Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Week 2 Things

1) I have looked at all the blogs that I have on my blogroll so far. I'm not going to comment on them individually, except to say that you have noted an interesting range of buildings - from an anonymous timber hiking shelter, to Petra's carved-out treasury, to something by Calatrava (I think if I had done this exercise I would also have used a Calatrava building). There's also quite a variety of skills in the group - 3D CAD, manual drawing, carpentry etc. It looks like most of you are not new to design of some kind or another.

2) Your blogs should contain the exercises set in lectures, but these can be interspersed with any other things you stumble on and find interesting....text, images, videos, random musings. It's a way for you to broadcast your thoughts and get feedback, and to see the ideas that are occupying other people. If you are inspired by another student's work, by all means put it on your blog (with their permission). On this note:

3) A few of you aren't referencing yet. At the moment it looks like inexperience or laziness, but eventually it can lead to your academic integrity being questioned. Get into good habits now. There are many conventions for how to reference. For now, if you're referencing a website, at least put up the web address and the day you accessed it (if the website doesn't actually credit the photographer or author of the bit of work you're pinching).

4) I take it from the fact that none of you have posted any sketches for me to look at that you're all clear on which sections you're developing for next week. I hope you're not choosing the easy and straightforward ones, but ones that will challenge you. If you look at them now, you shouldn't necessarily have any idea of how you will go about modelling them when you hit SketchUp. It's ok to let them evolve.

5) If you have time, go and see the Olafur Eliasson exhibition at the MCA and play with lego. He does some cool things with planes and shapes, and inserting cold / wet / dark / reflective environments into a very conventional exhibition space. (He also did the quirky loop staircase in front of the bank in Germany that was on one of Russell's lecture slides today).

6) Monika is your student rep. Go to her with ideas for the end of session party. Also any comments about the course or the tutorial if you don't want to come to me.

7)
If you are 'following' me, it doesn't always mean that I can see your blog. Please keep giving me your blog addresses, I have a little over half of them now.

7 comments:

  1. Hi, I was in lectures all yesterday so unable to progress. I am working on my sketches now and will try to upload them to my blog asap ... I have changed a couple of words on my chosen artworks as I was struggling with them. Appreciate your feedback on a pairing in which to convert to sketch up. http://margaretgay.blogspot.com/ under 2nd page titled "Noun, Verb, Adjective"

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  2. hey,

    u havnt added me yet. the url is:

    http://www.benkalgovas.blogspot.com/

    thanks

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  3. Hi, i am still working on my sketches, but few more to go. do we have to create above and underground studios with sketch up this week or just experiment with the software? Thanks for liking me

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  4. Fruzsi, Not sure where to respond to you - here or on my blog? Thank you for making the time to give me the in-depth feed back, very very helpful. I take note of exploring joint further. Talking to Nicholas, changing some words, rereading the task and going over Russell's lecture again opened up some blocks I was having. Now I need to master sketchup :-S !

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  5. Hi Frizsi,

    I have uploaded some sketches, could you please give me some give me an advise of what to pick or what to improve on? thank you..!

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  6. Hi Fruzsina,

    I've uploaded my sketches on my blog and I was wondering if you could have a look at them? I realise they're a bit late so if you dont have time then not to worry :)

    thanks!
    Ana

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  7. Hi Fruzsi,

    I'm trying to upload my sketchUp models but it keeps telling me the file is corrupt and cannot upload. Is there a particular way of saving them in order to upload?

    thank you
    Lara

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