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[ studio ] yesterday during seminar we were discussing methods of recording thoughts and making marks. time for an experiment---build a wax tablet in the shape of the site in order to record initial marks...the incisions can be recorded easily by transfer of a print, or even just by simple use of more wax. this can work interactively with the drawing tool in respect to how the the tool can inscribe by movement onto the wax tablet itself...hmm...time to look up how wax tablets were orignally built.

[ studio ] more on the triadic ballet

[ drawing towards architecture ] rubbings and charcoal experiment

[ studio ] drafting tools drawing in progress showing relationships of camera obscura to body and the human factor scale as a pivot point where the tools and body relationships rotate about. the rotation and angle of sight is able eto focus in and focus out to a max of 42 degrees - the angle by which a miracle occurs (otherwise known as a rainbow) each tool corresponds to the body movement as well as a phenomenon of nature (1) confined : 90 degree square : insect caught in amber (2) guided : 15' beam compass : fish swimming upstream (3) free : india ink : bees swarming

[ studio ] oskar schlemmer: "My themes - the human figure in space, its moving and stationary functions, sitting, lying, walking, standing - are as simple as they are universally valid. Besides they are inexhaustible." Oskar Schlemmer.

[ studio ] other design notes-

confined
guided
free

[ studio ] ideas of transformations

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second day in a row when i've slept in till after 12...i peered outside and there is a new layer of white on the ground and the snowflakes are continuing to fall. sigh...makes me not want to walk to school but rather stay inside and be a house bum.

i was asked the other day how i can separate the movement of the body into such specific categories-one being free, the other's confined and guided. it was raised that how can anything be free as there is always something, even the physical body itself that is placing restrictions on it's movement. i suppose this is true...i've begun to design my "architectural design drawing tool"---of which i will become a vicitim to very soon. (the outcome of the project will be determined by the lines that my tool can allow/prohibit me to draw) but i realize even thru careful looking at the free body diagram, i need to make some decisions about what exactly free, guided, and confined mean. even free body diagrams portray the impact of outside forces regardless of it being isolated. some quick reference images when the words "free body diagram" are searched for---i've sifted thru to look at ones that already have an influence in the direction i am headed.

[drawing towards architecture] an exercise in line...slow & fast

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act Falls the Shadow
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

-T.S. Eliot “The Hollow Men”

[ studio ] things for me to read:

B o d y A r c h i t e c t u r e i n A - m a t t e r
T h e B o d y a n d C h o r e o g r a p h e d S p a c e
M e m o r y / B o d y / E v o c a t i o n 2
A r c h i t e c t u r e o f t h e B o d y : C o s m e t i c S u r g e r y a n d P o s t m o d e r n S p a c e

J o r g e P a r d o S c u l p t u r e
H u m a n A n a t o m y O n l i n e