Afternoons are Glorious!!!

Almost every afternoon recently has been a heavenly gift from God! The weather in Ames has been sublime!!! Pity I have been busier than the authorities during New Years... I do have a gorgeous view of the woods North of ISU... When you walk around in the area it doesn't look like there are so many trees, but there really are! And every single one of them is contributing to a majestic tapestry of fall color. My group and I are currently working on concept models for redesigning our performance hall. We are starting almost over and taking what we learned with our old model and replacing it with new fully formed ideas of what the performance halls are. From there we are working the rest of our building around that concept... Kind of disheartening to start fresh, but we have a better concept of what we want and how to achieve it.

A progression of seating arrangements in a posable performance area. The seating and sound would change with each alteration of the space. The walls also need to change but that is another animal all together. Acoustics is hard!!!

I am no longer pursuing a minor in Spanish. I dropped both classes Wednesday. I simply do not have the time for them and studio as the semester progresses. Over the next few weeks I have 3 more reviews for more than 50% of my studio grade and that time correlates with 2 papers and 3 tests in Spanish... Not gonna happen. I need to do well in studio and pass this class to graduate!!!

In other news, my entire weekend is planned. We are finishing our Homecoming banner this weekend and lawn display a week after that. On Sunday I have to paint Victory lane and a storefront window for our Homecoming pairing... And I have to do it with girls... Darn... I am truly blighted by this predicament. Oh me! We are enacting the designs I drew out my first week of school that follow the Dr. Seuss theme chosen for this year... Pretty simple and very fun to draw in terms of characters. I am loving it!!!

The only Le Corbusier building in North America