GN! #nostr

That’s cool! A new one to watch. There’s also Bardo left on my list. Not sure if you’ve seen that one. It’s his latest one

Just as I was going to sleep my hot water bottle burst 🙁 karma

Watched The Revenant (2015), a thriller directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Set in the 1820s America, we follow a hunter who gets mauled by a bear and left for dead by his team. He battles the brutal weather and dangerous terrain to survive. He tracks the man who betrayed him in order to get vengeance. The film was shot with a large format digital cinema camera with a 65mm digital sensor. The movie looks beautiful. The quality of the image is incredible. Doesn’t seem dated. Except for the bear. Doesn’t look that realistic. Everything the main character survives seems almost impossible. The casting is excellent. The acting as well. The score is beautiful. Definitely entertaining. 7.9/10 #nodereviews

GN! #nostr

GN

I feel we have similar taste. I also felt the curves are great, but the kitchen feels a bit odd. The open living space is great, feels like it can accommodate all sorts of events. I think my favorite part is the bedroom, but I do wonder how you get privacy there, considering the residence is so close to an adjacent road. Anyone could peak in there! Bathroom does feel a bit of an oddity but fits well with the rest of the style I guess. In my opinion the place needs more landscaping and ways to create privacy from the side street.

GM

Sure, but do you think the wife will mind?

Point Nepean House

#architecture

Architects: Pandolfini Architects

Year: 2024

Photographs: Tasha Tylee

Country: Australia

Carved into a steep undulating landscape on the shores of a man-made lake and overlooking Sorrento Golf Course, the Point Nepean House is an ambitious yet sensitive intervention to its environment. The bold eccentric form commands its presence, but its delicate timber skin, flowing parallel to the tranquil body of water is gracious. The home, with its extensive program, is a place that provides refuge and privacy, whilst simultaneously focusing on its surroundings.

Compositionally, the home consists of four fundamental elements; the sweeping perimeter wall, the clove-shaped form with its curvaceous timber-clad skin, the primary internal dividing walls, and a series of amenity pods within each zone. The monolithic perimeter wall cuts into the sloping site, a single gesture that encapsulates the organic form and provides a protective layer from its surrounding neighbors. Behind this unambiguous outer wall, the contrasting wavy timber-clad form unfolds upon arrival; its dynamic presence a reflection of the soft meandering edges of the adjoining lake. The timber-clad form, although ambitious in scale, sits harmoniously amongst the treescape, reflecting the warming tones of the mature trunks nearby. Internally, the clover-shaped floor plan is split into three zones by the straight primary walls. Contained within each zone, a series of irregular pods are arranged to confine the amenities of the home.

The home allows inhabitants to pause and absorb serene moments internally and externally. To enhance the occupant's relationship with its surroundings, a series of windows puncture the timber-clad skin to create framed views. Pool barrier requirements were strategically navigated to provide undisturbed views over the infinity edge and beyond. The placement of the internal private garden provides the opportunity for all bedrooms and living spaces to focus on nature. Close coordination with Eckersley Garden Architecture to curate a landscape that was integrated with the home and its surrounding environment was vital. Subsequently, the extensive art collection allows inhabitants to decelerate and create tranquil moments inwards as they navigate the home.

The notion of contradiction is present on arrival at the home. Upon ascending the grand staircase of staggered concrete blocks and absorbing the tonal skin of the timber-clad facade, the inhabitants enter through a small passage into a dark confined circular lobby, a vast difference from the moments prior. A glimpse of natural sunlight penetrates the space from the conical skylight above to create a sense of drama, before transitioning back to the light-filled living space.

The meandering curves of the façade and associated glazing are a response to the orientation, strategically undulating to create a deep eave over the North and West facing windows. This 3.7m high expanse of glazing provides passive solar gain for the winter months, whilst the substantial eave minimizes the harsh summer sunlight. The internal courtyard provides natural light to the deep clove-shaped plan and excellent cross ventilation across the house. A reductive external material palette of concrete, timber cladding, and natural zinc has been used to accentuate the forms and provide hard-wearing materials which will age gracefully and require low maintenance.

Shell Home

#architecture

Location: Malibu, United States

Area: 6500 ft sq

Year: 2022

Photographs: Roger Davies

The Shell Home project in Malibu challenges us to reconsider how we design and build architecture. This project illustrates how natural principles may be used to guide design, improve performance and give shape to the envelope of a building. This ‘Form Finding Functionality’ leverages air pressure to design and build an asymmetrical thin shell structure quickly and practically. The resulting building is a sculpture for living. Architecturally expressive and highly resilient, it provides structural and environmental efficiency as well as adaptability within a uniquely flowing organic form.

The construction industry has trailed other major industries with regard to productivity and technology. This has resulted in significant inefficiencies in some of the most basic aspects of construction including safety, speed, affordability and environmental impact. Given buildings account for 30% of the world’s energy consumption, is it not time to rethink how we build and design?

Our alternative approach deploys a single reusable, preformed pneumatic formwork secured to a foundation and inflated to a specified air pressure. Steel reinforcement and concrete are added onto the inflated air form. Air pressure is maintained during construction and curing. Once the specified compressive strength is achieved, the formwork is deflated and ready for reuse. Less material and labor are required and construction waste and timelines are reduced, yet the resulting building envelope is more resilient, safer and greener than traditional construction. The building technology exemplified by this project has applications across scales, programs, and price points and articulates a new architectural and construction approach, synthesizing design, resiliency, and sustainability.

The Shell Home literally and figuratively emerges from the landscape, providing endlessly flowing living spaces tied to views framed by generous organic openings. The project's sinusoidally silhouetted shell is as naturally elegant as it is safe. The building shell curves continuously to articulate sculptural environments and define comfortable, biomorphic spaces. The design approach is derived from natural forces. Air pressure is harnessed to build and design the project. The resulting form elevates both sensations and performance and brings us closer to a synergy with nature.

The dual-curvature, monolithic building envelope is much safer and more resilient than traditional envelopes. It carries dead and live loads efficiently and transfers them elegantly along its entire perimeter to the foundation. The building shell is self-supporting, eliminating the need for columns or bearing walls and allowing total flexibility to design and evolve the interior. It is made up of low-carbon geopolymer concrete and contains less than half the embodied energy of a similarly sized traditional building. The building envelope is also thermal bridge-free and insulated to reduce energy use by as much as 65%. The Shell Home’s high-efficiency envelope, siting, landscape and water elements, natural ventilation, and day-lighting combine with other passive design elements and active systems to further reduce environmental impact.

It is quite cute, I didn't know the species tho, thanks.

GM

A Porschtr for a Porschtrich

#Coffeechain

I liked when the movie would break the fourth wall. Or when you’d hear screaming outside the scene, but then the main character would go where the sound came from and it was someone trying to get his attention

Watched Birdman (2014), a dark comedy directed by Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu. A washed up actor only famous for playing an action hero called Birdman, tries to make a comeback by directing and playing in a Broadway play. He has to deal with an erratic co-star while being tormented by his Birdman alter ego as the premiere is approaching. I really enjoyed this one. Filmed in one-shot style which really showcases the main character fragile mental state. The score was amazing. The acting and the cast as well. The satire of Hollywood aspect was excellent. We’re never fully sure if what we’re seeing is a fragment of the main character’s imagination or reality. 7.9/10 #nodereviews

For the last two weeks I’ve had a Huntsman spider camp out in my bathroom. 🕷️

It’s winter so he’s after a warm spot. I get it and I don’t blame him. So I don’t mind sharing my space with the hairy guy.

He comes out at dusk and positions himself on the ceiling. He goes about his business, and I go about mine.

I eventually started to wonder where he hangs out during the day time. So I started to look for some sign of him.

Yesterday I found a hint of a hairy leg behind a picture frame. I slowly peered around the edge and sure enough a huntsman spider. All good. Happy with that. At least he’s not amongst my towels. I even giggled at his hiding spot.

So this morning he was on the ceiling above my mirror again. I see him while I am putting on my makeup. And presumably he sees me.

However, today while leaving the room I pass the picture on the wall… and stop. There is a hairy leg!

I double check the ceiling and then behind the picture frame and yep… I have two hairy spiders.

So now I’m in a quandary. Will two spiders make hundreds more? Two is definitely pushing the limits of my space sharing capacity.

I have a catch and release policy on these furry fiends but do I need to help one to leave or both?

Dammit! Things I wasn’t expecting to have to consider today!!!

GM

It's a ruby! 💜

I think this was the last of the boy child's birthday asks. They're silly and fun wizarding hat pigs in blankets. Puff pastry triangles (I cheated and bought crescent rolls) rolled around a sausage. Easy peasy and giggle worthy. #foodstr #harrypotter #happybirthdayjr #playwithyourfood #yesthatsalegogryffindorswordonmycounter

Surveillance capitalism departs from the history of market capitalism in three startling ways. First, it insists on the privilege of unfettered freedom and knowledge. Second, it abandons long-standing organic reciprocities with people. Third, the specter of life in the hive betrays a collectivist societal vision sustained by radical indifference and its material expression in Big Other.

Excerpt From

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

— Shoshana Zuboff #bookstr

GM

It is really good. I don’t know about the jalapeño but pineapple yes

After googling what they are and the potential for reproduction 😳😱, I would escort both to a cozy spot outside.

I think we're all destined to become Bastards. I think I actually prefer that moniker 😂

GN

There are a few people who need to drink some water and maybe take a nap.

GN