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8.5.10
29.4.10
vintage photographs
In my costume history class we have been sharing old family portraits. Here is my Great Grandparents wedding portrait from 1935. Hand colored. Original frame.
Do you have any vintage family photos?
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27.4.10
26.4.10
22.4.10
what $24 gets you in slocum hall
beaming after a successful (luck, not skill) 3-d print! need to take better pics ASAP. shade structure is 2" x 6".
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I'm so slack here.
All I do is sit in cafes and try to draw people before they leave. These were from yesterday, with 10 colors. My favorite subject is people asleep on the train. Continue
21.4.10
19.4.10
Studio Culture Documentary Short
So recently (today) I started conducting interviews, along with capturing other footage, of architecture students talking about the subject of 'studio culture.' I am working on a documentary short (with a little money from the clemson AIAS) on the subject that will be part of that discussion at Clemson. I interviewed about 7 or 8 students today but with all interviews, even with as much freedom as you give the person being interviewed, the questions frame the discussion....
....So I would love to get any input from you all, whether it be questions to ask students, opinions about things that could be improved, subject areas that would provide students a chance to open up, important events/moments that should be captured on film in order to describe studio, or anything else you can think of.
Here is a brief, but not exclusive, topical rundown that I use to frame the discussion with interviewees:
-Meaning of studio culture
-Uniqueness of Clemon studio culture
-Dedication level of an architectural education
-Time spent of projects
-Ownership level of student work
-Inter-student relations (collaboration, camaraderie, sense of community)
-Student-professor relationships (tenure professors vs. younger professors, clearness of expectations, grading policy, the power of the professor)
-The culture of criticism/reviews as unique to studio culture
-the fluid campus as integral part of Clemson studio culture
Another topic that keeps coming up, that I think is particularly interesting and important, is the ability of professors to grade harshly or for students to be kicked out in order to make room for students who really want to be in the program, that get stuck on waiting lists.
Also...I would like to get some interviews with you all - maybe just by video-chatting with a screen capture software. I think the idea of the discussion not just taking place in physical-clemson studio is important to the idea of studio culture. So let me know if you got something to say.
I will be posting segments from these interviews soon.
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....So I would love to get any input from you all, whether it be questions to ask students, opinions about things that could be improved, subject areas that would provide students a chance to open up, important events/moments that should be captured on film in order to describe studio, or anything else you can think of.
Here is a brief, but not exclusive, topical rundown that I use to frame the discussion with interviewees:
-Meaning of studio culture
-Uniqueness of Clemon studio culture
-Dedication level of an architectural education
-Time spent of projects
-Ownership level of student work
-Inter-student relations (collaboration, camaraderie, sense of community)
-Student-professor relationships (tenure professors vs. younger professors, clearness of expectations, grading policy, the power of the professor)
-The culture of criticism/reviews as unique to studio culture
-the fluid campus as integral part of Clemson studio culture
Another topic that keeps coming up, that I think is particularly interesting and important, is the ability of professors to grade harshly or for students to be kicked out in order to make room for students who really want to be in the program, that get stuck on waiting lists.
Also...I would like to get some interviews with you all - maybe just by video-chatting with a screen capture software. I think the idea of the discussion not just taking place in physical-clemson studio is important to the idea of studio culture. So let me know if you got something to say.
I will be posting segments from these interviews soon.
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16.4.10
15.4.10
poll time.
4:00 deadline; get it girls.
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i will go to the school for whom the most collective members vote.
RICE VS. MICHIGAN
round 1: sarah. vs. monica
(princeton vs. harvard)
round 2:sweat your balls off vs. freeze your balls off
(no clothes vs. granola sweaters)
round 3: small vs. big
round 4: apples vs. oranges
(cumquats vs. granny smith)
UGH! vote now.
3 hours left.
14.4.10
elektra
Production photo from Elektra. More to come. My camera didn't take the best photos so I'm waiting on the good ones from the production manager.
For this production of Elektra, the design team's goal was to create a world inspired by the 1930s. Research of migrant worker's shacks in the 1930s guided me to this silhouette and choice of materials. The interior of the shack represents an emotional, psychologically disturbing space which is only revealed during the murder of Elektra's mother, Clytemnestra. Continue
9.4.10
8.4.10
So I'm reading Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder's letters and I came across this passage. The mention of samsara caught my eye and I thought I'd share. Let us please take this moment to reminisce tapas in Gracia...What an appropriate place and name for our lives at that moment...the cycle of birth, suffering, death, rebirth, all that blood and embrace.
love.
Gary to Ginsberg:
Listen man if you feel up to it will you write me a concise statement of your theory of beat ness and its relation to vision, poetry, and America? and to sex? I am seeing new angles to this rough Zen-discipline shot; perhaps by reducing one's life to essentials of eating (barely enough) and sleeping (barely enough) and working (hard) and subjecting you to constant psychological pressure of meditation and interviews they are, within a controlled situation, making you thoroughly beat (Rinzai is the sect of the big stick whack) and aware of what is samsara* and what one's body-self really craves, like food sex and sleep --
* Samsara: the cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth
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love.
Gary to Ginsberg:
Listen man if you feel up to it will you write me a concise statement of your theory of beat ness and its relation to vision, poetry, and America? and to sex? I am seeing new angles to this rough Zen-discipline shot; perhaps by reducing one's life to essentials of eating (barely enough) and sleeping (barely enough) and working (hard) and subjecting you to constant psychological pressure of meditation and interviews they are, within a controlled situation, making you thoroughly beat (Rinzai is the sect of the big stick whack) and aware of what is samsara* and what one's body-self really craves, like food sex and sleep --
* Samsara: the cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth
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7.4.10
A Beer and a Plan. Keep Posting.
Everyone Submit your best glamour shot, external link you'd like to be associated w/ (your web, blog etc..), any contact info you'd be willing to publish, and whether our not you've setup an email @supermanicecreamcollective.com yet. Send 'em to Andrew@supermanicecreamcollective.com.
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6.4.10
When It Rains I Can Smell the Dead
Children are flying black kites in the street
their jackets coming unbuttoned with excitement,
and I begin to think about the tidal water in my hometown,
how my Sunday school teacher’s wife jumped
off the Cooper River bridge, and I am almost crying
when I think about her hands, how hard
they must have gripped the steel rail,
how sickeningly pretty she must have been
her brown hair fluttering behind her,
the grey ocean, grey sky, a white seagull, a ship.
When it rains I can smell the dead
birds being washed from the sidewalk
like some genesis, a calling to confess
the tightening of a fist, less than hopeful shrugs,
silence as I drove away from the old house.
It is this way now, roaring outside, electric
and damp, the chatter of broken wings blowing
down the street. My life has changed too much.
It is all carnal, my brain like a bin of week old fruits,
torched, side-of-the-road, and failing to sell.
I get out of bed this time of year like a stone ghost.
I am never at rest, ballooned, chewing raw rice
to assuage myself. In my dreams I heave into a clean well
and you don’t want to watch. To spread my legs is to weep
with you, so I will be water in caves beneath you
singing the beginning of a list, my mouth a cell, deep
and dark, in it the shoulder bone of my second baby.
I wonder how much longer you plan to stay
with me, how much longer until your lungs
have had enough of these dark hymns.
I am not who you thought, a valley,
yellow souled, a sad little woman leaping
for food, too short to reach the water, watching
the bar move higher up the wall, starving.
Afterwards I can’t stop crying, and all I want from you
is to say it is going to be okay, but you don’t
or you can’t, one, and I curl up to your turned body
in the dark, trying to find your heartbeat
as if it will allay this dead body in a dead house,
as if this wide embrace might save us.
4.4.10
a spring/summer project
If you are like me, I am constantly wrestling with my consumption of unnecessary things and the creation of unnecessary trash. I will be the first to admit that I am not the perfect steward of the land and do not represent the typical radical environmentalist. (So no i will not be dumping red paint on your pelts ladies.) However, in an attempt to reconnect with nature and have a do it yourself project, I started my own deck garden, complete with flowers, herbs and vegetables. I am fortunate to have a small deck, well more like a very wide and roomy fire escape. With my garden in place and a new garden for the urban dweller; the window farming project, I thought I would share different gardening options for those who want to add a touch of green into their lives. Plus now i can stop buying cilantro in bulk.
And here is the rest of it.
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