Remember to Breath
apologies to my avid blog readers for the paucity of entries of late (to all negative 2 of you that is, heh heh). i have been most most busy this past weekend and have had no random time to jot some fascinating insights on life for your purview. the past few days have been at the labor of studio... for the presentation i had just this afternoon. as i type this at my gracious friend's house in brooklyn (i will be staying in nyc for the thanksgiving holiday season, thank god i am out of boston!), i'm think what important thing i should make facetious commentary about today. can't really think of anything except just to say that i am very happy (as much as my sleep deprived body can be that is) that all my hard hard work paid off in a very very good review. honestly, it was probably one of the best reviews i have had in a while. hopefully it won't be the only. i kind of have a habit of having one fairly good review, usually interim, and then somehow the magic wears off in the latter half of the semester and the final is pretty hmm... ho hum. at least that was how it was last semester, but i was also extremely tired last presentation. but i don't think that is teh real reason actually, since i only got one hour of sleep really for this one. i think it was just that the project clicked and i was still intrinsically interested in it. the gist of what failed aout last semester's project was that i just wasn't that interested and in the end the project was going through the motions, a formalistic play of graphic image. and i think the critics easily realized the non-chalant, dis-engaged, and non-commital attitude.
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but this project did click. after various iterations where i was beginning to already feel like i was just going through the motions, i finally took the suggestion of truly "simplifying" the project and in the end i think there was a lot of fruition. maybe that's one valid approach...a sort of... do you have the major gesture clear and correct and then the complexities you can add to it, the seasong, where the base is already good. in metaphorical style, i think teh shortcomings before were attributable to basically trying to make base stock with seasoning... not so good. in the end, it's just a lot of disparate idea without a consistent medium to really heighten their "flavor".
hmmm, can't you tell its thanksgiving. tomorrow after i wake from a long slumber, i am just going to sleep and sleep until i want to fully get up, i should think about what i am bringing, if anything to the thanksgiving dinner i am attending. i want to make this fantastic mushroom/chesnut soup i made before but its dependent on if there is a blender/food processor around.... but it is soooo good. :)
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anyways, it was a good studio review. and funny enough it seemed very very short. i mean, i sort of just babbled here and there about the design... honestly only refered to the drawings that took me like 10 hours to produce like three time, just to clarify the moves i was making in the model, and actually didn't find myself talking to much "bullshit" and "pompous" big idea you know. it was just hey, this is the concept i am interested in and voila, here's an attempt at it. what do you think. but i am always curious what drives a critic's remarks. i think one critic sort of just enjoyed the image of the building, the other was intrigued by it but was more concerned about urban level critiques (which really wasn't suppose to be the point of this review) and finally, my own professor seemed just quietly satisfied that i had made a distinct move away from sort of the "seasoning based... base" i was concocting at first. ultimately i think it's that line between clear expression and just reckless idiosyncrasy that i am always trying to negotiate.. often i make moves that i am not exactly sure why they are that way except at the moment i am drawing the line, i rationalize that move through something...an accumulated list of "why's"... but eventually this list doe snothing to form, let alone allude or reinfore an already vague notion of "big why". in this review, i guess i made a simply clear form, with some notion of a formalistic why that ran through the entire project, but then expanded (or complicated ...in a good way) the "why".
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sorry to all my non-architect readers on the esoteric blabber, but as you've probbaly realize self analysis, in all apsects of my life is my TiVo like addiction.
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so i will stop now then and just say i am relieved that break has started. i have a book of reading i "could" read but maybe i will just be lazy and do jack. now, i do HAVE to write a paper for my housing class, which i had a great hour long conversation with my mom the other day discussing the pros and cons of the mortgage tax deduction system in the US and its effects on housing affordability. but other than that, i am relatively free, or relative to what inclination i have. all i want to really do now is crawl into bed and just sleep. and thsi weekend, finally get a chance to breath..... in between stuffing my face with turkey of course. haha. happy thanksgiving everyone
posted by faux chink @ 12:47 AM
1 Comments:
Congrats on your review Alex! I just reread all of your blog entries...we have much to discuss tonight! I'll see you for the balloon thing...I'll give you a ring this afternoon...
Robert
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