When did I become the guy who reads fine print for fun and goes to sleep to videos of explanations of irrationalities?! I've never read Catcher in the Rye but I've read the Misfortunes of Virtue by the Marquis de Sade. Sade... as in the gran'pappy of sadism. Maybe that is why I read fine print. And there you go, a full circle. I'm fascinated by the sadism and dysfunction of corporate policies- OR "Business Ethics" if there is such a thing. A lot of my friends have gone to college to study business. This seems like a poor idea. Look at the business we have today. Most of the stuff I think about either reduces to simplicity or absurdity. I can categorize my life into those two functions of the mind.
Then you have things that are both simple AND absurd. We call those things simply absurd and we try our best not to avoid them. That's right, I run head-on into that which challenges my world perspective. Mental flexibility is paramount. Once you realize that simplicity and absurdity are part of the same thing, you can start understanding the big picture.
"And I'd been extremely interested in this notion of randomness as it produces architectural work and as it definitely connects to the notion of the city, an accretional notion of the city, and that led to various ideas of organization. And then this led to broader ideas of buildings that come together through the multiplicity of systems." -Thom Mayne
"Architecture for me has been an investigation of a multiplicity of forces that could come from literally any place. And so I can start this discussion in any number of places, and I've chosen three or four to talk about. And it has also to do with an interest in the vast kind of territory that architecture touches. It literally is connected to anything in terms of knowledge base. There's just no place that it doesn't somehow have a connective tissue to."- Thom Mayne
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I also had a vision last night that I toured my unborn daughter around the city of necropolis. That was interesting.
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