User talk:DVD R W/Archive7

Most of my Wikipedia accounts are named User:DVD R W, but on irc I am schwartz and the Commons User:Schwartz. Here is a favorite edit by me on another wiki.

thanks for getting back to me
both at the architecture project page and at my user page. I will change the page name on the Maya Revival Style shortly, but am really here to talk about the photo commons idea. I don't really know anything about it. I've posted hundreds [or so it sometimes seems] of pictures over the years but always by just hitting the Upload File button and then linking it to a particular article. So what is this other process? I'm one of those folks who just work on articles and have a very vague understanding of the various projects and other relationships that go on around here. Carptrash 15:37, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Sandstein
You may wish to co-nominate our mutual friend here: Requests for adminship/Sandstein Guy (Help!) 13:11, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Thonet
... is now translated at Michael Thonet. An interesting article! Best, Sandstein 19:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Pictures
I took tons of picture of the class of 1959 chapel today (we were looking to kill some time while waiting for dinner and schlepping my parents over there seemed like a good activity.) Unfortunately, its really rainy, and while the patina on the outside of the building actually looks kind of cool in the rain, I was unable to get any rainbow pics of the inside. However, I think I'll build the article this weekend and use the ones I have as placeholders -- I can get more. I wanted to go grab a carpenter center pic, but the rain made that impractical. However, I can get it sometime on my way to class. If you or any of the other architecture folks have specific boston area buildings you'd like pictures of, it would be a fun way for me to spend a saturday -- I don't get around my city enough, I think. Hope your thanksgiving was lovely! Dina 01:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, still needs work though, but I like all the pictures -- do you think there's too many? I thought that for an article about a work of art, more pictures might fly. The Class of 1959 Chapel. Dina 03:11, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I was sort of going to put it off until today but then I figured I had better at least write a draft while the building was fresh in my mind. Then I got all artsily destracted playing with using different images and screwing around with the sizing and placement of them. I will definitely expand it though, but I need to do some research first. What are you translating? Articles from russian?  I think the best "DYK" fact would be something about the clock unfortunately I can neither figure nor find out how the damn thing works (no mechanism is visible.)  And I assume I actually have to "know" the fact...Dina 13:50, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I was pretty sure that pic on commons was too good to be true. The thing is, I have access to some of the invertebrate models through work, but I just had a rather long class lecture on copyright issues relating to photos of museum objects and I suspect that if I asked if I could license such a photo as copyleft the answer would probably be no.  And I want pics of the flowers anyway.  But maybe I'll just email Harvard and ask, it can't hurt.  How the hell are you going to translate that article?  I don't remember you mentioning that you spoke Japanese (or "question mark language" in my browser ;)) Dina 23:16, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Seismic
yes i agree with you...the routing to seismic analysis works well. good luck with your article. regards. Anlace 15:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Userpage revert
Thanks for the revert - much appreciated. Best as always, Gwernol 00:40, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Hah!
I use firefox, like all you leet geeks. Back when I was a lowly artistic MAC user (before I moved in with a geek) you'll be interested to know that I found it much easier to set up my mac for foreign scripts (particularly russian in my case). With PC's its all question marks and "you need to install blah blah blah". ;) Good luck with your serious weather. We'll be in your position soon enough, though its been mild at the moment. And quitting smoking, well, its just time. Enjoy the snow! Dina 01:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Also: can I ask about the strange new face in my talk page elsewhere or should I let it rest? ;) Dina 02:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1)Only enough to holler at me that I must fix something and to be scared of reading the Bob Dylan article (for fear of starting a huge edit war). 2)Schwartz? I was trying to be subtle in case you were. It's interesting to note that the word "hubby" makes me uncomfortable, but perhaps that's the lack of nicotine... Dina 02:53, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * well that's what I meant. You're basically the only person who's talked to me at commons -- and suddenly my talk page history is all "schwartz".  I thought perhaps you'd gone into the witness protection program.  I'm not scared to read the dylan article -- heis.  I showed him some article called something like "artists that have been compared to Bob Dylan" that's an just unverified list of random things like "Sven Svenderson -- the bob dylan of Norway" (I don't know if its still around) and he got very upset. Also, I'm kind of kidding. ;)Dina 11:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Here's the list :List of people likened to Bob Dylan. Dina 12:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Curious Username
How did you choose you username? Did you just look around your desk and pick something at random? Prome theus  -X303-  10:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Translation
Hey Calton, when I blocked Swedenborg a few days ago, I gathered from your userpage that you can speak and read Japanese

Oh Good Lord, no: my Japanese would have to work to reach the level of "pathetic". I'm willing to take a look at the translation as a copy editor, and ask someone about any ambiguities, if necessary, though. --Calton | Talk 04:47, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * A quick skim shows nothing obviously out-of-whack (though, stylistically, I would have beefed up the intro -- mention the Tokyo Tower! -- and moved the place of birth down to the 2nd graf). I'll examine in a little more depth later. --Calton | Talk 04:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * If you'd like, I can ask someone about the references, but give me a bit of time.


 * I'll take your advice and try to expand the intro, but expanding will be a little difficult


 * No, it just means putting more -- and more important -- detail from the article itself at the beginning. The Tokyo Tower thing, for example, should NOT be buried down at the end of paragraph 5. Call it the Modified AP style/inverted pyramid, with the most important stuff front-loaded.


 * in case you are being honest


 * Are you kidding? Around here it's a running joke. I was even called upon at a company party -- no kidding -- to demonstrate. Very amusing -- for them. --Calton | Talk 05:24, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh yeah, a translation source I often use: http://www.alc.co.jp/

Just enter kanji in that search box, and uses of that kanji in their database pop up. Helps narrow things down.

As for the award, It looks like "2nd Class, Order of the Rising Sun" to me.

--Calton | Talk 05:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Towers
Damn. I wish you'd asked me a few weeks ago, then I could have gone to this. --Calton | Talk 05:45, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
That was a good suggestion of yours to meet up with Dogears in London. We didn't get to see that much architecture, but found a few good pubs and got on really well. We missed you. --Mcginnly | Natter 14:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Sweet!
Awesome, good job with Tachu Naito, I'm very impressed. Dina 03:30, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Happy birthday!
I just noticed it's your thirtieth birthday. Congratulations! Sandstein 09:37, 1 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Happy birthday mate, another inductee to the 30 club. Welcome, there's some mixed blessings, but on the whole it's better. --Mcginnly | Natter 12:50, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Mcginnly, tell the ppl at the Greenwich observatory that it is still my birthday, that it is still 1 December for me and that they can still make it to the party. Am glad you made it :-) DVD+ R/W 01:21, 2 December 2006 (UTC)



Happy freakin' birthday! Dina 03:43, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Спасибо Дина. ДВД Бессмертный07:56, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Château de Louveciennes
Hi! I noticed this article had been waiting for GA quite some time, and a s I'm interested in architecture, had a look. It seems a little under-cited: Could you have a look, perchance? Given it's relatively short, it might not be too hard to push it the last bit of a way. Adam Cuerden talk 16:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The shortness shouldn't be an obstacle, but it would be nice to be a bit better cited, which the shortness should make easier than the 40+ KB articles I've been working on citing from scratch, ye see =) Anyway, tell me when you're done - even if it's failed in the interim, you're allowed to skip to queue and get it checked by the original GA reviewer. I'll have a look at the other architecture article today. Adam Cuerden talk 08:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your support with my RfA. My nomination succeeded. It's an honor to join the admin ranks and I can only hope that I do as good of a job as you. Thank you for blocking all the vandals I've reported. =) -- Gogo Dodo 22:25, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey
So I added a pic to Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, but I think I should have taken one from the other side (this is the side I always think of because its the street I walk down most frequently.) It's better than the old one, but not awesome...Dina 01:41, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I've got to say thanks first, since I asked and then you delivered, but this building should be shown "in the round", and you should show the part on pilotis, and where the ramp goes through the building , the first two here show this pretty well. On another note, these buildings , and  also looks pretty interesting. Would like to see more but don't want to sound demanding :-( - your friend  DVD+ R/W 03:11, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I know, I know, I missed the good shot. demanding boy I'll be down there during the day on Friday.  It was sort of rainy anyway and not good for photos. Where are those other two?  The first one looks familiar. ;) Dina 03:14, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I would love to get a shot from slightly above and far away -- the first one on the film archive page looks like it must have been taken from a window in a classroom building in Harvard Yard. I could give it a try. Dina 03:17, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hm, I think I know where that first one is, across from Radcliffe Yard. And, um, I was going to enter the building and try to take a photo out of the window, smartypants. ;) Dina 04:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Gah, please explain how I'm supposed to make an informed decision in the Arbcom elections without taking the day off?!?! Other than going by the "they reverted vandalism on my userpage once so they must be cool like DVDRW" policy? I'm going to try, but I would sort of rather not vote than just throw darts...something that made me laugh this morning (though I don't understand it) User talk:Raveonpragha. Dina 13:31, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * But if you hold them to the cool as DVDRW policy then no one will possibly make it,
 * Hee. Dina 15:05, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

M. Ledoux
Don't be despomdemt by this edit the page does not want much work to be a FA, I tend not to bother with GA as its is too hit and miss and eratic, I only ever tired it with a page of "mine" once and was uncermoniously slung out. FA is more reliable and ultimatly reputable. Good luck Giano 11:24, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Expressionist architecture
He DVD, I notice we've both revived editing the Expressionist architecture article, prior to it's impending GA review. I've archived the talk BTW, because most of it was used as a scratch sheet for translations etc. - hope that's ok. I'd like some discussion about the article though if you wouldn't mind, because there's still a few fundamental things that I think we disagreed on at the time and I'd like to us reach some sort of agreement on. I've started a thread at Talk:Expressionist architecture. Cheers --Mcginnly | Natter 16:51, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Dammit - I wrote a long response there and it got lost somehow.....The gist was:- I've crossposted your expressionist reply to the talk page and will respond in due course. The diff is interesting. It's slighlty anti-architect POV pushing but difficult to refute. Egan (1998) to the best of my knowledge did not slam architects for social deterministic designs - the idea had been discredited already - certainly it was widely discredited by the 1980's with the last real debate rolled into part of Prince Charles's 'Vision of Britian' debate and really by the late 1970's the professions generally accepted that the deck-access social housing programmes had resulted in sink-estates rather than the utopian 'streets in the sky' of the 1950/1960's. The Churchill quote is one I've not heard, but the "science and modernisim in the 20th Century, the issue of Determinism came to the fore" is a little disingenuous - to say it was at the 'fore' is anyway. It wasn't so much modernism, as some of the leftist baggage that modernsim brought with it (with the kind of central planned economy thinking) that brought about determinism. regards --Mcginnly | Natter 18:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * See the expressionist talk page for were I'm going with this......--Mcginnly | Natter 02:00, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * :-) I'm trying to say there's at least 3 separate definitions of expressionism, the article's confusing because it doesn't attempt to define them, but just lumps it all together and tries to muddle through. I think it would be clearer if we start with the initial definition of the term (northern european expressionism), describe that and then move on to examine how the term has been broadened by scholars to inlcude other definitions - that include gaudi and then, well, almost any architecture that has a strong emotional content. I've had a stab at rewriting the lead - what do you think? - revert if you like, I meant for us to review the article, now we've had some distance from it. --Mcginnly | Natter 02:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ever helpful, I looked up determinism and dragged up a few things from memory to add to the article. Think we called it the "megal mood" which worked when we had to do a planning exercise in college, but by the mid-late 60s there was a lot of interest in community involvement etc. Ironically, Chas shot his mouth off about a "carbuncle" which was the result of extensive public consultation, and Poundbury is a classic social deterministic exercise. Maybe he's in favour of it, led by the aristocracy of course. Also added by tuppenceworth to Expressionism: in my experience the term applies to Northern European styles of a brief period between the wars, and it's stretching things to claim that later styles formed part of the movement. The modern movement always had interest in odd shapes, and while Gillespie, Kidd and Coia's churches have something in common with Dutch ideas, they were firmly part of modern architecture. .. dave souza, talk 11:45, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, thought you were the ones who understood Architectural theory – my interest is in design rather than bullshitting: reminds me of a visiting lecturer, who asked what the current buzzwords were in the pub afterwards. He had a notebook cut to have three sections, so he could write the words in and flip the pages to produce random meaningless phrases like "flexible brutalist parameter" or whatever. If anyone wants more explanation of my gibbering above, just ask. .. dave souza, talk 12:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The only bit I was struggling with was "megal mood" I've never heard it before. My understanding of architectural determinism is where the architect 'imposes' his idea of how people should use a building or space. So designs which limit freedom of choice are deterministic. The other sense is really an extension of this - studies on rats find them happier in more congenial surroundings - so the architect invents or borrows a philosophy of community or society and then imposes it on his schemes (this is more planning orientated) - So, in the UK in the name of slum clearance, tower blocks and deck access dwellings were constructed - the existing social make up of the community which they were to replace was either ignored or supposed to be recreated 'in the sky'. Inevitably, insufficient budgets in post war britain meant that 1. The quality of construction was poor. 2. The kind of corbusian 'roof top' amenities weren't provided 3. Budgets for maintenance were tight. The result was little old ladies trapped on the 10th floor with the urine stained lift broken. So the idea that architecture could solve what were essentially social problems (architectural determinism) was discredited.
 * There's some british cultural references here too now - Chas=Charles - in this case it's Prince Charles. He sparked an almighty hoo-haa in the late 80's by critising the place of modern architecture in britain, it was all set out in his book "Visions of Britain" which essentially wanted Leon Krier and a few others to return britains architecture to traditional values of scale and cultural context. tuppenceworth=two pence worth=contributed to a debate. cheers--Mcginnly | Natter 14:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry about excessive slang. "Megal mood" was just something we made up: one group project was a planning exercise, and after struggling for a while to make something of the infrastructure and outline layout, we found that the best way to get something that looked presentable was outright megalomania, the planner playing god if you like. More of a warning against prescriptive planning than anything else. Your analysis looks right: the vision probably came from le Corbusier and Gropius, multistorey solutions were favoured because of planning demands for high density and misplaced hopes for the efficiency of industrialised building, as well as because of the modernist mindset. "Comprehensive development" slum clearance suited such schemes, and gave architects a nice big project to make their mark. By the end of the 60s it was evident that tower blocks and large scale deck access schemes had problems, though some schemes like the Byker Wall put a lot of design effort into humanising them. However the subsidy and industrial interests kept these going, and it was something Councils could see as "doing something". The Ronan Point tower block failure ended their popularity, though if enough was spent such schemes could work as well serviced homes for the wealthy. Efforts to work at a traditional scale had been going on in various ways since the 1950s, for example in the New Towns. .. dave souza, talk 16:05, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, the slang was really interesting, but now I understand better. DVD+ R/W 02:28, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm off to bed. --Mcginnly | Natter 02:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I've drafted an alternative structure for the article - it does admittedly shunt Gaudi down the page considerably, but puts german expressionism to the fore after a definition of the term and the preceding context - Girlfriend is out tomorrow night and I'll write like crazy if you think the structure's ok. What do you think? On another tack, perhaps we should withdraw the GA nomination for now to avoid inconveniencing the reviews? Cheers. --Mcginnly | Natter 00:44, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Czech cubist architecture
Whilst stumbling around looking for expressionist references, I found this article which you might find interesting - it doesn't touch much on our article but it's about a subject i've never come across before. --Mcginnly | Natter 20:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oops forgot the link - here --Mcginnly | Natter 00:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

New expressionist structure
Sorry, I forgot to include the link for the proposed restructure discussion - it's Here. Kind regards --Mcginnly | Natter 09:17, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

National romantic style
Hi, regarding Maybe take a look at this image:- There's an marked absence of ornament, a reliance on massing and a stripped out, almost art deco appearance. Also this site explains it's the scandinavian equivalent of Jugenstil - we've got both Art nouveau and Jugenstil in the template as antecedants to modern architecture - I wonder if we should reinclude National Romantic style? --Mcginnly | Natter 12:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Expressionist architecture
I understand why you would withdraw the nomination, as it languished without anyone looking at it for so long. However, I have briefly looked over the article, consider it to be worthy of at least GA rating, and got a book on artchitecture so that I could try to competently review it when I am done reviewing the Sei Whale article for its FAC. I will have time starting early next week to look at Expressionist architecture. Please let me know if you are interested. I don't have a background in architecture, however I study this era in literature and the arts, and am familiar with many of the architects and their structures. People put a lot of hard work into this article and it should have been reviewed by someone. KP Botany 17:52, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * KP, I'm anxious not to inconvenience you with a review just yet. I have some issues with the article as it stands and would like to resolve them before resubmitting to GA. By all means have a read and if you think it's up to scratch promote it, but certainly before FAC I'd like to resolve my issues.
 * DVD I really hope I haven't pissed you off with all this, we've collaborated so well in the past I'd hate to think we're now terse - can we just put it down to Pehnt? It just doesn't read coherantly enough for me at the moment, but I feel it has the potential to be one of the best FA's on wikipedia - I'd rather slog it out and make it so, rather than rush it. The new structure page carries a rewritten lead which perhaps gets at a better definition, will you comment? --Mcginnly | Natter 22:49, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

WPARCH bulletin
So I bit the bullet:-

looks like it could do with a format/beautification but I feel I've been lucky to get the information formatted in lines let alone good webdesign - please improve the look. Content comments requested too before we roll it out to the project participant talk pages. --Mcginnly | Natter 23:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Or maybe we should just link, by bot to something like:- WikiProject Novels/Outreach/Newsletter December 2006 --Mcginnly | Natter 00:47, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Rrrrrennaaiissance
Arre uu taking thhe mmicckky outtta meee or what?? --Amandajm 09:27, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I've done a quick fix and removed the inuse thing again, so if you wannt to chheck my spelling, and so on,, gooo for it. I'm justt ggoing to get The Laurenntian Library and Palladio toggether in a word doc which is the bbest way too eliminnate dubbydups, and keeps the page open. I'm cooncerned its going to gget too long. I think that the national sections should be given a sort of intro, thhen mooved to their own pages so that people with specific local kknowledge can improve them.

--Amandajm 09:37, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Will do. --Amandajm 10:49, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

re Your suggestions I agree. As a matter of fact, I was just planning my own list. Have a look at Stained glass - British glass, 1811-1918. I wish that I could read Italian fluently instead of battling along with an Italian English dictionary and missing all the subtleties of expression.

So do I keep at it then? At the risk of making myself unpopular? I'll have a go at Palladio first. Hey! ... no dubbydups. I wonder what's going wrong with my computer! --Amandajm 11:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

--Amandajm 11:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

TR-808 image
DVD, I don't have a source for the TR-808 image I uploaded. It's been a while since i submitted the file and no one's mentioned it's copyright until now. I do know it's a common image and if you look on Google images you can find many like it which I why I used it in the first place - but what site it actually came from I don't remember. If it needs to be deleted then go ahead an delete it. Cyberia23 21:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Meetup/NYC
This meetup event turned out to be pretty interesting with 30-40 people showing up. A whole range of characters taking up an entire restaurant down the street from the Bloomberg Tower. Listened to everyone speak passionetly about their subject of interest, drinks and dinner. Thnak you very much for the notification. — 07:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

B&H
Not all spam? I was under the impression it was... Do you know which was and which wasn't? I gtg to bed... Feel free to undelete whatever... (of course if I had done it yesterday, it would have blown my DYK muahhahahaha) Seriously, go for it. I am off to bed - crz crztalk 05:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Co-noms are welcome. I will be done drafting it in a few minutes. - crz crztalk 15:44, 11 December 2006 (UTC)


 * And feedback, DVD, if you have any to offer. Dina 17:25, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Kamekobaka
Hi DVD+ R/W, Regrettably, I don't think I have any further information on the photo, except that I took it in Okinawa, perhaps in 1992. The memory grows dim... For some photos I do have additional information, so if there's anything else I can do to help, please do contact me. Best regards Fg2 06:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Västra hamnen etc
Hi. Your question on my talk page might already have been answered, but I wanted to get back to you none the less, now that I have some time. Västra hamnen, bo01, etc, are perfectly suitable as articles on English Wikipedia, so if you know Swedish feel free to start them up. I'm not going to translate them though, as I'm currently narrowing my attention to improving a few "core" articles (as I call them).

Regards, Fred-Chess 22:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Block.
Hi. I see you just blocked user:216.165.96.96. The same user also seems to be vandalizing from 24.47.242.1 and 68.175.108.175. The vandalism seems to focus on vandalizing the astigmatism page, and posting references to it on the pages of users who have issued vandalism warnings. Should those IP addresses be blocked as well?--Srleffler 06:19, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I protected the page for now. Can you help keep an eye on them for a little while and report them to WP:AIV if they keep at it? DVD+ R/W 06:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, no. I'm going offline shortly.--Srleffler 06:24, 12 December 2006 (UTC)