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Brad

Silence is preserving a voice.

About Me

"The details are not the details. They make the design." --Charles Eames

Designer, Thinker and Maker of art that you can live. I would like to think that I have a "quizzical attitude...questioning and scratching forward always beyond the obvious." In the meantime, I'll Work it Harder, Make it Better, Do it Faster...hour after our work is never over.

My Interests

architecture (of course), graphic design, photography, observing performance art, and the finer arts of life; I'm also a music and movie geek. Check out my photos on Flickr

I'd like to meet:


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And, John Lennon, Nelson Mandella, Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Picasso, Thom Mayne, Charles and Ray Eames, the Saarinen family, David Sedaris, Marshall McCluhan, Maya Lin. Oh, and all the hollywood ladies on my list, Scarlett, Claire, Natalie, Thora... well somebody to be the Ray side of my Charles tendencies, and myself.

Music:

Currently Listening:

Top Weekly Artists:

Movies:

In no particular order:
Sideways, American Beauty, the Tarantino catalog, Rushmore, High Fidelity, Ghost World, Sin City, Better Off Dead, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Four Rooms, Lost in Translation, The Professional, Closer, Garden State, Interstella 5555, The Incredibles, Mullholland Drive, Collateral, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Run Lola Run, Trainspotting, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Being John Malkovich, Heat, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Higher Learning, I keep telling myself the The Matrix was the only Matrix movie made, and I'm sure I missed a few. Crap, how could I not list Brazil!

Television:

Don't watch it and get my news from NPR. Television, with the exception of a few things has become a mere box with lights.

Books:

Skin by Ellen Lupton
Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis
S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas, OMA and Bruce Mau
Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
An Eames Primer by Eames Demetrios
Life Style by Bruce Mau
City of Bits, E-Topia and Me ++ by William Mitchell
Dumbing Down Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture edited by Katherine Washburn and John Thorton
The Daily Show presents America
Who's Afraid of Philosophy by Derrida
Boundaries by Maya Lin
Digital Ground by Malcolm McCullough
Architecture Culture 1943-1968 edited by Joan Ockman
Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Delirium by Douglas Cooper

Heroes:

I need to think about this one...I've given hints throughout.

My Blog

Memories of 2006

Following HP's lead, I now present my favorite photo memories of 2006:WaitingAkufenDeep DishSketch of GehryWadingBlue MistSnackboxStrollingSpecial NImagineChinatown StreetscapePollockAltarLongingParks...
Posted by Brad on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:07:00 PST

Ever get goosebumps from a song?

It rarely happens to me on the 1st listen, but this song got a hold of me. tonight thetonight the hills are watching heras she runs towards the seayeah she runs so she'll be free and of all the friend...
Posted by Brad on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:26:00 PST

Home Repair Master

Monday, 5am, waking up and Emma needs to get outside quick. I get her out the door and look up at my kitchen ceiling and exclaim rather loudly WTF??! Seeing the faint signs of water staining, I bega...
Posted by Brad on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:10:00 PST

General Structures...

Test completed. Hopefully I faired well, much of the material I hadn't seen since school and a few questions caught me by surprise. 2-4 weeks, I'll know for sure. Next up Lateral Forces, M/E...then...
Posted by Brad on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:29:00 PST

Back in the saddle...

Taking a break from the AIA convention.For those of you keeping track, I finally got my focus back! How you say? I got my new authorization to test in the mail today. Many of you don't know I bombed...
Posted by Brad on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:35:00 PST

Designer Doggy Crib.

The Park+Bark Facility.    Parking garages are a part of the urban scene. Why not let your pup park right here? This stylish facility for one offers a park+sleep space and a 2-bowl grazing ...
Posted by Brad on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:14:00 PST

This song struck me for some reason...yes more lyrics (which = lame)

I wanted to stayEveryone was pale and fadedZelo is hesitatedWhen it was time to turn on. I wanted to stopMy eyes were so dilatedTraffic seemed syncopated.And my car turned me on. I'm driving to heaven...
Posted by Brad on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:58:00 PST

WTF?

I saw the most disturbing thing in the IngerDahls parking lot on my way to work.  A black BMW SUV with the license plate GO W 04 emblazened on both sides.  I would've snapped a picture, but ...
Posted by Brad on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:36:00 PST

Strange Unconscious Visions

Listening to the rain hit the roof through my window has relaxed and made my mind completely disconnect from everything today.    But the past two nights have brought odd visions into my un...
Posted by Brad on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:10:00 PST

Burning...

Watch out you might get what you're afterCool babies strange but not a strangerI'm an ordinary guyBurning down the houseHold tight wait till the party's overHold tight We're in for nasty weatherThere ...
Posted by Brad on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:04:00 PST