hidden interest

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. ~ emerson

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Didden Village, MVRDV, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Sacred Integrity: Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite quote, "whoso must be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." ~emerson

Of this philosophy, Historian William Cronon writes, "Here was a philosophy that could justify one's unconventional lifestyle at the same time that it endorsed his artistic mission.... To give in to conventional wisdom, to succumb to the opinion of the world, to imitate someone else's creation, could only adulterate and betray one's own genius."

His ingenious integrity of living on the edge, constant challenge to build with nonconformity.

Johnson Wax Building

Falling Water

Guggenheim

BinGo

It is among my first experience to invade the chinese version of "pin go" or sounding like "pink go" or in chinese "apple". Imitation or not the Pink berry craze has risen to a point where the "yogurt going experience" must be a companied with faux. Interestingly, the atmosphere of "pin go" creates an much liked feeling of carrying an imitation LV purse from China. As postiche as it is, another phase of architectural space has risen from our clandestine mixture of the urban yogurt experience; mainly among the Asian Americans we wonder if the craze will last as long as its authentic counterpart.

Although fake, I must say it was an experience and all worth 'the go' but I do like the authentic "Pink Berry's" yogurt better, it is a bit more sour.

PinGo on Valley Blvd. west of Garfield.

Postiche?

The wonders of urban mixture meshed with the pop culture of japanese art. Mixed in combination of the so called plastic haven "Pink Berry". We begin to wonder why this craze has risen so high among the young and trendy. Is it the experience of the "being" popular or the essence of the experience itself? The pursuit of going to "Pink Berry" is an experience of immersion into the vibrant colors of inanimate objects. The feel of synthetic material creates an artificial haven, an urban city goer's escape. Maybe these urban experience that one pursuit gives small pleasures to the common lows amount the dark structured landscape prominent in our urban cityscape.

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