In class this week we have started working on/finishing up our Frank Gehry projects. We watched a movie about a guy named Frank Gehry who designed buildings and is a really creative thinker. He has made all kinds of cool looking buildings and has built them out of the United States as well. For example, he designed a museum that was in Bilbao, Spain and is one of his most famous buildings he created. Gehry goes beyond squares and rectangles, he likes to have curves in his art. The best thing about his work is that it is so unique and different from other architects.
I have always had an interest in buildings and architecture. If I had the patience and creativity that is what I would be doing for the rest of my life. One of my favorite types of buildings were ones that were made from glass. I love how open it is and how you can see everything that is surrounding you. A common element I see are that the buildings look so much bigger, but they really aren't that much bigger. Anytime I'm passing by the apartments on 94 east, right before the Dempster exit, I always have to look at it. It is a little dangerous while I'm driving, but it catches my eye. They way it is not just a straight up and down building, it has a gap between a few levels. The square shape of the building juts out differently for certain floors, makes it look more like a fancy building in the city than an apartment complex.
Curvy buildings are not common very much, so when I saw the Frank Gehry video it just opened my eyes to a whole another view of architecture and design. I loved how the video showed his thought process when he was designing the buildings. For me, it was cool to get insight into a mind like he has. It also was interesting to me how he would make a hair difference in one of his models, but it somehow made it all look more complete. Just to have an eye for that kind of designing and knowing how to finish is amazing. The whole video changed my view on buildings altogether. I appreciate it even more than I did before. The work that the architects and builders put into the buildings is astounding. It showed me that designing a building so complex is more than just throwing shapes on top of each other. If I could, I would travel to Bilbao just to see that museum and all the textures and curves that Gehry thought of himself. It would be great to see other people's reactions to the museum and try to see what they see. I am open for any perspectives of designing that will change the way I view buildings. It only broadens my interests and horizons even more.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Blogging Around
Nigel H (Connection: Tenacity and College):
He talks about freedom he will have at college and being able to push through his hardships. He views these hardships as a way to better himself and get into a good college.
"I can relate to your feeling of freedom that college offers. I am the same exact way. I just want to be on my own and not having to deal with other famil member's drama. It's cool that your mom is able to help you push through the hardships, even though she can create some drama. I think it is best learning from other peoples mistakes. You get to see the results before you even do anything. I also think humanities is a great class for this type of thinking. Being able to make connections like this is important."
Brittany B (Captured Thought: Saying Good-bye):
She talks about not wanting to say good-bye after high school like we all did in middle school. She views good-bye as something permanent.
"I agree with you about good-bye's. middle school was sad for me, I don't even want to begin imagining saying good-bye after high school. It gets annoying after awhile. Making friends, changing schools and then losing those friends. You don't even have to say good-bye, people leave on their own and never look back on the memories. Everybody should think more like you. People always say that they hated high school, yet a majority of those people would go back in a heart beat if they could. Going into college not regretting anything you have done will be a great advantage. The memories will help you realize that there are positives in high school."
He talks about freedom he will have at college and being able to push through his hardships. He views these hardships as a way to better himself and get into a good college.
"I can relate to your feeling of freedom that college offers. I am the same exact way. I just want to be on my own and not having to deal with other famil member's drama. It's cool that your mom is able to help you push through the hardships, even though she can create some drama. I think it is best learning from other peoples mistakes. You get to see the results before you even do anything. I also think humanities is a great class for this type of thinking. Being able to make connections like this is important."
Brittany B (Captured Thought: Saying Good-bye):
She talks about not wanting to say good-bye after high school like we all did in middle school. She views good-bye as something permanent.
"I agree with you about good-bye's. middle school was sad for me, I don't even want to begin imagining saying good-bye after high school. It gets annoying after awhile. Making friends, changing schools and then losing those friends. You don't even have to say good-bye, people leave on their own and never look back on the memories. Everybody should think more like you. People always say that they hated high school, yet a majority of those people would go back in a heart beat if they could. Going into college not regretting anything you have done will be a great advantage. The memories will help you realize that there are positives in high school."
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Best of Week: Corporate Space
In class this week we have been going over Modernism and Postmodernism. An idea of postmodernism that we discussed more in depth was corporate space. The name is pretty much self explanatory. As postmodernist humans we have allowed business and networks to control our own personal space. Everything we do and everywhere we go is all controlled by corporate space. I feel so oblivious to the whole idea, it never had really crossed my mind.
The light bulb in my brain immediately went on, the whole realization of corporate space has just made me think about my surroundings so much more. Every piece of clothing I wear has the name of the company somewhere on it. My iPhone is corporate space. I am connected through so many different networks that are controlled by businesses like Apple. What is sad to me is that it has taken me 18 years to realize that I am just a walking advertisement. Everything I do and say has all been a result of a corporation. It is just how people are raised. No one ever even knows that they are being raised in a certain way controlled by a large network. Maybe once you are older, but by that time you have already been brain washed.
This whole idea brings me back to free will. In Sophie's World we discussed not having free will based on nature, or a god. In postmodernism, free will is based on networks and corporations. The whole idea of fashion and what people wear is a perfect example of the lack of free will. People want to wear whatever the models are wearing, and all models are just advertising the biggest designer names. So when girls go to a store, they look for something that looks like what the models are wearing. We think we are choosing our own clothes and our own style, but really we are just designing ourselves to be the way corporations want us to be. Even slang terms like "swag" or "yolo" has become a way of advertising. Companies take advantage of unaware teenagers and put these words into TV shows and movies. Without even realizing it, we are using these terms in our everyday life. We think we're saying whatever we want to whoever we want on our own time, by choice. Meanwhile, there is a business making loads of money off of these words, who could care less about your free will.
I could say that I'm going to be more aware of what I am doing and how I am being used as corporate space, but I won't. I know that I am 18 years too late to try and change the only way of life that I know. I can't even think of where to begin to change. This is the reality of the world, and this is how we have created it to be. So while I'm sitting here frustrated about corporate space, everyone else continues their daily routine having no clue what they are really doing with their lives. Or the reality, what corporations have chosen them to do with their lives.
The light bulb in my brain immediately went on, the whole realization of corporate space has just made me think about my surroundings so much more. Every piece of clothing I wear has the name of the company somewhere on it. My iPhone is corporate space. I am connected through so many different networks that are controlled by businesses like Apple. What is sad to me is that it has taken me 18 years to realize that I am just a walking advertisement. Everything I do and say has all been a result of a corporation. It is just how people are raised. No one ever even knows that they are being raised in a certain way controlled by a large network. Maybe once you are older, but by that time you have already been brain washed.
This whole idea brings me back to free will. In Sophie's World we discussed not having free will based on nature, or a god. In postmodernism, free will is based on networks and corporations. The whole idea of fashion and what people wear is a perfect example of the lack of free will. People want to wear whatever the models are wearing, and all models are just advertising the biggest designer names. So when girls go to a store, they look for something that looks like what the models are wearing. We think we are choosing our own clothes and our own style, but really we are just designing ourselves to be the way corporations want us to be. Even slang terms like "swag" or "yolo" has become a way of advertising. Companies take advantage of unaware teenagers and put these words into TV shows and movies. Without even realizing it, we are using these terms in our everyday life. We think we're saying whatever we want to whoever we want on our own time, by choice. Meanwhile, there is a business making loads of money off of these words, who could care less about your free will.
I could say that I'm going to be more aware of what I am doing and how I am being used as corporate space, but I won't. I know that I am 18 years too late to try and change the only way of life that I know. I can't even think of where to begin to change. This is the reality of the world, and this is how we have created it to be. So while I'm sitting here frustrated about corporate space, everyone else continues their daily routine having no clue what they are really doing with their lives. Or the reality, what corporations have chosen them to do with their lives.
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