Site Visit Weather Update

Studio,

It appears we will have a cold rain day tomorrow morning. Not wanting any of us to be miserable and catch colds, we will have a normal studio day. Please bring back your work and supplies (modeling and drawing) back into the studio and we will finish surface models and drawings. Make sure to bring museum board to make rigid surface models. We will reschedule our site visit to April 5th, pending weather report.

All the best,
Michele

Site Visit: HighLine

Next Saturday on 3/29, we will meet as a class in the studio and then head to your architectural site, The High Line. Be here at class on time at 9:30am so we can walk over as a class at 9:45am to The High Line, where we will enter at the 18^th Street stair entry (18^th Street btwn 10^th and 11^th Avenue). We will walk back as a class to the front of the Pratt Manhattan campus at 12:35 so your parents can pick you up by 12:50pm. If you are late for whatever reason, shoot me an email @ michelegorman@hotmail.com with your phone number so I can tell you where to meet us on the site.

Wear: 

walking shoes 

coats

gloves

Bring:

sketchbooks

pencil

clipboard (or something rigid to draw on if you have it) with some white paper or even better, graph paper

measuring tape. If you can not borrow a measuring tape from one of your parents, then just a long ruler.

sketchbook assignment

Figure Ground Studies

Nolli Map of Rome

Public space is rendered solid to heighten the public space carved by the private space of the buildings.

music we like

Samuel:

prodigy stand up

olafur arnalds

 Benny Goodman, Post War Eyes, Artic Monkeys, Avicii, Julia Kent, The Piano Guys,
Caravan Palace, Jack White,Gary Jules, Coldplay, R.E.M,The Police,Oasis, A Flock of Seagulls,Blackmill, Till Death,Cage the Elephant,The Heavy, Oliver Tank,Thrupence,
Message To Bears,Little People, Moby,Woodkid,Starf#%k@r(yea....),Isaac Albeniz,
Modest Mouse,Tycho,The Clash, Igy Pop,Editors, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros,Flying Lotus,Tool, Muse, Soundgarden,The Enemy,
Radiohead, Green Day, Club Des Belugas, Summer Fades Away, Ludovico Einaudi,
Hungry Ghosts, Field Rotation, Aesthesys, No Clear Mind,The Portland Cello Project,Patrick Cassidy, Jimi Hendrix,Third Eye Blind,Switchfoot, Aloe Bacc, Nicky Romero
Mungo Jerry, Silversun Pickups,The Living End, Smoove, Stuck in The Sound,Foo Fighters, Sublime,Korn,
Neutral Milk Hotel ,Chopin,Lecuona Cuban Boys, Glenn Miller,4hero and lastly Bloc Party
*That's not all that I listen to, but unless I'm missing a genre and you want my suggestion, let me know
- Andrew Hale
-Milt Buckner; especially The Beast
- Everything by the cinematic orchestra
- Jackie Mittoo
- jazz. Against the Machine
Nu- Jazz
Fred Wesley, The  Shaolin Afronauts,
Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Chet Baker,Ennio Morricone,
Louis Armstrong, Chromatics, Metronomy, Black Keys, MGMT, Alt-J, James Blake,College& Electric Youth, Miami Horror, Clint Mansell, Tree,Lester Young, Boards of Canada, Zoë Keating,Bonobo,M83,Tommy McCook,Bill Kiley, Bill Withers, Zweihander, Some metal(depends) , Pearl Jam, Stylistics, Howlin Wolf, Donny Hathaway, Gramatik, Interpol, Half Moon Run, Parov Stelar, London Grammar,

Morissa
hans zimmer

pianoGuys

Matthew



Olivia



Alicia



Michele

coffitivity

Daft Punk
around the world

da funk

aerodynamic

harder better faster

derezzed

digital love

fatboy slim
weapon of choice

all Michel Gondry videos

chemical brother
out of control
hey girl hey boys
block rockin beats
exit planet dust

flashlight video

DYNAMIC OLYMPIC BODIES

http://vimeo.com/37955460

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/quayola-and-memo-akten-translate-athletic-movements-into-abstract-animations

MAPPING

"Make a map, not a tracing!"
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

Mapping is a form of analysis... digging and finding unseen relationships 

As a follow-up to our great conversations on the power of LINE to make unseen relationships between points... here is an amazing This American Life story talks about the act of mapping

Here are some drawings by some students at Pratt that use act of mapping to reveal new systems of organization (here revealing the flow of capital within a city) and spaces on the page.

analysis mapping the ancient Chinese city of Lii Jiang, China and its ever increasing cycles of capitalism (Christopher Egervary and Alex Drabyk)

composite drawing showing network relations (Christopher Egervary and Alex Drabyk)

If interested, here is a fantastic reading:

James Corner, The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique & Invention, 1999 
Maps describe relationships and organizations. They prioritize specific types of information (space, time, value, emotion, connectivity, etc.). They differentiate types and degrees of information through notation. Maps construct the unconscious – what is not yet understood. 
The process of mapping, as outlined by Corner in The Agency of Mapping, involves three stages: first, set the field of information to map and the system by which to map; second, select and isolate the data to be mapped; third, draw out relationships that re-connect the data.

James Corner explains mapping in his essay, The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention as "a creative practice, mapping precipitates its most productive effects through a finding that is also a founding; its agency lies in neither reproduction nor imposition but rather in uncovering realities previously unseen or unimagined." Mapping does not represent the obvious but rather uncovers a hidden truth that exists between the layering of information. With your analysis exercises you should be prepared to explain how the mapping revealed unique characteristics about your performance. What does the map reveal to you?