server failure

The server failure started from yesterday seems to send most of architects in my office back to the Stone Age. With the current technology, relying on computer graphic software has grown on architects and designers. The advantage of CG: efficiency and preciseness are the two major factors, which hand-drawn will never beat.

Most cases, except the very early stages, hand-drawn presentations often look like: architects run out of time, and didn’t get a chance to put them accurately in computer. Clients today are not so easy to satisfy. They demand more and more. Three dimensional simulation static images, moreover, short animation clips. Only in some circumstance, sketches are allowed to be in the presentation packages—the office server failure for example.

What can I do during this period of time without an office network? Postponing deadlines, drawing by hand, chatting with colleagues, cleaning the piles of drawings under my desk, scheduling the next business trip, day dreaming my next vacation... By the way, It might be a good opportunity to keep my friends posted about the projects I have been working on recently. Enjoy.

how google defines failure?

I know this is nothing to do with architecture at all. Ok, if I have to give at least one connection about it: Another architect told me this.

Have you typed the word "FAILURE" in Google lately? Try it and see for yourself what comes up first! It's hilarious. These results may seem politically slanted. You can also see the explanation on the right side of the page "Why these results?". See it yourself. God bless America.

projects in caribbean

SB's caribbean projects
The presentation features the impressive body of work my firm is currently designing throughout the Caribbean.

You might as well recognize that none of those projects are mine. Just not my style at all. But, still, some of them are prominent as for hospitality design.
I just hope soon I can earn enough to go visiting all them.

geisha: behind the painted face

Memoirs of a Geisha

About Geisha:
There is going to have a movie depicts an intimate look at the vague world of geisha—a corps of highly trained women dedicated to the performance of traditional Japanese dance, singing and instrumental music. Ironically, two main actresses from the movie are neither Japanese, but Chinese. I can't imagine how the people in Japan will respond when this movie is on by the end of 2005.

It also reminds me another almost ended exhibition here in San Francisco at Asian Art Museum: Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile Exhibition. You can see some kimonos, paintings, furniture, instruments there. Quite interesting actually, especially went with a Japanese friend. It did help a lot. More information, check on their website.