Cool video I came across on “Egotist” today.  The lighting for the building and the site acts like a graphic equalizer to the music of the track.

Lumitectura from barno on Vimeo.

If you are not done having fun after Pecha Kucha for Haiti  Saturday night at the MCA (check previous post).  Westword is throwing their annual Artopia that night (over stimulation alert).   I know,  between Pecha Kucha and Artopia you could be hanging out, eating, drinking, checking out art, architecture, fashion and music from 4pm until 2am the next day.  Sounds like a nice little Saturday.

For ticket and schedule  info, check out Westword.com

Pecha Kucha

I’m going to check out this event on Saturday.  Pecha Kucha Denver Facebook

I’m looking forward to having a good time while doing some good for the world.  Hope to see you there!

On Saturday February 20th, PechaKucha events will be held all around the world, including Denver, as a fundraiser for Architecture for Humanity to rebuild in Haiti. All the PechaKucha Night cities will be connected by a 24-hour PechaKucha presentation WAVE that will gradually move westward city by city, circumnavigating the globe.

2-4 pm: watch the live stream of the PechaKucha WAVE as it makes its way west towards Denver.
4-6 pm: presentations by Denver architects and designers on the theme of “rebuild.”

20 images x 20 seconds, 200 cities, 2,000 presentations, 200,000 people.
Rebuilding a nation 20 seconds at a time.

Saturday, February 20th
MCA Denver / 1485 Delgany Street
Viewing Party 2-4 pm
Denver Event 4-6 pm

Museum admission: 5 cents
Event: please donate $5 / $10 / $20
All donations go to Architecture for Humanity
Cash bar

WestStandard Design + Build is pleased to announce that Brian Dotson of Dotson Construction Management has joined the team.  Brian adds a ton of experience to our group of design/construction professionals.  Here is his bio (below) that is up on WestStandard’s web page now.

Brian Dotson’s ability to bring the entire project to fruition, from concept to complete customer satisfaction, is unparalleled.  With his organization and operations background, he is able to support the entire team and process no matter how complex or challenging.

Brian has been recognized by his peers as an industry leader and operations expert.  With his twenty plus years in the residential homebuilding industry and working with various small, medium and large and national builders, Brian’s expertise spans virtually everything the industry has to offer.

Brian holds a Bachelor’s of Construction Management from Colorado State University.  He is also a licensed General Contractor, a member of the Denver Home Builders Association, (HBA), the National Association of Home Builders, (NAHB) and is currently pursuing the NAHB’s National Green Building Certification.

Welcome Brian!

The AIA Colorado just posted a pdf with more clarification on the situation surrounding DORA’s Continuing Professional Competency.  It seems like a win, win all around.  Continuing education stays and re-testing (online competency quiz) for license renewal goes.  link

While it was probably an unintended side effect of the original legislation, it appears that the requirements would have been a burden to long tenured principals of  large firms.  There are probably not a high percentage of registered architects carrying liability insurance (guessing).  While principal’s in charge at large firms are required to be an architect and carry insurance, the reality is that probably don’t get to practice architecture all that much because they are busy chasing down the next job or putting a proposal together.

I would have to say that I am against an over litigious credential maintenance program just because it detracts from the time spent on actual work and time spent with families.  However,  I can condone a program that maintains health & safety of  buildings and the competency of the profession.  There are some other credentials out there that are less genuine and more exploitative of architects with more onerous processes.  I would like to see the core fundamentals stressed more than what is fashionable at the current moment.

I thought Google earth was great way for architects to travel the globe from home by itself. This guy has taken it to the next level. Reminds of the home version of the 360 theaters they had at Epcot Center back in the day.

This is just a follow up to yesterday’s post on “The Third & The Seventh” video. This video shows frames from the video at various production levels. Its pretty astonishing once you dig deeper into this process to learn that the whole video with a few minor exceptions are completely CGI. I thought it was real footage with some CGI effects originally. Prepare to have your mind blown if you don’t believe me.

Again, the film was produced by Alex Roman.

Compositing Breakdown (T&S) from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

I had to share this movie this morning. I found it on Build Blog which is a blog for the Design Build firm, Build Llc out of Seattle Washington.  They are a super talented office that I’m trying to model my office after.  I hope to do a larger more indepth post on them in the future.  They have a pretty large post today with tons of content.

This video is pretty incredible and inspiring.  I have been describing it as an extended music video for anyone in design or a luxury car commercial without the cars.   The film is by Alex Roman.  Enjoy.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Love video presentations. Had to wiki “Conway’s Game of Life” though.

3D city engine based on Conway’s Game of Life and developed in Processing. By: Jeannette Kuo, Dino Rossi & Dominik Zausinger ETHZ MAS CAAD 2009/2010

Season 3 of Shear Genius Premiers tonite on Bravo (Denver Comcast ch. 61, 8pm Mountain) with Denverite Matthew Morris of Matthew Morris Salon as part of the cast.   Matthew is a friend and I thought I would give a shout-out to everyone to check him out this season!