Diploma & Letter of Recommendation

Michigan State University Diploma

Letter of Recommendation, The Inman Company, Shane D. Inman (President / Principal Designer)

The Drastic Switch

          Upon constructing this blog a few months back, I was forced to make a decision: Am I going to write this like a college application letter to please relevant trade professionals and put on some elaborate show personality or am I going to be real with all of my viewers, letting them know what I stand for, and how I truly view the subjects and topics I seem to often discuss.  It brings me great pleasure to offer you a site that offers me complete transparency as an interior designer and musician, letting you know exactly what I stand for, and how I truly feel.  How many Facebooks have you visited that all looked the same?  These "Duck Face"-ed women with their girlfriends in cocktail dresses, going to LED-adorned bars, flirting with men 5 years older than them, who are rockin' Ed Hardy shirts and "blow out" hair cuts?  How about hookah lounge "smoke ring pictures," self proclaimed models, or "photographers" that have taken an intro Adobe Photoshop CS5 class.  Im in no position to feel the need to replicate what's been done time and time again, and I truly hope you appreciate that.  Why not use the time to let you know who I am and what I'm all about, rather than clone myself into you liking me?  I know you're sick of looking at all these "hot shot, my shit don't stink" 22 year olds that feel they've toured the world 7 times...let's get real...regardless...

          As of a couple weeks ago, I graduated from Michigan State University and earned a BA in interior design.  This was quite an accomplishment for me, as I was my father's 1st son to complete college, but also because MSU was (and still is) a Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) accredited design school.  A few weeks have now passed, and I've since sent out a few thank you letters, or something to the tune of that to at least let those in my personal, as well as professional life, know I'm still there, and will always be there.  I think it's about time my blog gets a new "face lift"...out with the old...in with the new.  Same house...new shrubs baby ;)  If you've gotten a chance to look at my most recent project, Lush Nightclub & Lounge, either on this blog, or on one of my other sites, I truly hope you enjoyed looking at it as much as I liked designing the facility.  It's so surreal when you've been working on a project for nearly a year, you're up day and night, and then...nothing.  It's gone; it's out of your hands.  It takes a certain "reset" back to society and most importantly, your friends and family, after something like that.  I've spent the past couple weeks writing music, taking pictures, going to night venues, and trying to break out of this "social stall" ( and I don't mean confined bathroom, mind you ;) ] I've seemed to fall victim to.  It's been very hard picking up on circles I've neglected for nearly a year, or sometimes longer, for things like school, interior design, and projects.

           I'm in the grueling process of job searching...or should I say..."the rest of my life" searching ;)  I honestly don't know as of right now how the hell I'm ever going to make it down to Florida, but I've never given up on any dream I've ever had.  I'm GOING to go...it's just a matter of when.  However, as time keeps ticking and the days shorter and shorter, I have no idea how or even why I'm still attempting this.  I want to launch all of my new ideas, music, designs, photography, etc...I just don't think I'm ready.  I won't get to where I want to be where I'm at...where I've been...where I was yesterday, and although I won't tell you why exactly, let's just say I have no drive.  I have no one pushing me.  I have no one who cares about my success (although I do have those that seem to care if I'm alive for whatever reason...I still haven't proven myself yet to them, so I don't know why I get this inherent love...I feel rather guilty in this regard), or my designs.  Everyone I show my designs to doesn't care or doesn't seem to get it...or me, and the eccentricity I seem to radiate in all facets of my life.  Believe me...you have no idea how many phone calls I get about my personal Facebook account.  MY own personal account!  Can you believe that?

          It all seems to point to one direction: that I'm a wildcard...unpredictable...you thought you could put your finger on me, but your interpretation fell after further inspection that was never justified in the beginning.  I'm very direct, and I hope people don't take what I say offensively, as I've been beaten and polished in the same clear fashion my entire life.  Let's face it..."mind games" are better suited for the dating world.  I don't have time for bullshit, and if I did, I wouldn't even be wasting my time...you want an adjective for my interior design business someday?  One of the infamous three adjectives business men and women use to define their goals and objectives: Perseverance.

Lush Nightclub & Lounge

          After neglecting all of you...or none of you (hehe)...I've put together this post to let you in on my life, and what I've been up to lately.  As an interior design senior at the CITA accredited interior design school of Michigan State University, I've been working on my senior thesis for the last year of my life...literally.  I haven't done too much else outside of the project because I always felt like every other designer had so much better work than I did, and that my portfolio would one day amount to a booklet of "crappy drawings" that would never win...After several emotional breakdowns, countless amounts of "all-nighters," and BP-gas station coffee, I've now become an interior designer - not just a kid in college wandering for a spot in the light.  This last year, I've grown more personally than professionally - and that's totally okay as the nerd that raised his hands all 4 years in the design program, pestering profs and students for more information.


           I almost had to fake it to make it at first - when I say that, I mean...design was fun, but I didn't know it was my passion.  As I had to get up everyday for class, which was far worse than class itself, and bike through countless snow storms and rain falls, I learned what it was like to experience the horror stories everyone had warned me about college years before.  I, however, didn't seem to care then, as I was one of those who breezed through high school - regrettably, sometimes not even sober.  After buckling down years later, after first starting the design program at MSU, I had to "get my ass in gear or go home."  Sometime had to give.  I was going to be RADAMS, the party asshole Novi loved and hated, or the person I deserved to be - the person I had been wanting to be my whole life.  As time went on, I noticed I didn't have to fake being this prim and proper design student anymore...it was beginning to all seem quite natural.  Not the content - the content was always conquerable, coming from Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology a year before (my original majors upon entry into MSU) - but the mannerisms, unofficial dress codes, and above all, personal interests.


           I noticed that I was beginning to become a much better designer, and that my eyes were becoming more adventurous and intrigued by the world around me.  I began getting obsessed with gaining knowledge of anything I deemed interesting off the top of my head - if I thought of, say, alien propulsion anti-gravity devices, my nerd-ass would literally go and research it until I gained the level of knowledge I was looking for; inevitably, I stumbled across other interests while seeking other answers to other interests, and so my life goes on...Getting back to the project...I have solidified my standing as an interior designer, both personally and professionally, to my friends, my colleagues, my family, and my wonderful professors.  I do not, however, take responsibility for all of my successes thus far, as I couldn't have ever made it this far without any of those I've just listed.


          After cleaning up my egocentrism, my relative lack of knowledge, my mannerisms, my life, and my values, I've enjoyed being me this past year.  This project is as much me, as my body that defines me.  I hope my project and I will both go down someday a success story - for now, at least I have one portfolio piece I'm very proud of.  It is my honor to present to you my senior thesis project - Lush Nightclub & Lounge (Copy Written 2012): [CLICK ON PHOTO TO ENLARGE]

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PRESENTATION DOCUMENTS (COPYWRITTEN 2012):

PRESENTATION BOARD 1

PRESENTATION BOARD 2

PRESENTATION BOARD 3

CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS COVER PAGE

RENDERED NORTHWEST LOUNGE PERSPECTIVE 

RENDERED SOUTHEAST LOUNGE PERSPECTIVE

RENDERED NORTHERN LOUNGE SECTION

RENDERED WESTERN LOUNGE SECTION

RENDERED SOUTHERN LOUNGE SECTION

RENDERED WESTERN NIGHTCLUB SECTION

RENDERED NORTHERN NIGHTCLUB SECTION

RENDERED EASTERN NIGHTCLUB SECTION

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IDEATION, FRUSTRATION, & IMAGINATION:

PRETTY TYPICAL EVENING...PLAYING WITH SAMPLES (NOT ALL THE SAMPLES SHOWN MADE IT TO FINAL END-USE)

I WANTED TO JUST LIE & CRACK A JOKE THAT THAT SOCK IN THE PHOTO WAS MY INSPIRATION FOR MY SENIOR THESIS PROJECT @ MSU, & HOW I PULLED MY PROJECT FROM ITS FORM & "RICH DECAY"

3AM THE NIGHT BEFORE THE PRESENTATION (WHICH ITSELF WAS AT 9AM) - 4/26/12

HOW I PERSONALLY LIKE TO STORE MY SAMPLES - ONLY HERE, MY SAMPLE STORAGE LOOKS LIKE HELL (NIGHT BEFORE PROJECT WAS DUE) - STORAGE IS EMPTY!  I NOW HAVE OVER 10,000 SAMPLES, RANGING FROM FLOORING, TO INNOVATIVE CEILING TREATMENTS, TO LUMINAIRE FINISHES...& SOME THAT ARE SO NEW I DON'T QUITE KNOW WHAT TO CALL THEM YET...

I'M NORMALLY NOT THIS MESSY!  I SWEAR! =)

EVERYTHING SPRAWLED OUT ACROSS THE ENTIRE LIVING ROOM...

YUP...TOLD YA ;)

WHAT EXTREME PRESSURE LOOKS LIKE THE NIGHT BEFORE...

GETTING TO BE ABOUT THAT TIME (7:45 AM - MORNING OF PRESENTATION, AFTER 2 HOURS OF SLEEP - NO UNEXPECTED ERRORS [SHOCKING, ALTHOUGH I WAS PREPARED FOR ANYTHING AT THIS POINT TO THROW ME FOR A LOOP...])

THIS PHOTO REALLY MEANS A LOT TO ME, BECAUSE SITTING NEAR THE CURRENT PROJECT I WAS GOING TO PRESENT (LUSH NIGHTCLUB & LOUNGE AT THE TOP OF THE PHOTO) THE MORNING THE PHOTO WAS TAKEN WAS THE ORIGINAL NIGHTCLUB IDEA - LITERALLY "5 AESTHETICS AGO, FROM ROUGHLY 9 MONTHS BEFORE". 

HALF OF MY PRESENTATION ELEMENTS (RIGHT WAS PRESENTATION CENTER)

Jacque Fresco & The Venus Project

      

Jacque Fresco, an industrial/social designer, has devoted his life to shaping the future we all live in.  He advocates MINIMUM ENERGY USAGE, MAXIMUM RETURN ON INVESTMENT, LESS OWNERSHIP, MORE RECIPROCITY, LESS COMPETITION, VALUE-CENTERED & HEALTH-CENTERED LIFE, LOVE, QUALITY OF LIFE, MINIMAL MAINTENANCE, STREAMLINING, NO TANGIBLE CURRENCY, MECHANIZATION, LARGE-SCALE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, SYSTEMS GLOBAL MONITORING, LESS PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION, NO GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL (why would you have to control people if they have everything they want?  Rather than hold them for $50,000 on AVG. in the US, give them watches, food, clothing…etc.), NO SOCIAL HIERARCHY, AND NO VIOLENCE…Who needs currency if everything is provided?  How is this funded?  By realizing waste today, in military, obsolete technology & throw-aways, in security, in law enforcement…VIOLENCE is taught.  "I've never met a Chinese baby right out of the womb that spoke Chinese" - Jacque Fresco

Does this sound as crazy to you as it did to me at first?  Please look him up on youtube, and just listen to what he has to say.  Before you try to cut him short, or say that one of his solutions is undeveloped, watch ALL of his youtube content before judging.  He is the only realistic offset to the New World Order.  In Jacque we trust…as stated above, he devoted nearly his entire life on his project: the Venus Project.  Please check it out on your own, in addition to this blog post...

Jacque Fresco, The Venus Project

Inside his Venus, Florida studio...

The Venus Project - A Future City

Water City (Did you honestly think our land wouldn't fill up?)

Another city possibility (Earlier model…now circular, for ease of transportation & to employ an equidistant, central monitoring "hub")

Where Jacque Fresco spent most of his life, supporting his Venus Project and working on it inside with 3d models & drawings scattered throughout… (Venus, Florida)

The only work citizens of the world, comprised of these cities, will do will be to maintain, monitor, and add technology/mechanization to the world…everything is STANDARDIZED, UPDATABLE, & INTERCHANGEABLE…why fight mechanization to save jobs when we shouldn't be working?  Moreover, machines don't get sick or take work leave…they work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week…

Are we stupid, or do we simply not care?  If you're waiting for someone else to do it for you…to do what you won't…you'll find a group of shadier men silencing them to reap the same profits.  Why must we allow some to profit off others misfortunes?  Do you not fucking know that over 1 billion people of this 7 billion world are starving, and that 99% of the world's current development occurs in "shanty towns", favellas, and in huts made of scraps of trash?  Or are you trying to become an active competitor in a system that doesn't care about you, and your feelings?  WE have basic human needs that aren't being met!  Are you content with this?  How does that make you feel?

When airplanes started, they needed rods to support the wings because the wing's material wasn't strong enough.  Once stronger materials became known and employed, we began to see their potential.  Know why good products that last don't exist on a large scale?  PLANNED TECHNOLOGICAL OBSOLESCENCE - if you didn't have to REBUY a product over and over, the system would fail.  Consumers in the current system MUST, inevitably, purchase and purchase, fall into debt, and suffer for others to reap profits.  Does this not make sense to any of you, or does the world not care?

This kind of reminded me of the video game "Halo"…

Mechanization & Standardization, used in an Interchangeable fashion…

Parkways between everything, supporting recreation…this is aside from the outer city agricultural "belt"…

The central hub will be the technological monitoring of resource usage, production capacity, and will include other ecological monitoring systems to ensure sustainability.  What comes out must come in…NOT the other way around…

The circadian city…each circular "belt" supports a certain function (IE - residential, agricultural, commercial, etc.)

Advanced public transportation (City to City)

Self sustaining…

Another city prototype...

Minimize transportation by building water cities near land at first…

Actual tangible 3D models…

LASTLY, 3D printing technologies will be capable of producing walls & furniture for homes in a day or less.  Not a single construction worker will perform construction work, except for the individual operating the machinery needed to perform such creations.  Any of these buildings above could be  created using 3d printing technology THAT ALREADY EXISTS…If you can 3d print an Apple that started in CAD, you can create a building on a larger scale.  Think of the savings and rapidity!

A Video I Made On How To Open A Design Business...

The ironic thing is, this is a "professional" video and I have a "I LOVE BEER" poster in the background, alongside my roommates hookah.  Nonetheless, we can't always choose where we live ;)

A Collection of Some of my Favorite Interiors - A Wonderful Thread of Inspiration If You Will...

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