Erictography

Bottom line is no one on Verizon cares enough about tumblr to spend any time, money or talent on taking this great place we call tumblr and building a great social media. They don’t see the value or how to monetize it, so  no one cares. Other websites like Twitter are able to clean up their act without doing what tumblr is doing. 

I think most users agree this place would be better without ANY child pornography, hate groups or pornbots. 

I think most users agree this place would be better if you don’t see pornography on your dash unless you specifically follow a blog that posts pornography.

I think all porn blogs should not be available to be seen unless you follow them or someone you follow reblogs them. If you run a porn blog and don’t set your settings to NSFW then your blog should be taken down. 

The disturbing solution is like burning down the house because you found a couple of bugs in the kitchen.You kill the bugs (or maybe if you feel so inclined released them back to the wilderness) but you don’t destroy your home!

Thee things: observe, explore and practice.

Observe everyday the world around you. How people move in a space, sizes of spaces, how light affects the spaces and a million other details we take for granted everyday. Research the type of building you are designing and see what makes it work (or not work). Visit them and learn from floor plans of previous successful projects.

Explore options, never start with a preconceive notion of what you want the floor plan to be.You might have starting points like allowable area of the site to use or an entrance point but try out different configurations. I would start with simple bubble diagrams or adjacency diagrams but do not confuse those with architecture they are only to help you visualize the connections between spaces. Do not ignore this step and jump right into drawing rooms.

Practice makes (near) perfect. The more options you the better you will get at resolving the project’s challenges. The more projects you do the better you will get to resolving a floor plan. Many architects get stuck on a concept and try to make the plan fit that idea. Let the idea grow organically with the basic organization of the structure. I have found that a good plan tends to almost resolve itself and I am just a medium to draw it.