David sings a song by David Rawlings / Gillian Welch
Telephonic Harassment
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 anything X writes on the site.
Mr. Miller then falsely accuses X of making a “homophobic joke”. Mr. Miller offered that he is a “girl next door sort” to which X replies that the girls next door to X, one just had hip surgery, and the other is recently divorced.
Mr. Miller then proceedes down some rabbit hole.
Mr. Miller and/or others, including an anonymous user account allegedly belonging to (name redacted), Astoria, OR, attempt to de-anonymize another user. (Name redacted) is de-platformed previously from Archinect, but then returns under various other user names. Some of the users have multiple accounts with different user names.
Mr. Miller repeatedly demands X reveal the identity of the person controlling the user account.
(Control of a user account is not a fixed position. Sometimes accounts can, in theory, be hacked, or have unauthorized users. Content can be manipulated or removed by moderators.)
Archinect allows users to be anonymous, the vast majority of the forum users are anonymous.
Archinect has a history of enabling telephonic harassment, and of de-platforming users. Some users engage in gaslighting sorts of posts that they obviously do not want traced to their real names.
X then shares (an) identity, a link to a website, implying the site is related to X, perhaps hoping it would get Mr. Miller to change his behavior, but Mr. Miller continues the telephonic harassment of X and others.
Watching this from a screen (the author sometimes reads the forum posts, even though said author is not a registered user there) the author decides to do a keyword search for “Chad Miller, AIA”.
Author learns the name of his alleged employer, the Blythe Group, an architecture firm in Grand Junction, CO, to let them know that one of their employees is engaging in telephonic harassment, and defamation.
Author suggests to the Blythe Group via their website form that if author was a potential client, author would not hire them based on the posts being made by their employee, Mr. Miller.
(Author frequently collaborates with architects and engineers on design work)
The next day Peter T. Icenogle phoned author.
Mr. Icenogle seems unaware of Archinect, or that Mr. Miller is posting there.
Author suggests to Mr. Icenogle that Mr. Miller’s posts could negatively impact the firm, given they would likely show up high in internet search results of his name.
X commented on Archinect to Mr. Miller: “You know your posts here reflect back on your firm, you know this, right?”
Archinect’s response to this is to de-platform (a user account Mr. Miller is harassing) and delete several related posts.
In doing so, Archinect is protecting the abuser, Mr. Miller, and giving him a platform.
The de-platforming of X seems to be discriminatory and/or retaliatory in nature. Archinect de-platformed X and deletes the posts. Archinect does this numerous times, to numerous people, over a several year span.
Author calls the police department in Grand Junction, CO, where the Blythe Group is based, to ask about filing a police report of Mr. Miller’s online harassment. The dispatcher suggests author file the report in Portland, OR, where author lives.
Author files the report with the Portland police today.
Author, Portland, OR
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 influence design practice decisions.
The studio will be remote collaboration, and some on site work, if needed.
The Pi-Des studio is based in NE Portland, OR in the Summer, and Desert Center, CA in the Winter.
Participating students may have introductory to advanced design experience, adequate sketching and or digital modeling ability. It is ok if you are a complete beginner, but you must be open to learning critical thinking, and design language.
David has 34 years of professional design experience, and is a graduate of the Knowlton School of Architecture. He has been in solo practice since 2007.
In addition to his architectural and product design work, he has run several art galleries, most notably a four year stint with the former artist-run Contemporary Arts Collective in the Arts Factory, downtown Las Vegas, NV. He also founded Apparatus studio on Commerce street, and the David S Curtis studio where he was a gallerist.
David was a senior professional for the Stubbins Associates on the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, and a Design Director for the design architect on the Nevada State Museum, Clark County, NV.
He taught Community Design at the Art Institute of Las Vegas, Residential Architecture at The Community College of Southern Nevada, and Architecture at The Meadows School. He has been a guest critic at Parsons School of Design, and at UNLV. He was a Gallery Educator for the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum.
For more information please contact David at Pi-Des studio, 971 331 9699 mobile, or email: dcpides@gmail.com
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.
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Primitive Hut + Triage Field
Update 8 5 2022: Screenshots from the Rhinoceros modeling of Primitive Hut a de-mountable dwelling system by Pi-Des. Pi-Des prepares for the first 3D mockups of system components, structural analysis, and fabrication detailing. Pi-Des hopes to have first runs of the system available for purchase soon. If you are interested in reserving a primitive hut, please email: dcpides@gmail.com.
Climate Strike PDX
Calliope Ruskin, 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, under 8000 wild fire incidents in the state alone, and approximately 100 fatalities recorded.
On August fourth of 2018, a national disaster was declared in the northern part of the state: by November, strong dry winds aggravated existing fire conditions and CA erupted in a new batch of fires.
What the 2018 wild fire season made obvious was that we need to adapt to these harsh conditions and respond when climate disasters displace people.
In the midst of the wild fire destruction in 2018, David Curtis began conceptualizing Primitive Hut, a de-mountable system that can be transported out of the active fire area and reassembled as needed. It acts as a Triage Field that provides an area of refuge should one not have time to evacuate the site. Triage Field is an integral fire suppression device for emergency use. It has other technical capabilities that are currently classified.
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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
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