Yup. We've grabbed the girl and we're heading out to sea. Big game this time—no crabbing, no crabs. Catch you Wednesday.

· Gone Fishin' [The Gutter]
· Gutter to World: We Went Fishing! [The Gutter]

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We're down with our peeps at the League, we're down with mail, and we're so totally down with the thing our peeps at the League are doing with mail.

Our proposal is simple: We will produce a series of 1000 postcards, each depicting a single unpublished image from a relatively unknown designer and arrange for them to be sent to one individual of a selected group of influential architects, urbanists, academics, curators and cultural critics. Our hope is that we will receive images from all over the world and randomly disseminate these images back into a global context, making unlikely connections and creating unforeseen acquaintanceships.

Like Jane and Moses? Oh, yeah. It's on.

· 1000 Postcards [Official Site]
· A Service Note to Our Readers... [The Gutter]

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We have heard word—over the transom most often kept for the wilier ways of our baby stepbrother twice removed—of a party tonight. A party that will shake all foundations and reconfigure all beliefs. A party celebrating a condominium development by architect-savior Daniel Libeskind. To be built in...Sacramento. And while we were not invited, rather left out in the cold and hung out to dry, we pride ourselves on having some well-connected Readers. Who, most courteously, provided the following:

Q: Why are the cool kids going to Buddakan tonight?
A: To see a "luminous glass facade," some "translucent bands of balconies," and a "unique sculptural feel."

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Having overindulged in the grog last night, our memories of the Master-Disaster Architect's Duel are but a faint blur of pirates, panic, and penguins. Thankfully, a Reader writes in a with a slightly more lucid account, not to mention a blurry picture.

Went to the LVHRD thing last night. Totally didn't think it was going to be a party, but it WAS. Got there bright and early (start time said eight so I trusted it), hung around, watched a decapitated plushie penguin being interviewed, tried to intimidate the architects, who were definitely working each of their respective images. Eric Hoffman and Daniel Colvard from Arquitectonica showed up in shirt and ties (and changed into jumpsuits!) while Amador Pons and Matthew Grzywinski rolled in in hipster-doofus clothes. Brief was to design an amphitheater for the day after tomorrow, meaning it had to float. I started out rooting for the underdog but then theirs started kinda sucking, and even though Arquitectonica's was symmetrical it was kind of awesome. Like a spaceship. For the water. There weren't that many people chosen to vote, but it was something like seventeen to nine or thirteen to six (there was a bar) for Grzywinski Pons.

I think it's just because everyone wanted to make out with Matthew.

Kids these days. Any other reports—maybe some detailing something like the actual designs—are most encouraged.

· Avast! Architect's Duel Goes Nautical! [The Gutter]
· (Same) Architects on (Same) Architects [The Gutter]
· Peter Eisenman in a Gigantic Pussy Scaredy Cat [The Gutter]

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Will there be pirates? Will the wags at LVHRD flood the venue of tonight's star-deprived yet still awesome model-making duel and have the combatants work it out from the decks of barquentines, the bellies of ironclads, or—yes, God, please—the prows of ram-headed triremes replete with banks of doomed slaves at the oars? Will there be flogging? Scuttlebutt?? Grog?!?

All is possible, yet all is mystery. This is all we know:

Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:36:02 -0500 Subject: LVHRD: Wear Blue Tomorrow

Dear LVHRD Members,

For those of you that get this message before you dress for work tomorrow, please choose blue attire on Tuesday! For tomorrow night's (3/21) LVHRD Master-Disaster Architect Duel, BHM asks that all members where blue clothing, and if possible, a boat-shaped hat or sea faring attire. Why blue? Humans are made up of 78% water. Let's make it look that way.

The doors will open at 8 PM, and the Duel will start soon after. I will send you another email tomorrow morning with the address in Tribeca.

Sincerely,

Ms. Chantal Strauss
Executive Assistant
Office of Beauregard Huston-Montgomery
LVHRD Foundation

Like many of you, we have the location. But out of respect for the disgraced spirit of flashmobbing, we're not going to post it. Ask around. Come. And behold the spectacle of two architecture firms exchanging broadsides, splicing the main brace, and, we hope, walking the plank straight to Davey Jones' Locker.

· (Same) Architects on (Same) Architects [The Gutter]
· Peter Eisenman in a Gigantic Pussy Scaredy Cat [The Gutter]

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The wounds ripped open by Peter Eisenman's sudden scaredy-cat pulling out of the second LVHRD Master-Disaster Architects' Duel had hardly healed when news of the newest competitors came over our addled transom to make things just that much more difficult. Peter and Vito, dinosaur on dinosaur, made sense. This latest duel, between Arquitectonica and Grzywinski Pons, touted by, um, "Beauregard H. Montgomery" as a David and Goliath-style smackdown, doesn't. Choppy colored buildings versus choppy colored buildings? Pass.

· The Architects [LVHRD]
· Peter Eisenman is a Gigantic Pussy Scaredy Cat [The Gutter]

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Every now and then, The Gutter likes to widen our scope and check in with architecture's allied arts—graphic and industrial design, sculpture, landscaping. And painting. Yes, we love ourselves a painting—particularly, as it happens, paintings "of light." We're in a confessional mood, so we'll let it rip: we are huge—no, the biggest—fans of Thomas Kinkade. Because god guides our paintbrush too. And we also like to piss on stuffed animals.

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure.

As the tipster of this perfect gem put it: "Thomas Kinkade's not technically an architect, but good lord..."

· Dark Portrait of a "Painter of Light" [LA Times]

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There's a really cool thing tonight if you're looking for last minute date plans. Sydney Pollack is going to show his Frank Gehry documentary at the Apple store in SoHo at 8:00 and talk about it. We haven't heard anything about the movie but the old GS--buh bye! (JK! Fuzzy rainbows and happy puppies! Good luck with everything!)--wrote about it a while ago in this post. And they have more details and a map here. Thanks for the tip, Janelle!

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Our haunts run more to cabana and salon, but we're not entirely inured to the dugout or the pitch. And we're very fond of cheerleaders. So we were pleased as Punch and Judy when a reader—we'll call him Michelangelo—wrote in to tell us about yet another man-of-the-grass who has found, or plans to find, his calling among us in The Profession.

i've been unable to locate a transcript, but about a month ago i saw a quick interview by fox 26 news (houston affiliate) anchorwoman, where the not-so-hot-nor-talented houston texans quaterback david carr announced had he not found success in professional football, he would have enjoyed pursuing a profession in architecture.  according to carr, "designing houses would be a whole lotta fun".

As Michelange notes that Carr lives in "a cookie-cutter developer suburb neighborhood where architecture consist of a "revival" (revial what, i cannot figure out) style with plenty dormers and red face brick and lots of crown molding," perhaps he should begin his education here.

[Special Warning to Architects: Do not click if there's a client in the room]

· Search 15,000 House Plans [DreamHomeSource]

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