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chris

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

my life alternates between going to class (40%), drafting studio assignments (50%), working off stress by surrounding myself with the best of friends, smoking more trees than the slash and burn technique (5%), and sleeping (5%)

My Interests

constructed environments (specifically the sustainable kind) cathode ray tube creations, contemporary art, stencil graffitti, biking on my fixie, reading, jazz guitar, history (preferrably a history other than the euro-centric history we're taught in school), philosophy (existentialism, mostly), sufi poetry, watching post-modernism go down in the flames it itself lit, ---- [replace post-modernism with capitalism], life, speed (not the drug but the velocity)

I'd like to meet:

Samuel Morse, so i could tell him: "Dah-dah dah-dah-dah di-dah-dit di-di-dit dit, Dah-di-dah-dit dah-dah-dah dah-di-dit dit." And Bill Clinton, so I could tell him: "You ain't really down cuz you live uptown, bitch. Rwanda." The Guy Who First Pitched a Reality Show to Some TV Execs, so I could Tanya Harding his ass in the parking garage on the way to that infamous meeting. "fuck television." William McDonough, so i could tell him: "keep on rockin in the (soon-to-be-not-so-)free world."

Music:

the sonic master: amon tobin, and the rest: garo, slava, lokua (-- all local cats you need to check out yesterday), diplo, edit, wu tang - especially tha GZA, lamb of god, prefuse 73, rage against the machine, sonic youth, new order, aesop rock, song of zarathustra, envy, immortal technique, KRS one, boards of canada, hum, smashing pumpkins, fuego bus, madlib, medenski martin and wood, mf doom, mogwai, royksopp, ozomatli, talking heads, the herbalizer, mars volta, typical cats, the pharcyde, antipop consortium, rachmaninov, skalpel, a night in the box, cannibal ox, mr lif, dr. octagon, dj shadow, m83

Movies:

sheeeit, you need to see a movie by takashi miike

Television:

...is called an idiot box for a reason

Books:

beyond good and evil - space, time, and architecture - s,m,l,xl - faust - the fall - cradle to cradle - the plague - existentialism and human emotion - towards a new architecture - Low-tech Light-tech High-tech: Building in the Information Age - thus spoke zarathustra - one hundred years of solitude - art as image and idea - democracy for the few - crime and punishment - white noise - design like you give a damn - pulp - l'esprit nouveau - communist manifesto - das kapital - pulp - sufi poetry collections - modernism to postmodernism - the sun also rises - zen and the art of motorcycle maintenence - catch 22 - fear and loathing on the campaign trail - fear and trembling... repeat.

Heroes:

www.ericowenmoss.com, www.mcdonoughpartners.com

My Blog

www.iit.edu/~cwatkin3

i've finally got a website going, it exhibits work i've done in the past and will soon have all the work i'm currently doing - check it out for a glimpse inside the world renowned illinois institute o...
Posted by chris on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:27:00 PST