Yay!

I entered a set of my collapsed building drawings in the All Student Exhibition.  They won a Guy Palazzola Memorial Senior Award! Yay!  I’m very excited, this means a lot to me to have a success in the art school.  The nine other folks who received the award have excellent work so I’m proud to be honored along with them.

In other news, I’m taking a little bit of a break since it is, well, break.  But I’ve got some great ideas for drawings that I’m going to work on over the holidays.  They involve taking a set of rules from one system and applying it to an area outside of that system’s jurisdiction.  So, we shall see…

Goldmine

(image by Ron Passaro, ASHI Founder via This Old House

This morning I found a goldmine. “Home Inspection Nightmares” on This Old House.  It’s a 14-part series of about 20 images to each part and is full of such lovely systemic failures as a light switch located inside a shower, supply and return vents right next to each other, and a giant mass of plugs all feeding into one outlet.  Wonderful!  So inspiring!

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/info/0,,20211283,00.html

Time Log 7

I’m starting to try and take a break from thinking about building systems for a while.  Thinking about other systems and other failures so that I can come back to buildings later when I have a better grasp on what I’m after.  So, I’ve been looking at car crashes, dissolving typography, people falling over, the Bay of Pigs invasion, dead flies, and William Carlos Williams (not that he’s a failure but he sometimes writes about it).  Here’s a little sample of the broken (?) typography:

I also tried to crush this thingy:

I say “tried” because I failed at crushing it.  Thing just fell over.  So, I need to stabilize the base and then go at it again with heavier things.

Back onto process though; I’m also realizing that by stopping drawing things I sabotaged my process a bit.  I think when I draw.  Drawing helps me throw things out there and see what comes back.  Yes, the drawings are small and underwhelming, but they are a stepping stone to bigger ideas and bigger things.

And I also need a break.  I’m looking forward to taking a little mental vacation in approximately 2.5 days.

Time Log: 19 hours

Time Log 6

I’m still working heavily on my website (having to teach myself CSS, so I’m having to redo things as I learn more).  The url is http://hattiestroud.com

Here’s a couple photos from last weekends building hunt:

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving with good food.

Time Log: >12 hours (I wasn’t keeping good track of it)