Bill Love in JEOPARDY!

This is JEOPARDY!: "
Mr. Bill Love , Arto Brick's professional contestant.

I will look for his promo on"ten thousand dollar pyramid"

Just another perk for working @ Arto Brick

Here is the link to his promo

02/01/2006 Lecture Ritual House

02/01/2006 Lecture Ritual House
If at USC tomorrow evening. Stop by. I'll try

"Ritual House: Drawing on Nature's Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design," Knowles' most recent publication, discusses his theories relating nature�s rhythms to life�s rituals as a basis for sustainable architecture aesthetic.

NLA - New London Architecture

NLA - New London Architecture
I must look for an exhibit here in CALifonia.

Tom, the Traveling Tile

Tom, the Traveling Tile

Just a link.
You must travel to the site to believe what this blog is for. It does speak to the durability and adaptability of tile.
Oh it does bring a smile to your face. :)

Armen

Vegas

The other day William and I visited a customer in the City of Industry. Can I say "Industry"? Can you say I live in "Culver" or must you say Culver City. Back to point. We crossed over the 60 freeway into Roland Heights (nice Name). Found this great looking shopping center. Pictures to follow. We ate at this Korean restaurant which I will push William to write about and I will link to. Good story there.

There was this great outdoor common eating area. My question is after seeing the picture is the common area designed to look like an European City or a Vegas Casino recreating a European city.

Visit San Clemente I hear they have beautiful sidewalks

La Canada Valley Sun: La Canada Flintridge, California: "Ole Hanson founded the 'Spanish Village by the Sea' way back in 1925 with strict guidelines that called for Spanish colonial architecture with red tile roofs and white plaster. In other words, Hanson proposed a theme town before theme towns were cool."

The strict guidelines are still here today. Arto Brick is the specified product to repair the city sidewalks of San Clemente. I will have some pictures up soon.

Oh by the way ... visit San Clememente it is good looking.

MAK CENTER

A google search brought me here. I need to visit.

Exhibitions Current: "Isaac Julien/True North Billboard
July 16, 2005 - January 31, 2006
Billboard

In collaboration with the City of West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commissions Art on the Outside Program and Viacom Outdoor, a billboard on the corner of Sunset and Olive Drive in West Hollywood, (one block east of La Cienega above the House of Blues) is mounted with an image from Julien's True North series, exhibited at the MAK Center from July - October 2005."

Ambassador Hotel more than just another relic - Opinions

Ambassador Hotel more than just another relic - Opinions
This debate. History versus usefulness. Both sides over state and then who do you believe?

Arto my father trained us a recyclers and in worst case scenarios "tear it down" .

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes - The Quotations Page

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes - The Quotations Page: "Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. "

Hey I live in Los Angeles.

Cal Poly to Exhibit Historic Building Materials

Cal Poly to Exhibit Historic Building Materials: "To me, these ancient building components made of simple natural materials express the unbound creativity of man and tell stories of the social, political and economic nature of the time", said Weisenthal.

Weisenthal speaking of materials from a time period between 1890 and 1930. This is the passion of simplicity that I love. We do very little to our product and what we do to it is done by the hands of men.

After the hiccup: Hurricane Katrina

The hiccup is the lack of order in the street and lack of distribution channels of probably millions of tons of relief. This will pass. What will also pass is the finger pointing at least until the next election cycle. Now after the hiccup how to rebuild. I read the post by Hugh Hewitt on how to rebuild the area, impressive thinking. I would like to edit one point. He suggested"

Second, to speed recovery within that region, the president should
ask for and the Congress should approve a complete exemption from all taxes
--federal, state, and local-- on the income generated from the sale of goods
manufactured in that region by new plants that meet the criteria of employing at
least 100 locals and which are constructed without injury to existing operations
across the U.S. A year of exemption for every 100 manufacturing jobs created in
the recovery region should prove a powerful magnet. Thus if GM built a new plant
in the region employing 800 people, GM would get eight years of tax free revenue
beginning with the first year of operation.

I think that is great but the economic starter fluid for our big block economy is the small company. We are the low capital high risk taking first responders that create jobs.

Honestly I have not thought of any mechanics to benefit the small cap firm but this needs to be addressed. As Hugh Hewitt mentions often this is an open source, so lets figure this out.

" ACID"Construction woes leave firefighters homeless The News-Press: Bonita Springs -

The News-Press: Bonita Springs - Construction woes leave firefighters homeless: "But they can't use it because of a construction mistake: Workers used poisonous muriatic acid to clean the floors, which discolored the tile, ruined the grout and is corroding stainless steel fixtures"

There is no building product that I know of that likes acid. Make sure to follow all the instructions of the products that you use in you project. Read first not last.

Drywall Hanging,finishing,texturing,patching,popcorn

Drywall Hanging,finishing,texturing,patching,popcorn

I get many phone call about sheet rock and I always forget that the name is like Kleenex. It is a trade name. But whati s it, simply gypsum based wall board. The Linked article is pretty good.

U-Daily Bulletin - HOME & GARDEN

U-Daily Bulletin - HOME & GARDEN

This article is very timely. I visited some model homes on the New Port Coast. What is incredible is that some of the outdoor rooms are more incredible than the interior floor plans.

More than I bargained for.

When I started the blog I thought I would be able to write my thoughts down all the time. Show pictures of interesting things. All I have done is create an embarrassing. At least in me. I so want this to be a place for the company to share its vision. I see soon there will be a light at the end of the tunnel. To set aside time just for this endeavor. Also there are some big changes in my head that I look forward to taking action on that will offer more to visitors of the site.

Till then I

Jury Duty

Today themfg was not at work. I was doing jury duty. It would have not been so bad if it was not so boring. The view was good, 11th story of the Superior Court Building @ 210 Temple (on a hill) great view of the city. Walked down to Philippe' s good walk. Walked over the City Hall Project we did. Looks good. Can use some sealer.

The court building for me was a good example of my belief that the porous products grow with building while impervious products do not. Columns were covered with travertine, floor of terrazzo wall of glazed tile. The whole job was probably from the 70's. Everything looked good but the ceramic tile. It was out of date. The other products are timeless.

Directions

What is the point? People do not follow them. They are on our boxes on the pallets and in the product binder yet ignorance seems to be bliss.

Just a little bit of sour grapes for me today.

NPCA 2004 CUP Award Entries

NPCA 2004 CUP Award Entries

This is a project we worked on many years ago. It was a test of our strength and agility. We started with little information and turned the plant quickly to achieve success.

WEB SITE THEOLOGY

The link speaks of the Arto Brick web site's theology.
WEB SITE THEOLOGY

First Brick

I started this site to free up my business site. The business site is www.artobrick.com. It was getting cluttered with my few entries. Let us see where this goes. The use of this blog will evolve like all things but for now I will discuss my theology on web site design for my industry and the Company . One thing, my small sales staff always complains about the site. Let us see how long before they notice this change

There is now a color chart for the whole line that I have put up. Basicly this is the master color chart. All the colors are interchangeable but change a little from style to style. Remember our motto Rustic Elegance. This is not a complete list and more will be added.

Color, there is a color chart finaly. I have been putting it off for way to long. Look for one for tile soon

I have started this task and now I need more time. BE patient. I have great ideas of what information to put on these solution links.

Starting to add definitions to some of the solutions . If you have ideas for this page please email.

The front page of our site was getting a little stale. At first I impressed myself with the leanness. I had created it before everyone including myself had some version of broadband. So I designed it to load fast to get the point across. Now things have changed and I can add more content to the front page. This is the first installment. The content will focus on…. solutions to job requirements, for example, “what can I use for pool coping”, “what are my options for a step”, and “what can I use for a wall cap”. You get the idea, a distribution point to send you off to the product you are looking for instead of maybe finding a product as you skim our pages.
Thank you for your time.