Blog of Josh Hall

Look, I’m not some super educated person, and I’ll never claim to be.  It’s very possibly, and probably likely, everyone already knows this, but this just dawned on me the other day.  I’m not even going to bother researching it further because 1)I’m sure it’s there and 2) I won’t understand what they’re talking about […]

If you’re not inspiring change, solutions, or actions, you’re still just complaining.   Saying things should be a certain way is just a different form of complaining.  Maybe even a lazier form.  If you think your vision or suggestion is the best, stand behind it and prove why it’s the best.  If you can’t get […]

I had this idea sometime shortly after the attacks on the world trade towers on 9/11/01.  There were all these people stuck on floors so high up, and their only way out were the windows.  So many people just jumped to their death.  The only other method of getting out of the building was the […]

How much surface area would it take to create the tallest mountain manually?  I think this would be a good task for some place in Colorado, since they’re already so elevated.  You could build this mountain and design it to have a wide road that wraps around it, and depending how long it turns out […]

Here’s another video game idea that actually came to me as a result of a dream.  In the dream, I’m in a big city landscape, being chased down by military and such.  I end up stealing a Gatling gun and taking a bunch of them out at a time and then running away on roof […]

Carnegie Mellon architecture students put together a huge study an redesign of Pittsburgh’s urban landscaping and planning. One idea included a ski lift like cable car that would go from the top of the civic arena area down to the David Lawrence Convention center (page 103 of the report).  Some other ideas included a water […]