What Is Your Favorite........?

unconventional architecture, like gaudi and roger dean and antony lovins and some of the others, drop city, domeworks, dome book three and the book shelter, architecture without architects, fantisy shapes and spaces and then just big enough trains to powered by solar, just big enough to ride in or one, providing primary transport in those fantasy settings and japanese garden landscapes. cities that look like a village of villages, in a ring surrounding a central sacred grove. things we could actually do. tow lane bicycle paths make one lane roads for emergency vehicles, but if such a thing becomes possible, anti-gravity for emergency vehicles instead of roads at all. then no pavement wider then what we now call a side walk. and not layed out on a grid, but every which way to connect enterences and transit stops. everything forest or garden. houses like the trains, no bigger then they absolutely need to be, except for palaces of strangeness which grow into random mazes by everyone adding on another room and bit of hallway. and cluster type temples with libraries and meeting rooms and cluster type dwellings for extended families. land belonging to not one person but to all life forms dependent on it. codes for what sort of thing may be built in what sort of places, but not as to actual form factors of construction. no sprawling endless spec housing but owner build to individual dreams. everything that affects a person directly coordinated by local community to prevent conflicts but otherwise up to each individual themselves. nothing having to begin and end with the flow of symbolic value, but the use of it a local option. each larger and further away level of government only to prevent conflicts between more local ones and to protect individual freedom of movement. all the way down to a world government and beyond, in an inverted pyramid kind function.

oh yes, the highest technology, by all means, for those who want it, and certainly the means to create and explore available to all. may sound utopian, but not beyond what we could actually do. it's a matter of cultural perspective. most niche genre's are more my favorite things then any part of today's conventional mainstream. railfan, model railroad, science fiction, furry, even hippie, or what that was before it became an adiction and then a fassion statement. mystery too.

every thing that is about creating and exploring, or at least to me is, and pretty much nothing that is not.
trees, trains computers and little furry creatures with big sharp teeth. well trees meaning meaning mountains and forests together and all the forms of life that live in them. trains meaning minimal form factor infrastructure, running on some sort of rails/guideway, any sort, opperating in multiple and carrying passengers, any two out of the three ain't bad.

a culture of universally mutual consideration, not dependent on concepts of hierarchy. the universally part my sound a bit utopian, but its a matter of what is culturally rewarded, honored, and what is not. the culture being that way, of course not everyone expected to, but it seems like most people would be surprised how much more effective cultural perspectives can be then ideologies or state vengence.

things not wanted just not made, or not made in mass quantities at any rate. this whole world of indenture being called freedom so totally unneccessary, and the mess it makes of the landscapes around us too.
not saying everything would be neat and tidy, but more room for all species and their habitats.

i do go on, but my every dream is in that kind of a world.

 

I think you'd like some of them. Google them and choose =)


And my all time favorite book:



I think I'd be perfectly content if for some reason I wasn't able to read any other book for the rest of my life.

 

what is your favorite hand tool?

mine seems to be those 99cent wall paper knives with the snap off blades. kind of like 'box cutters' only the skinny ones. i'm not sure exactly what the right name for them is, but i find them much more useful then a #11 exacto.

my favorite kind of storage arangement

open shelving. book shelves. wall to wall shelving. every space of wall that isn't a window or has something else setting against it. way better then drawer systems of any kind, or dressers, who's bottems give out if you put too much weight in them.

favorite stuff to get and have

things to make things with. model building supplies and tools. also art supplies.

favorite kind of place to live

forested mountain

favorite freedom

not needing a license to make something, nor permission to explore, and that means where people don't post and fence of more then just right around their house

favorite mode of transportation

public, small form factor, runs on some kind of a track

 

hand tool?
I seem to use a hammer more than anything...I am occassionally hanging something on the wall...not much though......my walls are pretty bare....do not want to hurt the house too much with too many holes in the walls.....

 

and the useful pull out the nails part of a hammer is cool too....so two uses with one hammer....

 

i don't use nails at all if i can avoid them. for most things that would require them, i like to use those hard iron sheetrock screws, and an electric drill to make pilot holes for them. though i work more with very small things, hence the accurate cutting impliment. and to asemeble those i use thickened acc adhiesives like zap a gap. i do like the idea of recycling scrap lumber to make wood things. the supports for my model world are from things that were thrown away, as are several book cases/sets of shelves i have made and continue to use. all assembled with screws instead of nails though. they're all 'free standing'. none of them actually attached to the walls. (though being attached to each other, they'd have to be dissassembled or destroyed to remover them from the room, there assembled combination being, well, pretty much the perifery of the room.)

 

color - Purple/Green
animal - Turtle (Owls, Crows)
food - Beef Brisket (Eggs)
movie - Cloud Atlas (Orphan Black / Alphas, TV Series')
hobby - Computers/Troubleshooting, Guitar/Music-All

 

I have hung 5 paintings...and 2 of them are hanging in the bathroom downstairs here....as that is decorated with all beach and ocean stuff....so i hung 2 fish paintings i did in there.....
I have the ocean in the tv room done by someone else...and two paintings by me in the library here....chico';s garden...a peony garden I made for Chico cat after he got run over and a modern artish type of colors painting.....so i did not go crazy with hanging stuff in this house.....but some walls begged for some splash of color.

 

and then hung a few wall mirrors here and there. they open up the rooms.

 

oh every wall needs something, that's for certain. i do have several small screws in the wall to hang things from. including a couple of my own things. of which this is one of them http://www.furaffinity.net/full/3065329/

somewhere there's a picture of my space, http://www.furaffinity.net/full/11375367/

 

Screws sound gentler.....but I am not sure how to do that.....and too late now, as the nails I have in the walls are already there. the mirror in here is with screws, as i had a professional hang it. It is quite large and has no frame but does have bevelled edges.....

 

i'd be interested in seeing your paintings if they're on line somewhere.

 

Green/orange

Cuttlefish (amazing creatures)

Veggie stir fry and Mexican

Impossible to pick a movie, however I'll name a few--Bladerunner, anything by David Lynch, Repo Man( as mentioned), Fear and Loathing, Groundhog Day, Catch 22, Brazil, Tobacco Road, Naked Lunch, Winters Bone, Grapes of Wrath----------etc---etc. ( I was a collector of tapes--probably have 600--until the fuckers changed formats on me. NOW what do I do with 'em?)

Used to be basketball and fast pitch softball. Too old to play now. A little woodworking and a LOT OF READING.

 

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has anyone done it all in a sentence?

I will

My dog and I enjoy bbq-ing black angus steak after watching dazed and confused