So, I’ve been working on this whole, further studying thing for a whil now. I must say, someone said to me the other day, you must be really...

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Sadomasochistic tenancies

  I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on loss, grief and so on. At some point I shall share those sketch’s. In the mean time, a thought on los...

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Treading water

  When your colleague asks why you haven't done X piece of work and you completely freak out at the poor man.  Because there is so much ...

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Mindfulness or something like that

  Mindfulness: is one constiderd mindful when one is, mindful of the extent of mental chaos. But feel somewhat powerless to change it? What ...

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Architecture

  Architecture that strange disease, that kind of dull  malaise one feels, on a Friday in September when all you need is a good long holiday...

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A bucket full of tears

  Some years it seems may best be described as a bucket full of tears. Let just say, it's been a tough year. When one finds oneself sitt...

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Art Fairs for Introverts

  Really the best way to experience a crowded art fair, is with head phones, even if you have to take them off every 10 min. To chat to some...

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The secret life of gold fish

  Gold fish so zen, so mirror pools and Japanese gardens. So inner peace, and mastery of chaos swimming about in their little glass bowls. M...

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Other people's lives

 You know those treacherous besties. Who always have everything in order, who hairs is combed, who cloths are straight, who's desk is ne...

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Shit the f**k up

  Sometime in life we all need to be fed a shut the fuck up cookie.   

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Doggin / Loggin

  Well if you've ever had a dog this one needs no explanation. With special thanks to (just) Alice, her dog Finn and his log Logan. 

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Wall props

  Wall props, along with people who only see dogs and children at social gatherings, are their friends the wall props. At any gathering ther...

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Introvert

  I was just at a social gathering of sorts. Art was on the wall, art type people where around, also some architects whom I know kind of. I ...

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Site map of research

  It would have been a lot simpler if I'd studied a hard science, math, geology. Something with guide lines and clear methodology, somet...

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Jellytot consummation in the PHD process

  Let's call it a process, and it requires Jellytots lots of Jelly Tots. Let's get one thing strait. Everything Is  more like guidel...

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Idea for the trees

  Doing a PHD by practice is not for sissies. You not only have to invent the practice you with to use, but also define a question which wil...

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Hidden cracks

  When you've added the last drop of pressure to an overloaded structure. It is not the last grain of sand or the last drop of water whi...

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Thread of sanity

  Some days are about zen. Some days are about walking the tight rope of sanity. This year feel more like a fine thread of ability to cope w...

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Clouds which lack the will to fly

  I came across this notion on one of my favorite books "a short history of nearly everything" Bill Bryson. If you a big fan of  c...

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Life it turns out, did not give us lemons

Lemons it turns out are an hybrid between the bitter orange and citron. Grown originally in northeast India and Burma. So life it's turn...

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Sleep

  It should be said we all need sleep & food at least something resembling food. Architects, particularly students have recently been pr...

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Some bunny love you

If you've had a lonely Valentine's Day, and I'm sure many of you have. It's Valentine's Day. Even people on relations...

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Passive aggressive driving strategies

So I've devised a rather passive agresive strategy for driving so that taxi's can't  drive in the cycle lanes. Drive quite cl...

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Mood swing

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PHD process

  One feel little needs to be said about this particular muttering. Other than one is getting rounder by the day. Tomorrow may very well be ...

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Perspective

  The knowledge that this year some where on earth, a tortoise will be hatched. Who will our live your children even your children's chi...

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Trump

  Wow, I really couldn't resist this one. For those of you who don't know I'm actually an Architect. This building wow, it's...

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Walls we should build

  Really the wall the US should have built along time ago. Possibly also thrown all the Racist Bigets, and Wack Jobs he's apoint to his ...

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Eight

The number of the week is 8. Yes EIGHT. Eight people own just shy of 50% of the world's wealth. If you thought that wasn'...

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Let the rest burn

  Then there is that 3am realization, you will never please others. Might as well do what you love, and let the rest burn. You're very b...

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Drowning inside

 

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Up hill

  It's probably a good thing we can only see just a small way ahead in the hill of life. Other wise we may just give up and go home. 

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Love is....

  You may detect that someone loves you. When they go away for a few days, and stock you up with a whole load of your fav tv shows to binge ...

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Zipped into the sleeping bag of the self

 

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Never alone

  With pets one is never alone. If your sitting on a chair they are on your lap. If your eating dinner they are waits for a treat. How make ...

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Alone

  One of the toughest things being a creative today. Is knowing that there is a crowed out there that whatever you do, is pretty much been d...

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Equality

  I've reached that point in my life where, people ask when ARE you going to have kids? As though even today in 2017 there remains a not...

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Remain

  Sometimes one of the hardest things about being South African. Is the leaving, or being left is perhaps a better way to put it. When one r...

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