mild sense of vindication?

tony — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:40:06 +0000

Who feels mildly vindicated for choosing the government scholarship to China over random graduate degree in psuedo-nonsense-mathfinance-of-some-type? This guy. Now I’m free to become an artist without attendant guilt.

Perhaps I could combine finance and art – design complex derivatives with value linked to painting auctions, as a hedge for clients’ counter-counter cyclical asset portfolios? Or maybe be like these guys, designers of Shenzhen’s new stock exchange:

As a metaphor::

For millennia, the solid building stands on a solid base . . . Typically, the base anchors a structure and connects it emphatically to the ground.The essence of the stock market is speculation: it is based on capital, not gravity . . . [This suggests] an architectural invention: our project is a building with a floating base. As if it is lifted by the same speculative euphoria that drives the market, the former base has crept up the tower to become a floating platform.

Via io9.

bird’s nest interior / exterior

tony — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:11:46 +0000

I wasn’t terribly happy with my earlier photos of the Bird’s Nest. Behold my vanity.

And then some of the stadium ceiling. It’s amazing how quickly things seem to get dirty in China.

bird’s nest, exterior + cube

tony — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:40:01 +0000

It was very Escher wandering up and down the stairs. It looks bigger on TV.

And another one of the bubble cube

bubble cube

tony — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:09:46 +0000

Mmm coral reef.

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mild sense of vindication?

bird’s nest interior / exterior

bird’s nest, exterior + cube

bubble cube