Don't get me wrong... I have nothing against sketchbooks. I love them I horde them I have several banker's boxes of ones that are full and several that are empty, My deal with Arts Materials DONT SELL ME PAPER! ( I need to use the paper I own first). I am a member of the Design Communications Association, it is a group of educators and authors whose concern it is to foster design graphics, I also follow several online groups:
"EVERYDAY MATTERS"
a group started by danny gregory dedicated to sketching and journaling the traditional way ... http://dannygregory.com/
"URBAN SKETCHERS"
dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing ...
http://www.urbansketchers.org/
"MOLESKINERIE"
lauding the consumption of the famous Moleskine line of products for visual and verbal expression...
http://www.moleskinerie.com/
"ROZ STENDAHL"
an amazing individual from the Twin Cities who Sketches up a storm ...
http://rozwoundup.typepad.com/roz_wound_up/sketching/
I hope the thing you notice here is that i websites and blogs enable the great work of these individuals and groups to be seen by all of us... it is a fusion deal between traditional and digital means that makes this work. These folks are expressing them selves traditionally and instead of keeping their work to them selves, they are sharing it digitally. Ok, you can't touch and smell it but you can see a approximation of it and what I've see is great!
Friday, January 11, 2013
BLOGS:
I posted the following on the Student Facebook Group : 2009 NDSU Arch 771 Design Studio's "The Fargo'Town & Gown District Study".
With face to face studios, Blackboard, and our blogs not to mention email and cell phone texting and conversations, we just can't figure out which mode we should use to communicate any more. That is an apology of sorts for the lack of activity on this group. For those none student members there has been action in our studio.
Go to my blog to index the student's blogs.. http://seeksolveshow.blogspot.com/ (From Fall 2009)
If I could interject an observation regarding studio as it NOW is versus as at was when I left it back in 2003.. nothing appears to be happening.. YES it is all in those folding contraptions called laptop computers but the information seems" classified".
For years the studio culture included learning from your peers.. MAYBE NOT SO MUCH ANY MORE... except at the final presentation when it is too late. My studio is using blogs, where students post and comment on their work in progress any one can comment. This harkens back to my wondering around 3rd year studio when I was teaching in second year removed but also involved.
Blogs are free and "open to the public" ( if set up that way). Faculty can require weekly or even daily postings and layout ground rules making the blog a gauge of process not presentation. Blogs used this way become analogous to a pile of tracing paper (something that only Steve Martens uses these days). Students can establish a blog and use it from studio to studio and beyond as an archive.
Ok that all was a bit harsh and as Fall Semester reached its conclusion the desks did start revealing what was happening. This still doesn't change my opinion about the need for STUDIO BLOGS.
With face to face studios, Blackboard, and our blogs not to mention email and cell phone texting and conversations, we just can't figure out which mode we should use to communicate any more. That is an apology of sorts for the lack of activity on this group. For those none student members there has been action in our studio.
Go to my blog to index the student's blogs.. http://seeksolveshow.blogspot.com/ (From Fall 2009)
If I could interject an observation regarding studio as it NOW is versus as at was when I left it back in 2003.. nothing appears to be happening.. YES it is all in those folding contraptions called laptop computers but the information seems" classified".
For years the studio culture included learning from your peers.. MAYBE NOT SO MUCH ANY MORE... except at the final presentation when it is too late. My studio is using blogs, where students post and comment on their work in progress any one can comment. This harkens back to my wondering around 3rd year studio when I was teaching in second year removed but also involved.
Blogs are free and "open to the public" ( if set up that way). Faculty can require weekly or even daily postings and layout ground rules making the blog a gauge of process not presentation. Blogs used this way become analogous to a pile of tracing paper (something that only Steve Martens uses these days). Students can establish a blog and use it from studio to studio and beyond as an archive.
Ok that all was a bit harsh and as Fall Semester reached its conclusion the desks did start revealing what was happening. This still doesn't change my opinion about the need for STUDIO BLOGS.
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