Traveling Japan With Zero Budget.
Just like the Kardashians, everything I know about Elon Musk is not by choice.
Whether I gave my consent or not, they just crept up to my peripherel.
However, not everything is rubbish.
I learned he came up with the ‘idiot index’ - the ratio of the total cost of a component to the cost of its raw materials.
If a component is significantly more costly than its basic materials, then the design or manufacturing process is inefficient, hence idiotic.
I’m pretty sure he stole this idea from Asian mothers around the world.
If you order a plate of stir-fried gailan during yumcha, then you have triggered the 戇居 ngong geoi index, because a stalk of gailan in the market is significant lower than the menu. See also: smacked cucumber and soft drinks.
Anyway, I like the idiot index as I practise it at home.
When I cook, when I travel.
Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture is an online course provided by the University of Tokyo via edX.
The course traces the development of Japanese architecture since the 70s through interviews and exploration with architects such as Terunobu Fujimori, Kengo Kuma, Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Jun Aoki, Atelier Bow-Wow and more.
If you’re not sucking air, it means you do not care about Japanese architects, but how about this:
The course is free.
Just like the tiktok videos or reels or shorts.
I shared this on Facebook during lockdown and the only two people who gave me thumbs up made me question the quality of my friends.
If you’re not interested in architecture, surely you can appreciate the different sites, topology, prefecture, problem solving. Everytime I put it on, I learn something new about design, how to photograph buildings, at the very least, how to dress like dapper old men.
You can spend money on expensive architectural books written by writers desperate to please, or see the architects speak for themselves.
What? Privacy? Come on, just get a burner email and be done with this. Surely the University of Tokyo won’t misuse your data any worse than everyone else in Silicon Valley.
Sure, nothing beats experiencing the space in person, but in this heat, this inflated economy?
This post has made up more than the subscription fee for sure.
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