User:JoeLembcke

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic I want to make bongs and pipes out of everyday household materials.


 * Research Component


 * week 1

Research the scientific components behind smoking devices.


 * week 2

Gather all the materials around my house that i can use.


 * week 3

Build a pipe


 * week 4

Build a bong.


 * week 5

Build a G-bong.


 * week 6

Build an iron lung.


 * week 7

Make a display board on how smoking devices work


 * week 8

present?

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
The other day I went down to sculpture park and I saw the Father and Son fountain which was made by Louise Bourgeois who was born in France in 1911. I think this sculpture is kind of inappropriate to be on display in a public park. I really dislike how graphic the sculpture is. If it was going to be made couldn't he have at least made it anatomically incorrect like a Ken doll. The fact that small children have to walk by this every day is is kind of disturbing, I think it might ruin their innocence.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
I looked up more on the sculpture and I found out a lot of information about the artist. The artist's name is Louise Bourgeois, and she was born in France in 1911. Surrealism influenced a lot of the artist's work, and I think this definitely shows in this artist's piece. This is Bourgeois' only piece on the west coast. I can appreciate how the water rises and falls revealing the father and son, first one at a time, and then both together as one, so i guess their naughty parts aren't out in the open all the time. I guess the nudity kind of represents vulnerability as the two are facing each other with arms outstretched facing what seems to be an uncrossable divide. I still don't like the nudity, but the concept behind the artist's vision is actually pretty cool.

Self-Assessment
Freshman Seminar has was a very informative class. The class showed me a lot about research, like how to properly site your sources, how to know if your sources are real, or just some crazy guy ranting about how the pyramids were created by aliens. I also learned what a fallacy is, which i found very funny because there's a lot of shit out there that we see every day that is more or less a lie. The course content was fun, but still informative. I really dug Arnston's teaching style. He was witty and funny, but still kept the class into what he was teaching. I think that was pretty much due to his witty, funny teaching style though. All in all I had a fun quarter in this class. I learned a lot, and had fun while doing it.