Numen / For Use - Tape Melbourne

A few weeks ago Fed Square had this interesting installation appear. Love that something like this was installed here, although the amount of scaffolding required on one side was a little clumsy (if practical!). You'll see from the photos that the effect was quite amazing. See more pics, models and video on their site, along with other projects here

Film Grenade

Found at http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/ - very cool device that automatically takes spherical, panoramic photos at the apex of it's flight. Original post here and link to website here

Cocktail napkin sketch contest

Below are the two prize winners from the annual Cocktail napkin sketch context. See more of the amazing drawings here: http://archrecord.construction.com/features/cocktail_napkin_sketch_contest/2011/

Why be Famous?

Neat post I found at Notes on Becoming a Famous Architect. Giving a reason for all the long hours and hard work. A couple of my favourites from the list:

• The most talented people will want to come and work for you and what’s more they are willing to do it for free or very little. Even more, they will work much, much, harder for you than they would at an average office. I think Frank Lloyd Wright once had the children of his rich clients actually pay him money to work for him. Now that's what I call "Big Pimpin"
• You get credit for things that lesser known architects have already invented long before you stole...ahem, I mean borrowed it from them.