periodic surface shoe

can you even see this is a shoe? it's two sections of a hiking boot, modeled in rhino, and then run through a minimal periodic surface. WTF?

countdown to 3/4 term review

1.15am

3.30 am

this week is gearing up to be a COMPLETE SHITSHOW. okay. hear me out here.
i had to spend the entire day yesterday writing a goddamn history paper. i was up until 6am (i had to be at school at 9am). i've got a review with jeffrey in 20 minutes, our LAST before wednesday, which is 3/4th term reviews. and BTW, what the fuck is a three quarters review? how is that even helpful? why not just call every day the 5/17th semester review and be done with it. anyways, i have to have a lasercut model, scale sections, plans, and perspectives in rhino and maya to pin up for wednesday, which means i have to plot by tuesday afternoon. TOMORROW AFTERNOON! i haven't even nailed down then final rhino model. also, our crazy ass triply surface drawing is due on friday, which is supposed to be our most "involved" and "sophisticated."
okay, so all that sucks, blah blah blah.. but then today at work, i found out we have a structures EXAM on thursday that he just SPRUNG on us. THE DAY AFTER (or in some studio's cases, of) our 3/4th term reviews. REALLY??? REALLY???? a fucking structures exam on ALL of the physics and calculus that weve had since the second week in september? OH NO PROBLEM! it's like, remember when you assigned us a simple HOMEWORK assignment the day before midterms? EVERYONE in the class got a check minus!even the engineers! iefv;oaherv;aeworg[0rqOAWEHIGOWRHG'[R9GALIWHEGAWER
plus: the review session is WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT 8PM! our 6 hour review is going to go at least until 7pm. and that night will be all night. WTFFFFFF



10 MIN LATER:
good review with jeffrey, but IVE GOT SOOO MUUUCH WOOORRKWAEOIJFAWIEJGFAWE

up to the sky

so jiddy and some of her friends and i saw mum tonight! wowwwww! it was so cool! i've been so into mum since freshman yr and it was wonderful to see them in concert. god they are an adorable bunch. they all look so nice. and icelandic. and funny. the show was in a church on 60th and columbus, amaaazing venue for the music. if you want to get an idea of what they played, listen to "moon pulls" from the newest album. IT'S SO GOOD! imagine that in a huge dark church. it was kinda spooky, beautiful and great. apparently the icelandic ambassador was in the crowd. it was painfully cute everytime the band spoke: "eh...we playd a song about a boat, and then we play song about water, and now we'll play a song.. well it's about something so silly i don't know what to say."



and then at the end, their guitarist, who had been kind of lurking in the back of the stage, came forward towards the very front and just kind of stood there. and then one of his bandmates was like "i think robert thinks we are being far too serious and wants to tell a joke" and then he just stood there, and after about 10 seconds lifted up his ankle with one hand and proceeded to "jump" through it.. you know, like jumprope with your arm and leg? TWICE. and then just silently walked back. HAHAHA.

the vocalists for mum have the prettiest voices i've ever heard, and the most powerful. the super blonde boy cut girl was like stunningly amazing. i could listen to her sing all day. enough to give you shivers. also the guy.

our site for studio

in a crowd of homesick full grown children

well, i guess i finally understand the meaning of the phrase "fate came knocking." i woke up this afternoon, got dressed, ate some cereal and stuff, and went to studio. it's just ashley and i in our row today for whatever reason, so it works out well for us. and everything is just good in that sense . so we sat around and didn't do work and took smoking breaks (well i didn't smoke). then we went to ollie's for dinner which was nice. got some candy and went back to studio. tried to do some structures, failed, and gave up. so i was sitting at my desk, and i looked up as someone walked by - it was this kid that i studied with in copenhagen, all weighed down by bags. i guess it was one of those double take moments, where the context (arch school) is right, but the chronology is off. so he's on a grad school tour, UVA, MIT, columbia, etc.etc. and just stopped by studio before the open house. etc.etc.

this is all not that Big of a Deal, this isn't someone i was close to in CPH, but something about it really shocked me. like the juxtaposition of two time periods that are closely connected to each other in terms of motivation, cause, want - but not in literal terms. psychologically - copenhagen feels a million miles away. yet: i still think about it daily. more than daily - when i listen to illinois, actually all sufjan.. even just sitting in studio this afternoon, as we got into that studio workflow that i loved in copenhagen. like kind of bullshitting and doing no work but that being the point - late afternoon...

i guess this is all written in kind of nebulous language..but i guess it was the first time i connected the two eras in a literal way. one is a model for the other - recreating copenhagen, while aspiring to columbia. suddenly they were both real. what i mean is: we spend a lot of time missing past incarnations of ourselves, without appreciating the present (which we'll later miss as well). it was cool to be slapped into reality by a relic's appearance.

btw, new beirut: awesome. "nantes," "guyama sonora," and "forkes and knives (la fete)."