I <3 the weekend!

This weekend has been so great. It was good to see all my friends again this week after getting back from the semester in Berlin, but I was kind of on sensory overload. Its been good to relax a bit and enjoy all that Boston has to offer again.

On Friday night I joined up with some of my friends at the Squealing Pig and went to a gallery opening at pinkcomma gallery in the South End. I like to go to first friday's in the south end for the art shows all the time and one night happened upon pinkcomma. It actually just opened this past year and its run by one of the professor's in the architecture department at Wentworth. This time I knew about them though and was planning ahead to go to the exhibition. This time they had a show with 12 different young architecture firms that put together a parti wall outside the gallery on Wareham street. Its made from a plant like a chia pet and hung on metal supports. It came out well and was also very well attended. If we can change the orientation of how plants grow... (out instead of upwards) can't we change the weather patterns in the sky with the help of some more tools?

Click to read article on weather altering

Strange huh? Yeah. I think its an amazing phenomenon. I hope this could be used to protect every part of the world from hurricanes and tornados and tsunamis. I'm moving to Miami in August to go to grad school at Univ of Miami, and I'm nervous about the hurricanes. I flew down there last week to visit campus and went on a campus tour. The campus is beautiful, I was really impressed with what I saw especially in the architecture dept, but when we got to the freshman dorms, I was a little scared out of my mind. The dorms are 12 stories high and look like they were built to survive WW3. But they were built to survive hurricane force winds. The tour guide told me that when storms come they have the top six floors go and live with the bottom six and they play games, order pizza and have a big party while the storm goes through. This didn't make me feel very safe since the apartment I just put a deposit down on would probably get blown away in a storm. I really don't know what to expect down there, but I wish this weather technology could be put into practice sooner so I wouldn't have to worry about hurricanes.  It really could do so much good for everyone. I don't know if it could prevent floods, earthquakes, or mudslides, that might be more tricky to perfect. Curing a drought or altering a rainy season might to more good to the world and make everyone more profitable in the long run. I like to think there would be no consequences because the energy taken away from stopping rain in some cloud could be moved to another to make it rain. I guess only time will tell.