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The Artist In Me - Track 11: Advancement

If you’ve been reading since track 1, Out of the Cobalt Blue and you’ve made it this far, let be take second to say I can’t hope to thank you enough for your interest in the details of these songs and the inner workings of this album. If your eyes are tired, just know this is the last one. But seriously, thank you for reading this! It literally means the world to me.

Success. It means different things to different people. Some people think it’s based in monetary value. Others think of it as a more occupation-based... thing. Other people still think of it as a metric of spiritual wealth or simply their own happiness. To some it means something different altogether.

The concept of success has kind of evolved over time for me. It means something different now than it did when I was 11. But the closest answer I can give about my definition of success is that it is measured by multiple metrics, some on the spiritual side, others on the more concrete side of things. What we’ll be talking about here is what success meant for me at age 13.

Ever since its conception, Advancement has been poised to be an epic piece of art. The simple, dramatic title, the nature of the subject matter and consequently, the instrumental. I created it sometime in 2016, and I knew quite early on that I wanted this song to be the ending of The Artist In Me. (I even did an instagram post where I allude to this song. I archived it, but I may put it back up just for this) I wanted a good benchmark to conclude the album, but one that could also be built upon in the future if desired.

Advancement is about success (you probably knew that by now). Particularly, the success of advancing in academia in my case (I say “in my case” because I want to keep these and all of my songs open to interpretation, open to you guys putting your own meanings into the art that I put out. I made it for me, I shared it mostly for you. This album is yours now. Do what you want with it. That’s what it’s for). I was 13. Leaving my first school and going to another, completely different one for jr. high. Getting the academic accommodations I needed in order to have my grades reflect my level of intellect. And a year later, I would be making my biggest advancement yet: going to high school. And not just any high school, a career high school (Shoutout to anybody from Dubiski reading this! I love y’all to death!) with different options on what you could study, and lo and behold, Architecture was one of them (Architecture is a huge focus on this song as it pertains to my future. In the single artwork above, I am standing in a crowd in downtown Dallas, Texas in 2010 or 2011 pointing to Dallas City Hall behind me. It is the COOLEST city hall in the world (you can’t @ me, so there’s no use in trying) and it was designed by famous architect I. M. Pei. From the west side, the building actually looks like a postmodern abstraction of the state of Texas. I love that building). After putting my head down, doing the best I could to deal with my own inner doubts and concerns, I was finally emerging fully as the academic powerhouse I always had the potential to be. In addition to that, I was getting to where I was doing a pretty good job at being a young adult. Sidenote: in jr high, I also picked up bass and took a trumpet class (I kinda hated it, though. I thought it was just confined to jazz music back, so I wasn’t as enthused about playing it. Plus, thanks to YouTube, the rest of the internet and a new desktop computer my parents bought for my sister and I, I had access to virtually all the music in the world, and was exploring other genres like Rock and Metal, and Alternative, and Christian Rock by this point. Gene Simmons of KISS had a bass guitar as did John Cooper of Skillet, so I got a bass guitar). Then, at a science fair in 8th grade after making a 3rd rate science project in 7th, I bought a bunch of lamp pieces and created a Whimshurst machine, a type of static electricity generator for my science fair project (that’s where the lines in the song “You built a generator from a lamp/You showed the world with your guitar amp” came from). I named him Zeus. He’s still alive to this DAY! (I can hear how you read that if you’re reading this in 2018 or 2019 and have seen recent memes) I got second place to my friend, William, who built a solar-powered phone charger. 8th grade was wild.

The issue here was that not being able to effectively address my doubts, issues and concerns led to another issue...

I was experiencing a young adult renaissance, going to the high school of my dreams (I was 14 at this point) and held some of the best grades in my class. But all the while, I found that I... couldn’t really enjoy it as much as I knew I would’ve had the following dynamic not been at play: I still was dealing all the things I mentioned over the past 5 tracks, and I still had pretty much no solution. Like the space shuttle ejecting its parachute after reentry to slow down, all this unresolved.. stuff, kept me from being able to enjoy all these good things in my life as much as I wanted to and could have otherwise. You ever find yourself at a ceremony or party celebrating something cool that you did, but all the while, you can’t help but feel that something’s off? Maybe even a feeling like you don’t deserve all the good stuff that’s come or is coming to you? That’s exactly how I felt.

This song is about being celebratory, but it feels empty because something you can’t seem to fix is bothering you. Don’t know if I explained that well enough.

Like I said before, this song is a good benchmark in my life to end the album on (”graduating” middle school and going to high school), but it also leaves enough of a cliffhanger to build upon where it leaves off in the future. I like that about Advancement.

The musical composition of Advancement is interesting, and different from that of all the other tracks. Because I was listening to more alternative music, I drew from that genre and atmospheric music all from 2010 as well as music from Linkin Park and Marina and the Diamonds. The song is longer than any other on TAIM at 5 minutes, 22 seconds to signify a glorious, epic ending to a very polished and hopefully timeless project (also, it’s not uncommon for songs by alternative artists to far exceed radio-length, This signified that as well). The relative grittiness of the instrumental signifies a shift from mainstream music and “old school” stuff I grew up on, to modern, more avant-garde than mainstream, underground music that I was discovering on YouTube and from the MTV sister channels that still play music like Hits, Jams and MTVU, that college music. There’s a certain musical element, a wispy wind blowing sound that plays near the end of the song (and consequently, the album) and it falls out of sync with the snare drums as time goes on. This signifies a growing imbalance and that the “engine” for the album if you will, is breaking down, leaving room for the next chapter. Finally, this cataclysmic epoch of a song concludes with a very unsettling, yet exhilarating crescendo composed of a bunch of weird, trippy, atmospheric sounds I found on my computer. The song suddenly cuts off as they all come to a head, and it like I said, it leaves room for whatever I’m going to do for the next album. clean-cut, but still quite abrupt, very much like in the Sopranos where every time an episode ends, they go to black in mid-sent-

Advancement is somewhat somber of an ending. While I was writing it, I realized all the things I was feeling back then, but could never explain in those moments. I wrote about a third of the lyrics for TAIM during a really depressing time in my life, so there is a little bit of cynicism found in some of these songs.

Thank you again for reading this and sticking with it. I bear my soul in my art, and I appreciate your engaging with this piece of my autistic, artistic world. If you just got here and are starting from the top, scroll down if you want more information on all the other songs on the album. ♥

What does success mean to you?

You can listen to Advancement here if you want. This link will take you to wherever you listen to music. YouTube included. ❤

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insupdates · 7 years

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Carl Blanchard Pfisterer Assoc. Eng. 1967: Part Time Antonozzi Assoc. Architects Darien Conn. Part Time: Design Parking Garage Richard F Heyer: Summer Of 1965: Meet Kyro Kyritsis and Peter Dapont WLAE: 93.7 FM: Paul di Savino (WPAT) 494 W. Main Street, Meriden, CT: 238 1010/201 334 5310: Offices in Meriden; Tower on Signal Mountain In Waterbury: License in Hartford WPAT, Patterson was originally an AM station Owned by Wright Broadcasting Company’s Howard Haman. The history of this frequency can be traced back to July 18, 1939, when Edwin H. Armstrong’s station W 2 XMN began regular broadcasting on a frequency of 42.8 MHz. Armstrong, the father of FM radio, had actually begun testing the station on April 10, 1938, and had demonstrated FM transmission as early as 1934. The station, which also became known as W 31 NY, moved to 43.1 MHz in 1941. W2XMN moved to the new FM band in 1946, first at 92.1 MHz, and then in 1948, to 93.1, where it became known as KE2XCC. It went off the air on March 6, 1954, after Armstrong’s death. WPAT began broadcasting on this frequency in March 1957 with an Easy Listening format until the stations sale to Spanish Broadcasting in January 1996. SRG (Schimmelpfennig, Ruiz and Gonzalez)1968-1969: Full Time in Puerto Rico Department of Education: Puerto Rico: Contract Work (Self) 1969 Kahn And Jacobs: Full Time 1969-1970: Ed The Alcoholic: Duncan Stewart: Ed Dickman (lived in queens and loved to detail buildings) was my job Captain after Ed Penn (was an n alcoholic) D’kirk (Not his name but it’s the best I can do) sponsored me into the AIA Lee Harris Pomeroy: 1970-1972: son of Selwyn Pomeroy for whom I hung drapes in Brooklyn. Lee Harris Pomeroy, FAIA Is president of the firm he founded in 1964 in New York City? He has guided the firm's growth, building a reputation for design excellence over the past 36 years. Lee’s work has led to numerous architectural awards and to a number of significant commissions with major commercial clients, including Swiss Bank Corporation, Saks Fifth Avenue, HBO, and The Trump Organization. He also taught at City College under the dean Bernard Spring. The emphasis then was ON the social aspects of Architecture. Lee introduced me to one of his students: Phil Winters and we became very good friends. Lee resided in a town house he designed and renovated with his wife and children Hi wife played the viola. In the public sector, he has designed libraries, educational and institutional buildings and large transportation projects that have been recognized for high design standards and improving quality of life in their communities Offices first on East 66 Street; then Upper floor of former maids quarters of the Plaza Hotel. One of the projects that came to the office was the design of the Congress Nursing home in Brooklyn Heights. It was special because I got to know its owner Eugene Hollander and really think about the last place a person would life before they died. What they would see and know. I concluded that it was there widow and the view of the garden. So I recommend that he spend his money on landscaping the gardens and making removing and replacing all the buildings windows. This was 1971 and I was 34 years old. Another, and more famous client was the then owner of the Dallas cowboy, and rich Texan , Clint William Murchison for whom I designed the “Dallas Cowboy Restaurant on East 44 street between Vanderbilt and Park at the base of a , then brand new office building. Clinton Williams Murchison, Sr (1895-1969) was an oil and gas developer financier, son of John Weldon and Clara (Williams) Murchison, and born in Tyler on April 11, 1895. He moved into exploration and development, and despite the fluctuations in the price of oil, he sold his holdings in 1925 for $5 million and moved his base of operations to San Antonio. He speculated in South Texas and in 1928 reestablished himself in Dallas Another client of Lee’s was, now convicted criminal, spending time in jail, David Paul. David hated me and expressed his feelings openly. The below story explains the situation. The below article was written in 2000 and by now David should be out of prison. “Former CenTrust Bank chief asks to be released from prison with 11 years left” By Catherine Wilson of the Associated Press “MIAMI -- The federal government spent a lot of time and money putting former highflying banker David Paul behind bars and wants to keep him there until he completes one of the longest sentences imposed on 1980s savings-and-loan felons. The former CenTrust Bank chief has asked his trial judge to let him go based on a U.S. Supreme Court decision, but a prosecutor responded Tuesday that the request to free Paul from the rest of his 11-year sentence should be rejected. The goodwill issue was raised and rejected on Paul's original unsuccessful appeal, and the subsequent Supreme Court decision doesn't apply in his criminal case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Harriet Galvin said in trying to head off Paul's early release. He is due to serve another three years. CenTrust, once the largest S&L in the Southeast, was seized in 1990 after its goodwill write-off to produce the fourth-largest banking collapse in U.S. history. Paul, known for his expensive keepings and lifestyle, was convicted in 1994 of running a sham bond deal and a junk-bond fraud and using millions in CenTrust money to dress up his palatial waterfront estate. Paul claims that the trial judge's calculation of a $61 million loss from his crimes would have been lower if goodwill were considered. Dollar losses drive prison terms in federal fraud cases. "Looking fit and trim," Paul was recently transferred to Miami from a South Carolina prison, Weintraub said. Heart problems that required surgery during his imprisonment are still being treated, but Weintraub said, "His health is good now." Paul collected $66,000 a week in salary and dividends while entertaining politicians and celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor aboard his yacht. He once flew in a team of European chefs led by Paul Bocuse for a gourmet banquet at his home. He surrounded himself with Old Masters artwork and other trappings of ostentatious wealth.” It was Paul’s intensive dislike for me based ON his jealous relationship he wished for him and Lee that eventually caused Lee to ask me to resign. Another of our projects was the Neighborhood Plan in Harlem for the Manhattan borough President’s office for Livingston Bryant and Mildred Brown. Lee Harris Pomeroy (FAIA) is president of the firm he founded in 1964 in New York City. He personifies the New York liberal. LME: Full Time: 1970-1973 Pratt Institute: 1969-1973: Part-time One of the faculty members John Lobell and his wife M’me epitomized the era by being known for there being naked at parties and love-ins. The times were filled with a wave of rebellion, sit-ins, love–ins, happenings, and student strikes and heavy duty dope. Many of my students came to class drugged and confused. Young girls offered them selves. Several of my colleagues, especially one, Dean, we stood in awe of all the assemblies of students not knowing what to do. We were not prepared for this. Several of my colleagues did very well in this environment especially Gamal ElZogby. I my self opted the whole thing by creating LME, doing Earth Day and teaching in the New Open School. It would have lasted longer but as University of Houston, Pratt could not invite me to teach Full Time. Many years ago Sydney Shalov coerced me into taking over the teaching of two classes to UN Master exchange students on the premise that the classes assigned teacher, Victor Olgay had died and I needed to fill in. I did, and it was a disaster. He had selected me because I had spent 15 months designing buildings as an architect in Puerto Rico. I muddled my way through and did try to learn the material. The technical class was very difficult but the other went quite nicely. The two classes were Climatology and Bioclimatic Design created by Victor Olgay. The student’s rebelled but several wonderful students helped me save the day and things finally went smoothly. One of the students was Ahmed Zahid who I later discovered in KFU in KSA. Of course we were good friends and as he had helped me I tried to help him when both our contracts were terminated. I recently found out that Olgay was alive and well teaching and developing his work at Princeton University. I tried with out success to contact him. University Of Ohio: 1972 Part Time One Semester Only Peoples Protective: 1973: Full Time (36) In Jackson Tennessee, it wasn’t South verses North as was politely mused, but urban verses Rural. Jacksonians exuded rural values and rural mind. They preferred the urban farm and the quiet farmer’s village. Urban density, culture, commerce was undesirable and offensive. People’s Protective’s projects were rural recreational second homes being marketed to suburban non-urban people from the Midwest and North. The building were made to look like rural Tennessee barns, shacks, and building types. They aimed that Northern people should perceive Tennessee rural. My urban mindset systematized and made it possible. It was another example of the power of commerce and its consequent urbanity. Bruce Gallery: 4646 Poplar Avenue; Memphis, Tennessee 38117; exhibited and sold my watercolors July 23, 1974. The owner invited me to exhibit after seeing my work at an art fair. Jonathan’s Gallery: August 4, 1974:Christina’s Plexiglas sculptures and Barie’s Pen and Ink and watercolor paintings and drawings exhibited and sold in this gallery in Jackson, Tennessee. concrete, newhaven, culturalcenter, precast, portfoilio, barie, longspan, fezbarringtenarchitect, conjcedrhall, continentalseating June 23, 2009 at 06:04PM B.P. Music Hall by chrisbarie http://flic.kr/p/6z2eiq

#IFTTT #Flickr #concrete #newhaven #culturalcenter #precast #portfoilio #barie #longspan #fezbarringt

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carpetstore0 · 5 years

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Tips On Building A Garage For Your Car

When you have a car, you have probably been dreaming of a perfect car garage. A perfectly designed and built garage will make your heart enthusiast.

However, do not immediately go to the spot and build the structure. First, visit your municipality or city hall and ask for the information packet on the requirements to comply. The design and type of your garage will probably be needed to comply with some rules and building code policies. Never get started if building code compliance is not yet done. Get the approval of your plan to the building official.

Here some of the top and standard rules:

Only a certain percentage of a lot is allowable for impervious structures, including buildings, decks, driveways, aprons, and sidewalks

They set limitations on the total number of buildings

The garage should be smaller than the house

Where can be the garage for your car be built?

First, consult with your neighbors. The neighbors may not appreciate your new garage because it might become an obstruction. The local government will want to know where you plan to build the garage.

Here’s what you’ll have to do:

Get a copy of the survey map of your property from the building department

Sketch the building you want to propose on the survey map

Find out if there are property markers

Dig a hole and check if the soil type is suitable. It should not be spongy

Consult your plans with your neighbors

If the neighbors do not conform, think of some alternatives

Things you need to consider when building your car garage

Style of garage

Indeed, know what you will like to achieve:

Industrial

Classic

Modern

Rustic

Knowing what you want will help you find the appropriate architectural style, paint, doors, and even flooring.

When making the exterior style, you consider complimenting your home. For example, look at if your stone, brick, and siding will compliment.

There are several online sites that you can visit to see appropriate designs. But it is not essential to spend hundreds of dollars on a blueprint. Remember that all city and county government will require you showing length, width, height, roof pitch, and soffit size.

Consider the design phase:

Match the house roof pitch, overhang size, siding and roofing

Essential to put windows so you can see people coming and going

Never put windows where you place a cabinet or pegboard

Place the service door close to the house

Add an extra service door in the back for safety exit

Build taller walls and accommodate large overhead door

Upscale the size of the walls to 2×6 for more space for insulation

Place the building to avoid water runoff problems

Electrical needs including lighting system of your garage

The garage may have few electrical options. Essential to consider to install plenty of electrical outlets. Consider an outlet for your air compressor. LED lights can be the best choice. If you are working on a bench, consider the direction of the light. Extra windows can help increase lighting.

Plumbing system

It is a recommendation to install a sink for easy cleaning up some tools and stuff. It can save time, distractions, and reduce risk from moving yourself to wash something.

Appropriate flooring

You can install concrete flooring. Add industrial epoxy and rubber overlays for easy clean-up and safety. Dallas flooring companies is one of the top suppliers and offer different kinds of quality flooring. Choose the appropriate type of flooring design for your car garage.

Safe and enough storage

You can put a built-in wall shelf, overhead cabinets, bike racks, and more. Putting enough storage system will eliminate risk and give you plenty of space to work.

Building a garage for your car is an exciting endeavor. The great garage will make sure the lasting performance of your car.

Source: Tips On Building A Garage For Your Car

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Tips On Building A Garage For Your Car

When you have a car, you have probably been dreaming of a perfect car garage. A perfectly designed and built garage will make your heart enthusiast.

Here some of the top and standard rules:

Only a certain percentage of a lot is allowable for impervious structures, including buildings, decks, driveways, aprons, and sidewalks

They set limitations on the total number of buildings

The garage should be smaller than the house

Where can be the garage for your car be built?

First, consult with your neighbors. The neighbors may not appreciate your new garage because it might become an obstruction. The local government will want to know where you plan to build the garage.

Here’s what you’ll have to do:

Get a copy of the survey map of your property from the building department

Sketch the building you want to propose on the survey map

Find out if there are property markers

Dig a hole and check if the soil type is suitable. It should not be spongy

Consult your plans with your neighbors

If the neighbors do not conform, think of some alternatives

Things you need to consider when building your car garage

Style of garage

Indeed, know what you will like to achieve:

Industrial

Classic

Modern

Rustic

Knowing what you want will help you find the appropriate architectural style, paint, doors, and even flooring.

When making the exterior style, you consider complimenting your home. For example, look at if your stone, brick, and siding will compliment.

Consider the design phase:

Match the house roof pitch, overhang size, siding and roofing

Essential to put windows so you can see people coming and going

Never put windows where you place a cabinet or pegboard

Place the service door close to the house

Add an extra service door in the back for safety exit

Build taller walls and accommodate large overhead door

Upscale the size of the walls to 2×6 for more space for insulation

Place the building to avoid water runoff problems

Electrical needs including lighting system of your garage

Plumbing system

It is a recommendation to install a sink for easy cleaning up some tools and stuff. It can save time, distractions, and reduce risk from moving yourself to wash something.

Appropriate flooring

Safe and enough storage

You can put a built-in wall shelf, overhead cabinets, bike racks, and more. Putting enough storage system will eliminate risk and give you plenty of space to work.

Building a garage for your car is an exciting endeavor. The great garage will make sure the lasting performance of your car.

Source: Tips On Building A Garage For Your Car

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