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this post will contain some pitures from a recent lecture i attended, at my alma mater. who says that nowadays? i guess i do! oh well, on to the real business. this recent lecture was actually more of a casual conversation among peers, i am speaking highly of myself, when i call myself a peer or Thom Mayne and Peter Cook! honestly, they developed their dialog that was very inviting and casual. not like a stuffy discussion that could have easily happened had this been USC of 10 years ago.



peter cook sketching on the chalkboard.



thom was off sketching somewhere.



casual discourse my favorite kind.

i am very glad the new dean is working hard at deveolping the lecture series which was severely lacking at my times at USC. the great parts of this discussion, to me, were the anecdotes. both peter cook and thom mayne have achieved great successes and they now seemed to talk as the teacher not the student. while they reminisced of the late 60's, the period of time which they attest to as the defining period of their careers. during the 60's they were the students, mayne more than cook. for both however they were exploring things that were not considered general architectural discourse at the time. i believe in the saying that one is always a student, and never done learning. i was describing this concept to my friend after the lecture. my friend, jennifer, who is in the begining stages of her research for thesis at SCI-ARC, was confiding in me that she felt like she was not as smart as some of her fellow students. (forgive me jen! for using you as an example). but i assured her as she has a few years in the architecture community, that she is not alone. i too, often feel behind in my knowledge of this profession, but as i told jen, there is much to learn and you cant learn it all in school. i feel like i was saying it more to myself than to my thesis crazy friend!

but as long as the effort and want to learn is there, then who is to say when the role of student is over.

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i would like to sneak in a small post here about myself. i also want to send a message out to my future mom-in-law. tee-hee! her blog post was titled ticking clock for nana. this blog post of mine should be called ticking clock for the absent minded architect! the ticking clock for me, would be the proposal clock! one thing is for sure, i am definitely about to embark on a new exciting chapter in my life.

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It is heating up in the presidential race right about now. and i have a interesting concept to share with anyone who is out there listening. every news source is concerned with the bipartisan story lines, well i have a one that we can call a bipartisan joint venture. in a conversation with my friend and now fellow blogspot neighbor, we discuees the impacts of what it would be like if the presidential ticket was to have a democrat and a republican.

on the surface we were thinking that at the very least it would be the best way to galvanize the two parties and the American public who support them. maybe that sounds a bit more than a simple task, but then again i like to be optimistic about society. even though i think they don't deserve it a lot of the time. but before i fly off into a tangent, lets just keep it to the one topic for the day. so, back to the story here.

but imagine in modern day America with all our talk of non – segregation, we still are definitely divided politically. and as a nation i hypothesize that we would be more united if we were led by a team that is more representative of the people. if we are to be split in two party wise, it would reflect the society and our relationships. take for example the governor of California, a well known republican, who is married to maria shriver, a descendant of the most recognizable democratic family of our recent times. these two on super Tuesday were on their way into the polls, and were caught by a TV reporter, and asked who they will vote for. maria shriver's response, an emphatic “Obama”! our governator, however,, declined to comment, but we all know now he is pulling for senator McCain. to me this is a perfect example of a family unit that is distinctly different in political affiliation, but are a functional married couple. i don't live in that household so i don't know about their private life. but as a couple im sure they argue and debate on a lot of private and public issues, and the same is true for any couple in America. which is why having a bipartisan ticket would bring together the hatfeild's and mccoy's of the nation. besides, why do we still need to pick sides if we are one nation under god?

ok, now that i have put that precious seed of thought out into the blogosphere, and you the readers, i want to inform you that i am in now way a political pundit. no one is going to base their poll, or vote on what i say, but i am always for taking a moment to look at things from new angles anytime!