HARGREAVES in New Orleans

Went to check out the future site of this massive project in New Orleans going forward under the tutelage of Hargreaves and Associates. I don't have much information on it, except the project is about 4.5 miles along the Mississippi. It is utilizing old wharfs all the way from the lower Garden District through the Quarter, the Marigny and the Bywater to the Naval Yard. The program includes integration of the trolley line, bike paths and pedestrian walkovers. The large levee wall prevented too much investigation in the section where we were, but the view and location is primo. Its an exciting project for the city. They need to make sure its for the city first and not bow down to the tourist dollar.

URBAN PARK WET DREAM...Bayou Oaks Golf Course

NEW ORLEANS
Just got back from the big easy and came across this amazing potential for New Orleans that will never happen. In the middle of the city this golf course has been sitting since Katrina. We really enjoyed our time out there walking around, observing the activity in this emerging ecosystem. The plan is to restore it back into a golf course.....booooooooooo!!! The city of New Orleans could have a park that is absolutely unique. Instead they will choose the obvious, boring and unsustainable.

WPA 2.0

This is by my partner Jacob Lange and I, our entry for the WPA 2.0 competition out of UCLA this past fall. We didn't win, but learned tons about this sort of conceptual urban thinking.
(from the WPA 2.0 website)
We seek projects that consider and explore the value of infrastructure not merely as an engineering endeavor, but as a robust design opportunity to strengthen communities and revitalize the city. Unlike the previous era, the next generation of such projects will require surgical integration into the existing urban fabric, and will work by intentionally linking systems of points, lines and landscapes, hybridizing economies with ecologies and over- lapping architecture with planning. These systems include but are not limited to parks, schools, open space, vehicle storage, sewers, roads, transportation, storm water, waste, food systems, recreation, local economies, ‘green’ infrastructure, fire prevention, markets, landfills, energy-generating facilities, cemeteries, and smart utilities.

the winner:


Nice graphics, interesting idea. The industrial canal in New Orleans, aside from being a busy shipping lane, has been the center of ship maintenance and repainting and jebus know what else for perhaps 200 years. Them waters must be thick with lead, heavy metals and carcinogens!

New Winter Compilation

THE HEAT is available, joints to get down chillins'! Download in two parts and put it on your listening device/medium of choice. ENJOY!

from_rapidshare
PART 1
PART 2

Seems that rapidshare_has_been a little busy of late, alternately the files can be downloaded from_Mediafire below

from_mediafire
PART 1
PART 2

Final Art X Project

Public video display....

Sine : Envisioning Space
exploring the morphology of place through vision and sound



2 min. edit



one full cycle, better quality

ArtX: 4 group

Billboard

Beth, Eli and I were driving this weekend and saw this billboard with my artwork on it....surprise. Last year I had done a conceptual plan with various vignettes for the Crawford train depot and park restoration.


Online article here with my original plan.

ART X : Project 2... Babel

ART X : Project 1

Art X is the term Charles Eames coined meaning 'A Sample Lesson for a Hypothetical Course'. This particular Art X studio is exploring video as an expanded form of sculpture, installation or something else....hypothetically speaking.

This is my piece for the first assignment referencing the word 'instinct'. The parameters are 2 minutes long maximum, 1 take, no edits and natural sound.

This piece is me looking at my migraine headache that always takes place in my right eye and fighting the instinct not to yell.

Frustration and Understanding

The need to understand, to make sense of whats going on,is far reaching in its expression. Even reasonable, kindly people can become hostile and angry when they cannot comprehend material that seems to be necessary to functioning. In fact, there are times when such frustration is readily apparent even when the failure to understand would seem to have little immediate consequence. Occasionally one can witness such reaction when individuals view 'modern' art that fails to make sense to them.

Indoctrination is the essence of democracy.

Ahh Summertime

FIREFLY HUNTER

FLOWERS

AND EVERYTHING ELSE

Are You Sleeping?

'I do not understand all that goes on myself, so I cannot explain it to you. Some of us are still true Ents, and lively enough in our fashion, but many are growing sleepy, going tree-ish as you might say. Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake. Some are quite wide awake, and a few are, well, ah, well getting Entish. That is going on all the time. When that happens to a tree, you find that some have bad hearts. Nothing to do with their wood: I do not mean that. Why, I knew some good old willows down the Entwash, gone long ago, alas! They were quite hollow, indeed they were falling to pieces, but as quiet and sweet-spoken as a young leaf. And then there are some trees in the valleys under the mountains, sound as a bell, and bad right through. That sort of thing seems to spread. There used to be some very dangerous parts in this country. There are still some very black patches.'

New Summer Compliation

Summer requires a soundtrack that bumps and is ready for that road trip or the afternoon BBQ alike. Hell, stoke up the dance floor in the middle of you living room with your friends. Here is a selection that will get you there. It requires to be downloaded in two parts. Get em both or be sorry.

Summer Bump PT 1
Summer Bump PT 2

No Excuses

Fresh Compilation 4 U

Here is a compilation I made that a few of us have been listening to for the past couple of months, now uploaded for all my friends. You can put it on your listening device of choice. If you don't get both parts, you will be incomplete sucka!

Jordan's Spring Picks pt 1
Jordan's Spring Picks pt 2

PUBLISHED WORK

A new article has just been published about a project my class did last fall for a high end development in Greensboro, GA. There is an virtual magazine that can be accessed HERE. Some of my renderings have been used on pages 13 and 16. Below is my teams' conceptual plan for the shared lakefront commons area with vignettes.

This Coming Sunday

Italo Disco

I have dabbled in Italo disco for years, never fully understanding the breadth of this musical genre. This is a huge body of music from the 80's that is typified by the cheesiest (therefore coolest) sounding drum machines and driving synth lines with outfits at times looking like they came straight out of Buck Rogers. This stuff is totally nuts and...well...pretty awkward at times.....check this one out!
SCOTCH-Delirio Mind

or this one


Now that you are all juiced up, here is a link for a totally sweet mix to download and put on your iPoo, mixed by 2 of the great revivalists of this genre...Midnight Moroders! Check out the dope remix of a cover of TOTO's 'Africa' that the mix starts with......make me wanna get down! This mix is killer, get it while you can....don't sleep!

GET THE MIX HERE

Echo Athens

A collaborative map from my theory class this semester *Ideas of Community and Place*, markers with audio clips. Mine is *Pedestrian Prevalence*.

ECHO ATHENS LINK

Photo Inventory Animation EDES 6540

Athens, GA

Last One Of The Semester

thesis heaven

Having to make some serious moves on my thesis direction right now, may be getting there, or may foolishly be thinking that I am getting there. Whichever the case is my proposal is due this week and I think I will have something to turn in....YAaaY! Reading mega-heavy books right now with some more waiting in the wings. If anybody wants to help a poor graduate student out, here are some titles waiting to get added to my library. You'll get a big hug next time I see ya.
My Amazon Wish List

The Printed Word

Our final article for Landscape Architect and Specifier News is out online HERE. The printed version will be out in the next few weeks.
Presently diggin' on some spring break, reading lots and getting music queued up for studio. Listening to tons of good right now.

Disrupt, The Bass Has Left the Building......killer German left field dub
cLOUDDEAD, 6 X 10".....experimental hip hop,check out DoseOne's band Subtle in the Juicy Bits video section
Bippp, French Synth Wave 1979-85......well, French synth wave
Fennesz, The Black Sea.....ambient soundscapes
Glass Candy, Beatbox....Italo-disco from Portland OR
Metro Area, Metro Area.....deep house, disco
Of Montreal, Skeletal Lampings.......essential new Of Montreal
Bo Marley VS Disrupt.......smoked out German reggae meets the master of 8 bit dub
lots more........................................

The Power of Word

On the bottom of my cereal box this morning:

"...when i talk (lovingly) to the little flowers or to the little peanut, they will give up their secrets." George Washington Carver

The Doppleganger Steps In

Somebody has fallen down on the job of keeping this thing updated in recent months, so I have stepped in to get it going again. Lots has been going on in the way of projects and cool happenings. The big thing going down right now is the final cut of a multimedia film presentation that myself and two other classmates had been working on over the past couple of months. It is finished and available to be viewed online at our college's website HERE. There is also an article (available online HERE) in Landscape Architect and Specifier News authored by one of my partners that should help to give some background on the project. Next month there will be a follow up article that has been co-authored by the three of us.If you don't feel like surfing, you can just watch it here at the DESIGNJUICEMIND.

Part II of the article can be found HERE.