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The Revelator. Accapella.

David sings a song by David Rawlings / Gillian Welch

Chad Miller, AIA, NCARB, Colorado, telephonically harasses (user accounts with various names) from approximately 6/18/2022-6/20/2022 on the forum of the social networking site Archinect. Mr. Miller falsely accuses an anonymous user account, aka: X, of being someone named “Alexander Watanabe”, in multiple posts, over several hours. Mr. Miller repeatedly makes belligerent, demeaning comments on anythingContinue reading “Telephonic Harassment”

Summer Design Studio 2022

David Curtis, principal at Pi-Des, leads a studio this Summer from Portland, OR. An anticipated focus will be de-mountables. David shares lessons learned from his 4 year development of Primitive Hut. There will be offshoots that focus on global just-in-time delivery system collapse responses, and 10-20 year pattern based projections that hope to best influenceContinue reading “Summer Design Studio 2022”

Free App, Zero Value

Twitter promotes violence on a daily basis. -David Curtis

Walk Out

Pi-Des will walk out today in support of the students at Grant High School, Portland, OR, and all the students being subjected to threats of gun violence in a country that is failing to meaningfully address the problem. X

Primitive Hut + Triage Field

Work continues on the Primitive Hut digital model by X at Pi-Des. Studio is based in Portland, OR and Desert Center, CA.

Climate Strike PDX

Calliope Ruskin speaking at the Climate Strike in Portland, OR. 5/20/2022

I refuse service

I refuse the use of democracy in describing what Americans and others are subjected to. We have a roboticized surveillance apparatus and fuck you, media, for suggesting otherwise.

Primitive Hut and Triage Field

According to the California fire service, 2018 was the deadliest and most destructive wild fire season on record, with just under 2 million acres burned

I was a zombie

Yesterday I went to dinner with family. Despite significant intake of stimulants (Pepsi) I was only able to pronounce one sentence: “They aren’t absorbent.” I was observing that old National Geographics would most likely not make good toilet paper in the event of a state of emergency. 13 Oct 2007, Thursday, DSC