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Mason’s Bend Community Center, Alabama, originally uploaded by whileseated
Check out this photo set from Samuel Mockbee’s Rural Studio in Mason’s Bend, Alabama.
All of these projects were designed and built by college students under the supervision of Mockbee until his untimely death in late 2001 succumbing to leukemia. I was fortunate to hear him lecture before his passing, and he was quite a dynamic character. With the passing of Sambo, the profession of architecture lost a great moral compass.
See the Rural Studio photo set and all photos tagged with Mockbee and Rural Studio.

This post appeared in a previous blog and is here for posterity’s sake.

Going Under, originally uploaded by DYFL
I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. There has been talk about trying to update or improve taxi cabs, which is a waste of money. What the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission needs to do is to require periodic driving tests for their licenced cabbies. And teach the cab drivers not to accelerate so quickly that they need to slam on the brakes at the next intersection, then accelerate, then brake, etc. etc. Oh – and can the TLC please teach the cab drivers how to actually drive without making the fare scared for their lives? That would be great – thanks TLC.
But with all of that complaining over with, taking the taxi is usually the easiest, safest, and quickest route in the city. But it is very much taking your life into your hands – much like Russian roulette; but with big yellow cabs and foreign drivers. Doctors even ask you here if you wear your seat belt while in the cab.