User:JenniferBerry

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

I would like to FINALLY see up to 3 Broadway shows in New York
 * Research Component

The History of Broadway and the three shows I'd like to see.
 * week 1

Pick which three shows would make the greatest impact.
 * week 2

research the history of broadway
 * week 3

ask daddy about shows
 * week 4

schedule time for attendance
 * week 5

research pictures and quotes
 * week 6

Make powerpoint and outlines
 * week 7

final touch ups
 * week 8

catch up

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
The Typewriter Eraser by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

http://www.nga.gov/feature/sculpturegarden/sculpture/images/1-fs.jpg

This is the sculpture that I've chosen from the sculpture garden. sadly I used to like this piece of art until I just recently learned what it actually was. When I first witnessed it in the Washington, DC national gallery of art I thought it was a broken toy wheel and I believed it to be saying that childhood couldn’t last forever, that you have to break away. That dream is now crushed because now I know, that it's actually a broken piece to a typewriter. created in 1999 by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.

I decided to look deeper into this, why would someone want to make a broken piece of a typewriter when clearly by 1999 typewriters were long out of fashion and no longer useable. It turns out that Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen have some sort of tag team thing going on and they like to make BIG things. I was looking through their artwork and I found this: http://oldenburgvanbruggen.com/largescaleprojects/spoonbridge.htm it’s called Spoonbridge and Cherry and it’s in Minneapolis. I love this sculpture because the first time I saw it, it reminded me of ice cream and the part I never eat, the cherry. So now a little about the actual sculptors.

Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1929 and then later moved to New York with his family in 1936. Oldenburg graduated from Yale in 1950 with a degree in B.A.. In 1962 Oldenburg's work was included in the "New Realists" Exhibition, which defined the Pop Art Movement. He is a realist who believed that art should define who we are in everyday life and he took things that should have been hard and dark and made them soft and light. Apparently by blowing normal objects up to unnatural proportions Oldenburg figured that he was forcing people to look deep into their minds and reassess their daily lives and values. He has collaborated with Dutch/American pop sculptor Coosje van Bruggen since 1976. They were married in 1977.

Sadly Coosje van Bruggen died this year after a long battle with breast cancer. But she made all of the giant sculptures with Oldenburg.

In the end, I still don't like THIS particular sculpture. but the others that they've done are actually really nice. like the Lipstick Tube and the Dropped Ice Cream. It was a lot cooler when i thought it was a broken toy wheel

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLrSFgvvgZc  <<nick jonas psa (?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPWEnmEYxqs << casio (?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y-fetA6CP0 << bayer contour commercial (?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ2Qj4VrqIw << battleship (?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlPX6zHfH2I << hairspray (?)

Midterm Assignment 3: Always Wanted To Progress Report (100 words or so)
Ok, I'm almost practically done with my powerpoint. I want to type up an outline. everything is going perfectly actually. when i go to Virginia for Christmas break i'll also be dipping into New York where i'll be able to see at least one of the three plays that i hoped to accomplish. My plane ticket is already being bought, I should know more about that by tomorrow (nov. 12th). I wont get to buy the broadway ticket until I'm actually there, because my grandma is the one supplying it. If everything goes well, i'll be able to see one of the 3 that i want, if not then i'll have to make due.

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

Attend at least 3 Broadway shows. (originally, see three shows AND attend Jonas Brother soundcheck)


 * Research (20%)


 * 1) Internet site: "1920s." Answers.com. Web. .
 * 2) Book: drama 1 class book
 * 3) Scholarly Journal:
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc): Mr. Lowe (drama 1, stagecraft, Director), Mrs. Simmons (APUSH, USH), Sean Drohan, Kate Wiessman


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

i beleive i'll be able to see 1 play over christmas break. im going to virginia on the 19th, so hopefully in that time i'll be able to go to new york my family has already promised me a trip up there.


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well

The researsh was really easy. seeing as I already know a whole bunch about theatre. My teachers were a big help, and so were my smarty pants friends. Picking the topic was easy, theatre has been my life all of 11th and 12th grade in high school. Getting to accomplish the goal was also relativley easy. It wasnt a money issue, I'm able to pass it off as one of my christmas presnets and its a way for my grandma and cousins to spend time with me before i return back to school.
 * 2)What went poorly

the overall project was good for me. there were no rough spots. except for the possibility of NOT seeing a show. but I know that i'll have the ability to do it when the time comes. possibly the week after christmas when the city wont be so busy.
 * 3)Future strategies

Pick less popular shows. see something older or off-broadway. Pay for everything myself. I believe that if I had my own money, things would have gone faster. I would have been able to accomplish my goal over Thanksgiving Break instead of waiting until christmas.