2026.05.01
so I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Stephen Lauf Seeing is Believing 2026.05.01 12:56
recent reading
Having finished reading de Duve's Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in General last night, it's henceforth safe to say that de Duve's onset gatekeeper-wannabe-syndrome places him squarely in control-freak territory. Then, after waking up at 4am and not being able to fall back asleep, I read all the essays within The Brooklyn Rail's current critics page "Duchamp Now"--found Michael Taylor's "Marcel Duchamp: Notes from Underground" the most relatable (see 2026.03.02), Leah Modigliani's "Reading the Room" the most thoughtful, Molly Nesbit's piece the most in need of elaboration, and Agnieszka Kurant's "Redistribution" (perhaps) the most inescapable.
2025.05.01
451 Rhawn Gallery
19:23
2024.05.01
[post Jupiter Uranus conjunction 002]
2008.05.01
the state of drawing in education
In terms of drawing tool evolution then:
CAD offers an abundance of drawing tools and drawing capabilities.
The (so-called) inbuilt tendencies of CAD drawing tools are abundantly customizable.
The drawing field within CAD is also abundantly customizable.
CAD drawing data is fluid, easily manipulated, easily reproduced (thus making changes easily recordable, etc.).
It probably helps to have a fluid drawing/designing mindset to then optimally utilize the abundant capabilities of computer aided design/drawing.
Is it yet an inbuilt tendency for educators to instruct customization?
filling in the blanks:
1. draw series of spline lines on the xy plane
2. randomly move some of the spline points to arbitrary point +/- z
3. use the rotate-extrude command with extrusion rotation set to 15 degrees and the axis around which to extrude set by two arbitrary points somewhere on the spline lines
4. view the resultant extrusion at an arbitrary axonometric angle
5. do a hidden-line removal
The manual explains the rotate-extrude command by showing a straight vertical line as the axis of rotation and the half profile of a vase as the line data to be extruded during rotation(--this is the so-called inbuilt tendency, but really the social conditioning of the use of the command). The command itself, however, is programmed to accept any two points as an axis of rotation, and accept any set of drawn data to extrude while rotating.
2003.05.01
just posted at design-l
John Young wrote:
The WTC pit is the ur-skyscraper experience, reminder of the sunken plaza so beloved in the 60s for hi-rises which offered more rentable space below ground level. That Libeskind wants to glamorize the aesthetics of the slurry wall, indeed is working with the structural engineer who designed it, shows what landmarking can be used for. The glazing over the sacred wall is a nice Damien Hirst sliced cow rip-off.
lauf-s replied:
And speaking of a "Damien Hirst sliced cow rip-off," how's this for something completely pre-Damien Hirst? It's even 1984!
if ever there were wedges...
...where I always was
My architectural thesis was a building design for an Institute of Contemporary Art adjacent Philadelphia'a Rittenhouse Square. Imagine becoming one's own architectural thesis, even. Told you, where I am is where I always was.
German: Der Lauf der Welt
English: The way of the world
luck/no luck indeed
if the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten
immerse 2 : to engross the attention of : engage deeply : ABSORB <immerses himself completely in his habitat and work>
ontology 1 a : a science or study of being; specif. : a branch of metaphysics relating to the nature and relations of being [in the same place almost all the time?]
manipulate 1 : to treat, work, or operate with the hands or by mechanical means : handle or manage esp. with skill or dexterity 2 a : to treat or manage with the mind or intellect
and speaking of gallery...
VENUE, the art gallery I owned and operated 1993-94, was located within the first floor front of 1732 Spruce Street, just a half block south of my architectural thesis [Institute of Contemporary of Art] site.
The more definitions [of art/techne] change, the more they stay the same?
1981.05.01
Institute of Contemporary Art
Bachelor of Architecture Thesis Project
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