Bump Skiing at Winter Park
Last weekend was fantastic, though the snow sucks here in Colorado right now. The coverage is still way thin, but the weather was perfect last weekend at Winter Park for some easy bump skiing. Cait is first, then me.
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Dan Kiley, Landscape Architect and the State of Nick Aceto
I was paging through some videos Michael Van Valkenburgh recorded for WNYC Radio on the Brooklyn Bridge Park on Youtube and managed to sumble upon a short piece on Dan Kiley.
MVVA and Dan Kiley, Landscape Architecture
I was paging through some videos Michael Van Valkenburgh recorded for WNYC Radio on the Brooklyn Bridge Park on Youtube and managed to sumble upon a short piece on Dan Kiley.
There are so many outstanding moments captured in the short film, but I was particularly intrigued by Mr. Kiley’s comparison of movement in sports with design and the natural environment. Going with gravity, as Dan puts it, not imitating or copying is the key to what I took as meaningful design and ultimately a meaningful or purposeful life. Dan says, ‘If you look like you’re skiing, you’re probably not skiing well.’
Doing the natural thing may mean simply not trying to do anything, right? Well, perhaps not anything on purpose, but with purpose.
With the recession carrying on into 2010 jobs are scarce for everyone, let alone the lowly designer. I have been fortunate enough to land a decent job with a local Landscape Architect and Planner in Berthoud, Colorado. Some of my former classmates at Colorado State have managed to maintain their jobs at some boutique firms in New York City and elsewhere while others have been jobless or underemployed outside the profession for several years. Needless to say, it’s a confusing and frustrating time to be a recent graduate, which isn’t to say that I’ve actually graduated. I’ve finished the studio sequence, but a handful of classes still loom over my future like a dark cloud.
Going to work this week has alleviated some of the mental anguish that comes with unemployment, though the questions still linger. Gravity, as Dan Kiley puts it, is what I should go with and I shall. Fear is what develops from a negative in a dark room as one author illustrates. My fear is of becoming a cliche, a shell of my true self coasting through the darkness. I think it’s natural for any young professional, frought with ambition and an over-inflated egocentric sense of self-worth compounded by a degree of higher education to over-analyze each baby step through the threshold of real life. Gravity isn’t necessarily something we’re born with a sense of, we learn to manipulate and play with it. When we are young and agile we play with gravity; attraction from one animal to another, puppy love, going steady, cliques, and other stupid st
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Another Old Video, Breckenridge 2003
My buddy Colin and I used to take videos on the mountain quite a bit. Colin doesn’t ski much anymore. I’m sure he has hours of video on a hard drive or tape somewhere, but for now these little clips are all I got from way back when.
Breckenridge 2003
I should never have quit skiing park, now my back is sore and I’m getting fat and soft.