Saturday 26 November 2011
most important thing I learned from the Wood Wharf competition
For those of my non-student friends who read this, we had to enter a competition to design the landscape of a site in Canary Wharf (where most of you work funnily enough) I can't put up what I did yet until we hear the results.
Anyway, it was basically like a giant car park and it's going to have marquees on and events during the Olympics. It's right near where Phil lives actually, passed it on the way to his birthday party last week, haha. Yes, I stopped and took more unnecessary pics.
So! I had my idea, guessed some sizes of my installations blah blah blah. Now I have been doing this a while, yet I learned something very simple, but so helpful. I went to the nearby large space of Blackheath Vale. I measured my stride and walked out the size of the site.
TOTALLY NOT WHAT I THOUGHT.
So it showed me that its hard sometimes to judge the size of an area when it is in context and very useful to walk it out on a blank canvas, as it were. I felt much more engaged with the scale that way. My installation sizes completely changed as a result and I could really visualise their placement.
So that's my tip of the day/week. Tell me yours if you want.
Anyway, it was basically like a giant car park and it's going to have marquees on and events during the Olympics. It's right near where Phil lives actually, passed it on the way to his birthday party last week, haha. Yes, I stopped and took more unnecessary pics.
So! I had my idea, guessed some sizes of my installations blah blah blah. Now I have been doing this a while, yet I learned something very simple, but so helpful. I went to the nearby large space of Blackheath Vale. I measured my stride and walked out the size of the site.
TOTALLY NOT WHAT I THOUGHT.
So it showed me that its hard sometimes to judge the size of an area when it is in context and very useful to walk it out on a blank canvas, as it were. I felt much more engaged with the scale that way. My installation sizes completely changed as a result and I could really visualise their placement.
So that's my tip of the day/week. Tell me yours if you want.
maybe I will finally get back to blogging which means lots of rambling for you to read- yay! erm...
well, I have spent since yesterday at 3pm on uni work, only briefly stopping to yell at Grant for making too much noise in the Digital Studio last night, discussing near death from a cheese and ham slice with Will (he was actually hospitalized), lots of chats with my group filling in gaps, walking the dog and food of course, can't do without regular eating, even if it is chocolate buttons.
What is your study food of choice? Now that's a serious question.
Mad week this week involving flu last weekend, back to work Tuesday only to have 13 people out of 40 let go from the project I work on (so everyone a bit nervous there now, I still seem to have a job for now) finished my entry for Wood Wharf Tuesday night, handed in the wrong write up unfortunately, baked two cakes at 11pm Wednesday once work and study done, realised I am totally crazy, went to work Thursday, then took said cakes for first ever Thanksgiving dinner - very fun! Then work again and study yesterday and realised I have never felt so tired. Only a Watkins would live like this and enjoy it. And strangely we usually live to be 100 years old too. You think we'd have keeled over by then.
Anyway, now that I have made my 4th cup of tea that I forgot to drink as I got sucked into something interesting, I think I should take a brief break. Roberto Burle Marx seminar coming on nicely, couple more slides for Group presentation, more back and forth with the extremely amazing Caz (Carolyn) who is the other team leader for our group task as well as me, then a quick watch of 'The Thick of it" (so brilliant) then sleep. That's the plan....
What is your study food of choice? Now that's a serious question.
Mad week this week involving flu last weekend, back to work Tuesday only to have 13 people out of 40 let go from the project I work on (so everyone a bit nervous there now, I still seem to have a job for now) finished my entry for Wood Wharf Tuesday night, handed in the wrong write up unfortunately, baked two cakes at 11pm Wednesday once work and study done, realised I am totally crazy, went to work Thursday, then took said cakes for first ever Thanksgiving dinner - very fun! Then work again and study yesterday and realised I have never felt so tired. Only a Watkins would live like this and enjoy it. And strangely we usually live to be 100 years old too. You think we'd have keeled over by then.
Anyway, now that I have made my 4th cup of tea that I forgot to drink as I got sucked into something interesting, I think I should take a brief break. Roberto Burle Marx seminar coming on nicely, couple more slides for Group presentation, more back and forth with the extremely amazing Caz (Carolyn) who is the other team leader for our group task as well as me, then a quick watch of 'The Thick of it" (so brilliant) then sleep. That's the plan....
Pierscape - a whole new silly description? Interesting article and very relevant for waterside design...
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2011/11/navy-pier-picks-five-teams-to-compete-for-redesign-of-piers-public-spaces.html
Wednesday 23 November 2011
TOPOS water and urbanism article which may be useful...
http://www.toposmagazine.com/blog/publication-on-dutch-water-urbanism.html
Tuesday 15 November 2011
I did warn you that drawing was not my strong point...but I will get there...
So I spend all day working through investment disputes at a private bank, basically having to sift through reams of words and numbers and producing a persuasive argument for who wins...and my evenings trying to switch that off and switch on the other part of my brain that is free, imaginative and mad and, well, I actually kinda love the combination. Feel a mixture of losing my mind and utter happiness. Huh.
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