Just thought I’d take a moment while I’m sitting outside of the model shop to write a word or two. I’m waiting to get a sheet of wood laser cut with the title of our project and a scale figure, but I have a strong suspicion that no one is going to be here tonight. Guess we’ll have to do it the old fashioned way.
We’re so close to being done, and I’m so ready. Last night I pulled my first all nighter of grad school. Having spent quite a while making my disappointing web page, I then had to scramble to make a model and draw a perspective for the spatial composition review this morning at 8:00. Luckily, I really enjoyed making the model, and thought it was perhaps the best exercise I’ve done so far at school. We were each given patterns – generally plans, but some less representational patterns, too – and had to transform the 2-D pattern into a 3-D spatial composition. The space had to be architectural and have a program.
I chose to make an art school from one of Tadao Ando’s plans. I used it in section, though, and had a subway stop with pneumatic tubes, and then a lecture hall, a gallery/hallway, classrooms, studios filled with diffuse north light, a pool for studying how things move underwater, and a field for setting up landscapes and large outdoor installations. I’ll post some photos soon – the model really was beautiful, and hopefully it won’t be too destroyed when it’s returned to me.
I saw Johanna Newsom last weekend after all, and I made the right choice. She played Book of Right On, Sprout and the Bean, Bridges and Balloons, the entire new album (Ys), Sadie, Peach Plum Pear, and Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie. It was amazing to see her alone on the stage, but with such presence, and I loved the material from the new album, which she played with a five person band. I managed to be at the edge of the stage because I won a free ticket to the next concert in the raffle before she went on. I had to pee the entire time, but it didn’t matter at all as I sat and listened.
I’d better get back upstairs, since no one has come to open up the model shop. We have one more project due tomorrow, and then we’re done for the semester! Hurray, I’m looking forward to visiting sunny Florida so much, and sleeping and running and eating like a normal person!