        SoapboxYou have reached the "soapbox" page. On this page, you can edit the announcements that appear to the right of every page. To change the contents of the soapbox, simple use the "add to the page" box at the BOTTOM of this page. Only the last entry will show up as the soapbox. From time to time, it will be useful to delete the older messages; this will make it easier to add new content and will speed up the server.omg its 8:31 in the morning why is no one showing up???? even the instructor?? doors anyone? ...(no not windows.!) http://www.flickr.com/groups/travel-photography/discuss/72157600618739800/ when do the CAD classes start? There's a leak in the ceiling right above the printer...in case anyone cares for those of you in class today: hoary - tedious from familiarity; stale .. Lawnperson doesn't like Classical architecture? ... No, Sabir mentioned the word (when referring to regular lectures before introducing the first woman who spoke) and told us to look it up. I'm actually quite fond of Classical architecture...or the little I know about it, at least. .... Ah, that would be when I was otherwise indisposed. He does love a good word, though. Seriously.... phenomenological?!!??!? Hey Will it could be some sort of explosion or a jelly fish... way to go They don't have any secret lives, they're not alive. That question made no sense. I know the point of this is to think about stuff, but seriously? Secret lives? yeah in Mr. Wooden bench thingy's spare time he likes to work as a stunt double in movies about waterfalls.... Actually I heard Mr. Wooden bench is having affair with the stairs on the second floor behind Mrs. Plastic thingy's back. ohhhh scandal. Wood + plastic = ??? Wood + plastic = ??? Wackstick... plood dolop Installation two + one Here's my thought: the wood installation is a guy and recent college graduate with long blond hair backpacking through the world. Overflowing with ideas of how thing are and should be, but seriously lacking in reality and experience. He wants to go with the flow and let nature provide for all his needs. Unfortunately, his addiction to video games and O.C.D. get in the way. The plastic installation's secret life was written about in Bowling for Soup¡¯s song ¡°1985¡±. nonono.... SERIOUSLY.... phenomenological??!!?!?!?!?!!!?!????!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?!!!?!!?!?!??? Never underestimate the power of phenomenological phenomenon!! . . . the phenomenologically phenomenal power of phenomenology and a phenomenological approach to phenomena. howzat? Note to Sabir: Icarus is NOT in the Bible. Very true... Icarus and Daedalus are from greek mythology. happy labor day weekend cfy mates! the solar decathlon will need the help of willing students to help assemble and stain the deck in the near future. if interested, email lmcpahil3@gatech.edu for more details. Does anyone know where the assignment is for 1060 that is due on 9/07. It says it will be posted on Saturday but its still not there. Any info? . Any dates given for things being up are "guidelines." Get used to it. You'll wish for a time when that was your only problem, once we get to The Drapes correction the solar decathlon will need the help of willing students to help assemble and stain the deck in the near future. if interested, email lmcphail3@gatech.edu for more details and availability. Truth: Sabir Khan is the stereotypical designer Sabir is the man Architects do it all night long ... in studio. Hmm, the assignment was not posted 9/1...or is it just me who can's see it?
speaking of icarus, he was escaping from the labyrinth when he flew too high. http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/coolx/21
For those interested in helping out with construction of the solar decathlon house we could use about 6 volunteers on both Thursday and Friday evening this week. So if you'd like to get out of the studio for a few hours please email me - cvankley3@gatech.edu - I'll stay after class wednesday for a few minutes to go over a few details and get a headcount. Just stop by the podium after class. We really appreciate the help.
the solar decathlon will need the help of willing students to help assemble and stain the deck in the near future. if interested, email lmcphail3@gatech.edu for more details and availability. Update on the Solar Decathlon: Anyone who would like to volunteer we will meet at the entrance to the new architecture building tomorrow and friday afternoon sometime around 2-4pm (let me know what time works best for everyone). I'll provide transporation to the site and we'll work for about 3-4hrs max each day. Please send me an email-cvankley3@gatech.edu to confirm and let me know when you can start in the afternoon. You'll need to wear long pants and closed toe shoes. missing something? The PDF file of the Sep 5th lecture is damaged...-__- http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/coolx/uploads/24/Alhaddad_01_COA1060_Fall_07.pdf Anyone can fix it? i did not find it damaged. go to lecture page and try again. ive uploaded the 'damaged' pdf as a ppt. sk Do we just come up with 3 questions or do we answer them too ? Must we I would just to be safe... and i don't think we have to answer our questions
I have mixed feelings about the fact that the Scanning Tutorial wasn't even posted on the main website until 11:37pm, after most people have already had to turn in their work...what's up with that?
Missing: two 18 inch rulers, most likely left in the cfy studio. If you have found them or accidentally acquired them, please place in the lost and found. Thanks Missing: 18x24 sketchpad- I left it on top of the flat files in front of the computers while I was scanning things. When I was finished it was gone. It says JASMIN on the white binding part, and it has some work in it. If you picked it up and/or used it PLEASE put in the lost and found. I really, really need it! Thank you!!! cfy exhibition is looking good! give yourself ample time to complete assignment 09.16. dont wait until sunday to write and upload. start drafts for the two lectures that are uploaded; the third lecture presentation will be uploaded after lecture tomorrow. sk Ah! What a beautiful day! Tru Dat Happy International "Talk Like A Pirate" Day !! hmm I love being in the studio at 1:35 a.m. with a ton of work left to do
Does anyone from section D know if the three big drawings need to be continuous tone or can we have lines? probably continuous I guarantee that its continuous tone. Why is the CFY studio always freezing cold? Im pretty sure I caught a cold or something from it....is there anyway to fix that? try a sweater Also headphones for computer listeners would be appreiciated. I like bagpipes but they really aren't studio inspiring for me. Ex 1 Reflection prompts are here. Did anyone have trouble understanding today's lecture? Don't mean to be rude at all, but it was very hard to pick up anything. I feel better knowing I wasn't the only one!
It wasn't the topic that made it difficult to understand, it was the accent. try sitting in the front of the room next time he had a soft voice I sat in the back, his accent was perfectly clear. One of the better presentations imo. i was sitting up front, i could hear fine. it was a combination of speed talking, too much information for the time we had, a difficult (yet interesting) topic, and obviously his accent. i'm not going to be too critical though because I would not have wanted to try to do what he was doing! hopefully the q&a page will help us understand what was going on. What is turnkey and how is it related to AEC
"Here's looking at you, kid." . Hope everyone did well (enough) on their midterms. Speaking of midterms, does anyone know how much of our grades they count for? Also, does anyone know when they will be graded by any chance? FIFA Women's World Cup Final 2007 Brazil vs Germany Sunday at 8 (go marta!) The 4th goal vs the US was amazing. 3rd place: US vs NORWAY 5 am ... party in my dorm!
go to 1060 overview: Midterm Exam: 10 % of the final grade Final Exam: 20% of the final grade you get back the midterms after midterm break sk FLORIDA LOST HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
We love Sabir He loves you too, just in a "tough love" sort of way. Ha! Prof. Khan is my hero. Just to put things in perspective, its really gonna suck if our next lecture isn't canceled. please see revised schedule for 1060 for this week. there is no assignment due this sunday. sk 10.05 WE WILL MEET IN THE AUDITORIUM. Time Stamps. Sabir Khan: Go over Research Project; START Library 101 online. have a great (break) two days off. sk only connect. emf
Hi...so I have yet to purchase the second half of the supplies from the materials list and tried to reach it again on the cool-x site...but it doesn't work anymore. Is there any way that I can get that document again? I'm a little unclear about the instructions for the library assignment. Do we really have to turn in printed copies of all the search results turned up by the databases? Wouldn't that be something like 30-40 individual screen-captures? That just seems like a lot of paper to use on screen-captures.
How do we get started if we dont know our group or decades? I thought we were supposed to get those last friday during class?
Ok, so far this article we're supposed to read seems pretty darn biased. I just got back from the Lower Ninth Ward, and the place is a wasteland, no one has moved back in. This is funny considering that the government is offering money to people who want to move back into their neighborhoods so that they can rebuild. And this quote is ridiculous, "Suggestions that it be forsaken sounded to many like a pretext for getting rid of the city's black majority." Except didn't the author say that fewer than 3% of the city's population lived in the Lower Nine? You hear the business owners saying that they don't want the people to come back to that area, but I don't think it's because of their color, I think it's because of the crime that was such an issue there. Did the author not also say that many of the neighborhood's household incomes were assisted by government supplements? Could that imply that several of the residents weren't necessarily providing for themselves or even trying to? I'm just saying, it's really not a race issue, and if people want to rebuild, the government is offering money and there are hundreds of organizations in the area that are providing free or cheap housing for those who need it, it's just a matter of when people decide to come back and take responsibility for their lives into their own hands. The help is there, but will they take it?
please make sure you read the library assignment carefully. it is due this friday noon. does anyone know how to narrow a search on the GIL site using a Mac? when I click the narrow search button nothing happens.... go to the arch library and ask. 30 sources? c'mon, are you serious? oh... and to quote the late great colonol sanders,"I'm way too drunk to taste this chicken." haha just kidding.... but seriously... hey, anyone know how to indent with html? Like this?
Try Google.
So where is that continental breakfast and the complementary coffee that we deserve for pulling these all-nighters? Sabir's jacket is the awesome.
Does anyone know where the optional assignment is?
Has anyone come across an ipod with a leather case? please contact jimmy vo Hey Jimmy I was in the room when you were working and you asked me if I saw your ipod but I didnt at the time. I found it though on the third floor on the wood installation later that day and have been looking for you but have not seen you. Its in my locker so whenever I see you, I will get it for you. I will try to look for you after 1060 class. -Ralph Raymond Just a little brain teaser See if ya'll can figure this out 
if anybody has found a key on a blue georgia tech lanyard around the architecture building please let me know either on here or email me. thanks, andrew harmon ( andrewh@gatech.edu)
Anyone catch the name of the firm Mr. Moore said he was from today?
BARCELONA SUMMER 08 next info session: nov 28 6 PM coa auditorium ^ You should really check it out guys, seems awesome ^ Missing Items: 1-in. role of drafting tape ("Newman" written in sharpie on the inside cardboard part the tape is wrapped around) & Alvin brand black and white cutting mat ("Newman" written in silver sharpie on the black side). If found please put in the Studio Lost and Found. Is the 5th St. essay due on 11.26 or 11.19??? How are we supposed to turn in a printed copy to our TA by the 19th, if the essay is not due until the 26th? Has anyone found a camera that was left in the studio that belongs to the architecture library? It is the cfy camera #2. Please contact Zach Brown (zbrown7@gatech.edu). Thanks. Also, it was left in there during the week of the review. Is the 5th St. essay due on 11.26 or 11.19??? How are we supposed to turn in a printed copy to our TA by the 19th, if the essay is not due until the 26th? Robin found a collection of gift and ID cards in the lobby, if you lost your plastic please see Troy Whyte! (ID adviser) How are ppl using the laser cutters—through older students? or are they signing up and doing it themselves? Please help...theres no precision in hand cutting! Hey has anyone found a wireless Logitech mouse in the CFY studio during the past week or so? If you have, then please put it in the Lost and Found. I'm going to miss 1060 next semester...I'll miss the awesome lectures and Prof. Khan :( I'm not gonna miss the lectures. Some of the given readings are not cited. How are we then supposed to refer to them in our bibliographies or in-text citations? I thought it was a persuasive essay meaning which don't require those Happy Thanksgiving! I'll miss the lectures...not the assignments Just to be clear, we need to have it in paper and online before class Monday the 26th ? Yes How does that make sense? It clearly states on the assignments page that every assignment is due by midnight on the night of the assignment... The due date for this assignment is the 26th, so midnight right? Nope, they said to have it in by the beginning of class on Monday. You might check, but just go ahead and post it, since you'll have it done anyway. :) whoever put the smiley face on here is obviously not working on the paper... :S whoever just wrote that is obviously not working on the paper either... WOO procrastination! or they could be done with the paper :) time to think about the final! yeah! way to rub it in everyone's face that you're done. :o( Wow , just finished all the reading... not as useful as I had hoped but pretty interesting. Just to make sure (because everyone I have asked so far is not sure, and I never heard a definite answer from a TA), we don't have to post the essay on our assignments page, just turn it in as a paper copy in class, right? I don't see the point in posting it online as well, It will mess up the formatting of the paper. No, you definitely do have to post it on your assignment page before class tomorrow. Oh! Thanks for replying, I would have been SOL. It never says in the description of the assignment anything about a deadline for posting it online, just that we had to turn in a hard copy. Thanks for clarifying. My TA has sent an email telling us that we are handing in a hard copy in class, no mention of posting it on CoolX. Could be different by TA however. fifth street. that is all. ha but seriously i hate streets now. thanks alot Khanipotamus has anyone figured out what we're supposed to do about citing these readings? The soapbox rocks,but I wish it was more like the slivers.Someone please add something about guitar hero and not being able to find a girl. Ha ha benches are funny..... The imagination is a powerful tool. Does anyone else feel professionally arrogant in writing this paper with big words such as pedagogical UGA boasts about good looking girls, but I wasn't impressed..they just have more girls.. thats all. quality is important at GT not quantity of ugly, moraly casual coeds It's completely obvious that architecture students don't procrastinate. I swear I'm not procrastinating...I'm just broadening my horizons via an exploration of technological networking...aka facebook.com lies. can't sleep. must...go...on...only...six...more...pages i see skies of blue, red roses too...and i think to myself what a wonderful world (without 1060/1011) I love 1060 like a child likes candy. wonder if anyone is actually on fifth right now still observing...oh happy thoughts =) Let's talk about streets, bay-beeee; let's talk about you and meeeee.... as great as the readings were, now that I've started writing and developed a good outline, it seems like most of it is just speculation on what I've seen and contains little professional opinion it's close to 3am now, and i'm still on the opening paragraph... i've made numerous different types of food, played a game of cranium, went to the airport, got a milkshake, facebooked stalked all of georgia tech, watch every video on youtube, played tic-tac-toe, dots, and hang man on every white board on my hall, and looked up the lyrics to many different christmas songs... can anyone out do that? i'll pay someone 30 bucks to write this for me. The last 500 words are by far the worst...its almost over... Is appropriating Jungian philosophy for application to a DOT bridge presumptuous? 250 words is even worst! i just want to sleep!!!!!! i'm still on my opening paragraph... i just added grey's anatomy trivia to facebook. does it HAVE to be 2000 words?...i stopped at 1715, u guys think that's good? 2000 is good, but I say you should go to about 2100 just for good measure (i'm just now 1/3 of the way there after one hour of actual paper typing) -SS HA!!!! I can outdo all of you...I have 68 words typed. God help me. OMG I'm already halfway done in an hour -SS done, 2,133 words -SS 'night all dude if you seriously think that UGA has nothing but ugly girls than you either have incredibly delusional high standards or are blindly stereotyping the entire woman population of UGA based on the appearance of a few girls. i mean, damn dude have you seen some of those girls? Ugly? Really? and what exactly is morally causal? did you see someone having sex in the stadium or something? not that there is anything wrong with that haha dont get me wrong the girls down here are hot too but.....damn dude really? go down to athens sometime and then tell me they are all ugly. Yes ! Sex in a stadium is wrong...send pix.... oh and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3MotOO-atQ Can I just google up some pictures and cite them or do they have to be taken by me ? Nice link 8:30 am...500 words to go....I have run out of things to say, seriously, it is a street. 8 : 30 2821 words. Calling it a night :p 9:30 am, in english class, typing... 396 words. 1604 words to go! 10:30 1000 words!!!! HALF WAY DONE! - same here, haha. keep going! you can do it! i think we have written more in the soapbox in the past 24 hours than we have all year. i can attest to this because i have written in it 5 times now. 10:53 AM .... 1084 words. OMFG. 10:56, 1912 words. How the hell did I do that. I'm just going to apologize to my TA now... my paper is a bunch of rambling, nonsensical crap. However, it is pretty entertaining. - I got 1776. My essay is pretty much the same, haha. But eh. I hope they're not expecting much from me.. 'cause that's not what they're going to get. wow that is impressive....reading the soapbox has been as enjoyable as reading slivers...we should publish this =) 2 rockstars and a caffeine pill later.. i hope 2,012 words is good enough I FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can i just google the image and attach to my essay? last minute question! answer me por favor! Times up, pencils down. That was more fun than slivers. God, I love COA. the soapbox is so quiet now... =( You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! Damn you for destroying the soapbox. He's a maniac maniac in the studio. And he's drawin like he's never drawn before! Since we are doing songs now : Hello. Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you're awake Is there anyone home? Come on, now. I hear youre feeling sleepy Well I can ease your pain, Get you on your feet with a cup of coffee Relax. I need some information first. Just the basic facts: Can you show me your contours ? I cant explain, you would not understand. This is not how I draw. I have become comfortably dumb. what happened?
I HATE STUDIO WITH A BURNING PASSION Top 10 reasons why I hate studio: 1. 9 hour class, 4 hour credit? wtf!? 2. The 9+ more hours a week we spend doing homework. woohoo 3. photoshop 4. Drawing 5. People who like drawing 6. The quote,"oh you're a BC major." I swear if i hear that one more freaking time I'm gonna snap. 7. Next semester. 8. Buying all of these supplies when I'm already paying tuition, room & board, whatever. 9. Using said supplies 10. The fact that I'm sitting here typing this when I have so much more studio to do before tomorrow. Hooray depression! Your at Georgia Tech...What did you expect
sometimes... i accidentally finish my studio homework ten minutes before class, starting the night before of course To the person contemplating suicide, please do it away from my flat file. WOOHOO it's the weekend. AGA KHAN!!!!!!!!!!
I AM BEOWULF !!! does anyone else find themselves really attracted to erin?
 fyi, PedEx means "Pedestrian Experience". It's an old project.
Does anyone know how long the final exam essay should be? a page, two pages? I don't think there is a set limit. Just however much you can write in half an hour is what I'm going on. And answering all the criteria on the final exam page. any chance we could bring a standard sized note card to class tomorrow with our question and a few bullet points to help us with our essays? do we need paper? and who and when was the Penn U. renovation or something lecture
Who is the friendly neighborhood architect? Professor Khan?
i meant "would we get those criteria?" Paper or no?
My TA said we might need our own paper, so bring some then if we dont need it you can always just toss it. Sabir said no paper Which lecture was the one talking about health? Craig Zimring Sabir's just so sexy I can't stand it. -Ashton Austin just do your work Much better than the first test. Sooo, If any one has seen a stack of collages/DNAs/Soapbox Stuff lying around the studio that look remotely like a steamer, it would be something along the lines of AMAZING of you would let me know!
Hi. Just to give you the heads up: A new sustainable gardening program is starting at tech! The pilot plot of land has been chosen and the committee wants to start growing things as soon as possible! I've volunteered to find architecture students that may be interested in aiding in the design and development of the garden layout and other possible buildings associated with the program. Check out the project website and email me (mericamay@earthilnk.net) or the Liam the coordinator (liamratt@gmail.com) if you are interested. Merica May Jensen Man, I'm so tired, but the night is still young. Any other people working in Studio tonight or am I the only one who put this thing off until the last minute.. again? (I'm working in my dorm room.) Mistletoe is here. If you need to spray-fix your work late at night, at least step outside to do it rather than spray-fixing right inside the studio. No one in the CFY studio needs to lose any more brain cells. All are required to use the Spray Booth in the basement for spray-fixing, spray-mounting, and spray-painting. Make the trip. Save some cells. No exceptions. ag in the spirit of the holidays: for your viewing pleasure: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1161696214 Safe for work/school/parents etc.
Happy Hanukkah!!! Canto alla vita. EXPRESS CHECKOUT IS READY. ALL REQUIREMENTS DUE 12.12. GO TO http://cool.coa.gatech.edu:8000/coolx/18 PLEASE READ TO ENSURE ALL IS WELL WITH YOUR 1011 AND 1060 STUFF chandni jindal left her buzz card in the cfy studio!!! please come get it! did anyone find a WD external hard drive in studio yesterday? if you did, please let me know. Any word on who won the essays ? I dont think they are done grading them yet, we'll have to wait until they are all read first.
Inquiry books from the finalists entries are on the instructor shelf in studio for safe-keeping. You may collect it there to turn into your instructor. We will be keeping them for exhibition next semester. Has anyone found a flashdrive? I think I left it upstairs in one of the computer labs; it's a small black LEXAR FIREFLY with a blue light on the end. If anyone's found it or know who has pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaasssssssssseeee post; it has all my studio work on it.
i was working last night in that lab, at that computer i think, and saw it too? it was black with a clear case, it was in the first row. i don't know if it is still there. Ohh... That one... I think i saw it today... wait... may be not... GO CHECK IT~!! .:I saw a quarter-sized flashdrive on the printing office's door this afternoon:. Thanks guys, but it's gone.. that WAS the one.. oh well, sigh Thanks. HAPPY HOLIDAYS, CFY!!! Does anyone know what has happened to the inquiry books from the projects that made it to the competition? Mine does not have my name of it, just a beautiful Haitian flag on it, which is blue on top, red at the bottom and has a white center piece. Please let Ralph Raymond know, por favor. That would be me.
where are the missing inquiry books from the competition?
HA express checkout. what a joke. wouldn't it be more accurate if you called it 'this is going to take a while' checkout?? just a thought...... Time is relative. It is certainly handy to have links to everything on one page. this is the class that never ends, it goes on and on my friend, some people started taking it not knowing their major, and they'll continue work for it forever just because this is the class that never ends....
are we supposed to pick up our inquiry books from this safe place? my instructor didnt know anything about it
FInally i'll rest in peace... not that I'm gonna kill myself, but every day in GT, even in weekends, I had to worry about studio works... now I'll go back home.. get some sleeep and eat good food~! Amen to that! any teacher or ta or somebody know about final grades for these classes? when and where we can find them for both classes? peace and a good break!
Anyone else finding it hard to go to sleep even now that we don't have to be staying up late doing work? yes. It's 3 am. I'm usually doing battle with an adobe program right about now. I feel so lost..... When are we getting our final grades? In both classes.
my instructor told me to take my inquiry book, i was a finalist, but she told me where they were and told me to take it back. it is now at home with me. i hope no one needs it – lindsey gunter ( i got honorable mention at the competition)
I also took my inquiry book home with me because I was told to do so. -Jill Exley (I placed 2nd)
:( i can't pick up my 'valuables' from studio because the door is locked, how do i get the code? >oreta taylor
where do we find out our grades from our TAs? ON a side note, does anyone wish they called them licks rather than riff ? "Your work needs more licks" "I've been licking my toys for a week now without getting anywhere" Even though they were called riffs, I still licked my toys. Is that weird?
ENJOY A GREAT WINTER BREAK!
So...when are we gonna get our grades for those essays that they made into a competition?
Visit the links page at http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/coolx/1060 and add your own ! Baby its cold outside! SNOW!!! this cold and rain certainly makes one appreciate the bldg envelope, no? this semester is actually perfect for studying the buildings under very diverse weather conditions. soon the warm days of spring will make winter a distant memory. and not to worry - you will be sketching then too - surfacing some wonderfully diverse discoveries in that well-documented inquiry book that captures these seasonal changes! ag man, with all this drafting to do, i just don't see how i'll find time to study for calc, my other 4 hour credit. i dont see how we can maintain this pace all semester... I know! My classes last semester came second to studio and it was evident when I got my grades. This semester is already so much worse! What was the name of the guy who talked about Heffernan in Wed's lecture?
wow wow what?
It's almost Friday!!!....almost... My teacher has been trying to tell me to draw 1/4" thick glass in a section/floorplan drawing at 1/4" = 1 foot scale. The lines would be 1/4 of 1/12 of 1/4 inches apart... –1/192 of an inch.
I have Drafter's Neck...owwwww.... a massage. . . anyone??? no.
on another note, 5 dollars for 1 piece of paper? wtf? all i gotta say is this paper better cook me dinner or something.
maybe tomorrow ill pay for some leaves on the ground.... in the space of two weeks I've gone from loving studio to strongly disliking it...but that could just be my personal opinion of what we're currently working on.
Matt Causey- ACC Player of the Week. yea baby reppin Gainesville GA
African Nations Cup !!
As for the gay argument, it has been addressed so I won't discuss it.Furthermore there is only one profitable American football league. There are dozens of profitable Football(aka Soccer) leagues worldwide.
Great! well why dont all of yall go live somewhere else. we dont need you here in America....
lmao, mind if i ask who I am speaking to?-Saa abernathy bitch haha or mofo parks - z soccer is awesome!!! :D Hey get off the internetz and finish stuff for review kthx. So, reviews huh ? whoever said "go live somewhere else", u r an ASSXXXX. I really hope that no professionals in our respective fields look at this site, and the soapbox, and get impressions of us based on some of the posts made. Its bad enough to have that kind of immaturity put on display for all of your instructors to see. srsly. we've at least 3 more years together. Don't kill each other NOW.
We Love You, Crimson! Love, Alyssa and Jenny PS You Too, Andrew Wooo! Review went wellll. Time for some sleep. Looking for someone to do work for me - paying minimum wage.
I am never staying up all night ever again... ...never a good idea. even if you get a couple of hours sleep its better than none. there is supposedly a sleep cycle where you can sleep 1 hour ever 6 hours and be fine.... hmmmmm HAPPY SUPER BOWL!!!
(KIDDING BTW) if football is gay, soccer is..... nevermind hahaha BTW HOW COME OUR INSTRUCTOR DIDNT TELL US ABOUT 5.1 + 5.2 reflection...
I'm tired. I am sad that the Fabrication and Assembly Reference packet is "damaged and cannot be fixed". help?
-Look through the other instructor's pages until you find one who has it uploaded. It works on Tim Frank's page. Watching the Super Bowl Sunday night reminded me of how great a game football is and at the same time how the next month is miserable for everyone except basketball fans. March Madness is the only basketball event worth watching. You know that the sports season is at its end when ESPN starts playing soccer,poker, and weightlifting every day.
I lost my phone- I'm pretty sure I left in the restroom- but it's not there anymore- if you picked it up or somethin- please let me know!!! I will check back on here! thanks! ~Jasmin Gonzalez~ when did you leave it there? you may want to check with the janitorial staff? or with the folks in the library or the deans office (second floor). all places where stuff gets turned in when found. I left it there this afternoon during studio- the dean's office was closed- and I didn't think to check those other places- but I've left now- so I'll probably go check first thing tomorrow.
oh ok! thanks! help! it seems someone has borrowed my [father's] tape measure and forgotten to return it. i last saw it in the top metal flat file at the end of the room. it has a metal casing and some yellow accents and i think its 25' long. please, if you have it or have seen it, either return it or email me: dchaney3@mail.gatech.edu thanks! Soapbox: CFY's Lost and Found. I ♥ COA. I do not ♥ COA. And I love everyone. those who ♥ COA and those who do not ♥ COA. I love cookies. Especially the free ones that were left here last night... You can thank the Dean's Symposium for the free cookies! Egypt 6-Time Champs ! If anybody has found a lime green "ice tube" drawing carrier please let me know at cderiso3@gatech.edu. It has the name Christina DeRiso on it. I have already checked the CFY lost and found and it is not there. There should be two charcoal sustained looking drawings in it thanks. Shia LaBeouf = Young Khan (?) Supporting Evidence: - has a cool name - once saved the world – Ah yes, Sabir Khan and the Legend of the Muslim Palimpsest. - hangs around with Indiana Jones. Has someone mistakenly picked up my black little sketchbook. It has all my dimensioning in it. There are random sloppy drawings of lamps in there. I need it! -Brad Raber 678-427-2405
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!! and... HAPPY (really sad, bitter, and alone) SINGLE AWARENESS DAY!!! It's actually "Singles' Awareness Day". If you were alone this valentines day, don't worry, you're not alone. Then again, you're alone, so very very alone. pray for NIU. there was a shooting on their campus today. HAPPY "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID" DAY !!! Don't forget Valentine's Candy is on clearance today. TORNADO WARNINGS! TAKE COVER!!!
Random design fact The Soviets actually designed, landed, and successfully teleoperated an unmanned moon rover - in 1970 Anyone remember the dates Sabir said we will be able to sign up for the AutoCAD classes? Also when did he say we will find out who won the Fifth Street essay contest? autocad tutorial signups this wednesday feb 20. tutorials are five weeks long and begin the week of mar 2. essay contest winners next wednesday feb 27. i hate studio. Then Why are u in it? - _ - ;;
I HATE THE SCANNER. You really should not complain so much. studio is just a fact of life for us right now. I don't particularly like it either, but you chose to come to Tech, and therefore chose to accept some pretty big challenges. I'm not saying you have to enjoy studio, because I sure don't. But take what you can from it. Learn. Even if you just learn that it's not the thing for you, at least you know. but try to make the best of it because it's not going away. Especially for you arch. and i.d. suckas. haha... BC train; wooo wooo!
whatev, just do the work. get it over with, and go into BC :D :D :D :D
I HATE PEOPLE WHO TELL PEOPLE NOT TO COMPLAIN. The NAAB exhibition is up! Do take time in the next few days to tour all the walls of the COA - evidence of great thinking and making abounds! The CFY work is on the bridge (the long wall). It all comes down Thursday, so enjoy it soon. ag
FOUND! A silver flash drive plugged into the USB of the first computer in CFY Studio (next to scanner.) I'm leaving it here plugged in and will be here for a while to look out for it; please come reclaim your flash drive! :D Thanks! does the flash drive have a complete stainless steel casing, with a pivoting sleeve and red LED (1GB capacity)? if so, can you please put it in the B2 drawer of the white flatfile along the wall when you walk in the studio, thank you. We need a CFY pet...a mascot, if you will. Catch one of the mice running around eating the food on the floor.
To the people in Keith's section, if you want info on the green city in Abu Dhabi (its in the same country as dubai) check out : http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/1515/Default.aspx - Ali I know it will be almost impossible to find, but did you guys ever see a white 30 GB video Ipod in CFY room? it had black dafault case and a sony ear phone with it... I not sure if I left it there, but Studio is the one of the place that i spent most of my time in GT, so it is possible that i left there while i was coming out of there... exausted and sleepy... If you guys have any idea, PLEASE LEAVE SOME INFO in this SOAP BOX~!!
It's 2:37 am. We pissed off the cashier lady at McDonalds'. I love CFY Studio! How much could a woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood and he was in studio? A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood and he was in studio. But since a woodchuck can't chuck wood nor would he if he could then the answer is a woodchuck wouldn't chuck wood even if a woodchuck could chuckwood...in studio. No. The question was "IF" a woodchuck could chuck wood, how much COULD he chuck. Are we going to have studio on the Friday before Spring Break? I'm trying to get some plane tix and I don't want to get stuck here for a day that I could be traveling (thats what happened for Fall Break, I'm not bitter about it though, honestly). - yes, studio will meet on thu and fri before spring break. on the agenda: reviewing the review, and submitting all work and i-books for grading over the break. ag
We should have a Lost and Found CFY link on here.... Sabir or Ann can we add one?
Some model storage tips: Try hanging a model bag inside your locker, and let models sit inside, secure or Store models on high studio shelves - folks often bring in a tub or box for sharing with studio mates. This protects work in progress, and makes it easier to find. Pls don't put models on instructor storage shelf where they will get moved, and easily become lost and/or damaged in the midst of archive shuffling. thx, ag Is there a website where we can look at pictures from the NAAB exhibit? I know there was a site last semester with pictures from our reviews but I can't find the link... Anyone know?
SOMEONE TOOK OUR CHIPBOARD: 3 SHEETS! WE HAD OUR NAMES ON THEM. PLEASE RESPECT OTHER PEOPLES' MATERIALS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE LABELED CLEARLY.
So why can't we use laser cutters? Cutting out 100 window panes by hand takes unnecessary amounts of time, is inefficient, and looks unprofessional. If we know how to use the laser cutter, we should be allowed to use it. We're responsible enough to be trusted with it. Older students in 2nd, 3rd, 4th year studios use it and their projects look amazing. We should be allowed to use it, too. There is nothing to be gained from cutting windows out of chipboard for hours while we could be making the rest of our models. It's a waste of time and the results are not very high quality. If not allowing us to laser cut is some attempt at teaching us patience or discipline, or some other moral lesson, I must say that we are not children and should not be taught as such. Pushing morals on us or disciplining us by making us cut chipboard is not going to be effective. If, however, you're afraid of the laser cutters being broken by people who don't know how to use them, then simply hold those people responsible. If they break the laser cutter, they should have to pay for it. Stop babying us and let us use current technology so that we can come up with professional looking products instead of products with crooked edges, round corners, and pieces of chipboard hanging off of them! - Ryan Schuster tl ; dr
Try working with precision and care and not complaining. You'll get to use the laser cutters eventually; just get on with your work. I agree, stop complaining. What if in the future, the laser cutter is down? You will be glad that you know how to cut out hundreds of windows-you can wait like everyone else for the laser cutter and appreciate then. The laser cutter is nice to use, but after a fiasco over it last night I can see why they do not want us to use it right now. It is not necessarily about learning precision or cheating, but rather it being that not everyone knows how to use is or has been trained to use the specific one here at Tech and is an unfair advantage to everyone else. We don't need people running up there trying to use is that do not know how and break it. For chipboard now just cut it, yes it sucks but for other materials like plastic It should be ok theres a lead sharpener in the lost/found room 359a I wouldn't call it complaining, I'd call it a well thought out argument. At least I had valid thoughts to back up my points. And, by the way, I am working with precision. Just because I think that not using the laser cutter is a bad idea doesn't mean that I work any less harder than anyone else, please get your preconceived notions that dissent = laziness out of the way before you take shots anonymously at someone who was brave enough to post their name. As for the laser cutter possibly breaking in the future, yes, that may happen, but it won't happen often, and I'm sure that I'll be perfectly able to cut windows then, but as for now, the laser cutter is working, so we should be able to use it as we are perfectly entitled to as students who pay thousands of dollars to Georgia Tech so that they can buy things like laser cutters. As for it being an "unfair advantage" to know how to use the laser cutter, I do not appreciate that mentality. Those who took the extra hours to learn AutoCAD and to learn how to send files to the laser cutter deserve to reap the benefits. If I wish to have professionally done work, I will use the best processes available, laser cutters included, to make it look the way it should. I think we should be given the option to make these models look as good as they can. It's not about the laser cutter per say, it's about the principle of being held back and being given last priority just because we're CFY. We deserve all the benefits that Tech has to offer. guys its a resources issue plain and simple. 250 individuals with the same deadline. 2 laser cutters. do the math. Just for the record , I didn't write any of that -Ali Studio sweep this weekend Anything touching the floor will be trashed. So "if you value it, store it." I love you You love me Studio's my family With a great big hug, and a disastrous review Won't you say you're dropping too ! around 9:00am friday, someone moved my folder, which was on top of the section B1, C1, D1 drawer. I was sitting right next to that drawer, and all of sudden, it was gone... please return it... - Sungtaek Kim
Studio is Clean!!! I make a motion to keep the grass patch in the architecture building, if it wasnt already staying What if : Darth Vader was a studio instructor ? Student A : "Ok, so , these are my perspectives. What do you think ?" Darth Instructor : "This is most displeasing" Student A : "I'm really sorry, I just had 2 tests this week and I didn't - D.I : "I find your lack of armature disturbing" Darth Instructor chokes Student A Student A collapses on the floor. A group of desperate cfy students ransack his toolbox and run away. D.I.: "Very well.Next." Student B: "I wanted to study Skiles from a morphological standpoint which would reveal interior and exterior spaces..." D.I. : "Ah. The force is strong with this one. Remember though , the ability to b.s. is insignificant next to the power of the arches.” Student B:"Uhm...ok. I-" D.I. : "Just work on the line weight" Student B: "Sure" D.I : “I sense something. A tremor in the force.A presence I've not felt since...” Sabir : "Hello Darth , how go the reviews ? " D.I. :"Today will be a day long remembered" Sabir : "Fabulous"
MISSING iPOD I think someone may have picked up my ipod by accident. it's a new classic, 80GB, black iPod. It's named "luliloo". if found PLEASE call!!!!! ~Cynthia Utz (404) 863-0708 MWF 9-12
Hey Everyone! So I've been noticing recently that there are a TON of plastic bottles/containers that get thrown away in studio (I do this too), and I realized that it is most likely because we don't have a convenient place to put them. I was wondering if anyone knew if they separated the trash/recyclables when they collect it from studio, or if it all goes to the same place. If the latter is true, I think it would be a really good idea to start recycling!! Yay! My family gets our recycling (plastic/newspaper) picked up every week, so if I brought the bag that we put it in, I would totally be willing to bring it home every weekend, because I only live about 10 minutes away. Just tell me what you all think! Thanks!
What if : Darth Vader was a studio instructor ? Student A : "Ok, so , these are my perspectives. What do you think ?" Darth Instructor : "This is most displeasing" Student A : "I'm really sorry, I just had 2 tests this week and I didn't - D.I : "I find your lack of armature disturbing" Darth Instructor chokes Student A Student A collapses on the floor. A group of desperate cfy students ransack his toolbox and run away. D.I.: "Very well.Next." Student B: "I wanted to study Skiles from a morphological standpoint which would reveal interior and exterior spaces..." D.I. : "Ah. The force is strong with this one. Remember though , the ability to b.s. is insignificant next to the power of the arches.” Student B:"Uhm...ok. I-" D.I. : "Just work on the line weight" Student B: "Sure" D.I : “I sense something. A tremor in the force.A presence I've not felt since...” Sabir : "Hello Darth , how go the reviews ? " D.I. :"Today will be a day long remembered" Sabir : "Fabulous"
I know a lot of people are taking tons and tons of pictures of van leer for inquiry books, ect. if anyone wants to collaborate/ help each other out... post here or something Please read. Security announcement to the jerk who refuses to desist in using spray-fix inside CFY Studio: PLEASE STOP. I think the person who came up with the up-side-down trash bag stools should automatically get an A in studio. Good on ya! edit: horrible idea. bag rips when you try to remove it, it's kinda stuck and inconvenient and frustrating. If anyone has my scissors, circle guide, or graphing calculator I would like them back
THANK YOU! to the person who turned my iPod to the lost and found!!!!!!! you made my day! i feel like an idiot for not checking there......THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same initials, eh? That's pretty cool...You and the Professor should have tea or something. anyone seen a light brown utrecht sketch pad? has 5 sketches of van leer in it...really dont want to redo the assignment...if you find it or have it please leave it in rm 359a(printing room). thanks! Roses are red! Models are red! Drawings are red! Darn x-acto knives!
Are we re-signing up for the AutoCAD tutorial classes? Please keep all COOLx postings within the etiquette guidelines, especially regarding editing others' pages on the site with malicious intent. This site is open to the public and is visited by many professionals, professors, researchers, and others. We will also use it as a resource in future classes, so keep in mind that what you create reaches far beyond your classmates. See etiquette & guidelines for further info. ag
Ironically enough (after the talk we just had about diversity), Architecture was ranked as #34 on the "Stuff White People Like" list. On top? Our other favorite, coffee. Check it out: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/34-architecture/ So you think that just because "white" people in general tend to like something means that it's not diverse? Should we have diversity for the sake of diversity or should we have it because we honestly want those of all cultures and races and genders to blend together? Studio Spring Cleaning over Spring Break Anything touching the floors will be trashed. (including portfolios) So if you value it, store it. Thx. Studio is not a class... It is a lifestyle! If studio was an amphibian it would be a horny toad! Does anyone know when those AutoCad classes we signed up for in lecture Wednesday starts? Are the essays read yet ? I'm not so concerned about prizes, I'd just like to read the winning entry. Creative Loafing's International Man of Mystery 2008  Buy the new record, Pedagogical Modernity by Vitamin K Featuring former Sex Bristols frontman Sabir Khan Releasing 3/11/08 @ Noon... Available on COA Records, Produced by E&A Track list : 1. The way you make me feel...about arches 2. If this is Modern, why am I so alone ? 3. You shook me all night long, in studio. 4. Palimpsests of a Dead God. 5. Shout at the Instructor 6. The Pinup wall 7. Ann-a Bana-na 8. Sting like a butterfly , critique like a bee 9. Never say drop EPIC WIN mad lulz Are we re-signing up for the AutoCAD tutorial classes?
How is the Wed 12-1 tutorial going to affect 1012 lecture? Good luck to everyone on their Reviews! Try to attend other sessions' Reviews and see what other classes have been working on! Before you head out, be sure to: 1. Post response to ex 5 reflection prompt. 2. Organize ex 5 work in studio drawer per instructor specs. 3. Submit inquiry book and digital documentation per instructor's directive. 4. Store all valuables in locker (off studio floor). And enjoy a wonderful Spring Break!Narrator: In A.D. 2008, studio was beginning. Student 1: What happen ? Studio Veteran: Somebody set up us the shaft. student 2: We get signal. Student 1: What ! Student 2: Main screen turn on. Student 1: It's coolx !! Sabir Khan: How are you gentlemen !! Sabir Khan: All your base are belong to us. Sabir Khan: You are on the way to destruction. Student 1: What you say !! Sabir Khan: You have no chance to survive make your time. Sabir Khan: Ha Ha Ha Ha .... Student 2: Captain!! Student 1: Take off every 'x-acto' !! Student 1: You know what you doing. Student 1: Move 'arches'. Student 1: For terrible review. (click here if you dont get it)
TORNADOS! Yeah, thanks GT for the warning. I got a text from a friend in Tuscaloosa asking if I was okay before I heard anything from GT. Before you head out, be sure to: 1. Post response to ex 5 reflection prompt. 2. Organize ex 5 work in studio drawer per instructor specs. 3. Submit inquiry book and digital documentation per instructor's directive. 4. Store all valuables in locker (off studio floor). Enjoy a wonderful Spring Break! BTW Anyone else notice how similar White Room by cream is to studio life ? In the white room with big windows in the COA. Redbrick country, no gold pavements, tired student. Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. Dawnlight smiles on me leaving, my frustration. Ill wait in this place where the work's never done; Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves. You said no strings could secure you at the studio. Messy models,smudged up arches, goodbye bedroom. I walked into such a sad time at the studio. As I walked out, felt my own need just beginning. Ill wait in the queue when the scanners are used up; Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves. At the CoA she was kindness in the hard crowd. Consolation for the old wound now forgotten. Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes. Shes just drafting, goodbye bedroom, tired students. Ill sleep in this place with the lonely crowd; Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves. one of the big scanners is not working. its the big one next to the instructor's flat files. it wouldn't work from my user name or my friend's user name. SEND HELPDESK AN EMAIL install the scanner... Hey guys, this is Eric Oh My Arches drawings are missing My building was Skiles. Please help me find them. My name is written pretty big on the plastic bag If anybody has seen or know where they are, please e-mail me. junigajoa@hotmail.com Thank you very much and I hope everybody had a great spring break.
Penguin House http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qHlH2yhZpE - that was really cool and somewhat inspiring. Thanks to whomever posted this "I have now realized that studio is God's way of punishing me for the sins of a past life." "Yea you must have been pretty bad" "Probably" "Any idea what you where ?" "My guess is a studio instructor" can we get an update on the CAD class please!? thanks!
Hey this is Daniel, all of my drawings and charcoals from the review are missing from section D2 drawers, if you know the where abouts please let me know via soapbox! If we signed up for CAD tutorial on Tuesday or Thursday, which day is it on? I haven't seen it posted anywhere and if we're supposed to be there at 4:30, then we need to know now!!! Thanks am finding it v difficult to find tutors for the cad tutorials; none this week; should know by sunday. sk And in non-Leeland/Ali news, 'Every time you design a piece of junk in plastic, God kills an albatross.' -BBC This part was written by Leeland What to make of Andres Duany.....
But I fundamentally agreed after I got over my initial resentment of his affirmation of the market dictating the only way in which i design.
I think the most valuable (and there were many) lesson tonight was that we can and should learn more from people we disagree with than people with whom we agree. I wanted to write off Mr. Duany, but I think that I learned deeply about my values (architectural, ideological, and social) through my taking offense to some of his rants, and my utter admission of my own shortcomings. LEELAND MCPHAIL DID NOT WRITE THE BELOW QUOTES. quotes:
end of NOT LEELAND MCPHAIL'S quotes I liked it a lot, he clarified a lot of what he said after the lecture. While I find his opinion of Palladio a bit disconcerting I believe I understood the context in which he explained it. I will also say he kind of went back and forth on some points, but I feel those are far more preferable than the "this is modern, this is architecture, love it or leave it" kind of vibe I've been getting from studio. His whole notion of not writing someone off, and being more inclusive (not only with regards to styles but different disciplines) is very much in line with what we are learning. I wonder what Tristan Al Haddad thought of his comment about the use of plastics. I loved the way he pretty much broke down a lot of the megalomaniacal aspect that seems to torment our industry. As for globalization, I understood what he said within the context that you must understand the culture you are working with when designing. While there is a strong movement towards homogenization going on, the market will shift towards the vernacular than the McDonald's in every street and a Coke in every hand. It certainly addresses that horror that is Dubai, and the future generations that will be like "Yea its nice, but I'd never live there". I thought the 6 days thing was drastic, but I had we asked him for clarification it would have made more sense.His point was removing our ego from the process and being able to produce something efficient and within timetables than stalling and wasting money by not delivering on TIME (as far as I understood it). Maybe its just me; any particular opinion Prof. Khan ? - Ali
End of Ali ...Gratuitous use of "I think" is intrinsic to the way I identify myself within my world. I did it too. We all do it. "I think therefore I am." People far smarter than you or me. Its a blogotype, Ali. I think many of us fall into the gratuitous (or not gratuitous?) use of ANY tense of "I think." In all seriousness Ali, thanks for the awareness. I'll watch for that, as I too know it sounds more uneducated than I would like. Wait a second. According to Andres Duany, I shouldn't care what anyone thinks about me, even a dear friend such as yourself (and you should not even care about this). But some might consider that being a manifestation of ones ego, which Andres says that we as architects must mitigate... yet another contradiction? I THINK thats all. end of leelandWell I mainly posted it mainly because I edited it for horrid grammar, and just wanted to make clear to anyone that read it that I changed it after I posted it without changing what I said. Basically it did that to say "yea I changed it, but I didn't change what I was saying". Certainly everything I say goes under "this is what I take from this" title. So I didn't do it to criticize your work in ANY way. As for Duany's point his point wasn't not to listen to what other people think, its to filter who we choose to empower. He definitely felt we should listen to the opinions of clients , just not the critics. Remember the point about the 60 million vs 6. His point wasn't "well now I can do whatever I want cause you don't know anything" , his point was "Why should I listen to you if you're neither paying me , nor designing buildings". at least thats how I got it. Not caring wasn't the point, if it was then he wouldn't we talking since he clearly wanted people to get something from him (if people didn't care they wouldn't listen", his point was lets be careful to empower those who are only detrimental to design. As for the person who put those quotes up, its certainly interesting but they lack context and only make what he says seem weird. Half of your points make sense within the context he present them in. One of the basic tenets of Islam is to say "There is no God but God". Taken out of context I can quote "There is no God". Whoops ? AliCheck this out 7 wonders of architecture http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080324/ ap_tr_ge/travel_superlatives_architectural_wonders I'm not going to argue points about what Mr. Duany said, discount any of his claims, nor necessarily praise anything that he said. That is not as important as keeping this stir alive that we, as students, need to make sure that we are seeking the most prevalent and useful architecture education possible. In coming to this program, I assumed, as with many of the programs at this institute, that the job world would be seeking out our classmates because of our raw-bones, technical, and very honest grasp of our craft; its the reason that it is such a co-op driven school. However, if the needs of this country and the market our changing, as should the program. We should not erase the CFY we have already gathered. We should instead wake up for our Econ, sociology, and psych courses, actually take in the whole picture, and figure out a direction that will be useful in the bridge between the urban sprawl and a new future for the great deal of building that will be done with our degrees. I'm rambling. Duany spoke extremely well, I thought, and did his part to cause that very collegiate thought process going that is "what can we do to progress and make things better." I just know that I have a lot of reading to do. wade very nice. and Ali, at this point I realize that: 1. you were not correcting me. 2. I really need not regard your opinion on the grammar of my content & 3. In the context of his rant, I really should care not about what even thinks about me. He is a critic, critiquing my education based on his rational, which is based on his perception and his synthesis of the world regarded through his senses, lenses, and filters. Most of which is entirely subjective. It is okay to listen to some people but not some according to his speech. I would like to take it a little further (and I already did in my original closing statement about Duany). We must listen to everyone, not to just those we hold in our highest esteem like you do with Duany. When we only listen to those of our highest esteem and the people who pay us (most of whom many do not want great design, but income-generating design), we narrow our view to only things we mostly agree with. I can listen to everyone and then disregard things that I find fundamentally wrong. But I need not actually disregard those things, because I can learn why a particular person might think those things and in what context and what environment(s) did that person come to believe those things which they hold so valid. And here is the kicker: what if for one second i can get over the ego of my established ideals, to learn maybe I am on the wrong side of the argument. That is something from which I could grasp from Duany's rant. Take evreything with a grain of salt, but do take everything. In closing I wish to write only this: A great teacher is like a finger pointing at the moon; if we concentrate too much at the finger we miss experiencing the moon. leeland Sounds good to me. Also, I love that expression. AliConsiderations in argument (Nothing you don’t already know)
Who are these Leeland/Ali people and why are they taking up so much space in the soapbox?
Hmmm...Never heard of them, they must not be that great of gods.
want to hear about the skins of the solar house, and data they are generating? sit in for a talk today (thurs) 11-12 in arch library by dr. gentry and the solar decathlon team
ahhhh. its so good to be back... Now, who pulled my plug???? please leave all work in the atrium exhibition in place. it is being digitally documented for the coa archives this week. if you need access to it over the weekend, please e me (ann.gerondelis@coa.gatech.edu). but don't be alarmed by the gaps on the wall - your work is safe and sound. thanks, ag.
it's too nice outside to be in studio. Ok, so I know I should know this, but where is the lost and found for the building at large? I left my thumbdrive in the third floor computer lab Wednesday and its no longer in there so I need to know where to look for it.
Check out the work of the historic preservation students in the atrium. The drawings and journal write ups on buildings you are studying as the modern academic village are fascinating. Enjoy! Did you participate in the college’s Career Discovery in Architecture Program? If so, please contact me to discuss a possible job opportunity. Leslie Sharp: leslie.sharp@coa.gatech.edu Ah how I've missed you,soapbox Death Defying Architecture from the NY Times
Cool Pic. Sleepy Jack. If you like the Death Defying Architecture link you may want to investigate Friedensreich Hundertwasser. (A book on him was just recently republished after a few years of being out of print) He says, "A lively, uneven floor in the public area means a regaining of the human dignity which man is deprived of by the levelling tendencies of urbanism. A crucial experience has been taken away from him....People also have a sense of touch in their hands and feet...If human beings have to walk on flat surfaces the way they are thoughtlessly conceived with the ruler in the designer offices, alienated from his natural relationship with the earth which goes back to the dawn of time, from the contact with the earth, a crucial part of man is blunted, with catatstrophic consequences for his psyche, his emotional balance, his well-being and health" (from Sensory Design by Malnar and Vodvarka) Keith http://tinyurl.com/2qc7pn Are we going to know what major we got before we register for classes(next Wednesday)? ALL OF YOU HAVE YOUR FIRST CHOICE. if you havent already spoken with the academic advisor of the program of your choice, please do so asap so that you can go over the soph course plan. sk Is there a time and date set for the 1012 lecture final? If there is could we get that? Did architects really come up with green design? Or was it a court ordered solution to counter-act the number of trees used to make handouts? Congratulations COA... you finally made me assume the fetal position and cry for my "mommy" all night long! If you like the Death Defying Architecture link you may want to investigate Friedensreich Hundertwasser. (A book on him was just recently republished after a few years of being out of print) He says, "A lively, uneven floor in the public area means a regaining of the human dignity which man is deprived of by the levelling tendencies of urbanism. A crucial experience has been taken away from him....People also have a sense of touch in their hands and feet...If human beings have to walk on flat surfaces the way they are thoughtlessly conceived with the ruler in the designer offices, alienated from his natural relationship with the earth which goes back to the dawn of time, from the contact with the earth, a crucial part of man is blunted, with catatstrophic consequences for his psyche, his emotional balance, his well-being and health" (from Sensory Design by Malnar and Vodvarka) Keith I had a safety helmet last semester...what happened??? Man the soapbox has been quiet lately
Can the person that took the CFY computer mouse return it ? AND the small Scanners, if you take them to a studio table please put them back BANG! Would whoever moved all the panels out of the bridge on the 2nd floor of East Architecture, please put them back in the bridge the way you found them. Thanks. Becky Fitzgibbon Facilities Manager Studio is your Dominatrix - W. Dude, just chill out and worry about the board. WHAT KIND OF BONUS ARE WE GETTING FROM CAD CLASSES, AND WHAT OF THIS TEST. i know you see this
The countdown is on! 3 days till the final competition due date. Please take extra care to keep up with your studio work in this final week, lest your wonderful drawings and models get lost in the sea of window investigations now filling the studio. ok? ag If anyone has found a Canon memory card in one of the card readers from a couple weeks ago, please let me know! Thank you Rachael Williams rwilliams30@gatech.edu Are we or are we not having a final still for 1012? Can the person that took the CFY computer mouse return it ? AND the small Scanners, if you take them to a studio table please put them back BANG! Crap, I lost my cable for my camera. I left it in studio since yesterday morning, and when i checked it today, i couldnt find it. It is for Sam Sung, so probably useless for most of you guys. Please return that into Lost and Found in cfy, Thanks... - Sungtaek Kim  What kind of % bonus will the cad classes and the optional exam give? Whats this about an optional exam???? If anyone finds a cannon camera in a black case let me know! Danielle McCurdy dmccurdy3@gatech.edu I have also lost a knife in studio. It would have been left on the end closest to the black boards on the second chunk of desks away from the inside door. It is a pink/red husky fold out knife with a clip on it. If anyone finds it or has it, please put it in the lost and found. Thanks! Broken/Fallen Models On Friday (4/18,) a mockingbird flew into studio and landed on many models around the room before exiting about an hour later; a few models fell off the shelf because of this–they should be sitting on the table next to the windows (farthest to your left when you come in the studio door.) One of the models broke upon landing.. I apologize very much to everyone on behalf of the bird and hope your models be all right.. D: ^^^^ ^^^^ omgzz that's so cute! : PPP if my model is broken, heads will roll. CAD CLASS CANCELED MONDAY 4/21 I will be in reviews all day Monday so there will not be a CAD tutorial. For those of you in the Monday class please do your best to attend one of the other classes next week, I will be going over the final assignment and tying up any loose ends. If you cannot make it to one of the other classes email me and we can work something out.
CAD TUTORIALS: worth 12.5% of the course grade. (thats 50% of the 4th credit hour); get a P on CAD and get an A; optional takehome final exam will be emailed to all of you on friday. the exam will be due back on tuesday. the questions will be based on the lectures during lecture hour during the first few weeks of this semester. the grading will be explained in the exam handout. sk i thought that the CAD tutorials were extra credit. what about those of us who are not taking the tutorials? Wait, so if I've got a 78.5 % in studio and get a P I make an A ?
I would like to make a friendly recommendation for the sakes of all our sanity's. I suggest that an email be composed and sent out to all CFY students that contains a grade breakdown for this semester's session, including the "lecture" related content. Something akin to what would be found on a syllabus, and that clearly states how optional assignments impact the grades, an example grade calculation would also help clarify. It would probably be good to touch on the impact on students who havent taken tutorials and those who have stopped taking tutorials. I think something along those lines would answer alot of questions, reduce stress, and having it come out on in an offical email would ensure us of its validity. The Soapbox cannot always be trusted. RM - but in order for this to happen, they would have to know how they are actually calculating the grade in the first place anyone know how to contact the CAD Tutorial guys? (specifically the Wednesday guy) I'm the Wednesday guy...shoot me an email: cvankley3@gatech.edu http://www.suck.uk.com/index.php some of the "holy-mother-of-moses-thats-cool"-est products ever at all in the world. -rs Any body want to go window shopping this weekend? Yes. Okay here's how the extra credit works... So it's 12.5% of the last credit hour of studio (which is 4 credit hours) So each credit hour is worth 25% Therefore the CAD tutorial is worth 12.5% of 25%... Making it just a little more than 3% added to your grade. So if you do both the CAD tutorial (and pass) and the optional exam, you can get a total of 6% extra.
cody's eatin' it.
what is the optional exam??? when was this discussed???? what!? The CAD is 12.5% of the the 4 credit hours minus the extra one hour for the lecture and CAD. That makes 3 hours of 12.5% as bonus to your grade plus the optional exam that calculates to 12.5% of the 1 credit hour for the lecture. The CAD is 12.5% of 25% of 12.5% for the lecture of 75% for studio adding up to 12.5% of the 12.5% for the CAD. This can then be added to your 12.5% bonus for your OPTIONAL lecture grade which is and automatic 3% coming from the 12.5% of 25% which is about 3% added to your grade. Studio plus CAD plus the Optional Exam equals out to 106% if your score a perfect 100% in all categories. Chill out kids. You will get your bonus. -MD Congrats to the CFY competition winners ! express checkout is ready. please complete all ASAP. please deliver all required materials to your instructor. thanks so much. have a great summer; rest up and come back ready to take on soph year. DOWNLOAD optional take home final here http://cool.coa.gatech.edu/coolx/1299 sk The CAD class today ran into a scheduling conflict with the CFY competition. So I won't be counting off if you missed the class today to see the competition winners announced. I will try to post some additional docs on the tutorial page to summarize what we covered in class today. Please list your studio section/instructor in the bottom right-hand corner of the 24x36 paperspace layout you are creating for the final CAD assignment gone home. |  | 
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