June 23, 2007
long time, no blog
Sorry. But I've been just incredibly busy the last few months. It's terrible, I know. But Kristen is pregnant, we moved apartments in the city, and work has been insano.
Right now I'm in Denver. Miserable.
It's not Denver, don't get me wrong. But you see, normally when we travel in the ad world, it's pretty nice. You get to ride first class I'd say 25% of the time, and you stay in some pretty nice swank hotels. And I travel a lot. Especially lately. That being the case, it becomes not so jetset after awhile. You get to your hotel and you just want to check in fast, and get up to your nice room.
I flew into SF last night at 1am. Went into work early today, and flew to Denver this evening. Getting here at 1am. And I'm miserable because some jerky-nut decided to make this random boutique hotel in downtown Denver into a @#$% nightclub on Friday & Saturday nights.
My room is literally humping & thumping right now. I feel like I'm back in my college dorm.
When I walked into the lobby, I had to show a douche bag bouncer my luggage so that he would believe I was staying here. I mean, that's what jerky-nut did... he basically took this little hotel that could be kind of cool (with some work + taste) and turned the entire lobby area into a dance floor. I had to literally bump and shove my way through the dancing denver nightlife to get to the reception desk. I'm still just a little stunned at how stupendously stupid this person is. He needs to have "square peg in round hole" tattooed on his face because instead of trying to turn his fledgling hotel into a tasteful, on point, unique place for the creative community to stay in Denver, he's basically done the opposite, turning off his actual paying, repeat clientele force fitting one money-making endeavor into another to create a terribly awkward combination – that ultimately caters to a population who will never stay here, ever.
Don't stay at the Jet Hotel in Denver.
I can't believe I made this my first post back. Sorry, I hate complaino bloggers. I promise I won't do this much. 
May 05, 2007
April 29, 2007
pic of the day – lazy Sunday, 4.29.07
Nigel, chewing on a bone in our little SF flat.
April 26, 2007
pic of the day – Market St., SF, circa 1900
Took this is a restaurant's bathroom. Notice the mass transit. Brilliant. Amazing that we still have such poor mass transit in American cities today.
April 25, 2007
markitecture
Erin's guest blog and some cozy time with Dwell on the airplanes has momentarily got me all hyped up about architecture & design. That said, I saw a post on SwissMiss and thought I'd encourage everyone to check out this site and vote.
The American Institute of Architecture is celebrating American... well... architecture. To be honest, the site is just barely cool. I feel like it could be so much more so. I'd love to see what Jonathan Harris could have done with this idea. (creator of We Feel Fine and phylotaxis)
It also points out that the average bloke going to the site has some mediocre taste in architecture. (click pic to enlarge) Or does it just point out that on average, people just don't know much about architecture? I should have picked a Frank Gehry building as a fav, but I had to throw a bone to the cities of my past – NY, Seattle, and now SF (present). Grand Central truly is a marvel; the Chrysler Building sets the bar for "defining" a city skyline; the MoMA is superb; the Golden Gate is just awesome and unique; and the Seattle Public Library is perhaps today's modern architectural masterpiece. I honestly rank access to that public library as one of the top reasons I'll miss living in Seattle. (more on this and the architect in a later post)
And all this architecture talk reminds me of one of my favorite quotes of all time.
Architecture is frozen music. – Goethe
You just can't beat that.
Oh, and by the way, "markitecture" is just a ridiculous adverjargon term I heard the other day. Use it at your own risk.
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