tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88653452012-01-30T02:56:26.962+08:00Hong Kong + Just James = News for You (Previously the "JustJames" Blog.)JJ in Hong Kongnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8865345.post-1139500036020672212006-02-09T23:45:00.000+08:002006-02-09T23:47:16.033+08:00

Happy Chinese new year to you! (which apparently is the real new year.) Things are fine in HK, and I absolutely love it here... anyway, the part about "earthquake" and "earth" is pretty interesting, because the Feng-Shui masters, Geomancers, face readers, and psychics here in Hong Kong, pretty much agree that the this year (Year of the Dog) will bring an earthquake (maybe in the United

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I. BLOG WRITING IN HONG KONGSo my friends have been bitching that I haven't really updated my blog as often as I used to... and that my blog is pretty... how should we say this... choreographed... and too tight. I guess after work I'm pretty burned out in the day (or lazy, whatever is which) to actually take the time to write my weblog about Hong Kong. In the past I have usually been

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I woke up at 6 in the morning... and for the first time since arriving a week ago... i’ve started to feel something for this house. Going back home for the Holidays are both unquestionably always surreal as it is oddly reaffirming. While "reaffirming" may not be the exact word to explain the good part of it-- it is true that while so many things change out there in the world... I know that

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Bruce jumped around from place to place showing me all the coolest videos and DVDs at a joint called "Kubrick" in Yau Ma Tei last night. It was a pseudo-store/cafe/ with a library just for indie films and rare movies from around the world. For a measly hundred bucks a year you can eat as many of these treasures as you want for free. In front of me, a selection of Almodovar, Fellini, Tufault, and

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It's been an extremely long time since I've blogged... to the point that I was pretty unsure what "chapter" I was on. Technically it's been almost 3 months, but not quite yet, since i've arrived in Hong Kong. Within that time frame, I was able to win 2nd Place in a competition in China through my firm, relax somewhat in a dissappointing trip back to Manila, loved and lost, and make

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The building recedes back from the street quite inconspicuously. The front gate has rusted. It's a wonder that a digital keypad even exists to let someone in, it just doesn't fit. Relative to the buildings in front of it and beside it, this six storey building is quite humble. It also belongs to the era of old Wan Chai. Wan Chai is a district in Hong Kong Island, and is probably

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When it's right, it's home... A still from Wong Kar Wai's "Happy Together". Have you ever wondered what you would do, or how you would react if ever you were given a chance to start your life all anew and with a clean slate? This isn't really about second chances, this is about getting that rare opportunity to make a sharp left turn. While all this shouldn't be seen as leaving ones past behind

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It came as soon as it had the chance to attack. Of course, I was ripe for such a knockout; I was (and still am) after all vulnerable for any kind of virus or decease that usually come my way within foreign soil. The last time I was in Hong Kong, I ate some bad street food, and was able to obtain a mild case of food poisoning for the remainder of my stay. Well, now that I've had my run with food

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Simply amazing things can still happen to me. Feelings that I had thought were long gone actually, to my surprise, still do exist there somewhere in the pit of my soul. Unfortunately for me, once I let someone else know about it it's jinxed. These simply amazing things dissappear quite inexplicably just as soon as they had resurfaced. While these gut feelings are in their true essence quite

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Determined to make "something happen" on a rainy Sunday, the Filipino decided to retrace his steps back to Central Station and find exits J1 and J2 in order to find St. Joseph's Cathedral. Back to the blue line, he discovered that he left for the wrong exit and that in fact if he had read the signs well, he should have made a right turn instead of a left and would therefore make it towards exits

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I know I followed the map correctly. The exit in Central MTR station closest to St.Joseph's Catholic church is exit J1 or exit J2. But somehow I found myself, quite inexplicably... in another mall. How did I get from Central Station to a big white... and I mean white mall? Huge escalators, huge ceilings, and stores like Zara and Escada abound. What's worse are the expats, all over the fucking

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STACKED LIFEI woke up this morning in a tiny capsule-like apartment... not any smaller than the tiny capsule-like hotel I was living in when I got here. I've only seen these types of spaces in magazines or architecture journals... you know the ones with the headings that state "How to decorate your 130sq.ft Living Space!" or "Pods: Life of the future!" Mine was exactly like that... spacewise,

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I am writing this blog half way around the world from Eastern Standard Time, smack dab in the center of Manila, in an internet cafe... in Greenbelt Mall. JustJames has officially migrated East.The thing about New York... that whole "If You Can Make it There, you Can Make it Anywhere" idea is completely false and just plain overrated. Mind you, this is from a guy who never really quite made it to

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Nicholas and I got a real kick into "Holiday" when we turned on the TV to see this... the once-a-year-only episode of Oprah's "My Favorite Things". Oprah invited 60+ teachers from across the United States to including Hawaii (which for some reason she was overly exuberant about) to come to an episode specifcally about teaching. She also mentioned about 7 times on the show "How I Love Teachers..."

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This is a photograph of college walk with all the lights. Even though I'm in Texas... I sure do miss getting to walk through this when I can. The photo is from the Columbia University Home Page.

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A friend sent this photo recently. It's a photograph of Nick and Me at the Italian Academy Holiday Party a few days ago. Of course it involved food, and lots of it. Steaks on skewers, shrimps on skewers, canolies, gelato, wine, beer, cakes... when the Academy puts on a get together, they really pull out the red carpet. This is definitely a big perk of working here.

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Have you seen this guy around? Nick's observed that I haven't really blogged anything today. I was like, Yeah. Oh well. I could have blogged about the alignment of all 9 planets in a row that occured this weekend (and occurs only every 600 years or something), or possibly about the meteor showers this week, or maybe the partnership of Google with Oxford, Harvard, and other libraries to create

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Ray LaMontagne Listen to "TROUBLE" Listen to "SHELTER" I was listening to NPR at work today and the show All Things Considered, featured a new artist and songwriter Ray LaMontagne. They briefly played his song, Trouble, which is also the title of the Album. The song opens with the word "Trouble" in a type of yearning and from that point I was ultimately hooked. I haven't heard a voice like

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Reviews are over, lights are up, and "Holiday" hits the city. It also means it's time to see old friends once again. Everyone from Cornell has pretty much settled in the City since graduating in May. It took a while, but last night at Dana's Holiday shindig, everyone was more or less on the same wavelength. Ken and I are comfortable assuming the graduate student role. Dana, Terri, Jason, Scott

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Yahoo! News - Ukraine's Yushchenko Poisoned by Dioxin-Doctors I was thinking about running for politics. I was thinking of helping people. I was thinking of being there when people needed me. Yeah, seriously, I was thinking of being the president of the Philippines. It's about Freaking time another Acuna was up on that seat. There was a time when the Philippines, pre-Marcos, was an amazing

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It's 6:20 in the morning, And I just finished designing this Special Edition Bjork Holiday CD. I was also thinking how unfortunate it was that folks like Jewel and Toni Braxton have a monopoly on Christmas. Why not Bjork? Anyway, click on the pic for a bigger image.

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Not "my kind of Christmas", Christina Aguilera. So, to help me get out of depression, Windows Media Player just started playing Christina Aguilera's version of "The Christmas Song." Version is an understatement. "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.." Already it calls for someting contemplative... your thinking back at the chestnuts on the open fire... and proceed to meander your way through

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Beige Deflated. Houston we have a problem. A really big problem. It's 4:21, and I just woke up from my sleep... I wouldn't call it sleep anyway, it was more like a fast forward trip through my beige psyche. It was like taking the whole semester... my research beige, my experience with my TA Mark, my relationship with Juergen, Reinhold Martin, the critics of this review group, Beige rooms, dorm

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In the spirit of my final review, I decided to Google the word, "Beige". And I got this... it seems to be a site modeling clothes of African Heritage... their website is http://www.afrocrafts.com.zm. There's nothing beige about this picture... oh... the rug, it's beige... so folks. This is the Random Google Image of the Week. The search word is "Beige". Have a happy Friday... and am quite

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Cut Eye Masters Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.Sandy ATTACKED ME during studio... and put an Asian fan on this photo... I think it works well... don't you?

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Beige Hostel is Finished. Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. I would like to say that the Beige Hostel or the Beigehouse is now officially designed... and is all finished. Applause, Applause, yeah me. And my prof told me today that he thought I had a great project... of course, one of my interior perspectives has a guy doing laundry in only his boxers... that may have something to do with it.

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Laundry Bar Where Hot Things Happen Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. This is the winning interior photograph of the Laundry Bar (or at least Juergen thinks so)... where you do your laundry, have a drink, meet me people... and who know what else... (well, apparently nothing since my beds in the hostel or Capsule Hotel-type beds... but you know... maybe it's room for two perhaps?) Dave calls

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Lilly Dee Has to Keep Blogging. Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.Someone hasn't blogged in three days... but I guess that's alright, she DOES have a review like tommorrow.I shouldn't be blogging either... especially about NOT blogging. Cheers.

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NOTE: Nick said that it was okay to reprint this... thank God... I have no energy to blog right now.I read your blog today and though I agree with all of the points you make, I do not agree with your conclusion. I don't think that an apocalypse is "what is actually hoped for.” Instead, I think we actually want to be saved by Buffy figure--someone who will slay the vampires and make all of our

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BUFFY was always ready for such things... like Doomsday. Ever since that issue with the VeriChip on last night's MSNBC, with reporting that wasn't at all critical of the new device, treating it instead as a fun new gadget to have around in order to get VIP access to parties... I mean, really... Sam and I were having beers after studio at M2M having a serious discussion on the worst case

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VeriChip serial number includes 666. This is the VeriChip. It's a little radio frequency monitor that holds information about you, your credit card number, your identification, your social security, your bank account... and any number of other things that you may agree to place in there. It is injected into the arm or into your hand. Whatever you do, don't inject this device into your

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Having a Good Time With Sandy... not my Bugaboo. Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. After a very long and uneventful night in studio... except of course for Marty's surprise cake and the internet shutdown, it was 2:50 in the morning and time to break out. Sam, Sandy, and I proceeded to "Radio Perfecto" where the bartender kicked us out because they were closing... so we moved on up to 125th

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Marty's One Lucky Guy. Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. Today amidst the Finals stress in studio, Avery broke out into a Happy Birthday song... actually a Taiwanese Happy Birthday song for Marty who celebrates his birthday today. Marty wouldn't give me part of the delicious cake unless I sang Happy Birthday in Tagalog... but alas, I told him that I would just kiss him instead which he was

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1. Wake Up. Check. 2. Laundry. Check. 3. Eat Lunch. Check. 4. Send .mp3 to brother for his birthday. Check. 5. Clean Rooms. Check. 6. Water Plants, Utada and Hikaru (who look like they're both hanging on to what's left of their "lives".) Check. 7. Go to Studio. Check. 8. Work. Check. 9. Dinner... (And I think... boy, I had so much fun last night... I hope there's more fun in the future.)

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I'm now at studio and it's midnight. After having dinner with Lilly Dee at Swish and promising to go home, rest, do laundry... and have an early start tommorrow... I come home to Avery and what do I do... but read Lilly Dee's Blog, and write tonight's entry instead of doing something productive like start working on my Beige Hostel plans and sections. Sam just saw the documentary that Lilly Dee

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I was having a typical Thursday, long and grueling day at work, eating by myself at iHouse cafetaria... and the best part of all, opening my mailbox after ignoring it for a month a bunch of bills popped out (most of them were iHouse bills... but you know, whose counting.) After ripping my mail, tossing in the Recycling bin, and getting a $4 refund back from the MTA... I watched an episode of

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I just wrote a 4 page blog about work, MSG, and speed. I then proceeded to accidently press the back button so I lost everything that I typed... and there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I will re-type what I just typed. So, here is a summary of what I wrote in my four page blog for today: 1) Work today was busy. Printing problems with the Holiday Card. .PDF file didnt' export well. Roof about to

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This is the random Google Photograph of the Week. I typed in the word "Ariel"... why, who knows, that's my train of thought right now... and this is what I got. This photo is from the University of San Diego server and it seems like it's of two friends smiling to the camera. Actually, the friends may not be friends at all, but may be actually related... if not siblings, at least cousins. How can

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Beige Hostel Interior Preview Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. Interior images.... sexy. Sexy people in the interior.This is horrible... it's Thursday, 3:30AM and my body does not want to rest at all... I mean, it doesn't want to sleep. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that I went to "Columbia Cottage" today with 4 Taiwanese Guys who all ordered very exotic things... (I was the

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Updated Beige Hostel Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. My final review is December 10, and no matter what kind of bitch my professor will be inviting to guest critic, I can say that I'm pretty happy about this project. This has reawakened my creative juices and added spark to my own design sensibilities... not Cornell's, not Nasrine's, not Rem's, but my own. So there. What you see here is the

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I wrote an essay about this phenomena once... girls+Harajuku=wicked style... but... seems like Gwen Stefani took my essay, dummed it down and made a little song about it... so here are the lyrics to Gwen's "Harajuku Girls": HARAJUKU GIRLS by Gwen Stefani Wa-mono There's me, there's you (hoko-ten) In a pedestrian paradise Where the catwalk got its claws (meow) A subculture, in a kaleidoscope of

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1. HOT DOG with the works and CHEESE FRIES 2. ITALIAN SAUSAGE on a bun 3. COFFEE TO GO Since I returned from Thanksgiving... I haven't actually been that good with my diet. Today it was hot dog, brownie, and coffee... yesterday it was Italian Sausage, Cookie, Coffee, and Cheese Fries... and beer... so I wonder what I'll be having tommorrow?

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D A V I D * L A C H A P E L L E Here it is... an awesome site that has ALL of Photographer, David LaChapelle's photographs and music videos from Norah Jones to Blink 182. If you want to be creatively entertained for an hour... watch all music videos... it will certainly be worth your time. This video of Norah Jones is the latest of a large number of narrative works featuring all of the most

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Sunny Columbia U Day! Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. It's a sunny day out, crisp weather, and christmas lights on trees! What more can you want coming back from Thanksgiving! AND, I grabbed an Italian Sausage sandwich from the Truck in front of the law-school, i'm in heaven. Oh, so my phone was off since Saturday night because I ran out of battery. I didn't have it on all Sunday, and Today

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My father took all of us out for a drive around the Architecturally-Bland Boston area yesterday. He had a tour route all planned out, but of course, becouse my Dad was driving, we only made it as far as this thing... "The New England Aquarium". So the question is, what is this? and What does the flashy architecture do? and of course... we all want to know, who designed this amazingly shoddy

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Chillin at the Crooked Tree Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. Remember that whole issue about wanting to curl up in a little ball because my laptop died? Well, I am right now in that very quiet, calm, and composed mood telling you to forget what I said. I had just finished repairing Windows XP with a friend's disk (it does not have to be Sony) and now it's 4am on Sunday and I just returned

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After-Thanksgiving Shopping in Boston Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. Happy Thanksgiving guys. After realizing that maybe killing my laptop (temporarily) was out of my control, and that maybe this was a way for life to really teach me a valuable lesson... I decided to just say "Oh to heck with it"... and move on to temporary better and brighter things, Boston... Massachusettes. Going to my

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My computer is once again in a deep coma. I'm really sad about it. I was deleting some adware and spyware from the thing when the whole laptop just froze, and when I restarted it just wouldn't continue. Such is life. My computer freezing made me realize how much my whole life just depends on it... my work, my finances, my music... they're all on my laptop. I'm at work typing this on a

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Don't Eat Me. // Salmonella Things are too good to be true. Basically I believe that life is definitely a case of 50/50. Because I had such a great weekend... of course I get a very god-awful Monday when I realized at 3 AM that I just got hit with a bad case of Food Poisoning. If you're ever hungry, don't eat seafood from a Hot Bar at Morton Williams on the Upper West Side... or you'll

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The new MoMA opened yesterday much to the joy of New York City... I just had a good deskrit with my professor which gave me the license to go ahead and spend Sunday like a Sunday and go to the museum. Fortunately for me, the $20 admission fee filtered any mob-like crowd that would have accumulated... the spaces were huge, spacious... and, well, overwhelmingly white and non-descript. Generally it

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Anna Nicole's Disastrous Appearance at the American Music Awards... why did I show this picture?...to get you to read this blog... she is mentioned on the third paragraph. Well... she basically slurred through her whole speech... if you can find a download of it...you know what, forget it... just watch her Reality TV show, it's like that every episode... she asked the audience, "Hey, Do you like

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The New York Times Report on Oliver Stone's Alexander So, I always thought (ie. common information) that Alexander the Great was gay or at the very least bisexual. When I found out that Oliver Stone was making Braveheart-like epic called "Alexander", I was immediately turned off because like Brad Pitt in "Troy", I for sure thought they would make him straight. As it turns out, according to the

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coffeecup Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.I'm hungry, I'm a student, and I got paid sh*t this week so guess what... Psychology Study time! In thirty minutes I was able to do Homonym studies and Analgram studies... The experimenter really marveled that out of all the guys taking this 1 hour experiment (which I finished in 17 minutes)I got the highest score of 100 points, and was able to keep all

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This crazy family makes me miss my own crazy family... which reminds me, i've been dreaming alot about my family as of late... my brother PJ, my cousin Cathy, my uncle Paul, Mom, and especially a long dramatic one about my Lola Lil. I guess I'm regressing. Things are a bit tough in New York I guess.

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She Has Her's, Where's Mine? Everywhere I look, it's like this is it... this is the answer to all our prayers... "The Older Man". Of the only few gay guys I know in Columbia Architecture... actually the only two that I know for sure who are... John, and now Matthieu, BOTH by the way in their 20's like me, both gay... John is 29 but acts 24, and Matthieu is 24 but acts 29... but none of that

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Sam's Nth Scheme Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. We always get in a stupid argument... yesterday it was about Peter Cook, the other day it was about Lindy Roy... then (Thank God) we get over it really quickly. He's Pisces to which makes it easy for the both of us to get over any argument we get ourselves into. This is Sam working on his Nth Design. He asked me yesterday why I wasn't excited

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I was walking to work today with a cup of Starbucks coffee.... of course, almost always late... when my shoe hit a bump and then as always the coffee would splatter allover my hand and my wrist! I hate it sooo much whenever this type of thing happens... another morning... another Coffee Spunk to stain my sleeves, making it smell like Caffeine the whole entire day. They have invented caps to keep

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"You take the a bit for the first position, totally hate all of the 2nd position, take all of the third, and misinterpreted the fourth." Peter Cook lectured to us today about his works and obsession about "Smoothness (Blue) vs. Vegetation (Green)". That there is this pressure in Architecture schools, specifically Cornell, that tells us that we NEED to have a position, we NEED to have a theory,

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All these consecutive beige hostel nights have finally caught up with me. Not only did I start feeling sick but I was asleep all through Delanda's lecture. I treated myself to a nice Korean meal at the Mill and decided that I probably should not fight my body... meaning I went straight home and took the night "off". What with the architecture project, the near-death of my computer... and the

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STARBUCKS HOME It's really weird to walk into Starbucks right now... first of all there's a holiday wreath on the door... not only that , but everything is in red... and there are posters for Gingerbread Lattes, Egg Nog Lattes, and white holiday cookies shaped as snowflakes on the dessert bar. The fact that we haven't even gotten to Thanksgiving yet, and walking in Starbucks is like walking

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Near Death Experience #1 November 16, 2004So, today was pretty interesting... and weird. The love of my life, my Sony VAIO PCG-FX370 absolutely died on me, like shut down while I was designing a Holiday Greeting Card for the Italian Academy. I was in the process of deleting a wreath from InDesign when the whole computer just shut down. I didn't freak out because the Green LCD light was still on

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Beige Hostel Saga Continues Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. So, it's Monday night, and I just finished designing all three levels of the hostel...including the stalactite pieces. I sent them to Juergen and I'm scared to hear what he says, just because I like it so much. But, whatever... if he criticizes me, I'll agree with or I won't, then I'll just probably do what I was going to do in the

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Roy by Lindy Roy Sam Dufaux found out today that I did ask Juergen about inviting Lindy Roy to be a guest critque on our final review. I started raving/thinking about Lindy Roy only after I saw her lecture here in Columbia last Wednesday. I think Sam said, "Why don't you ask Juergen if we can have her for our final review?" and that's what I did... Today Sam went postal because he thinks she

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Tarnation - Movie Preview Link I was looking at previews and bumped into this one about a gay guyn (well he seems gay) and the issues with he has with his mother documented for like 20 years. Documentaries just seem to keep getting better and better. It's definitely a movie that I will be willing to see. Click on the link above to watch the Trailer.

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Beige Hostel Continued Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. Wow, it's really been a while since I've been so very much obsessed about a project that I think of it in the shower, I sketch before I go to bed, and the hours fly by so fast... there's just not enough hours during the day. The last time I was like this about an Architectural Project was 3 years ago when I was with Felecia Davis... not

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BeigeHostel Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. WhaaaGH! There was a time in my life when I looked at 4 or 5 pieces of chip board, or one whole chipboard piece and KNEW EXACTLY what to kind of beautiful thing to make out of it. But that time of my life was Cornell University. Today, I had 4 pieces of corrugated board out of all things in front of me, to make a measley site model of my hostel,

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Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. This guy is David. He's a friend of mine who's also an ex-something or other. Gosh... I just got off of the phone with him. I feel so bad because I've never been much of a phone guy. Just because we're not in the same place (he's at Cornell and I'm here in the City) and we're talking on the phone, I feel this added pressure to make the subject matter count.

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121 Thurston Avenue - Interior Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.Returning from the morning class with time to spare, one would make hotdog or oatmeal, pour Orange Juice, turn on the television, and just sit and watch nothing in particular. After the show, the TV would be turned off, the dishes would be left half-rinsed in the sink, and get ready for a very cold and dry walk towards Studio. But

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121 Thurston Avenue - Interior Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.In the mornings, depending on what classes we were taking, some people would be asleep, one person would be awake, and another one would already be at an 8am art class. Nevertheless, one of us would open the blinds to a very snowy Ithaca. On a good day, it wouldn't be cloudy, but the sky would be so bright, that daylight would

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121 Thurston Avenue Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. So around this time last year in Ithaca it would probably be snowing. This is 121 Thurston, the house that I lived in with my three other pals, Nina, Sai, and Jason. I'm really starting to miss this place so much. The house was really cool, it was on a hill, and it was never too loud. It was like a little cave all to ourselves. Away from

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Electronic Voice Phenomena from Subject Just James who died in 2003:"I will see you no more." -Just James to Lilly Dee's Nokia 7610 November 2004"Get out of my house!." -Just James to resident of International House Dec. 2004"Get the new Utada CD!" -Just James to Asian Girls in PhotoBooth September 2004"I need to go to the gym." -Just James before he died of boredom and laziness in 2003.

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This is the latest in a series of photos of people who died of boredom, but are sooo bored in the other world that now they want to come back and have their photos taken. The figure looks like that one of a guy named Just James who always wished he was a cute little asian girl. Now it seems that he's set on haunting pink photobooths in hopes of being one of those Louis Vuitton toting, hair

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Another unproductive day... I mean VERY unproductive. I doodled around with a few web pages at work, then went to studio about 5pm where sat in front of two computer screens doing everything from checking email, deleting email, cleaning up my email address book, proofreading my blog, reading other people's blog, watched half of a movie, watched a few trailers, went out to buy take-out, tuned

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Just more things to freak you out. Courtesy of the Web. Cheers. Courtesy of http://www.shuttermovie.com

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NOTE: TO SAVE AN IMAGE YOU CAN CLICK ON IT, IF THAT DOESN'T WORK, YOU CAN RIGHT-CLICK AND "SAVE FILE AS" TO SEE THE IMAGE IN FULL VERSION.There are some things which I haven't really shared with you about my friend, Lilly Dee. I'm not going to be in depth in this blog about it, because it may be something she may want to share later on in her blog, but basically this kind of thing is not

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John's Tiffany Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.This just in:My friend John, who lives in IHouse with me and is a buddy I met here at Columbia is FINALLY ABSOLUTELY ENGAGED! So, what you see, and it's not so clear on the photo is a honest-to-goodness Tiffany's Engagement Ring, Gold Baby! So finally, the saga ends and congratulations to John and Greg!Massachusettes Spring 2005 here we come!

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Corporate Guys Going Crazy. Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.Halloween + Corporate Architects + Wigs = Non-Stop Zany Fun Wackiness. I have to thank Terri for this crazy photograph. If you want to see more, just click on the photograph above. I would have gone with these wacky fools but, you know, there was Cherry Pie.

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Cherry Pie and Just James Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.I never really talked about Halloween... in Cornell I had the luxury to really push it... I mean one year I was a jock, the next year I was a lesbian who worked at Collegetown Bagels, and then another year I was Big Boy Mandy, and then last year I was something, I totally forgot, I guess it's not that important. But whatever the case

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Sam is a Fan of Me. Sam Dufaux is this Swiss guy that sits next to me in studio. He caught my eye during the summer when I got bored during the Reinhold Lectures and trying to figure out who's cute. He sat in a studio totally opposite me in Avery South. Now, due to fate I guess, I sit where he sat last summer... (by the way, I have the far superior computer complete with a DVD-RW drive). We've

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Am I Head Over Heels for living with models? Oh yeah, the name of that movie I was trying to think of in the blog about China Chow is called "Head Over Heels (2001)". I had to go to www.imbd.com to find the name of the movie and some photos, but alas, no photos of China Chow. Actually the plot of this movie is pretty random... some blond restorationist who works at the met with a Chinese

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China Chow Originally uploaded by jamesacuna. China Chow is the name of an Asian-American actress in such acclaimed Hollywood films, "The Big Hit" starring Mark Wahlberg and that movie where this blonde chic lives with a bunch of funny models and falls in love with the hot killer leaving in the building across the street... starting Monica Potter and Freddie Prince Jr. (The fact that I know the

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ETAG Fairy Gerlach. Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.New York is full of psychos and fairies, thank god Bush is in office to wipe 'em all out!

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You see things when you're drunk. Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.The whole thing is really unexplainable... but all I know is that is a "Christmas Nativity Scene" and Roberto's Hand in the whole thing.

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Happy ETAG. Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.ETAG of the Gerlachs just got hired by a hot NYC Boutique firm and lives that stereotypical Williamsburg life complete with Exposed Brick.You can view more photos on my album when you click the photo above... courtesy of flickr.com. Word.

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Party Boys: BJ and McDs Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.So we got drunk on a Friday night, and Just James had a great idea... ice cream! Moving on from The Room, we ventured on like crazy people to the Ben and Jerry's for some Pistachio, Pistachio! Word. The place was not crowded... a chubby Korean guy behind the counter, and chubbier Korean girlfriend with what I took was free styrofome bowl

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Party Boys NYC Part Deux Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.So the Tres Amigos continued their no-good shinanigans at "The Room" where ETAG's roommate bartends. The place was sleek, slim, and dark, and Roberto was wondering if it was a "gay" place. Well, I had to agree, all the guys looked girlie and the girls looked... well, like Fairy Godmothers. You know... not really out to get laid. So

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Party Boys Invade NYC, yeah! Originally uploaded by jamesacuna.Yeah so the last few days have been pretty hectic in Just James' Little Upper West Side Collegiate Life. But... just when things get repetative and just plain boring... whose to rescue? None other than Cornell Pals ETAG (Erik of the Gerlachs) and Roberto... just plain Roberto. In any rate Just James had to work diligently in order

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Lilly Dee Dozing. This is my friend Lilly Dee. This is actually a vary rare photograph that I took of her on the subway... she hates to be in front of the camera, and she hates her photos taken. We're on our way to go meet her mother at Ollie's on 66th Street, my most favorite place to eat in the City. Wrapped around Lilly Dee is a Burberry Scarf with pockets, also (and you can't tell on this

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A New Day in New YorkSo this is the new world under Bush Term 2. I woke up with a heavy chest and a deep worry that we haven't seen anything yet... like 9/11 was nothing, only a taste of things to come. At work, everyone had this weird face on, as if we ALL, my bosses and coworkers alike... Olivia, Allison, Rick, Robbie, Robert... all of us were transported into this world without our consent

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The 66th Street Ollie's. Roast Duck on Rice, here I come! 

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James' One Size Fits All City Bag. 

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Lilly Dee's Bag for Fall 2004. Buckles, Buckles, Buckles! 

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The Last Images of 2004. No weapons of mass destruction. A Great national debt. Oil Prices So High, there seems to be nothing like it since the 70's. Bad Economy. The Deaths of Hundreds with the war in Iraq moving so poorly. Youths not going out in full force to vote as was expected. Free publicity from Michael Moore. The Bush camp toyed with a concept of Fear, Americans knew they were. And

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This movie is simply great. Sometimes I wish I was that age again... I mean when I was at that age (Junior in highschool) I guess all I wanted to do was jump out of my pimply skin... but now as I look back, the world and my future was stretched so far into the distance that I just had to dream in order to see things right in front of me. Any future was possible, and it was totally okay to

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Sunday afternoon, looking out the window of a Starbucks on Astor Place. I'm as exhausted as that girl on a stroller. 

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I was on the 6 Train today going for a site visit when things got a bit funny in the subway. These three kids, they must have been brothers, the youngest one was probably 10, and the eldest, 14, were rough-housing. Because it was a Sunday afternoon, there was plenty of space to run around (which they did), kick each other (which they did), and lie down on the seats (which they did). Suddenly

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2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes Here are some last minute scary halloween costumes. They're really scary this one is of "Lyndie England": Lyndie England Transform Daddy's little girl into America's NEW favorite bad girl, Private First Class Lyndie England. For the costume, simply add an invisible-dog leash from a novelty shop to a pair of camouflage pants and a khaki-colored shirt from your

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Generally, I'm tired. It's Friday, I'm exhausted. Please God, let there be a light at the end of this long dark tunnel.... I guess I need a light everyday it seems. Nothing is fitting together... and if anything I just need catnip or speed. I'm Pooped.

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Frank Gehry. Oh man. So, I feel really weird now, that since I started this blog, I have not written anything remotely architectural or about architecture... this thing that is supposed to consume our lives every moment and every minute, right, and now that I am writing about it, who do I bring up? Frank Gehry. An architect I have never really thought much of or about. Just never ever have I

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This is It. So... I'm in studio looking at the Media Player Media Guide, and they were advertising Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan's new video "Rumors" so apparently she's going to be a pop star now. So I said to myself, okay, I'm ready to laugh. But when I saw the video, I was like DAMN! The music was typical "Britney" and video of a spoiled celebrity girl in an orgy-like party I've seen

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