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Finally, I can look forward to opening emails from long-forgotten friends without having to fear that chain-letter craziness. The latest craziness was to vote for the new seven wonders of the world. A website, www.new7wonders.com (sorry, [...]
July 7th, 2007
The New Seven Wonders
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February 27th, 2007
Creating an Architectural and Engineering Symbol for India?
In spite of the fact that India has experienced unprecedented growth in recent times [primarily due to liberalization], we somehow still cling to our socialist ideals. I disagree with the notion that most of the growth has happened due to people wanting to ‘uplift’ India and as any economist worth his salt would agree that [...]
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February 23rd, 2007
Symbol needed for India?
IAB is looking for an architectural or engineering symbol for contemporary India. Hmmm…
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January 27th, 2007
Bloggers for Kala Ghoda
Caferati is looking for bloggers to cover the Kala Ghoda Festival. Bloggers may be paid depending on availability of sponsorship but a love for the arts and Mumbai is essential.
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January 26th, 2007
Google’s 3D University
Today the Build Your Campus in 3D Competition begins. This spring, you and your (presumably equally artistic) friends can honor your campus turf as you hone your 3D design skills just by modeling your school’s campus buildings in Google SketchUp, geo-reference them in Google Earth, and submit them through the competition website to earn lasting [...]
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October 26th, 2006
WebVastu in Wired
You might remember my rant on a particular book on web design that attempts to guide you on using Vastu Shastra for designing websites. I was surprised to see that the book, WebVastu authored by Smita Jain Narang was featured in this month’s Wired magazine.
The story claims that she is “rapidly becoming one of India’s [...]
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October 11th, 2006
Computerized Graffiti
Reminds of the clunky pen plotter in my dad’s office back in the days of architecture college.
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June 13th, 2006
Typography for Headlines
A wonderful gallery of headline typographic design. Indeed, simplicity rules.
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May 30th, 2006
Number Paintings
Number Paintings – this goes right into Marginal Revolution’s Markets in Everything. Makes you wish why didn’t you think of it first, right?
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May 29th, 2006
The Lies of Web Vastu
Back in the days when I was an architecture student who viewed the world with rose-tinted glasses and brimmed with optimism, I was also gullible enough to listen to all kinds of stuff that was spewed out to the unwary public. One such ‘stuff’ that was sold under the guise of ‘spiritual science’; if at [...]
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Movies I've Watched...
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2009-06-21 15:30
Michael Cera is the only bright spark in an otherwise listless comedy.
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2009-06-10 19:00
Love political movies so loved this one too. Frank Langella plays a terrific Nixon.
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2009-06-05 16:45
Outrageously funny. Not recommended for watching with your kids or parents.
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