JOSHUA DOOLITTLE
Title: imagineer
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Sun Sign: Gemini
Chinese Sign: Water Rat
Location: Schenectady, NY
About Me:
neo-indigeni groovisatva, indigo zen flavored, full suspension mtn. freek, sustainable anarchitect, artist, industrial designer, outdoor recreationalist, nomadic carpenter, whirler of peas…
http://bambitat.com/
currently engaged in the development of a hybrid for/non profit bamboo housing project. Updated drawings currently viewable at:
http://bamboocompetition.com/spages/1420-03.html
The “Perma Yurt” design is merely the logical beginning of an entirely new species of sustainable architecture.
Looking for access to acreage of bamboo, in the 30' tall range and higher to be part of a world R+D/outreach/educational tour.
This system is based on working with bamboo's tendency to crack upon harvesting. We will be adapting modern and ancient methods to break the bamboo into strips, then form glue-less, composite, “organic steel” beams. More info at our site.
Fav Quotes:
“Nature is wiggly, everything wiggles”
-Alan Watts
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
-Chuang Tzu
“We must learn to think not only logically, but bio-logically.”
-Edward Abbey
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there…” - Rumi
“It occurred to him that much of life was learning to wait for the right moment, and that it was a hard kind of patience to learn”
-Barry Lopez, Crow and Weasel
“When you travel you learn answers to questions you didn't know you needed to ask” -Rick Ridgeway
“Imagination is greater then knowledge” -Einstien
“Never attempt anything new unless you can do so with the same intensity that you would aproach a pond if your hair were on fire” -Hindu proverb
“The depths of one's difficulties is merely a measure of one's potential to excel” -anon
“Like the birds, we build our nests in a circle, for they are of the same religion as ours” -Black Elk
“There are no right angles in nature” -Joseph Campbell
“Do or do not, there is no try” -Yoda
“I give thanks for this world as a place to learn, and for this human body that I know I've earned.” -Beastie Boys
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