A little essay linked in from slashdot on internet gender expectations...
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/17/27
The rest of the magazine looks interesting too, but I haven't read it, yet.
I have been kinda lax on posting, but I should be able to post a bit more for the next few weeks. Many early semester major projects just wrapped, and so we are all back in the sketch/plan stage. I think I can massage my schedule a bit more during this period.
I am finding my feeling confirmed that sketching is the number one skill for almost any artist. I found myself sometimes in the defacto lead role on my recent group form-study project because I could do a decent job sketching out ideas and explaining them. The ideas that worked in the final project were the ones that got planned out the clearest. Even as I saw group members looking to me for leadership, I enjoyed having ideas shot down, because I knew the sketched pictures were clear enough that the ideas were being critiqued and not the drawings.
The final result is a cardboard sculpture called "Recycle" of a toilet that is also a shower . It's a little gross, but it certainly got people thinking, and the craft my group put into it helped the other people in class talk about the concept and not the material or workmanship. For me, that's a success.
The rest of the magazine looks interesting too, but I haven't read it, yet.
I have been kinda lax on posting, but I should be able to post a bit more for the next few weeks. Many early semester major projects just wrapped, and so we are all back in the sketch/plan stage. I think I can massage my schedule a bit more during this period.
I am finding my feeling confirmed that sketching is the number one skill for almost any artist. I found myself sometimes in the defacto lead role on my recent group form-study project because I could do a decent job sketching out ideas and explaining them. The ideas that worked in the final project were the ones that got planned out the clearest. Even as I saw group members looking to me for leadership, I enjoyed having ideas shot down, because I knew the sketched pictures were clear enough that the ideas were being critiqued and not the drawings.
The final result is a cardboard sculpture called "Recycle" of a toilet that is also a shower . It's a little gross, but it certainly got people thinking, and the craft my group put into it helped the other people in class talk about the concept and not the material or workmanship. For me, that's a success.