Five to Keep Afloat / Foreign Current-cy
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transomwhiplass1. Micah P. Hinson - For Your Eyes
2. Feist - My Moon, My Man
3. The The - This is The Day
4. Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched
5. Bloc Party - So Here We Are
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Not my most hipster-as-shit-obscure playlist, I'm just really loving these five in the last few days. Ah, rediscovered loveliness. It's almost like hearing them for the first time and falling in love all over again.
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I just wrote Heidi a very long and rambly email that was more like a journal entry than anything else. Ha, guess I'm back to my old ways. I do want to preserve some of the things for future reference:
My studio project for the summer interests me on a sporadic basis. Sometimes I'm just so frustrated with my professor because he is horrible at getting his point across or changes his mind about what something means after a couple days. Ugh, always subject to interpretation--the plague of the major. Anyway, my distaste for the city/overeagerness to hold it at an arm's length has actually turned into some architectural growth for me. My scheme for one of the sites is pretty modern (the others I haven't really worked out too much, but will probably be a bit more traditional). It's been a kind of an interesting identity/style crisis. It's one of those things I've been waiting for, but I never expected it to happen here. I thought this time I would be all about matching my building to the surroundings and creating something so unassuming and PC. What I've realized is that even when you do that, shit causes' a ruckus. We followed this historian and it seemed like, to him, Rome could not be anymore complete/perfect than it is.. and after last term's review, if I'm going to be in a fight--I want to pick it, not be bullied for looking weak. So many things have kind of brought this 180 degree turn around, I don't know if the attitude will stick but I'm glad that I'm at least getting to explore it here. It's one thing that Ihab has been good for, I can tell he's not one of the professors that buys into the Pattern Language philosophy that we are force fed (though I actually like it most of the time). He's been pretty encouraging as far as my edginess. I think all of this just makes me more excited for what's to come. I'm so excited for fall. I hope that excitement is justified and doesn't blow up in my face. What I've realized is that I do need to take more risks with my design. Unfortunately I've been bred into this ideology that risk taking in design involves senseless ego-mania without any attention to the surroundings and consideration for the people in the buildings. It's kind of unsettling/exciting to be in this position exploring and thinking in ways I haven't before. Sometimes I feel like I'm denying my identity, but I'm really just finding the courage and independence to do something different. If I get burned for it, well, I didn't even really like it all very much in the first place. Otherwise, it's like being at the top of a roller coaster. I don't know if I will die or be thrilled but it will be exhilarating either way and I don't have control of the consequences..
Ah, I'm babbling. It's just one of those things were I'm stuck outside my comfort zone. If nothing else is here is familiar, why should my design and theoretical thinking stay the same? With my most amazing horoscope last week which absolutely epitomized everything I've been writing about lately and since I started letting myself *be*.. that's when I really felt myself changing. Ha. I know I'm the same silly person. Really, I think different pools of experience are mixing together. Like all of the APO shaking up I did is now coming into my studio...
Oh and...
Leo Week of July 12, 2007.
What is the meaning of life? Is there such a thing as free will? Why is there something rather than nothing? If God exists, why does he or she seem to be invisible? Dear Leo, questions like those I just asked are completely irrelevant to you right now. To ponder them for even a few minutes would be a waste of time. Here, on the other hand, are the kinds of questions that will lead you in the direction you need to go. What is your greatest fear and what can you do to diminish it? How could you become smarter about the way you love? What pose would it be a big relief for you to drop? Which of your wounds is primed for a dramatic healing, and what's the best way to begin the cure?
Horoscopes are sheerly for amusement purposes. I know that the statements are so general that they can apply to anyone. But lately, I've needed something to be in tune with my brain due to the absence of all of my usual venting sources. It's comforting and empowering in a small way, so let me have that.
2. Feist - My Moon, My Man
3. The The - This is The Day
4. Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched
5. Bloc Party - So Here We Are
---
Not my most hipster-as-shit-obscure playlist, I'm just really loving these five in the last few days. Ah, rediscovered loveliness. It's almost like hearing them for the first time and falling in love all over again.
---
I just wrote Heidi a very long and rambly email that was more like a journal entry than anything else. Ha, guess I'm back to my old ways. I do want to preserve some of the things for future reference:
My studio project for the summer interests me on a sporadic basis. Sometimes I'm just so frustrated with my professor because he is horrible at getting his point across or changes his mind about what something means after a couple days. Ugh, always subject to interpretation--the plague of the major. Anyway, my distaste for the city/overeagerness to hold it at an arm's length has actually turned into some architectural growth for me. My scheme for one of the sites is pretty modern (the others I haven't really worked out too much, but will probably be a bit more traditional). It's been a kind of an interesting identity/style crisis. It's one of those things I've been waiting for, but I never expected it to happen here. I thought this time I would be all about matching my building to the surroundings and creating something so unassuming and PC. What I've realized is that even when you do that, shit causes' a ruckus. We followed this historian and it seemed like, to him, Rome could not be anymore complete/perfect than it is.. and after last term's review, if I'm going to be in a fight--I want to pick it, not be bullied for looking weak. So many things have kind of brought this 180 degree turn around, I don't know if the attitude will stick but I'm glad that I'm at least getting to explore it here. It's one thing that Ihab has been good for, I can tell he's not one of the professors that buys into the Pattern Language philosophy that we are force fed (though I actually like it most of the time). He's been pretty encouraging as far as my edginess. I think all of this just makes me more excited for what's to come. I'm so excited for fall. I hope that excitement is justified and doesn't blow up in my face. What I've realized is that I do need to take more risks with my design. Unfortunately I've been bred into this ideology that risk taking in design involves senseless ego-mania without any attention to the surroundings and consideration for the people in the buildings. It's kind of unsettling/exciting to be in this position exploring and thinking in ways I haven't before. Sometimes I feel like I'm denying my identity, but I'm really just finding the courage and independence to do something different. If I get burned for it, well, I didn't even really like it all very much in the first place. Otherwise, it's like being at the top of a roller coaster. I don't know if I will die or be thrilled but it will be exhilarating either way and I don't have control of the consequences..
Ah, I'm babbling. It's just one of those things were I'm stuck outside my comfort zone. If nothing else is here is familiar, why should my design and theoretical thinking stay the same? With my most amazing horoscope last week which absolutely epitomized everything I've been writing about lately and since I started letting myself *be*.. that's when I really felt myself changing. Ha. I know I'm the same silly person. Really, I think different pools of experience are mixing together. Like all of the APO shaking up I did is now coming into my studio...
Oh and...
Leo Week of July 12, 2007.
What is the meaning of life? Is there such a thing as free will? Why is there something rather than nothing? If God exists, why does he or she seem to be invisible? Dear Leo, questions like those I just asked are completely irrelevant to you right now. To ponder them for even a few minutes would be a waste of time. Here, on the other hand, are the kinds of questions that will lead you in the direction you need to go. What is your greatest fear and what can you do to diminish it? How could you become smarter about the way you love? What pose would it be a big relief for you to drop? Which of your wounds is primed for a dramatic healing, and what's the best way to begin the cure?
Horoscopes are sheerly for amusement purposes. I know that the statements are so general that they can apply to anyone. But lately, I've needed something to be in tune with my brain due to the absence of all of my usual venting sources. It's comforting and empowering in a small way, so let me have that.
