Post 13: Penny Lane

I, like most teenagers, struggled to find myself during high school. I began by defining who I am not; I am not someone who lived through a traumatic life experience; I am not defined by my Filipino-American background; I am not someone who never makes a mistake; I am not someone looking for benefits because I strive to be a woman studying to be an engineer; I am not someone who always sticks to my morals. Through all of my perils to discover who I am not, I found who I am. I am ambitions, defiant, and motivated; I expected to be treated as an equal; and I make mistakes affecting the root of my beliefs, but through it become even stronger in my morals and faith.
I believe everyone changes, and we all show it in our own way. In this case, we can show who we are and how we change with paint, pictures, movies, recipes, color, shape, words, signs, arrows, everything that defines us. We can interact, design, rethink, and change all in one place. In essence, we can be.

Post 12: GOAL!

Goals for this week:
- Finish perspective drawings
- Find a perspective that I have not considered yet
- Finish everything on time
For the perspective drawings, I really want to focus on how people communicate with each other, less how I communicate with them. The entire building will be white-walled until the students cover the walls. There will be no distinct path or direction to the building, given students usually begin knowing little about where they will be in four years. The interactions with this building are essential; what students leave will be viewed for generations. Their writing, music, videos, food, and history provide the foundations for the memorial.

Post 11: Honey Did

My bubble diagram really helped me to expand on how to I want to portray my building. For my final drawing, I want to inlude and inverted form of my building; one end will begin as a square then fall and spew on to the grown in rolling, misshapen blobs. My favorite drawing so far is the first I completed. I like the upper cafe. I also like the design of the drawing that is half undergraound but do not like the set up of the interior or how the gallery ends in a cafe. I really enjoyed doing the secions because I could add details usually not shown in a typical floor plan. I have not finished my sections yet but am flexible on the furnishings of the interior of my buiding.

Post 10: The "Honey Do" List

For those of you who have not heard, a "Honey Do" (not honey dew) list is a list of items a wife tells her husband to do. For Clark Kent, Lana had him save the world; for the average American male, she asks him to buy milk and eggs from the market. In my case, this is a Honey Do list for myself for this week:
- finish three bubble sketches and sections on the provided outlines of my building
- think deeply about what i want to be inside my building.. possibly meditate on the idea, write about it, and re-analyze everything until I am sure it is perfect (or imperfect since my building reflects high schoolers and no one is perfect. so perfectly imperfect)
- keep up to my date on blogs and be sure all of them reflect the true nature of high school students
If there is any one thing I know I have (repeatedly) done already it is to relate to my subjects, given I am one. Knowing this, I know that every teenage strives to express him or herself. Luckily for me, all of my rooms seem to be fitting together so far: the unyielding exterior and abstract interior of my building has metaphorically expressed itself sufficiently. To push my own boundaries I will be vomiting up the insides of my building in hope of finding something new among the guts and gore. Hopefully I will find something in the guts and gore to show on the outside of my building.

Post 9: Perspective

It is amazing what you can learn from a different perspective. Although my project did not reveal much to me, the ideas of other did. To be able to see through the eyes of Walt Disney or find Andy Warhol showed, in the words of Warhol himself, that there is art all around us. My building was always desgined to reflect perspective. It was meant to convey the perspective of high schoolers as they leave school into the world looking forward to the changes they will live through. It was a way to pass on what little we have seen to those who will enter high school after us so they may live to make a change as well.