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Baseball In The Age of its Televisual Reproducibility
“Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.” – David Foster Wallace I’ve always been a baseball fan, and specifically a fan of the Cleveland Indians. I don’t remember deciding that I liked…
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The Anti-Apple
Originally published in CLOG : APPLE, 2012. Apple [Computer] is stasis, symmetry, transcendence, design as object. It idealizes smooth space and central authority. It does not break. A universal plane with a single button implies an omnipotence with no need for such banalities as user input. Perfectly smooth graphic transitions imply that everything in the…
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New Civic Exhibition
Excerpt from capstone project, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Full .pdf available here. Now more than ever, the way we plan cities is out of touch with the way we live in them. As the city moves in the direction of being primarily a creator of inherently subjective and perspectival experiences, we still plan from the…