Found anotha one!

Mirage studio 7 is a personal, more humorous blog by a post graduate who had studied in Malaysia, focusing on architecture and tutorials on 3d programs. It offers comical insights,some of his examples on 3d renderings, which I presume is to show his some of his skills in modeling (a resume for future employers?) and some downloading which you can’t actually download (unless you email him and want them badly).

But that's not important. The posts are witty, daily musings of his self proclaimed struggling life as a post-grad. His autobiography mentions he worked as an assistant architect in a small firm, the “months of slavery and robotic life” that left him “almost-retarded and completely burnt out”. Wow, um, talk about optimism for the future. The random facts section also gives the freedom to just write about whatever. The only strategy here is a list of facts, simple and straight to the point about his physical and emotional status. But this is no twitter nor facebook here. It comforts me that he is “always insanely lazy in school, but scoring with a decent G.P.A” , a behavior I can closely relate with. He holds sense of humor I thoroughly enjoy as an student...to see other students/post grads suffer. Jk. The voice definitely changes in different posts. The sentence style is fragmented. The setting of the post conveys a casual emotion, one expecting a story relating to architecture, the economy, or personal life....

After all, we must love what we do and be who we are. We are in the blog world and that gives us the freedom to write whatever we want. He also links to other related articles in his blog after the post. He adds multiple links at to the bottom of the post. It keeps to readers up to date with articles that they might have missed.

His recent post “Fashion and Architecture” is a comical post, and one can only understand when knowing the architect Santiago Calvatrara.


This Steve Duenes New Yorker cartoon is Calvatrara's hairstyle modeled after the architect's Milwaukee Art Museum. I have a professor who has the Calvatrara! Maybe I might get one.

He goes into saying that he is not a fan of Calvatrara. He asks questions such as “Don’t you think we ought to be a bit different from the rest?”, (commenting on how architects predominantly wear black), suggesting a “jeans and polo t-shirt” would be presentable, even mentioning Steve Jobs as an good example. HOLY CRAP. Please do not say that again, that was just WRONG. Appearance is everything. Yes, jeans and shirt can work.


WORK IT LIKE THIS!


Say No to Steve.

Plus, Black is classy and makes you look skinnier. Fashion and architecture will always mix. Hint to those who missed the “Skin and Bones” exhibit at the Los Angeles MOCA back in 06-07.