First Steps
By Rem / in shanghai / August 19, 2010[caption id="attachment_383" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="View from the balcony apartment"][/caption]It was as if I was plucked from familiarity and dropped in the middle of a huge city ...
Read more →Go (far) West, Young Man
By Rem / in shanghai / July 28, 2010I know very little of what to expect in Shanghai. Before I leave, here's a list of places I want to go visit or will end up visiting (all descriptions from Wikipedia):ShanghaiYuyuan Gardens: loc...
Read more →The New Landline Journey
By Rem / in post-thesis / July 27, 2010After some thinking it occurred to me that I can just as well continue research on the ideas generated by my MLA Thesis as I will now have more and more opportunity to translate concept into built rea...
Read more →One Journey Ends, Another Begins?
By Rem / in post-thesis / June 8, 2010This concludes my MLA Thesis blog. What's next? That depends if my abstract for the Terrain Vague was accepted. If it has been, then I get to write about Thesis 2.0. That idea has more to do with ri...
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Addendum – The Story
By Rem / in thesis / June 8, 2010[note] For some reason Wordpress is destroying my line breaks. I'll have to tackle this issue when I get back to this in July. It's still readable though.. I hope [/note] The worn cup dripped wat...
Read more → Addendum – The Cistern
By Rem / in thesis / June 8, 2010Single form, I, Separated; my brethren from on high, Yearning to reach the bosom lest I die. Racing to the earth amidst – Fellow forms – trembling with a sigh. Split asunder. I gather my arms, And l...
Read more →The Convention Center
By Rem / in thesis / June 8, 2010[caption id="attachment_305" align="aligncenter" width="256" caption="Setting up magnetic fabric that we got for free from Visual Magnetics"][/caption]Here are some photographs from setting up the s...
Read more →The Journey Reaching its End
By Rem / in thesis / May 17, 2010I have completed the thesis book and I have completed my work for the Convention Center exhibition. All that remains is installing the latter tomorrow and binding the thesis book starting Wednesday. I...
Read more →Discovery of the Stony Brook Conduit!
By Rem / in thesis / March 29, 2010[caption id="attachment_288" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Take a look at Parker Street -- see the double dotted lines for "Stony Brook"? That's the conduit!"][/caption]Whil...
Read more →Diary of a Thesis Statement
By Rem / in thesis / March 28, 2010November 11, 2009 Our rituals of existence have become banal. This rhythmic flow of narrative—to which we measure and quantify our lives—has lost its vitality as we have lost the memory of now abandon...
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