emilymingay

This blog is for my critical Thinking or any kind of think i do. to discus plan and let you coment on my ideas of life the univers and every thing.

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Location: Whastandwell/Burley, Derbyshire/Leeds, United Kingdom

Im cruently studying Surface paturn and printed textiles at leeds coledge of art. i love it im a happy hyper person whos abit of a dedicated worker as my freind nicley put it i just really well happy!!

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Today I Saw A Pidgeon ! ! ! !

I saw a pidgeon fly over the bus stop this mounrning, It had a Twig in its mouth and as the sky was blue and sunny it look so peace full and made me think tha nature is a wunderful thing if somthing that looks so delicate like that can fly trew a sesen of rush hour trafic and maDE ME THINK TODAYS going to be a good day!

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Linking back to the idea of Subcultures

This in some way links to our lecture on sub cultures and how there were and still are groups of people who separate them selves into different groups like the girls who wear to much make up, the goths, the punks, the ones who are stylish with out looking like too much effort has gone into it, the group that are trying to be different, the townies. All thes group contain different peopel all of whom are interesting and contain nice people and intruiging caracters which may at first be judged by how they look and what they seem to do but, when you think about it, are all the same in many ways

Writing none stop for 5 minuets

We had an exercise on the 2nd of November and a lecture on Utility in which we were to write for 5 minutes none stop. Here is the piece of writing:


"We just had a lecture on the Festival of Britain. It was very intresting and there was something called a Skylon which was a long tubular thing that was suspended by a system of pulleys and those things rope go through- pulleys I think- and then there were like cats eyes (very long
slender tube). It could be impressive to go and see but it was taken down and the man on the video we were watching went looking for bits of it but he couldn't find it. As we suspected it had been taken down and melted for scrap and then no one ever found it. The rest of the lecture was on the practicality and utility of design. I felt I all ready knew alot about it from research."

That is a rough transalation of the 5 minute text. I found it interesting that after coming back to this bit of writing from such along time I can still understand alot of what I meant but am suprised at how I focussed on only one area that being the Skylon and how I found the shape intresting: elongated and like the middle of the eye. The 50's (the perod of utility and festival) had such a long and varied history.

We were also made to write what we thought the aims of the lecture were:

  • To get us more intrested in our project
  • To reinforce our initial ideas of the subject or completely change them
  • Broaden our horizons and knowledge
  • To help us create a time line in our brains
  • To demonstrate how other areas are relevent to our subject
  • To make you listen and understand
  • To illustrate the subject
  • To look at the Social, Econmical, Enviromental and Personal affect that period had on us and the affect it had then