the drums > surfer blood

After this week's thesis critique, it was made apparent my proposed design schemes seemed a bit stiff. Apparently, my designs were looking less like a childcare center, and more like an internment camp. (no bueno.) In order for me to design more free flowing and fun schemes, I felt I needed to step away from all my stress and relax a little, live a little. ...ok, maybe a lot.

As a first step, I decided to spend my Wed night @the H.Fonda Music Box to watch The Drums. (thx Jaime!)

It helped, a lot. I'm currently in the process of developing 3 schemes for my thesis project that I'm really liking, which is a good sign.

I'll post pictures soon.

oh, just another day @the ritz

boats+frittata

marina del rey, ca

everyone needs a levi.

CAAM Tuesdays @Mesa

Costa Mesa, CA

are YOU coming?

cicLAvia

"Inspired by Ciclovía, the original, weekly street closure event in Bogotá, Columbia, CicLAvia opens LA streets to pedestrians and bicyclists, creating a temporary web of public space on which residents of Los Angeles can walk, bike, socialize, celebrate and learn more about their own city. On 10/10/10, 7.5 miles of roadways will temporarily close to car traffic and open for recreational purposes. From Boyle Heights to Downtown, MacArthur Park to East Hollywood, CicLAvia encourages Angelinos to not only make active use of their streets, but to rediscover the roadways and neighborhoods that too often go unnoticed in a car. Help open LA’s streets… take part in the first ever CicLAvia on 10/10/10." -cicLAvia website

I think any and all people who love LA or love to see what LA can offer should partake in this event. Am I going? Well, duh.

lacma

Exhibit: Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915, October 2, 2010 – April 3, 2011

on view in the new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, designed by Renzo Piano

Who's interested? LACMA's Free Community Weekend: Oct 2nd - 3rd...

http://vimeo.com/15146529

(linked video is taken from the lacma blog, featuring Lisa Love, editor of Vogue magazine, talking about a shoot that was done on selected dresses from the exhibit.)

...convinced, yet?

new direction.

This blog was initially a class assignment, meant to post updates on our Coachella 2010 installation. The installation has been completed, installed, and now sits disassembled in the back of one of the portable classrooms on campus.

After much thought, I've decided to change the direction of the blog, from a class assignment into one focusing on my personal lifestyle.

We'll see how it goes...

(the image is of our installation, Neural Sky, exhibited at this year's Coachella event in Indio, CA. It's version 2.0; version 1.0 was exhibited a month earlier at an event in San Bernardino called Beyond Wonderland)

Node Shell Proposal

Everyone in the class was asked to propose a shell design for the nodes. Tomorrow, we're all going to vote on a design that we feel best represents the form/construction technique we want so that we can fabricate a prototype.

Before I started designing the shell, I mapped out where the tubes would be attached to the nodes. From there, I used string to map out where around the periphery of the node there would be space to attach the shell. The third image is my shell design.