Oh sweet sweet last blog (really, this time!)

So here are the images of my shells that go with the words I posted last week. The shells correspond to the words from left to right, like reading a book. Enjoy!

Last Blog!!

Oh, Sweet last blog,

It's been a long time coming.

I made a list of twenty words that I got from the chapter about shells in The Poetics of Space. They are:

Shells

1. geometrical
2. mysterious
3. dynamism
4. natural
5. formation
6. solidified
7. coil
8. subtle
9. carved
10. unfolding
11. polish
12. beautiful
13. stone
14. living
15. refuge
16. simplicity
17. creatures
18. magnitude
19. spiraled
20. emerges

My shell sheet is too big, so I'm not going to bother to scan it. It's amazing, I promise.

Have a great winter break!!

-Xtina

Perspective

Since it was the day before Thanksgiving, class was only half an hour long. We briefly discussed The Poetics of Space, which we will soon be reading. We also very very briefly went over perspective and were asked to draw a few images.

pyramid

cube

cylinder

sphere

And now for something a little different...

During our last class session we welcomed a guest speaker. James is a friend of Francisco and also a designer. He gave us his thoughts on Maps of the Imagination and also gave us advice about the kind of things we should be thinking about. Near the end of class, we saw slides of his senior thesis, which I thought was pretty brilliant. I loved seeing the process, starting from the drawings on tracing paper, the photos of the sight and the 3D model. It is a little intimidating because I do feel like such a beginner but we all have to start somewhere.

Macro / Micro

I was feeling a bit under the weather during the last class and think I may have faded in and out during some juicy bits of discussion. However, I did manage to do my sketch:

I chose rhythm as my word. And unless you're not paying attention, you will see that I chose waves as my macro image and cilia as my micro. I hope this was actually what we were supposed to do for the assignment. *fingers crossed*

The class that wasn't

We didn't have class last week. Looks like flu season is in full effect.

I have continued reading the book. I'm almost sad to see it end. I especially enjoyed reading about Chuck Jones in the chapter "A Rigorous Geometry", maybe because I really like Chuck Jones' work or maybe I relate to the logical argument of writing relating to math.

Hope you're feeling better. See you next class.

Maps - Revised

During our last class session, we spent most of the time mapping the word homeless as an example for our own maps. From homeless we ended up with words like lovers, nurture, needy, money and lightness. It was a pretty interesting exercise. It helped us visualize what our own maps would be like. 

For the second exercise, we redrew the words into simplified images. Well, Francisco did it, actually. We just watched (and learned, I swear).