Thomas J. Johnson

Trace –
Easy for you to say Ms. Cushy Gov’t job… 😉
Out here in the real world it’s pretty grim…
I applied for a job managing a coffee shop last week! I’m 33 and live with my Mom! It couldn’t be much worse… I actually fantasize about being a hobo and riding the rails… at least it would be more exciting than this slow humiliating death……[Read more]

I’m not going to touch that one… 😉

I think we may be experiencing all 5 simultaneously…

Yeah, things are so much more FUBAR than people realize… I love the term “recession”, especially “double dip recession”… this isn’t a freakin’ ice cream cone we’re talking about!
Here in the US, we’ve been hovering at 9% unemployment since 2008, despite consistently losing jobs for the last 3 years. It’s some pretty creative math they are…[Read more]

Fishy

After saying all that, it would be really cool to apply hydrology models to economics…
 

lol
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s been confirmed that economics is not a real profession. It’s just a bunch of academics rubbing their chins, spewing terminology that means absolutely nothing. They can’t predict anything. All of their studies are retrospectives… “oh, well, this economic event fits perfectly in my blah, blah, blah, model… ” If…[Read more]

It’s pretty good but I’d prefer the real thing…
I have met some interesting/entertaining people, have seen some inspirational work and have obtained some great resources.
Pretty good but it sure would be nice to go to an office every day…

I was only partially kidding… 🙂
I might just have to try and create a “brush” in P-Shop from those baby heads… at the right scale in shades of brown, gold and green it would be pretty groovy, especially for a nice shaggy fescue. 

Make the grassy areas look like an array of cowlicks… using stippling…
 

The Pitchfork Festival in Chicago had a number of booths with silk-screen artists showing their posters (mostly concert/music). It occurred to me that this style could be applied to landscape architecture. It is clean, bold and expressive. Most posters only had 3-5 colors but they did a lot with those 3-5 colors.
http://www.thebungaloo.com/

It depends on what you want the experience to be. Fast movement = larger radius curves. Slower movement = tighter radius curves. If it’s private property you could make the curves as tight as you want. If it’s public then you would most likely need to meet ADA or local design guidelines.

Darn. So, Landscape equals garden plus or minus landscape to the negative first degree. Landscapes within the garden shall not exceed a single negative deviation in scale. Gardens can expand infinitely within the landscape but the landscape can only contract by one degree within the garden. The landscape may not shrink exponentially within the garden.

Touche’ – Though it does raise the question: Could one have a garden within the landscape that is within the garden that’s within the landscape?

A garden can be in the landscape but the landscape is not in the garden.
 

^—- LOL Best reply so far!
 

Laguna Beach on a special rock, with a special lady… the last two years. Gonna miss it this year…

… Brought to you by the same great minds that think indefinite growth, at 5% annually, is the sign of a healthy economy when we live on a globe with finite resources…