Niche (architecture) Puns

My cousin recently chose architecture to study in university and I want to get him a Christmas gift that is relevant to that. I was thinking of a photo collection related to architecture. Last year for Christmas someone in the family received the Soviet Bus Stop photo book as a gift and I thought that was terrific. It is such a niche genre of architecture and surprisingly fascinating. I'm looking for something like this.

A few random ideas I had:

-Berlin architecture. I've never studied architecture but the buildings of this city stood out to me and I know my cousin would appreciate it.

-Italian architecture. Either Italy as a whole, a particular Italian architect, or the architecture of a particular city.

-Buddhist temple architecture. There is a particularly beautiful Tibetan Buddhist temple close to where we live and so maybe my cousin would appreciate a collection of photos similar to it.

-Anything else you guys think would be cool.

I know some of the rarer books can be a few hundred dollars but I don't have that kind of money for this gift unfortunately so this book should be as cheap as possible. Thank you all.

I'm curious about if anyone here knows about someone that has finished his or her architecture studies and done something completely niche, or just different, with it in the field of architecture / space design / landscape design. For an example I attended a lecture from an architect that focuses on designing nature shelters, photography hides, outdoor activity spaces and cabins mainly for bird watching and I think that's very cool. It would be interesting to hear about other people that have focused their architectural interest on something a bit different from the norm.

Shoutout to the 2 other Computer Science and Political Science majors I've met.

My picks:

• American Sign Language and Theater
• Linguistics and Speech Language Pathology and Audiology
• Environmental Science and Landscape Architecture
• Cultural Anthropology and Theater
• Data Science and Behavioral Neuroscience
• Cybersecurity and Criminal Justice

Hi folks,

My name is Jackson Patrick-Sternin. First, I have to qualify myself: I've been a professional assistant editor and editor for six years. My work in this arena has spanned short commercial productions to feature length films such as Saving Capitalism. Additionally, I co-won Best Student Short at the International Documentary Awards. I'm a Premiere specialist, but I also work in Media Composer.

I managed to break into the industry early by self-teaching editing programs like most of you then lucking out on an order of internships that taught me how much I didn't know and couldn't have known to learn. It's impossible to know industry standards and optimized workflows without getting a foot in the door and finding a mentor.

Not even LinkedinLearning/Lynda.com can help you here. You can have all the tutorials in the world, but without a clear understanding of workflows, conventions, and systems of management, you can't get started.

I'm in the process of revising an "Editing Bible" that was originally written for a series of workshops I designed and taught. It succinctly guides the entire professional workflow and conventions for a short form piece and functions as a detailed Premiere guide. Additionally, there are media files accompanied so you can actually perform what the manual teaches as you go along. If you learn the workflow, terminology, and management it instructs, you're ready for assistant editing work and full fledged video editing if you have the chops. You can describe your skills to prospective clients such that you show that you know what you're doing.

One of many barriers would be this: If your client handed you a hard drive of raw media and asked you to build the project for the editor, where would you start? What is the workflow for building a project? The answer to the former is building hard drive and project architecture, but do you know an optimized system of of media management that the editor will be happy with? Likely not, because how could you? That's just the very first step.

There's so many little details and niche areas of knowledge involved in these processes. I'd like to offer something that carries you from that request to build the project all the way through color grading, sound mixing/clean up, and output.

I believe I would translate the document into a website that just contains this product. It would be donation only.

Does this peek anyone's interest? I just want to help out.

--_from VOX

"There is a mural at the bagel shop in my hometown that haunted me as a child. It is massive and square, composed of blob-like humanoid shapes in shades of rust and orange with tiny faceless heads, all of them inhaling swirls of piping-hot java. I remember thinking that it was sort of threatening, but what I did not realize at the time was that it was part of a much larger and slightly insidious graphic design trend with an on-the-nose name: Global Village Coffeehouse.

It was TikTok where I learned this, thanks to a video by a woman who goes by the moniker Melina Bee and who has made dozens of videos explaining similarly niche graphic design and architectural aesthetics. Global Village Coffeehouse, for instance, is the term for late ’80s-late ’90s graphic design that combines the appearance of handcraftedness with ancient or tribal imagery, often with earth tones and vaguely nature-oriented motifs like trees, suns, and waves. It’s since been regarded more cynically as a way for corporations to profit from the look and feel of grassroots movements. It, she says, was the reason she started making the videos in the first place:

“My jaw just dropped,” she says of when she first discovered the term. “I had to share it with a friend who’s also like me, very visual, and I was like, ‘Did you know this is a thing?’” Since her first viral hit about the Camden bench and hostile architecture in March 2021, Melina has become known as the go-to source for design trends you know visually but perhaps don’t have the words to describe. While her background is in architecture and historic preservation, she credits a volunteer collective called the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute for coining and curating many of the styles, which range from the 1950s diner favorite “Googie” (think retrofuturist “Space Age” architecture) to the ’90s New Age-y “Zen-X” (think Sting doing yoga).

We chatted about the ever-quickening speed of trend cycles and whether there were some styles that were too awful to ever revive, among other fun new words (“Whimsigothic!” “Frasurbane!”).

How’d you get into design history?

I have a master’s in historic preservation with a focus on craft material and design, which is more architecture-based, there are a lot of overlapping principles [with design history]. Last summer, I stumbled on something called the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (CARI) on Reddit, and discovered a style they called Global Village Coffeehouse. And ther

Asking to test the hypothesis that architectural competitions are a great way to get good public buildings.

Hi Newtubers community,

I started this channel on January 25th with 91 subs till today and I have uploaded 7 videos out of which two are received well and kind of makes me understand what my viewers want. Please give feedback on everything about this channel. I'll be happy to see YouTubers of same niche say a Hi :)

Strength: consistency and eye candy thumbnails

Weakness: poor editing capabilities

Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI2IPiHKdmwHpEtQm0vleyg

Hello, lately I have been thinking if I should try studying architecture, since I got an interest for it . The problem is that many people that study architecture say that its tough and stressful, and when you graduate it gets worst. But I dont know if eventually it will be worth it.

I know that if you have a passion for something it will always be worth it, but here im asking more if studying all those years are worth it in a sense of pay or job security.

I remember my older cousin getting into Hawaiian music back in the early 90s because the records were like $0.50 each. Recently I've gone through a dub phase and suddenly stumbled on this sea-shanty punk stuff (The Dreadnoughts, Colm McGuinness, The Longest Johns, Storm Weather Shanty Choir, Salty Dick, etc.) and I'm obsessed. What's something you've discovered randomly and are surprised you like?

A lot of the work I am interested to do will be mostly built from scratch by myself, provided there is fair support for numerical types (like complex numbers) and high precision numerical operations (if not, I'll be happy to write those routines as well). Many of my areas of interest are computationally demanding (python codes choke for large enough datasets) but are often parallelizable, and I am looking for guidance on implementing the same. I love math and physics, especially domains that involve rigorous analysis, ranging from physical/mathematic concepts like turbulence, topology, wave optics, electromagnetism and quantum physics to computational concepts like cryptography and information theory. I also love signal processing, especially relating to random and sparse signals. They require a decent amount of precision while simultaneously being fast enough. I wish to be able to run the code on low power and high power manycore or SIMD processors, with the sequential parts being run on a general-purpose processor or highly pipelined FPGA. Energy efficiency is one of my key targets along with speed (many scenarios are energy constrained) even if it requires a longer and customized code. Another area of interest I have, while not my primary goal is to implement redundancy using parallelism (including different compression storage methods: eg RAID). I would like to have some control over the different memory allocations (hierarchies of caches and scratchpad memories) and if possible, some of the caching schemes while still being usable across multiple architectures. If possible, options to optimize for burst and broadcasting, prescence or absence of hardware lockstep, depending upon hardware support (use of switches to do different routines for different hardware when it comes to memory copy and allocation, basically caching). Sorry for the long and open ended question, I realized it would be hard to really come to a decision without getting a holistic picture of the whole domain atleast to a fair level of depth. I am looking for suggestions in both hardware and software for the same.

My primary concern is software - including but not limited to languages, compilers and directives. Being not from a software programming background, I find it hard to search for the proper areas (and keywords). I would like to share my current understanding of the scenario in terms of software - I have currently explored Cuda, OpenCL, Fortran, OpenMP, OpenMPI, OpenACC, Julia

I might just be blowing smoke or I could be over thinking things, but I feel like it's happened way too much.

Of the most recent monster champions released, (Yuumi, Ornn, ASol, Ivern) all of them have a very game defining niche that affects not only how they play their champion, but how they play the game all together.

On the other hand, of the last 5 most recent releases (Vex, Akshan, Gwen, Viego, Rell) each champion has a defined niche but it doesn't affect how they play the game in it's entirety.

If ASol had the kit of Akali or Vex he would spike extremely high in popularity. If Yasuo or Akali had Ivern, Skarner, or ASol's kits their popularity would probably sink extremely low.

Yuumi is fairly popular because her niche is more beneficial than a disadvantage to her team. She's strong to boot, so seeing her frequently picked or banned shows that the whole monster vs. Human popularity contest really doesn't make much a difference unless their kit is bad or clunky.

So here's hoping we don't get another ASol or Skarner in the jungle. I just want a normal kit with a monster design slapped onto it.

This has got me confused. I expected this subreddit to have far more subscribers and active users.The amount of people here is pretty small for how popular riot is.There is a fair sized community in this game, but was far from the popularity I expected it to be.

The mobile market is HUGE. why did wild rift fail to get a large audience for the game? It is very fun and in ways feels like a better league of legends.

I'll go first.. For me it's SMITE, I have like 2000+ hrs in that game but indian gamers in that game is pretty non existent.

It's a multistep process with its many ups and downs.

For my, it would have to be muscle trucks. Engines are capable making twice the power, for half the weight of the engines did in the original muscle truck era. Yet still the fastest production truck is the Ram SRT-10. I think with modern technology(you can debate if technology in a truck is great or not. People still do, and will continue too.) You can't tell me a modern version of the Syclone with the LT based 4.3L V6, with a turbo with lowered suspension and AWD. Or a regular cab 150 with the 7.3L Godzilla, or with the supercharged GT500 motor and trans. It would be part of the last great send off of the ICE

As with any big city sub, I see lots of posts about people struggling to make friends or socialize, and people seem to think all anyone in D.C. can talk about is work. That said, I've long had a local community of friends (dance, EDM) here based around my interests that I'm super grateful for.

What's your niche or community of friends in DC?

Hello, I graduated with an architecture degree in 2020, and along with plenty of my fellow architecture graduates, fell less in love with the actual field of architecture and more in love with design itself. Many have transitioned to furniture making, jewelry, animation, etc.

Through my degree, I have luckily been well acquainted with art, design, illustration, 3d modeling, archviz, and rendering, as well as the often-overlooked skills of deep research, presentation, and knowledge of history/art history.

I have been learning motion design for about 6 months and am currently working on a motion design/main title design portfolio.

However, before going all-in on this, what is the usual path to becoming a main title designer? It seems like a somewhat niche category of the VFX/film industry and I have no idea where to start.

I played my first games online and am missing quite a few items and features. Not sure if there is a Roadmap.

• Light sources without electricity
• Dynamo and refillable batteries
• Hooking up carbatteries to power devices
• More containers water and fuel
• Knitting and wool, crafting clothing or armor
• Refillable lighter
• Ladder or grappling hook
• Car-mounted weapons
• Cowcatcher to protect cars
• Bikes
• Chainsaws
• Caravans or other utilities in vehicles
• Heavy trucks
• Vehicles with large tanks
• Forklift, golfcaddy, tractor, combine harvester
• Easy zombie traps (spear barricades, nailboards, pits, noise traps to warn players)
• Medicines against ailments, vom to clear poison somewhat
• Unconsciousness
• Carrying other players

Now when I say this I don't mean winning the Champions League with your 9th Division side from Norway- that's cool but it's too big.

For me it's getting another manager sacked, when you beat another manager and they get sacked after the game it makes me feel better at FM than I actually am.

Anyone else feel this or have something else?

I'm talking about music that's written in a unusual language, atonal, dissonant, contemporary, whatever you want to call it.

I don't care what people think about my music taste, but sometimes I'll make them listen to some piano pieces I'm studying and they just label them as crap, no second thought.

I usually just say that it's nice to listen or study something different and give your interpretation. Try and figure out what the composer meant and what it means to you.

I make the comparison of cooking (of which I know nothing about, but I presume it works the same). After a while you get sick of cooking the same standard dishes and you feel the need to explore something new. Why is it accepted in the cooking world but not in music?

I also say that it's not random notes, but it's all carefully structured with the intention to make you feel a certain emotion, or create a certain colour.

You can absolutely dislike it, but at least try listening to it first.

Do you explain people your taste for these types of music? If so, how do you do it?

Lots of people have special interests in media; TV and anime and video games and stuff. But what about all my autistic folks who have special interests in microwaves or ant farms or chairs or other less popular things? We're cool too!

My special interest is pet nutrition and i have a hyperfixation on meat processing / the meat industry that goes in and out. I wanna hear yours!

What's your favorite blockbuster? What famous, best-selling book do you love? What is your favorite "triple A" game? It's gotta be something you love for real, not a guilty pleasure. Tell me, your favorite popular piece of media. What I'm asking here is, what aspect of your life would make someone say "ya basic"?

I'll start: Like nearly everyone else on this damn planet, I love the MCU. It's entertaining, it's fun, It takes me away from the shit of every day life, and I love it.

Edit: Changed "generic" to "popular".

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> Steve Kerr: “It’s impossible not to like Andrew Wiggins. His teammates love him, he’s so coachable. He’s found a nice niche with this group of guys.”

> Wiggins: "I'm in a groove. I love my teammates. I love winning. Right now we're winning." > > Andrew Wiggins on his shooting success: "Just not thinking about it.. just letting it fly."

>Bjelica on Wiggins: "Everyone loves Andrew. I used to play with him in Minnesota... He always wants to do the right play, always wants to defend (the other team's) best player."

As the title says, what is the jersey you own that few others would?

For example, I have a #29 Lesean McCoy jersey I got after his rookie year for Christmas because I was convinced he was the guy.

Honorable mention Connor Barwin because his stint was short lived but I think he was notable enough for the team and community that he got enough fans.