art installation

I looked at Alice Aycock's the Beginnings of a Complex... and the moving I'm doing is the Shining. This piece was all about how you looked at it, Aycock thought that the piece would be scary and people wouldn't want to climb it and would be forced to look at it from a far. The viewers actually felt intrigued to climb on it, despite the risks of falling. The installation made me think of a maze, since its full of dead ends either where you physically couldnt continue or the viewer would think the risk was too great.

Art Installation post

Dae Wook Lee

(Derik)

Installation: Staged Gates, Mary Miss, 1979

Film: Rope

Recomend Posted Video "Good Lecture"

I want to make a recommendation to watch the video "Good Lecture" posted by Mike if i am correct. I have caught up with the readings and though a little dense this video makes a couple of interested points that may be of some help when trying to assimilate our readings. I posted a comment on the video about my concerns with the issues of the readings, it is not an attack on our process just a simple criticism about my concerns on how we will form some dialectics between our research and ultimately a thesis of architecture. Let me know what some people think, am i raging for nothing or should we be critical on how we move forward in the studio...

Instillation & Movie Choice (Dionysios)

I am also watching Tarkovsky's Nostalghia, and have managed (or so I think) to purchase a dvd in the "original italian" and a vhs copy through amazon. I will be expecting them this week so Mike and others watching this film if we could confirm they are the same version we can proceed to have these copies circulate our class. I have gone ahead and chose Lebbeus Woods' The Storm and The Fall installations. This summer i went ahead and collected a couple of Wood's publications, one a collection of drawings, images and written texts, specifically on The Storm and The Fall installations. If anyone may be interested in Lebbeus Woods let me know, i will put another post up giving some incite into his spectrum of work.

rope -- full movie

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/4/4836

the shining - full movie

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/4/4365

Nostalghia...found a copy.

To those who have chosen tarkovsky's Nostalghia: It is very hard to find, I was told at Kim's that it is out of print...very out of print. After much searching, I found a video store in Williamsburg that has it to rent on VHS, and have it reserved there. I'm going to get it this evening, so let me know when you want to watch it. The only other copy that seems to exist in the city is at the ny public library branch in Lincoln Center, so I suggest that you contact me soon: I'm sure I will only be able to rent it for a day or two...also, found a copy on ebay that has to be shipped from korea, only 10 bucks, though. I'll probably send out for it.

Media Rentals

As per class discussion. There are rentals about at the Pratt Media center on the 3rd floor of the Engineering building. You can rent cameras, lighting kits, a date etc. Number 718-399-4356. Call ahead.

The Shining

I'm going to be screening "The Shining" friday evening in the CNC lab. if anyone is interested please join. and afterwards we can watch the commentary, and have a discussion or something cool like that. let me know

marc, is it okay to be using one of the artists from the packet but not necessarily the selected work shown? thanks

reading

Dear All:

Can you all confirm that you picked up the Morris reading "The Present Tense of Space" from my mailbox ob the second floor HHN next to room 201.

This is the source for your installation selection and is required reading for next week

Thanks

Dan

tutorial

marc, can we get a copy of the premier tutorial? thanks

the test

Testing

installation and film

please comment below with your selections.

I didn't get a packet!

Somehow, although it looked like there were 15 movie packets on the table, I did not get one...I don't know what happened, maybe someone took two packets, or maybe there are now 16 students, but in any event I need to know ASAP what happened so I can get started. Thanks.

Marcel Duchamp - Anemic Cinema

Ballet mecanique (1924)

Man Ray: Emak-Bakia Part 1

assignment

Does anyone have the piaget reading or the film program? Neither were in Marc's mailbox when I checked

Good Lecture

This is one of my favorite lectures and I thought that It would pertain to the discussion so far... I'm not sure how to imbed video yet, so here is the link to the lecture:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/98

The lecture is about the way we look at the "real" world, and other stuff.

tomba brion carlo scarpa

brion in the rain...

google scholar

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=synaesthesia&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

Authors@Google: George Lakoff

cameras

i still havent heard from half the class.
regardless, no excuses on tuesday.
i need to know what you have for video cameras...
please tell me.
thanks

The Passenger - Profession Reporter 03

THE SHINING in-depth analysis PART ONE by Rob Ager

Rear Window (Slim Aaron on Hitchcock)

Rear Window

Blog

I am receiving

studio

please comment to this post. i need to know who is not getting info.

thanks

marc

thesis research assignment due sept 4th

studio 07/08:

please purchase--Metaphors We Live By (Paperback) by George Lakoff (Author), Mark Johnson (Author)

amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Metaphors-We-Live-George-Lakoff/dp/0226468011/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-9122474-7167301?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188483658&sr=1-1

please purchase the most recent addition. This includes an afterword published in 2003.

you are required to have read (and understood) the following out of it (for tuesday:)

-Chapters 1 ('concepts we live by) thru to Chapter 6 ( 'ontological metaphors')
pgs 3-32

-Afterword pg 239-274

in addition, purchase this book too:

The Child's Conception of Physical Causality (Paperback) by Jean Piaget (Author), Jaan Valsiner (Introduction), Jean Valsiner (Author)

amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Childs-Conception-Physical-Causality/dp/076580641X/ref=sr_1_1/102-9122474-7167301?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188484373&sr=1-1

from this, read the introduction and one chapter of your choosing (your interest.)

I will leave photocopies in my mailbox of some of this, however get the books for yourself asap.

ALSO
I will be leaving a film editing program in my mailbox.
If you do not have one.
Please begin to learn this software asap.
I will arrange for a tutorial as well.

Please ask others in this class to email me asap, so that we may begin dialogue on this blog.
thanks

Robert Smithson Films

http://www.robertsmithson.com/films/films.htm

Seeing Life in Colors: Crosswired Senses

Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia on CNN

end of the year party

tomorrow night sometime, party at 521 lafayette apt #2 between bedford and nostrand byob. do it!

saturday awards jury students

Dan and I will need a copy of the completed books from the four students that presented on saturday.
I would suggest that you do this as soon as possible as it will benefit you greatly as you begin your professional careers.
Please get this out of that way as soon as possible...
but of course I know you want to get away from it for a bit...

Your books should basically include your previous research book with the final spring project documented and included within. You may want to restructure things a bit if appropriate, but consider this something that could be published...maybe it will...
a copy will be kept by the administration for future reference as exemplary projects.

I am happy to discuss this with you further...
thanks again for your very hard work.
marc

chez synaesthesia

Good times on Sat night. Thanks again Dan for taking us all out.

check your gmail

i have sent a few notices to some of your gmail accounts.
please make sure you check them asap.
thanks
marc

review tomorrow

it was obvious that my previous pin up email was disregarded.
namtip, david and alex....
please do as lawrence asks here
"Please make sure your students have their research booklet from the falland 10 copies of their updated statement (precis ) to handout to thecritics tomorrow. We will begin around 10am."
i hope we can get this one right.
please.
thank you in advance.

pin up

hopefully you guys are organizing the room by now...
EVERY BODY should be pinned up by 9:30 am
make it look good, you have worked hard so present yourself well...
and
PLEASE get some sleep tonight...

see you tomorrow...
marc

Plans

1st Floor

2nd Floor

Ground

stanley

please read my response to your earlier post.

review

what time is the review on friday?

room 111

marc and dan, it would be greatly appreciated if you could make a push for room 111, my model will not leave the 1st floor easily

table update

The table top is %100 complete. The metal frame is 100% fabricated. They are not yet joined. The plan was to blacken the metal frame, though as I discovered today as i began this process, is that this is basically beyond the realm of possibility for saturday. So the plan is assemble the table for the review with the un-blackened frame, and then blacken it for my welding class later.

- stanley -

hey stanley i did a quick photoshop of your image... basically just fattened up your columns, added something for them to sit on, then cropped your image. maybe simple tweaks like this could help

Progress?

morning rain

projector

One of us needs to OKed with the media lab to take out the projector... for Friday (and maybe saturday)

Playing with Mirrors

Reflection & Transparency

Perspective

This was done in Photoshop...Thanks again David.

woops...

sorry marc i've shut myself out from the internet except to check email and news... totally forgot to take a look at the blog from time to time. here are the renderings i've done so far. for the more recent ones, i've been trying to make limited use of color to highlight different interactions/spaces

So I won the battle with the butterfly keys. For some reason the slot for the last one (closest to the floor in photograph) ended up being slightly assymetrical which made it absurdly difficult to get right. Anyway, here are a couple of shots of the mostly completed table top. Tomorrow when the glue is fully dried i will cut the keys flush, route a couple mounting slots into the bottom, and then oil it. The metal part is also mostly completed as of this morning, but the pictures of that are on a different camera and I dont seem to have the right hardware on hand to get them on my computer.

Plans

Day/Night

More table pictures. The butterfly keys that hold the top together were kicking my ass, but I started to get the upper hand when the shop closed this evening.

do you mean this?

perspectives

i need to add some more details into them when i get the chance to come back to these drawings...

Got It

I've have been working on the plan as well. I want to do another layered drawing for them as well.... they will be posted next.

Trouble Uploading Images

Is anyone else having trouble uploading images? I'm clicking on the icon but not getting any response.


Is there another way to insert an image?

presentation...big

please keep in mind that your color color drawings need to be plotted big.
and you may need to blow up sketches or hand drawings.
think ahead to your presentation and make sure plotting doesnt become an excuse...

a new dwawing

ahn

post your new drawings...

More theater

Here are some more images of the theater. Not totally done yet, but on its way.

studio visit

it looks like dan and i will be in on sunday.
not sure when yet.

delal

volume...volume...volume...
show us how you are defining the significant volumes in your project...

stanley

post your detail drawings...
as well as the sections...
you realize the kalwall is not structural...right?
it needs a secondary structure to support the panel lengths...
i just dont remember seeign it...

carrie

carrie...
you should 'stage' a series of photographs with the full scale model...
how the bodies and the cabinets perform

arnold

post your perspectives

The metal part of the table is about 80% done. Here are a couple of pictures of it.

I am declaring the 1/2"=1'-0" detail model finished, so I am close to being on schedule. Early next week I will begin writing narrative and beginning to prepare my presentation and will probably need some input on that.

brian...

http://www.cgarchitect.com/upclose/article1_AH.asp

Morgan Library

Here are some of photos from the Morgan Library where ideas of a secondary skin, spaces that hang and a structure emerging from below are all present.

For all those who would like to visit the Library, they have free admission during slected hours on Tuesdays and Fridays. Just be careful with a camera, security was on my case for taking photos.

epic theater

Here is the central space w/ structure and a scale figure wondering where the roof is...