i'm feeling pretty cavalier towards sleep right now, because i'm more caught up on it and because it's fling weekend. so i'm taking a thought-break from the everpresent architecture essay i'm writing, which is right about here:

"The terraced effect serves to physically extend the staircase further out towards the Parkway and in breaking up the continuity of steps, the dividing walls introduce a more obvious verticality to the stairway. The same is true for the smaller stairway leading directly to the museum’s portico, where again, larger ‘steps’ border the stairway proper. I think that the terracing and the vertical lines of the dividing walls renders the entire structure more inviting, and to highlight the movement of the stairway upwards towards the museum. At the same time, the terracing emphasizes the multiple vistas afforded by the museum’s elevation." crap yah!


opim 402 was actually fantastic today. professor katsenelinboigen stopped being irrelevant bless his pate and started just talking to us and luckily we all like to talk about aesthetics. the phenomenological approach. his definition of beauty is "that which contains a predisposition to future development"; i interpreted that as that which inspires further creation, or future thought or analysis. beauty being entirely subjective. marcel duchamp. the impressionists. still thinking 1) skill 2) the artist as interlocuter 3) creative spark. and how i'm losing english exponentially along w/ won b/c we dun read anymore-ah. but soon we'll all be waaaaasted maaaaan.

and like i missed dave eggers today and would probably have missed him on any other day just like i missed arab strap and magnetic fields. DEFINitely cibo matto though. [crossing fingers]. i'm not doing enough. but i get it. hanseul's coming tomorrow post-ben harper. mmmmhm!