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Ugly furnitures, anyone?  If you don't know what ugly furnitures look like, watch the video below so that you'll be properly educated.  Hehe.

This is just for your viewing pleasure.  I found this funny video on the net and thought I'd share it here.



Now you know what furnitures you should look out for.

(via apartment therapy)

Here's a trick from Apartment Therapy's Home Hacks 2010 on removing or covering up dents and dings in wooden furnitures.  I haven't tried this one yet but this looks very interesting and I might try this just to satisfy my curiosity. 

With just a piece of walnut, you can cover up small dents and scrapes in any wooden furniture.  If you are a vintage furniture collector or restorer, add this to your bag of tricks.

Below are the exact instructions from the article.

Architects, Interior Designers, Engineers, Builders and anyone working and in some way connected to construction jobs use the ever so dependent Tape Measure. 

The tape measure, is a tool most commonly used for simply measuring things.  That's what we were taught in school but, little do we know that some people out there found other creative uses for this little tool called the tape measure.

New pictures of the World Trade Center terror attack on Sept. 11, 2001 were released to the public.  ABC News obtained these photos after filing for a Freedom of Information Act request last year with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, who investigated the collapse of the towers.

These photos were taken by ex-NYPD Aviation Unit Detective Greg Semendinger from a police helicopter searching for survivors on the rooftops.

This is a revised lyrics of the song "I Will Survive" rewritten to describe some of the funny moments an architect faces in his career that was shared to me by my good friend "small mike" in Facebook.  If you're an architect, you will definitely relate to the lyrics of this song.  If someone out there knows the author of the lyrics to this song, please do tell us so we can properly credit him for this.

Now, to the tune of "I Will Survive", let's all sing The Architect's Song!


This of course only shows the tip of the iceberg in the kinds of troubles an architect faces in his career, but this does show, in a very funny way, that architects are real survivors in their own right.

If you can't see the image above, see the text below for the lyrics.

Mildred's Temple Kitchen, a restaurant in Canada, are inviting their customers to have sex in their bathroom this Valentine's Day. 

This video by Bonsajo on vimeo reminds me of me being an architect and how the title "vanishing point" relates to what I do in my profession.  Architects create perspectives or rendered images that represent his or her ideas and clearly show and relate them to other people through these images.  In the process of making these perspectives, manual perspectives for that matter, the "vanishing points" are mostly used to accurately plot the images to scale and proportion.

This video has nothing to do with the "vanishing point" being used for any architectural purpose but it is quite interesting to watch.

Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

Softwares used on this video were Cinema 4d and After Effects

A month ago, my girlfriend bought this sort of a plastic flower art piece from an old man who was making and selling this beside the street of Lacson Ave. near the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.  From afar, she thought that it was just a bunch of ordinary plastic flowers but, as she got closer, she noticed that it was unlike any plastic flower she's seen before.  It was made from recycled soft drink plastic bottles.  It reminded her of the recycled paper roll design that was posted here some time ago.  The old man who was making this by the side of the road was in his late 40s, my guess, and he was selling each piece for only 20 pesos which was approximately 0.42 US dollars.  He called them "Bote-ful" Flowers;  "Bote" - the tagalog word for bottle and then attaching the letters "ful" to make it sound like "beautiful" or "beautiful flowers".

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in the Philippines have already released the schedule of licensure examinations for the year 2010. 

Pursuant to Section 7,  R.A. No. 8981, authorizing the Commission to determine and fix the places and dates of examinations, the licensure examinations for architecture, design and engineering for the year 2010 are listed below.

(image by mikecruz216 on flickr)

German architects are not too excited with the recently opened Burj Khalifa, formerly known as Burj Dubai.  With the economic crisis now hovering over Dubai, it's no surprise that some architects would throw some unforgiving words about the current title holder for the world's tallest building.