baby yawns

Holy crap my niece is cute. She just started smiling. It was so cool to just be around her and my brother's new family this weekend. The extended family all came over Saturday afternoon (which got to be quite overwhelming for me... I can't imagine it as a new parent but whatever).  It's crazy to see my brother as a father - he's doing really well with it, of course. And Leah is excellent (she's basically a pediatrician though, so that was to be expected.. and she's Leah).  Nora might be getting cuter by the minute.  At first it was weird whenever she would get upset, but I kind of enjoy being present for that part of her life.. it's going to be really cool to watch her grow up (though in my mind she is going to stay put as a little nugget).  Also her yawns might be the most adorable thing on the planet.

photoshop meh and tuesday tunes

Study of Corbu's Modulor, with yours truly photoshopped in. I spent half of today of this very vague assignment for design visualization, so posting it feels warranted.

Rediscovered ye olde iTunes folders tonight, here's a gem that I'd forgot about. Gavin degraw got some PIPES on him (his new stuff is mostly too poppy and lame).

However, his collabo with needtobreathe is dank.

March had me like

It's March. Hard to believe only 8 weeks til the end of the second semester (and THANK GOODNESS TWO WEEKS TO SPRING BREAK). Very excited for the next couple of weekends/weeks. Lexington, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. Also I get to see my niece next Friday which is gonna be awesome. 

I've made the habit of trying to caption her thoughts when Leah sends pictures. Here's the best so far:

Yes I might have just simultaneously earned the best and worst uncle awards. 

Mostly just thankful for a change of scenery. It's one of the first times I've spent more than a month in Cincinnati, so I'm definitely ready to move around., rather than sit in my apartment and be antisocial, because I've proven myself to be an allstar at that for at least the past two weekends. Sometimes it's a little lonely living by yourself, or just kind of boring. Might just be the cabin fever talking with all of the crappy weather lately. The fact that I had time to finish house of cards this weekend is a little depressing (time being subjective, because I really have 1,000,000 things to be doing constantly for school). 

Louisville lollipop

http://www.archdaily.com/601730/oma-designs-food-port-for-west-louisville/

Not crazy about the giant lollipop/pin/tower deal but the concept is DANK.  Maybe it's knowing the context decently well, but if implemented properly this is could really change up part of the West End.

sunday tunes/stress/sections/procrastination

lighting inspiration

Alvar Aalto - Mount Angel Library, Oregon

Le Corbusier - Carpenter Center at Harvard U, Cambridge, MA

Alvar Aalto - Main University Building, Otaniemi, Finland

Erik Bryggman - Resurrection Chapel, Turku, Finland

Snow day stair drifts