow. It is just pure anarchy. Imagine taking all of the accumulated knowledge of music from over the past thousands of years and throwing it out and starting over again. Now imagine the people claiming that the random sounds created do not constitute music, and the lovers of classical symphonies, being accused of being against "progress."
Or of doing this with cooking and baking. Imagine throwing out all the accumulated knowledge to that and starting over, and calling something like lawn-in-a-bowl a great work of culinary art, but rejecting the truly great works.
Throughout time, classical architecture has been advanced continuously for the time period and location it was in. There is no reason why architects of the 20th century couldn't have further advanced it, creating a truly gorgeous modern architecture, utilizing modern materials and construction methods, yet one still grounded in classical principles in the way that the incredibly diverse other architectural styles throughout history have been. It is fascinating to think about what phenomenal kinds of architecture we would have if the profession had adhered to the base of knowledge it had, but instead it rejected it, and thus we get anarchy nowadays that is oftentimes costly, difficult to engineer, difficult to construct, and hideously ugly (there is a reason most homes are in classical or semi-classical styles). One argument I have often seen is that, "Well modern buildings must be designed to be cost-efficient and functional, and not necessarily aesthetic…" well quite a few modern designs have been anything but cost-efficient or functional and have made zero sense from a cost, function, or engineering standpoint.
Too few people seem to recognize that possibility of creating gorgeous new architectural styles based on the classical canon though. Either one must be a contemporary architect and go with anarchy, or one must go with established classical styles and not deviate from them. Do either and both sides go up in arms. The classicists say, "You are violating the rules of classical architecture! That is not how that type of architecture is designed!" They ignore that if architects in the past had never evolved or changed anything, we'd still be building with ancient Greek architecture. Then the modernist architects take a look and dismiss such architecture as "Disney-esque" (because apparently any fantastical-seeming or colorful architecture must be Disney-esque, even though some of the great architectural styles throughout history have been very colorful and fantasy-seeming—Russian architecture for example).
Another problem with modern architecture is the constant attempts to create something totally unique. This is impossible. The various architectural styles that came about were the result of hundreds of years of evolutionary change occurring in architecture. The Greeks formed their architecture, the Etruscans copied the Greeks, the Romans copied both the Greeks and Etruscans and evolved the architecture further, then after the Western Roman empire collapsed, Roman architecture led to the development of Romanesque and Gothic architecture, while in the Eastern Roman empire which continued on, known as the Byzantine empire, they further advanced architecture, creating a wholly unique architecture, which then went on to influence the development of Slavic and Russian architectural styles and Islamic architecture. Then during the Renaissance, there was a return to Greek and Roman principles and a move away from Gothic architecture (itself derived from Roman architecture), to create a flowering of wholly new architectural styles everywhere from Italy to France to England. Renaissance architects sought to learn from, and to further advance, the classical Greek and Roman architectural designs.
Note how different all these architectural styles are, yet how they all share roots. Even furniture of the time was influenced by architecture. Mozart and Beethoven, similarly, could never have composed the musical works they did if not for the thousands of years of prior evolutionary development of music before them. If architects in the early 20th century had started further evolving classical architecture, by the year 2000, we'd have what would clearly have likely been a gorgeous, or multiple gorgeous, styles of architecture that, while clearly grounded in the classical canon, also would be uniquely 20th century and thus truly modern. And now on the eve of the 21st century, we'd be further advancing architecture. Instead though, we have anarchy in architecture, just as it would occur in music if all the knowledge was thrown out or cooking and baking if done there.
One area where this has not happened, BTW, is in ship architecture. Note how ship architecture throughout the ages has oftentimes been, like land architecture, very gorgeous, yet very different. Yet, when modern ships began being developed, this didn't change. Plenty of modern yachts for example are very gorgeous, yet also very contemporary. You can see clearly that they are of modern times, not something that would have fit hundreds of years ago. But yet they are gorgeous just like the centuries-old yacht designs are. This is because in ship architecture, the accumulated knowledge wasn't thrown out and disregarded like it was with land architecture, but instead was only further built upon and evolved.
The same can also be said of automobile design.
Having been to and studied modern, post-modern, historic, contemporary, and vernacular architectural work across the world, I must say that nothing has felt as amazing (in my opinion) as being in one of Le Corbusier's buildings. He was a master of scale. Beauty is so much more than image, just as beautiful music is so much more than a catchy melody, just as a beautiful person is so much more than good looks.
I support good architecture, not any movement in particular is superior to me. Good architecture.
The first picture is so beuatiful. I like when architectors combine modern and old buildings, thats really impressive. Read my article Expressionism: Modern Architecture of 20th Century
I'm almost a liberal, I'm EXTREMELY artistic and am a political activist. I HATE modern and most "ultra-modern" architecture. I believe in self-expression and individualism as well, but these modern architects are devoid of human understanding. They feel their work is immune to criticism due to it being their artistic vision. Buildings must be both beautiful and functional. These designers create these outlandish and cold designs that express neither of these qualities. I believe in slightly unconventional beauty, like short hair on girls, but these buildings are devoid of beauty. Deconstructivist, Modern, and Brutalist buildings create the worst atrocities, and Ultra modern is tolerable but WAY over-rated and sub-par when compared to older styles. Architecture should return to it's roots in beauty from 1300-1930′s. Art has taken a similar decline, people producing works that require minimal skill to produce. Hopefully a resurgence of taste and aesthetic beauty will return before the futurists' minimalist "vision" of the future comes to light.Their ideas are ugly, boring, oppressive and unhuman. They're awful. Anyways, those are my two cents.
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Posted Dec 7, '12 at 9:33pm
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who is your favorite trap artist, (ie. gucci mane, waka flocka, frenchie) and what is your fav album, mixtape song, etc.?
Posted Dec 8, '12 at 11:49pm
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In my opinion. They are all horrible. Not trying to to be a jerk about your music taste or anything but, I just don't see how they are talented. Every song is about the same thing. Weed, drinking, girls, money.
Posted Dec 11, '12 at 10:52pm
isnt that what life is really all about?
Posted Dec 12, '12 at 1:01pm
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excuse me sir, but i have a question: what is trap muzik?
Posted Dec 12, '12 at 9:04pm
listen to some gucci and some waka and find out
Posted Dec 14, '12 at 9:46am
i do not even know what you mean...because i do not know "gucci" or "waka"...
Posted Dec 14, '12 at 4:57pm
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So...extremely slow rapping with odd inflictions on the voice and lyrics that include bountiful amounts of made up words that don't have any correlation to what they supposedly mean?
Posted Dec 14, '12 at 7:35pm
okay, so instead of trying to make me look stupid why dont you go to youtube and look it up. or just leave. thats fine too.
i guess if thats how you interpret it
Posted Dec 14, '12 at 11:42pm
He's trying to say that just because you listen to this crappy music doesn't mean everyone has bad taste in music like yourself. So he's just looking for some clarification on what you're even talking about.
And for AJ, Gucci is a rapper named Gucci Mane and waka is a rapper named Wacka Flocka Flame.
Posted Dec 15, '12 at 10:12pm
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