On New Year Greetings and suspended blogs

To everyone who wanders to this page on an unfortunate combination of keystrokes/links allow me to...

WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

... and also here's hoping that in this new year, with my workload considerably reduced on account of almost being done with my MBA, the number and quality of my posts increase significantly. If not, well here's hoping you remembered that unfortunate series of keystrokes / links and know well enough to keep from repeating it !! :D

The Great IIFTian Hostel Room Makeover

This is the room that Ayush and I share...



...and quite frankly as you can see, it needed a makeover.




so we started and pretty quickly into our effort we were rewarded by locating lost stash like this swimming goggles that its been over two weeks since i'd seen them...



and a huge bundle of clothes that was there, somewhere...



after hauling furniture here and there...



we were almost there...



and this is how our room looks now....






let's see how long it remains this way...

On Why Architects Refraining from Ganja is a good idea...

Well, one of my favourite artists of all times is Maurits C. Escher. Now he was known for capturing finer points of Riemannian, Lobachevskian and other more mathematically complex topologies through his art. His works span some of the more subtle concepts of relativity, dimensional bending,etc. apart from other stuff. The picture above is a print by him called "Relativity" (c.1953)

So what does this print have to do with architects ?
Just this: take a look at our hostel (the pic on top)...this maze of ladders and corridors leaves us feeling like snakes in one big game of "snakes and ladders" in the new hostel that we at IIFT call our home for now. Either the architect of this crazy maze was a fan of Escher like me, or he overdid his daily dose of ganja prior to designing our hostel, which brings me full circle back to the title of this blog as my parting thought....

Alright so you're a hot shot architect and the only way you can prove it to the world is by designing something that's way out of the ordinariness sweepstakes, but is it essential that you source your inspirations from dreams inspired by particularly potent variants of cannabis smoked by you and your buddies??



P.S. On second thoughts the Escher-esque topography of our hostel does seem to grow on one as the academic year progresses...but till then..:(

Big Shot In Cannes

Have always been an unabashed fan of my sister's artwrk..so here's a short animation film by her on the environment that made it to the top 10 finalists in a worldwide competition by Yahoo called "Big Shot in Cannes"..if she makes it to the top three she's on her way to Cannes!!

here's a link to the other 9 winning movie shorts

http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/bigshot/



Best of luck didi!!

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

All are invited!!!