Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quickie # 12 - Intervention

Northwood has a lot of shopping carts plaguing the area. Almost everywhere you go you can spot a shopping cart from Krogers. I walk down the stairs only to bump into one of these annoying carts, but then I look around and think about it, I think about how most of these students lack a car to shop for food, because a good majority of the student body in Northwood are international or transfer students, so they have to deal with walking down the street and haul their bags back up here because they lack a car, so they resort to using the shopping carts Krogers has. It seems to be a problem for the store itself because of having to go through the trouble of getting new carts and maintain what they have leftover for the customers that need the carts inside the store. I've always thought that there should a bus that leaves the area every few hours that lets the residents shop and safely get home with their groceries during harsh weather or late at night. It would also double as a bus for residents that were interested in purchasing their groceries.


I'm driving the bus, hauling carts! Nobody at 4 wants to shop it seems. :(

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Project 4 - Space

I'm where I want to be, in a dream.

Project 4 (In Progress) - Space



My original idea was to create a space in nature. The idea was to possibly take an existing thing in nature and copy the idea of it's process by putting my own spin on it, but also exaggerated in size.

Parts of my inspiration was thinking how animals adapt to their surroundings and make their home off what is availiable. Another detail I liked is how some animals wander and just pick a place without much thought. After a day of thinking about it, I wanted to make a shelter myself in the woods. Think of it like a clubhouse, making a place in the wild my own, cultivating the wild. I think of Lions on the Discovery Channel as a prime example. They make their home where ever it seems, not because of a purpose, but because of comfort and maybe easy access to food. Not because of safety from the weather or predators. Although herbivores might consider their home close to a source of water or a tree of ripe fruit, Lions might suddenly consider their home near this fruit tree as well.