Archive for the ‘Weirdness’ Category

And now for something completely different

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

[flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/frogmovie.flv 480 360] Animation frames in Pencil, compositing and sequencing in Blender. Related posts:Videos by a young master

Emirates fantasy continues to crash

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

One of my favorite architectural blogs brings us news of serious concern over human rights abuses in Abu Dhabi, involving some of the world's leading "starchitects": http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/darkening-dubai/ This only adds to my qualms about the whole idea of stardom in architecture - not only is crap often purveyed as art under the ...

Columns, columns everywhere…

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Check out this beauty, just steps away from Frank Lloyd Wright's houses in Oak Park: How many columns can you count? Wow. No related posts.

25 things I am not or have not done, or that haven’t happened to my family or anyone I know

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

I thought I'd post it here, too, just in case anyone actually looks in. The rules: You do not have to write a similar note or to send it to anyone else. You don't even have to read these. I am not a platypus, donkey or squirrel. I have not swam across the English ...

More deep thoughts on libertarianism

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

It just won't let me go. I promised myself I'd give it up, but here it is - I think I've arrived at a sort of a synthesis of my previous two posts on the subject: Libertarians are looking for a maximum of liberty for the individual. However, if liberty is ...