Comments on: The Beehive State http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/ Annie Choi wants to fill your brain with words. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:37:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: James http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1498 James Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:45:33 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1498 Annie you have a unique probletunity, Based on a couple of things I have read by you regarding architecture, I gather you have a profound respect for architects. That said, I am an architect in Portland, Oregon and I have a couple of simple suggestions. Mirrors dude. They make spaces feel bigger. Put them some place you can see some other part of your apartment but not necessarily yourself. You don't want your friends to think you're all narcisicystic fibroasted. Also, "The Borrowed View" One thing they do in Chinese gardens (I know you're not Chinese but apparently you don't have to be) is to frame some beautiful thing outside even if only through a very tiny window. Can you think of that beautiful thing? The idea is that it pulls your eye outward, relating your small, dirty apartment to the vastness of the world outside. Annie you have a unique probletunity,

Based on a couple of things I have read by you regarding architecture, I gather you have a profound respect for architects. That said, I am an architect in Portland, Oregon and I have a couple of simple suggestions.

Mirrors dude. They make spaces feel bigger. Put them some place you can see some other part of your apartment but not necessarily yourself. You don’t want your friends to think you’re all narcisicystic fibroasted.

Also, “The Borrowed View” One thing they do in Chinese gardens (I know you’re not Chinese but apparently you don’t have to be) is to frame some beautiful thing outside even if only through a very tiny window. Can you think of that beautiful thing? The idea is that it pulls your eye outward, relating your small, dirty apartment to the vastness of the world outside.

]]> By: annie http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1497 annie Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:07:03 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1497 Mike: It'd be more like "You have bad teeth" or "Your shower smells bad" or "Why are you bleeding again?" Ian: I know! There are Mormons all over my apartment. James: The hive requires me to kick back and take a nap I think. Debora: My shower curtain is so boring. It's clear. I figure, why make my bathroom cute? It's so depressing, might as well just give in to it. Mike: It’d be more like “You have bad teeth” or “Your shower smells bad” or “Why are you bleeding again?”

Ian: I know! There are Mormons all over my apartment.

James: The hive requires me to kick back and take a nap I think.

Debora: My shower curtain is so boring. It’s clear. I figure, why make my bathroom cute? It’s so depressing, might as well just give in to it.

]]> By: Debora http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1493 Debora Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:34:54 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1493 Not really related but I had a clear map of the states shower curtain a few apartments ago. The states spelled in all caps, faced outward. In the shower I started reading the states backward and there was HATU. And OIHO. Whooo exciting! Not really related but I had a clear map of the states shower curtain a few apartments ago. The states spelled in all caps, faced outward. In the shower I started reading the states backward and there was HATU. And OIHO. Whooo exciting!

]]> By: James http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1490 James Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:27:04 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1490 Annie, Hi I read your book or whatever. As a resident of the beehive state you might try to adopt some of the beehive spirit. Imagine that you are one of many tiny creatures working toward a common goal. Less chitchat, more work. A lttle less,"oh my gosh and stuff life is so crazy..." and more slugging it out for the hive. What does the hive require of you? Annie,

Hi I read your book or whatever. As a resident of the beehive state you might try to adopt some of the beehive spirit. Imagine that you are one of many tiny creatures working toward a common goal. Less chitchat, more work. A lttle less,”oh my gosh and stuff life is so crazy…” and more slugging it out for the hive. What does the hive require of you?

]]> By: kevin http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1475 kevin Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:17:14 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1475 애니야 ! get MSN messenger on ur PC. 애니야 !
get MSN messenger on ur PC.

]]> By: Ian http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1457 Ian Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:50:04 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1457 utah eh? mormon country! utah eh? mormon country!

]]> By: Mike http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1453 Mike Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:17:18 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1453 It would be cool if whoever came up with the DC slogan went into advertising. It would be like: Colgate-tooth decay! Tilex-shower scum! Band-Aid-open wounds! Well maybe it wouldn't be cool. But still, it would be something. It would be cool if whoever came up with the DC slogan went into advertising. It would be like:

Colgate-tooth decay!
Tilex-shower scum!
Band-Aid-open wounds!

Well maybe it wouldn’t be cool. But still, it would be something.

]]> By: Bryan C http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1452 Bryan C Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:59:37 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1452 Come on, why would you capitalize EMPATHY? I don't capitalize architecture nor history... ;) Come on, why would you capitalize EMPATHY?

I don’t capitalize architecture nor history…

;)

]]> By: annie http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1451 annie Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:26:52 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1451 Bryan C: EMPATHY Bryan C: EMPATHY

]]> By: Bryan C http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1450 Bryan C Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:14:06 +0000 http://www.annietown.com/2007/10/26/the-beehive-state/#comment-1450 Now really... How could you possibly know what "a double punch to the nuts" is like? Now really…

How could you possibly know what “a double punch to the nuts” is like?

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