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... The title of this blog has to do with a Will Bruder quote I heard while attending the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) during the Fall of 1999 - "Learn to master the trash can and you might become something" - It really resonated with me and has stuck with me to this day. I suppose for me the concept hit hard that although you can discard an idea, concept, sketch, design, whatever for a certain project you may be able to revisit it at a later date under different circumstances - In other words designs never die, they evolve, they hibernate, they circle-back but they never die...Or maybe he was just telling us to quit our ideas of becoming Architects and to go live in a public park somewhere; which, given the current state of the industry probably would not have been such a bad idea...

That is what this Blog will be for me - With over a decade in the industry I have come to realize that what I thought I would be doing on a daily basis and what I actually do are pretty darn different - BUT - I still have ideas, I still have hopes and I still have my creativity; So, I figured this would be a good outlet...I will share my thoughts on work and the industry as well as whatever moments of creativity I can muster - And, yes, at the direction of my Wife I will keep the swearing to an absolute minimum.

Cheers...B.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

THE LIFE AND TIMES:

... Photographer John Dominis passed away this past month at the age of 92; December 30th to be exact - He was a very talented photojournalist during his lifetime...Responsible for such recognizable imagery as this picture of Mickey Mantle tossing his helmet following a poor at-bat at the original Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NY:


... As well as this iconic photograph of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Gold Medalist and Bronze Medalist respectively, with their fists raised representing the Black Power salute during the 1968 Summer Olympics (XIX Olympiad) in Mexico City, Mexico - #UNREAL:


... Mr. Dominis worked for LIFE Magazine for much of his amazing career and was referred to as "...one of LIFE magazine's most versatile staff photographers and one of the the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th century" in this spotlight last month:


R.I.P. John Dominis, (June 27, 1921 to December 30,2013)


(Dominis in Indonesia, circa 1958)
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