have you ever gotten so mired in the process of doing something that you lose sight of the concept and/or craft of the project? all these projects i put off, when i get around to cramming the work into the few hours i've left myself to do it, there's no time left to be thoughtful or deliberate. inevitably i compress the workload into a third of ( Read more... )

yay, i'm awake ( Read more... )

this has been the only song loaded on winamp for a number of days. it's not on repeat, but i hit play often enough that it might as well be. i don't know why i'm so attached. it just strikes me as an eminently beautiful rendition; listening to it at a healthy volume mellows me out to the point of a trance ( Read more... )

my studio review did not achieve the results i'd hoped for. on wednesday everyone who went got a pat on the back and a "you put in a great effort," even though two of the projects were not very strong. i'd hoped since i'd be pinning up work they'd never seen before, they'd congratulate me on generating so much work in the last minute (people who ( Read more... )

outside the u.s. it's apparently the norm as an architecture student to have a friend or two help pull you through a presentation by doing grunt work for you, whether this be rendering or model making or whatever. american students have limited exposure to this tradition; mostly at very select schools grad students are allowed to harness the ( Read more... )

aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!

i wonder why it is that actors pass out and get a day off the movie set for exhaustion, and musical divas get a couple of days rest in a hospital when they suffer exhaustion on tour, but architecture students get no respite or doctors note for the same? one of the members of my cds group has finally realized the nasty sticking point of arch school ( Read more... )

maybe we don't hate tucson, maybe we hate the way we live in tucsonthe laptop that i hate has been wiped and updated to xp pro, so that it can be connected to the network at school. i am in the laborous process of trying to gather the most recent editions of all the software i need. anyone want to send me the newest executables of photoshop, ( Read more... )

the best thing about presentations are when they are over. the immediate vacuum after leaving a crit can be dizzying. you began physically drained and compound with a review that is mentally exhausting. it's like sitting for a big test and coming out tottering. it's one of the few times i ever feel the temptation to slap my palm down on the ( Read more... )

i keep expecting the sun to pop up over the horizon any minute, like a ping pong ball held underwater and released ( Read more... )