Have been keeping track of who I’ve been complaining to, about what, and how. My complaining skills are definitely improving, I think! Here is a complaint sent to the MBTA today.

Was making some artwork tests for a new project.

This is the cover for my project. The title is Of Our Own Making in a pixelated font that is stretched out in a glitchy way. The text is difficult to read and horizontally stretched..

Sketch for a house at Perkins

It's a house, sort of a sketchy one. The background is black and it's drawn in white, brushy pen. It's got a pitched roof, and it's cut so you can see inside of it. It's sort of ambiguous whether it's a hosue or a model. There are trees on either side, other houses, but also things like a big light and diffuser as if there's a heliodon over it. There are a few little circles in the front that represent listening cones. And the edge of it is a little ambiguous - how thick it is. Some it has the openness that all sketches have, so it's still very loose and open to possibility. There are some arrows coming off the roof, as if the roof can be pulled off, like you would in a rough test model. And overall it feels like a housey house, drawn in darkmode.

Initial sketch for a house near Perkins

New draft of a piece of writing on Apple’s “I’m Not Remarkable Ad” - being a crip killjoy, but for good reason, I think… Not sure if I’ll publish or just needed to write it.

Starting to collect some images around low resolution . They don’t quite hold together and some different categories, beyond resolution, are emerging. For example, darkness, blur, and haze don’t seem to be about resolution primarily.

Chat with Jean Hewitt (author of U.K. Standard PAS 6463: Design for the Mind) today about how something goes from a need expressed by a disabled person to a standard that ends up on an architect’s desk.

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Rode in my first Waymo this week. As my friend Andrew said, it felt “totally wild, and then, almost instantly normal.”

Tried to study how color changes on camera with distance, using this Ellsworth Kelley building at UT Austin. I must’ve tapped the flip button at some point, so instead I ended up with a lot of photos of my forehead.

Have been thinking about different flavors of low resolution lately; blur in Ann Hamilton’s work, Ann Gale’s brushy pixelation, to projects like 44 Low Resolution Houses, which defines “low resolution” as loose, rough construction. More on this later…

Anyways, here is a tiny radish, blown up and repainted.

Sent out an advocacy email today about a survey around architecture school accreditation.