jon, danson, amy and me trying to jump at one moment. took us 14 tries

this photo was taken on monday 25th june 07 at 3:57 pm.

fLo trying to play pool... u noe, its such an awesome shot, because of how i framed it.

this photo was taken on wednesday 20th june 07 at 10:57 pm.

this is my version of the camp foto. i believe there are a few people missing . like alan ...


this photo was taken on tuesday 26th june 07.

me, danson, amy and jon in mandurah after camp. i dunno why i look so gay.

this photo was taken on tuesday 26th june 07.

Aaron : "I never blog..."

... what am i doing. haha
well well ... i guess i might actually ...
ok this can be my little outlet for pictures that i take.

well well more to come

how very interesting...

ps, if u have to know, the previous posts were for a comlusary unit. u can go ahead and read them if i like my horrid english.

Week 14. Appraisal.

Ok I have to be honest here. I did not like the lecture/blog side of things in the course. I found it really hard to keep up my attention in classes. Furthermore, I always get bogged down when writing the blogs because I have that fear that I am writing about something irrelevant and illogical (this is probably why I had fallen so far behind in my blog entries).

Maybe it’s just my poor English, but I do find it hard to read through a 40 page long reading and respond to it in insightful and thoughtful manner. I would much rather a concise text, that does not throw a hundred facts and hypothesizes at you. The fractural geometry reading was probably a good example of this (though I am questioning the relevance of knowing how spiky an object is). Diagrams are usefully, because we are design students, I feel the majority of us would be more comfortable visualizing concepts things better than read a lot of text.

The 175 studio is good how it is. It teaches everyone who doesn't even have the vaguest idea how to draw to be pretty competent by the end of the semester. Generally the progression of work is good. We started from the humble line drawings, to the great foreshortening activities. It was all very entertaining and enjoyable. Also not forgetting about the great educational value we got from it. I definatly benefited from the studio classes (though I’m still a bad drawer, I have now a nice grounding which I can work on in the future).

In general, I would say that the unit is about 7.5/10. Unfortunately to me, the lectures really didn’t help my designer career except for the grid and the topic on perception. The blogs are not so bad (not that I really liked them, but I’m lazy so that’s my own problem), and I suppose it helps us keep track of what we have done throughout the semester. Well that’s only my opinion, I would still like to thank the staff for organizing the unit and making it possible; I know you are trying your hardest to make the unit fun and relevant. Cheers...