Carnival Manifesto: Doing away with the trivial and the mundane, at least for a while.

by Tommy Manuel

I came across this a few days ago while look­ing for man­i­festos online. What appealed to me, besides the obvi­ous intent that any man­i­festo seeks to ini­ti­ate a fis­sure in the sta­tus quo, was the mix­ture of seri­ous­ness that typ­i­cally char­ac­ter­ize these pub­lic state­ments and the light-hearted epi­curean qual­i­ties of the carnival.

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The Awesomeness Manifesto

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Umair Haque, Harvard Busi­ness Publishing, 2:47 PM Wednes­day Sep­tem­ber 16, 2009
Inno­va­tion: it’s the ulti­mate source of advan­tage, the undis­puted heavy­weight cham­pion of the eco­nomic ring. Inno­va­tion is what every orga­ni­za­tion should be ruth­lessly pur­su­ing, right? Wrong.
I’d like to advance a hypoth­e­sis: awe­some­ness is the new inno­va­tion.
Let’s face it. “Inno­va­tion” feels like a relic of the indus­trial era. […]

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Revising and Re-sizing History: New Work Shows Ohio Site to Be Ancient Water Works, Not a Fort

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Date: Carey Hoff­man, Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati News
Dis­cov­er­ies made by Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati researchers this sum­mer at a hill­top site west of Cincin­nati turn a long-accepted his­tor­i­cal inter­pre­ta­tion of how the site served the Shawnee peo­ple upside down.
The site known as Miami Fort is no fort at all, and it is also much larger than pre­vi­ously believed  –  so […]

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Shawnee Lookout May Be Largest Continuously Occupied Hilltop Native American Site In United States

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Sci­enceDaily (Sep. 4, 2009)
The dis­cov­er­ies con­tinue to sur­prise for a team of Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati stu­dents dig­ging in Ohio’s Shawnee Look­out Park, with a major new mound being located and a rare kiln used to fire pot­tery exca­vated in recent weeks, along with even more evi­dence emerg­ing to sup­port the the­ory that the site could […]

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Underwater Expedition Delivers Key Findings In Search For Evidence Of Early Americans

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Sci­enceDaily (Sep. 1, 2009)
In one of the more dra­matic moments of an under­wa­ter archae­o­log­i­cal sur­vey co-led by Mer­cy­hurst Col­lege archae­ol­o­gist James Adova­sio along Florida’s Gulf Coast this sum­mer, Andy Hem­mings stood on an inun­dated river’s edge where man hasn’t set foot in more than 13,000 years.Donning full scuba gear, Hem­mings stood in 130 feet of […]

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Swimmin’ pools. [Architecture] stars.

by Tommy Manuel

If you had told me at the out­set of my archi­tec­ture education/career that I would one day be writ­ing about Brad Pitt on an archi­tec­ture blog, I would have sworn you had lost your mind.  And even now, despite that I have already typed the man’s name out and com­mit­ted him irrev­o­ca­bly to this post, […]

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New York City’s Waterfront in Photographs on View at Museum of the City of New York

by Tommy Manuel

NEW YORK, NY.- The dra­matic trans­for­ma­tion of the New York City water­front from a hub of indus­try and com­merce to a ves­ti­gial space reclaimed for recre­ation and pub­lic use will be doc­u­mented in his­toric pho­tographs by Berenice Abbott, Andreas Feininger, and David Rob­bins, and con­tem­po­rary pho­tographs by Diane Cook and Len Jen­shel, in an exhibition […]

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