…and these are his thoughts.

Remember my earlier post about the 1928 silent film “Berlin: Symphony of a Big City?” I found a high-quality clip of the opening sequence that I wanted to share:

After a bit of searching, I came across this short-but-sweet  “symphony” of present-day Berlin (it’s high-def, so make it big):

I will keep searching for more to share; new cities, new music, new perspectives. And at some point I will get out there and start documenting Dallas for you.

Resolution # 4: a new year’s day post on JLB.

Done!

Resolution # 5: a post a week in 2009.

1/53 done!

Christoff of anArchitecture posted about this video of Crayon Physics Deluxe a few days ago:

He writes: “Imagine if you could do this with your CAD drawings – a different way of drafting.”

This got me thinking about another interesting application of this technology: architectural education. Picture a game where students are given a kit-of-parts, perhaps a big pile of bluestone and sarsen blocks, and they are asked to re-construct Stonehenge. How’s that for interacting with history? Or give them a bunch of bricks and have them build an arch, a dome, a barrel vault and a groin vault. Let them explore cantilevers, and push tensile structures to their limits. Structures class 2.0.

Key point: they’d be doing all of this with pens, not calculators. They’d be drawing, not taking notes. The muscles of their hands would be forever connected to their understanding of the physics of architecture.

All of this from a crayon game.