(by Bg Porter)
Editing and re-posting a twitter thread here from a few weeks ago for posterity.
I keep seeing this tweet bounce around and feel like I finally need to pull rank here.
Maybe your parents had this model. My dad designed this clock radio.
Continue reading “Blinking 12:00”
Spent a chilly spring break day in NYC with my daughter, mostly at MOMA. The shot above is one of my favorite bits of exhibition design: you enter the gallery approaching a wall. As you get closer, you can see that there’s a crowd on the other side looking at something intently. Drawn to find out what they’re looking at you finally see that it’s van Gogh’s The Starry Night, like you’ve seen before, but this one is the real thing. Even though I know this, it hits me every time.
My main goal was an exhibit on computer art starting in the 1950s, but it was too small and left out way too many important things (no Harold Cohen?)
Xmas eve, 1989, Singapore. My family is on vacation in Asia, and we’re invited to my Dad’s office holiday party in Singapore. On the walk from our hotel to the hotel where the party is being held, my sister and I receive a long talk on how important our behavior is (but really I think it’s mostly directed at me) and how it will reflect on him, and that we especially need to eat the food that is served because not doing so would amount to a huge insult that would impact his career.
The event is huge — several hundred people, at least. My family are among the dozen or so westerners in the hall. The master of ceremonies for the evening is local Singaporean TV celebrity/ventriloquist Victor Khoo. Continue reading “Xmas Miracle”
All inspections passed.
Building permit taken down from the window.
Contractor doing final touchups.
225 days.
It’s pretty awesome.
How long do you have?
Ask me in a year. Or 10.
Yep.
Yes, we skipped the entry for Week #29, partly because of my issue with seeing another prime-numbered number of weeks on this project, and partly because very little happened that week — the cabinet-maker adjusted some drawers and installed (but did not electrically connect) the LED under-cabinet lights. Continue reading “Renovation Week 30: appendix c&d”
Picking up the remaining pieces.
…in which we slowly inch toward final completion of this project.
26 weeks since we started this. Half of a year. Are we done yet? The goal of late was to have everything wrapped up by the end of the day Friday, so that on Saturday morning I could finally go downstairs in a house that was only occupied by people related to me and fire up my stove and fry an egg. Are we done are we done?
No, we are not. But still…
New floors and a few trips to escape the work zone.
We must be getting close to the end one way or the other; our contractors have started taking away tools that they’ve been storing in my garage for months. That has to mean something.
When last we spoke, the critical path for this project went directly through the island cabinets that were being built. Without them, the countertop people won’t finish their templates. Without the countertops we can’t install sinks and final plumbing, or do the tile backsplash. Without the island, the Minnow would be lost.