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Dogpatch’s new trick: high fashion

In my day life, this is the project I’ve been managing. My responsibilities included design, drafting, code, permitting, coordinating with the contractors, owners, engineers, lighting designers, kitchen designer, etc. the project was recently mentioned in the SF Gate. Dogpatch is going high fashion. Chris and Ben Ospital, owners of Modern Appealing Clothing (MAC) in Hayes [...]

In Progress: 8 House / BIG

8H – The 8-House from BIG on Vimeo. This is a bit long, and not about hooping at all. BIG (the predessor of PLOT) is one of my favorite architecture firms. When I lived in Copenhagen this firm was the inspiration for the way I started thinking about architecture and even space for that matter. [...]

Hoop Structure – Yes We Can Architects

The installation was in the courtyard of the 18th century Hotel d’Aurès music school as part of the Festival des Architectures Vives :In(Side)Out in Montpellier, France last summer. Original post: here Share on Facebook

Blue Bottle Coffee: customer takes design into his own hands.

The Blue Bottle Coffee kiosk beneath my architecture office is constantly busy, sometimes with lines exceeding 30 minutes in our Hayes Valley back alley. This morning as I approached our front door, I notices a new street addition across the street. Desiring more table space to set his drink, one of the regular customers took [...]

Poppin all over the world…

This image show the top 500 cities that visited Isopop.com in March 2009. The diagram was generated using Google Analytic. Share on Facebook

Sharna’s 5-beat weave

I didn’t think this was physically/conceptually possible but then Sharna goes and posts a video of it. I’ve been drilling this all weekend and I’m getting close to having it smooth but it’s a serious test of my co-ordination. I love moves like this that really stretch the boundaries of co-ordination. -Sharna Rose Here is [...]

aRose by Random Rab

Grant used to say that “The Riddle” by Random Rab was the soundtrack to our lives that no one knew. He said that because he played it all the time, everyone loved the song, but no one ever really payed that much attention to it. If you don’t own “The Riddle” by Random Rab, I [...]

Sign of the times

A restaurant I was working on has been put on hold. Share on Facebook

Business Cards

Just received my new business cards. The cards say, “isopop, hoop performance teaching research.” I’m particularly fond of the research part. Share on Facebook

Antispin Linear Isolation – Poi to Hoop

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