From alcornc@u.washington.edu Wed May 19 13:11:11 1999 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id NAA28484 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 13:11:10 -0700 Received: from challenger.aa.washington.edu (challenger.aa.washington.edu [128.95.33.63]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with SMTP id NAA21845 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 13:11:10 -0700 Received: from odsl208.sttl.uswest.net by challenger.aa.washington.edu (5.65/UW-NDC Revision: 2.28 ) id AA11485; Wed, 19 May 99 13:11:08 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990519130713.007a2db0@alcornc.deskmail.washington.edu> X-Sender: alcornc@alcornc.deskmail.washington.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 13:07:13 -0700 To: arch498v@u.washington.edu From: "C. Alcorn" Subject: Re: final project In-Reply-To: References: <199905172322.QAA24804@mailhost1.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm with Ming, I'd also like to do Nicole's piece "The Spell of the Sensuous" in the book form. Carolyn At 11:30 AM 5/19/99 -0700, you wrote: >hello. >i was thinking about the book idea. i think it would be nice to have a >collective copy of everyone's work in a small package. >as for the readings, i'm interested in spell of the sensuous spider and >cave and the future. >ming > >On Mon, 17 May 1999, anne schwartzburg stevens wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Following is a brief description of what we are going to do next and the >> feedback I would like from all of you. >> If you respond to this before Tuesday evening, I can work use >> opinions/desires to draft the project description. Please respond to the >> email list so we can test this as a virtual discussion space. >> >> The project will be a series of sequential drawings that are built from a >> written narrative. >> >> Each of you will take a phrase or passage from the narrative we select and >> use it as the source for your drawings. We will have a mid-review of sorts >> where we will pin up the drawings in a sequence and look at how it is >> reading as a whole piece. We will decide as a group how to connect the >> images you make and the original text. >> >> I am going to show you on Wednesday how to include text and letterforms in >> your drawings, and how you might to incorporate text and how we decide to >> break up the narrative into a sequence will be discussed in class. >> >> >> The issues are as follows: >> 1. Choosing a reading to work with. >> 2. Deciding upon the final form this sequence will take. >> >> FORM: There are two possibilities: >> >> Either 1. a series of color posters, output on the new plotter in the Viz >> Lab, or >> >> 2. a book of laser prints, either color or b&w. We would prepare this book >> in an edition of 15 and each of you would get a copy. >> >> Regardless of which of the print options you choose, I will also plan to >> mount this as a simple website in which you click through the images in >> sequence. Given our time constraints, I will ask your advice on formatting >> and structure, but will not ask you to prepare the pages yourselves. >> >> READINGS: >> >> Please email me two of the readings (identified by author & in order of >> preference) that you would like to use. Please forgive my short synopses. >> >> Week 1: >> Adrienne Rich: woman and bird >> Lucy Lippard: photography and place >> >> Week 2: >> David Abram: Spell of the Sensuous spider and cave >> Jenny Rios: favorite place, swing >> >> >> Week 3: >> John Steinbeck: the harbour >> Little Altars Everywhere: Spring Creek, the house >> Karen Mabbutt: east of the mountains >> >> Week 4: >> Lisa St. Aubin de Teran: buying the ruin in Italy >> Gallagher: How places affect people >> >> Week 5: >> Kerouac: piece from On the Road >> Charles Frazier: woman making breakfast in the tent >> Allan Lightman: the future >> >> >> Week 6: >> Ezra Pound >> e.e. cummings >> Matthew Arnold >> Stephanie Mills: The Journey Home >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > .