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walkabout



where's tony



tony kidd is out in the woods
scraping and searching for everything he could,
for his dead mother and two cubs whom he's looked after for years
he's naked ...he's wild... noone wanders near,

and tony oh tony where is he now..?

he's jumped those fences he's out on the...more »
  • mysore, ka, india
  • member since Tuesday, October 9 2007

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  • Elysse

    Elysse says

    Hi! I do write, but mostly poetry. You can check out my old blog. :D well, I’m not religious, I just have a relationship with God. and I’m living the teenage dream because he made it all possible. You have a very interesting shelf :D keep in touch.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Oswald Pereira

    Oswald Pereira says

    Thanks for dropping by again, Mr Walkabout. You do have an interestingly profile.
    Cheers,
    Oswald

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • anandhalve

    anandhalve says

    sorry buddy...been tied up a bit...but i understand what you said about the whole 'desperate' feel of the bmw building. it's a pity...like discovering a lipstick smudge on the teeth of a beautiful woman you adore... sad...and heartbreaking

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Oswald Pereira

    Oswald Pereira says

    Thanks for dropping by, Walkabout.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • anandhalve

    anandhalve says

    Hi pal...have been away for a few days... as a fellow-BMW fan, I thought I'd share these pictures of their new showroom with you... http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7247 of course you may well have already seen them. And though this writer seems a bit disappointed, I am pretty impressed! :-)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • anandhalve

    anandhalve says

    Yes, it was the Barcelona chair I was thinking of! and I will check out the pavilion.... And Laurie Baker was the guy I was thinking of...though I have also seen some of Bawa's lovely work in Sri Lanka...there's one particular restaurant he's done there (I think he partly owns it) which is gorgeous.... and Doshi was the man..Bingo! You win TWO packets of chips my friend! :-)... I can't off-hand remember specific works of his, but I remember being impressed by some drawings / pictures I have seen..

    Take care, and like the Johnnie Walker guys say, Keep Walking! :-)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • anandhalve

    anandhalve says

    Hi, Yes, I SHOULD have remembered the der rohe. Isn't he the guy that did that amazing chair? apart from all his buildings of course...and yes I think I agree that "less is more". Neat thought you expressed when you said," always liked to think mercedes and BMW are complete opposites...one pretentious as hell and the other humble yet secure"! :-) I remember a couple of years back when Mercedes was trying lots of new designs, and a magazine asked the chief designer of BMW about what they were doing, and he simply said, "We have found perfection...they're still looking for it"...I loved that! Btw, there are only a couple of architects in India I have come across who have moved me. One is this guy who did the local-housing work in Kerala...and another is ...I think his name is Desai or Doshi who works from Ahmedabad...what are your views on this...Cheers!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • mvishnu

    mvishnu says

    Hi..

    Sorry to reply so late... I had forgotten about this site completely... I had changed my account settings so that i get alerted on my gmail if anything happens, but that doesnt seem to have worked.

    Anyway, really good to hear you are an atheist.. Most athests are shy to admit it... they prefer taking the "im-offending-nobody stance of an agnostic.

    I can understand that happening a couple of hundred years ago, but now it seems a bit cowardly.
    Most of my friends thik im an athist only becuase "it sounds cool to say it"...

    forget all that...
    could we continue this conversation by emai? that way i will be quick to respond,....

    my email is vishnu[dot]unnikrishnan[at]gmail.com

    (forgive me for typing that way.. i started doind that ever since my cousin showed me how those spam-mailing softwares pick up email ids left in pulic sites by looking for "@' s and ".com"s

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • anandhalve

    anandhalve says

    As a brand consultant one of the areas that I am often frustrated by, is the absence of good product design people...who can give physical and tactile form to the brand concept that we have worked on...One of the brands where product form, function and aesthatics form a seamless whole, is of course Apple. Whether it was the iMac, the iPod, the iBook or now, the iPhone, the products are a joy to use. You would have guessed by noe that I am an Apple user all the way! :-)
    Another brand that follows great design is BMW, and of course Porsche. (drool, drool).
    So more power to your elbow if you decide to pursue product design.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • anandhalve

    anandhalve says

    Hi. My cousin, the architect studied architecture at IIT Kharagpur, and worked for a bit in Delhi. However, for many years now, he has been working in the Netherlands. He specialises in Urban design and reconstruction. Is that an area that interests you?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • nayanabhat

    nayanabhat says

    i like the humor.. love humor..

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • nayanabhat

    nayanabhat says

    i heard the movie isn't all that impressive. but the book rocks. or atleast, thats wat i think..

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • anandhalve

    anandhalve says

    Hi Walkabout (say, do you have another name?)...and no, the idea was not to name drop. :-) I mentioned it because Kahn is the only architect out of the list IN whose buildings I have lived. (not counting the hotels by the guy who invented the atrium for... I think it was for the Hyatt, Chicago...or was it?). And I remember the furore caused by the pyramid in the Louvre grounds ...it IS out of place, but you know, in a strange way, one gets used to it after a while... Like I said I got to know a bit about architecture because of my cousin being one...and the long discussions we have had. I myself am a brand and communications specialist and am fascinated by all forms of creativity. In fact my cousin and I have the view that just as architecture is the shape of dreams in spaces, brands - at their best - are the shape of dreams in products. By 'at the best' I mean brands like Apple computer, Harley Davidson and Zippo, not every silly soap! :-) As for my speciality, I have been in advertising and I co-founded a brand consultancy called chlorophyll in 1999 in Mumbai.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • nayanabhat

    nayanabhat says

    is it?? guess wat? i have never heard of that book! lol.. forgive my ignorance, if u take it as an offence. will surely read it sometime. as of now i'm having a gud time reading the ultimate Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • anandhalve

    anandhalve says

    Hi...yes Kubrick would make great company with Escher and Pink Floyd! :-)... No, can't sa6y I particulary 'follow' architecture, but have been fascinated by it. And have been impressed by the work of I.M.Pei, R. Buckminster Fuller, Frank Llyod Wright, Louis Kahn (I went to IIMA, which he designed) and Le Corbusier. Mind you my interest was sparked off by a cousin who is a few years older, and an architect.... Perchance, are you one?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • mvishnu

    mvishnu says

    Ha ha...the lame ones there were all marked by my friends...
    I was too lazy to find the books ive read and liked.

    Anyway.. i have heard a lot about nietzsche.... especially quotes like
    "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a
    monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into
    you"
    and
    ""Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders,
    or is God one of man’s blunders?".

    hey! by the way, are you an atheist?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Chinup

    Chinup says

    Of course I remember :-)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • anandhalve

    anandhalve says

    Hi. Glad to meet an Escher fan. :-) Yes Metamorphosis is amazing...as are so many of his works. His ability to see 'morphing' well before computer animation is amazing! And there is an interesting parallel between his art and Jimi Hendrix's music, which precedes Hofstadter's bringing together Escher and Bach... Both Escher and and Hendrix have said the same thing! Escher said, "I am able to draw only 1% of all the images I see in my mind", and Hendrix said, "I am able to play only 1% of the music I hear in my mind". Amazing, isn't it?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • kimberlysouthern

    kimberlysouthern says

    Ayn Rand and Wright were not married. In fact, quite the oppostie. Ayn always perpetuated the rumor that Howard Roark was based on Wright, but Wright did not care for the comparison. There are some similarities -but they eventually fall apart. So, it's by no means a biography disguised as a novel.

    Personally, I would say that Wright is the most important american architect. But, everyone has their own opinions and they are entitled to them. Living in Wright's backyard, it is difficult to deny the reach and impact his architecture.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • kimberlysouthern

    kimberlysouthern says

    Hi. Thanks for the question. I'm interested in Wright because of the impact he had on global architecture and because he was a very interesting human being. Lots of great stories and great buildings.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )


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