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Drawing lines.
Bitched on: Saturday, August 19, 2006
Time: 8/19/2006 12:29:00 AM
Time: 8/19/2006 12:29:00 AM
"Architecture is the Art of how to waste space."That was my quotation for my first studio assignment.
-Phillip Johnson
And my tutor loved it. My work lah... not only the quotation.
Kinda feeling relieved right now. First assignment leh.
Need to make good first impressions.
Need to 'carry balls' a bit (ie. suck-up).
We had to draw a 'space between two objects' and have a quotation that we can somehow relate to the drawing...
I honestly have no idea what it means too.
So I 'assumed' it was a negative space between two 'objects'.
And I drew a 'silhouette' of a person napping with his head on an archi drawing board with outlines of his archi tools all over the space (also my intention was to waste the space on the otherwise 'empty' A1 drawing paper).
The last 'accidental' part really made my tutor like it even more.
Cause it really goes with my quote. Wasting space.
But that was just the easy part of the assignment.
The most 'shiong' part was to draw lines...
Yes.
Drawing lines.
Many many lines. 20 lines, one centimetre apart, with consistent pencil thickness (0.5mm) and intensity.
And then draw more lines one millimetre apart (which are 0.1mm thick).
Do that horizontal. Vertical. With pencils and then repeat that in ink.
Think its easy?
Try it.
Without dirtying your paper. Without fingerprints. Without ink smudges.
Do it on A1 paper. Plus two other linear drawings (one diagonal and another pentagon-shaped design). Repeat it in ink.
One mistake, one smudge and there goes one piece of your A1.
So you do it over and over again. Until 4am the next morning.
With your fourth A1 paper.
A1 paper is not cheap mind you.
I tore up (in frustration) 3 pieces so far.
In fact, the course itself, Architecture, is not cheap.
I have just spent close to $150 on the equipments (so far).
I'm sure I'll spend much much more when we have to do the models in the future.
Sianz.
And the lectures are like, "HUH?"
I think my lecturers are like in a world of their own.
They can go on and on rambling about this and that, leaving most of the students completely lost.
And I need to brush up on my English.
Most of the time I'm like, "Huh? How the hell do you spell that word?" or, "What does that mean?"
Sigh...
And to think I was this close to taking a Mass Communications degree instead.
Some people in the Archi course are so competitive leh. I know of some who actually 'cheong' (rush) to borrow the library books recommended by the lecturers as soon as the lectures end.
Imagine 200 over students all pouncing on the same book!
And one thing I notice about being in a studio filled with budding architects is that its hard to stand out!
Everyone is so talented. And that's why everyone rarely compliments the other.
But I was going around, "Wah"-ing at other people's works.
A bit loser-ish, I know.
And also its a bit of a 'culture shock' cause coming from a Science background ie. classmates who can't draw nuts (and everything else for that matter), I'm always at the receiving end of compliments.
Haha...
Sigh...
Its just the beginning.
Will I be all geared up for this course?
4 years of hellish working hours, sleep deprivation and obesity from an over-consumption of MacDonalds (which is just a stone's throw away from my studio).
Anyway, a friend made an 'accidental' joke just now.
We had a Rag rehearsal (for Sunday's Plaza Singapura public performance, do come down to support) earlier today, and the Archi 'raggers' were punctual. The same can't be said for the other Building and PFL (don't ask me what it stands for) 'raggers'.
So when my architecture course mate made that comment to another friend (from another course), the other friend told my archi friend, "Wah, so now you archi people drawing lines lah..."
You geddit?
As in to 'draw a distinction between us and them'?
As in to 'literally draw lines' also!
Get the pun?
OKOK, not funny.
I'm sleep-deprived. Who can blame me?
I find everything easily 'amusable' (if there is such a word) now.
Rag Update:
This coming Sunday we have a public performance at Plaza Singapura.
SDE (School of Design and Environment) moi's school's performance timeslots are around four plus and six plus (not too sure exactly).
I'll still be wearing pink.
And someone actually posted this on YouTube.com.
We were high lah, it was close to midnight. And it was 9 hours to the actual performance.
There's also one of our Rag rehearsal. See here.
I'm finally on YouTube but I'm half naked!!!
And I'm wearing PINK!!!
ARGH!!!
Labels: architecture, RAG, school
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