Post Ten- Week 1 goals

For this week my goals are to get at least one bubble drawing done a day. I want to get three done for the week. I am going to focus on really trying to relate my building to Abstract Art. It will be important to find a connection between my building and my art over the next week. Once I know what that connection is, it will be much easier to design my building.

Post 9- Reflection

I thought that I did a pretty good job on my presentation. I could of had a better art piece, but Cubism is kind of hard to create. I think that there is still a lot of things that I need to think about for my building, but sometimes it is hard because Abstract art doesn't really have a common form.

For my art project I re-created a Google satellite image. I took the image and cut it up into squares to try and resemble Cubism. Then I put the image back together and it made it look somewhat Cubist.

Overall on my presentation I thought that it went well. I know enough about Picasso and Cubism now that I hopefully will be able to integrate it into my building. Right now my main idea is to have some sort of Cubist building.

Entry 8- Pablo Picasso

Here is an excerpt from my essay on Pablo Picasso:
I am interested in many different things in the world. And that is

the beautiful thing about my style, and the way that I see things. I can look
at any object in the world today, and transform it into Cubism.This is seen in
my basically all of my paintings. Most of my art could be considered to be
sharp or edgy. But that is the way it is supposed to look because it helps
convey the feeling of the painting. Sometimes you really have to study my art
in order to figure out what is happening, this is because Cubism is being seen
from an entirely different view. So at first, it will be something that you are
not use to, but once you figure it out you will be able to see it as I see
it and hopefully understand it as I do.

Here is the link to my paper on Google Docs.

----For some reason the formatting is making this look weird from when I copy and pasted it from google docs...

Entry 7- Picassa

For my Picassa image I chose different pieces of art by Picasso and combined them into a collage. I cropped some of the images into just partial images. I also changed the colors to just one solid color, instead of the images being all different colors. The reason that I did it like this was because by combing these different colors it makes it look more abstract.

I added Picasso to the middle of my collage to show who he was. And that this is the type of paintings that he did.

Most of the images came from the same painting, I just cropped different parts of them out.

Entry 6- Google Sketch up Model

In this image I have taken the major buildings in this area and made them 3-D. This is useful because it gives some perspective to the size and location of each building. So if we were to create a museum it you would be able to tell how big your building is compared to some of the others in that area.

This also helps to tell me what buildings are in the area. From the street view of the building site, you can only see what is on the same level around you. With the satalite view from Google Earth you can easily tell what other buildings are around, besides just the church and the school. From the above view you can tell that although there is a church and school near by, most of the area around the site is residential.

This also helps tell the total size of the building site. You can use this with Google Sketch-Up and create a model of your building, so you can see how big it might be.

Entry 5- Building Site

At the building site there were alot of things that would effect how or where I could build my museum. The main things were the church on one side and the street and school on the other side.

With the church, I dont think that they would be very happy to have a big building be put up right in their backyard, so you would have to some how accomidate to that. With the street on the other side, there is a lot of traffic noise and usally that is not a good thing if you are trying to draw people in. You wouldnt want traffic noise to be coming inside your building so that might make you put the entrance on one side or the other. And the last thing is the school. It will be busy when school gets out, and that could be a good thing or a bad thing. It could be good because you might get more people to come to your museum, but it could be bad because you would have a bunch of unwanted people hanging around your building.

Picasso would see this site through the eyes of a cubist artist. Which to me, means seeing things in different shapes and sizes, and maybe not caring so much about the physical aspects of the site, but about the culture and sense around the place.

Entry 4- Google Docs

So far Google Docs is pretty good. I like the fact that it allows to create something, then easily share it with any one. It is easy to use, because it is formatted like a Microsoft Word, so it understandable. It is easy to send to another person as well, all you have to do is select their e-mail address and then send them your "Doc" and then they will be able to view it.

To me one of the most useful things on the site is the ability to publish it online, so that anybody can see it. This makes it even easier to share your ideas and concepts with others. This is useful because then you don't even have to email your document to anyone. All you need to do is give them the URL of your document and they can view it online.

So overall, Google Docs is a good thing for us to use because it allows us to enhance our communication with each other even more. We can invite others to view our paper, or just publish it online so everyone can see it.

Here is the link to my current Google Doc.