First time spending thanksgiving ON CAMPUS.
Previous years I've gone home or went to someone's house. Which was equally (if not more) fun! But staying on campus was whole 'nother experience. =)
Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the pictures from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo!~
Thank God for His marvelous creation!
So.. the internet was being reeal stupid over the weekend so I didn't get to update at all!
SATURDAY...
I finished two outlines for my papers... which I'll have to writeup this weekend and went grocery shopping/xmas shopping and then set up a xmas tree with yoon! my first one! it's only 1.5' tall but it's so cute. no fancy ornaments bc I have no collection. But I will now!
I'm so happyyyy =)
SUNDAYY...
Ate sooo much @ church! Unfortunately I didn't get to snap too much with the camera.. so I'll put up pictures when I have more. ^ ^
Then later for leadership meeting we went to Jopan's place and MORE fooood!!!
Clara & Joyce made the most wonderful tgiving dinner.
MMMM yummyyy ^ ^
well that's all from me!
gotta go back to working on those papers!
Can it get any better than this? =)
Tiptoe by the Tulips (or Stretch by the Apples) 
"...“Pour Your Body Out” suggests that artists are still looking for new ways to fuse video and architecture".
I think this quote is really interesting because in the presentation that we gave we were arguing that the idea of the artist manipulating the way the viewer's perceive a work of art was crucial to the European exhibition culture (specifically in France and Britain) and that they had to devise new ways of brushwork, composition, and subject in order to engage the viewer.
AH.. i wanna be in new york.
psst! Vote for your favorite genre of painting on the right... ---------->>>>
is it just me.. or has Cleveland been on the news a lot.. (at least in the arts section.. ^ ^)
"Annex NYC, a $9 million branch of the Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland"
GRE went okay. I'm just gonna wait another 3-4 wks and see how the writing score turns out.
BUT! I came across this article today about Frank Gehry. Why is this relevant? Because Gehry is an amazing architect and he designed something in both of the cities I've lived in: Chicago - Jay Pritzker Pavilion and Cleveland - Peter B. Lewis.
This article talks about how he renovated his hometown museum. What's the interesting part? That he's held back on his crazy, winding signature--why does he hold back?
Another thing I thought about was... would this new invention take attention away from the art that is housed in this gallery? Maybe the first couple times you enter you'll be so distracted by the winding, wooden staircase and other various changes he made. But perhaps you'd get used to it.
=====================
On another note, I've needed a lot of time to myself lately.
Perhaps it's because of this incredibly difficult decision I must make in a few weeks... or just the stress I'm going through...
Like today I didn't go to the praise night because I really needed time to myself to pray and just spend time with God. This could also be because I don't practice a weekly Sabbath. I think next semester when I don't have Friday classes, I should devote that to being my Sabbath.
I didn't know that I was this much of an introvert...
======================
DIY (do-it-yourself) planners...
I got the little poke of curiosity from Joyce Pan's entry...
I've always bought my planners. The weekly layout (with time stamps every 30 minutes) across two pages with room for notes on the bottom and on the right there are columns for to-do-list, phone #s, etc. However... (maybe it's just this semester), I've been increasingly busy and didn't have enough space to write everything down. SOO... friday when I had an hour to kill at Thwing, I got the impulse to buy a notebook (roughly 6.5''x8''). It also has colored pages. So I decided to make half of it dedicated to the days and the second half divided between prayer requests, to-do-list, follow-up, and ...etc (including news, stuff to blog about, random quotes, recommendations, in other words ETC).
I think... I may be a bit obsessive? =) but I know that this is the only way I function.
In elementary ages, daddy made me make a schedule for each day of the week covering the moments from when I wake up to the minute I go to sleep. I made the schedule ahead of time and allowed myself so many minutes to watch TV, read, draw, practice piano, etc. In a similar way, even though I have become looser in the years, I still need to function on a strict schedule. So we'll see how this make-it-myself daily planner goes. =)
So if you're just as schedule-driven as I am, I suggest you first find whether you're a weekly/daily/or monthly person. Sometimes you're both or all three. As for me, I'm right now, a daily and monthly. Except I can't seem to print a monthly calendar small enough to fit in my notebook. Def. my mistake for buying the wrong sized notebook.
When I schedule tasks, meetings, classes, etc. in, I use different colors.
yellow - classes
orange - koinonia things
light blue - case in point
dark blue - work
light green - personal appts
red - URGENT/IMPORTANT
purple - birthdays
dark green - general notes
pink - to do list
======================
thaaaaaaaat's all.
I think I need to change my background. =)
maybe it's because my professor is just AWESOME... but in any case, i'm really beginning to enjoy dutch art. lemee give you some examples (click on images to enlarge)
Emmanuel de Witte (1617-1692), Interior of the Oude Kerk at Delft during a Sermon, 1651, oil on wood
after the summer of 06 when daddy, sam, and i went inside every single church & cathedral known to man in france, italy, and switzerland, i thought i'd be tired of looking at interiors of churches. but we studied de witte this past week and his ability to give new perspective just wowed me. true, he takes some liberty in manipulating the perspective a bit but in general he stays true to what he sees. in this one specifically, i like how he crops the top to mimic the round arches and force us to look not just at the architecture but at the event that is happening: a sermon. i love the stream of light that is coming in on the right side. i just like the study of light and shadow in general. and look how little those people are. teeeeeny tiny. that's how i felt when i entered the duomo cathedral in florence, the notre dame in paris, and all the other churches. ohmann.
Abraham van Beyeren (1620/21-1690), Still Life with a Silver Wine Jug, early 1660s, oil on canvas
this is the painting i will be writing my thousand page paper on for my dutch & flemish art class. haha. maybe just 10-15 pgs. the more i look at it, the more i fall in love with it. it's really a unique experience working so closely at the museum and really interacting with the works there. cleveland's incredibly lucky to have such great masterpieces. by 2012 everything will be open and it'll be one of the top museums... in the world! muhahhaa. anyway. back to the painting. for those of you who think still life is boring and real easy to do, i challenge you to look very closely at the brushwork. the lemon peel at the right, not exactly an easy feat. i don't even paint and i know that it takes a lot of work to create the textures on the lemon and the twisting peel. the reflections found in the silver wine jug is of another note. look carefully and 
you'll find the artist's self-portrait. not as obvious as clara peeter's still life. Her self-portrait can be found eight times in the pokal on the right. hers is more skillfully rendered whereas van beyeren subtly hints at his presence. dutch still life is all about the riches they were able to acquire through trade: the chinese porcelain bowl on the right, lemons from the mediterranean, other fruits probably from italy, greece, etc., even though wine was considered a necessity in the diet, it was still expensive and meant that only the rich could afford it. this obvious, opulent arrangement of objects is not mere coincidence but purposeful. and i tend to agree with scholars when they say that still life, even without the human form, does imply human presence and portray a narrative. but i'll say more about this in my paper instead of here. =)
i thiiiiiiink i'm done talking about this and actually get started on that paper. hehe.
Posts
All Comments
