@RickiTarr - i'd like to do a really dark film called "The madness of Mike Brady" where Mr. Brady breaks down, leaves Carol for Alice after winning a meat cleaver fight to the death with Sam the Butcher, and finally starts architecting more than Brady houses.
@michaelgemar@RickiTarr - Mr. Brady the sitcom character wouldn't know he had that option, even if the actor playing him did. Now Mr. Brady the variety show character on the other hand had his worldview significantly expanded and might well have left Carol for Rip Taylor.
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Flying buttresses. So beautiful, and so necessary. Invented because the walls were too tall to transmit those horizontal loads (from roof - a diagonal, or vertical + horizontal force) to the ground.
One of my all time favorite books is "Brunelleschi's Dome" by Ross King. It's about the design and construction of what is still the largest masonry dome. It was built without "centering", or scaffolding to hold up the dome during construction.
@RickiTarr in humanities class back in my community college years after serving during Vietnam, the instructor reminded us of all the great European cathedrals that survive today only exist because architects learned to build them from all the cathedrals that collapsed and disappeared. Time and history erased the failures.
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The beauty of a mental breakdown is that i stop caring that my art looks like shit, and am free to just focus on making it.
That tends to up the quality, paradoxically enough.
@RickiTarr Yeah, out of all the art that I ever made, the pieces that people really like were all made when I was falling apart, or had fallen apart and couldn't get up from the floor.
When I am feeling good and create art, no one cares.
I listen to a podcast about design and architecture, and they frequently do histories on how famous buildings were built and WOW, if you were fine before, they usually aren't by the end.
I'm just electrical, so not usually in the direct line of fire. They pick the lighting fixtures and whatnot, I just have to make sure everything gets juice.
The structural and civil folks take the brunt of it. Indecisiveness, usually on the client's part, is where things get really tense. Also really chews up budgets. Razor thin margins make everything so much more stressful that it used to be.
My preference is industrial. Steel and concrete boxes that shelter the process equipment. Easy-peasy, if less than inspirational to look at.
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