User:Nolanfrye

Bio
Hello all, I'm 26 years old and my favorite constilation is Pegasus. In my time on earth I have riden a horse, an elephant, and a camel. I think it's unfair that alchoholism is the only disease that someone can have and get yelled at for having. Also, I would like to personally thank everyone who has ever prepared me a hot meal, cause I sure likes meals.

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic Summit a Mountain


 * Research Component


 * week 1 Decide on a topic


 * week 2 Research exploration history and current guide books for Mt Olympus


 * week 3 Continue research and try to persuade a friend to come with me


 * week 4 Train for expedition by working on muscle and cardio endurance


 * week 5 Make a date to head west


 * week 6 Summit Mt. Olympus


 * week 7 Put together research and personal experience into roughdraft of presentation


 * week 8 Finalize and present finished product

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
I liked all the art at the Olympic Sculpture Park especually the big rusty "ship hull" looking things. The way I was able too stand at one end and see all the tall walls individually really made it clear of the importance of the placement of each piece. I did find one that really, in my opinion, did not belong. It certainly had it's place on earth just not at a sculpture park, maybe a regular park. Roy McMakin's untilted "bench." Sure it's smooth, meticulously crafted and gray but I don't see why it's a piece of art. Conveniantly his bench faces his second piece on display, "Love & Loss," which I enjoyed with a heavy heart. He left his bench untitled but I would call it "Even When I Dream of You, The Sweetest Dream I'd Ever Do, I'd Still Miss You Babe and I Don't Want To Miss A Thing," just because Steven Tyler has a hot daughter.

So I looked up Roy and found that "functional art," as they say, is kind of his thing. He has done several private works like staircases, bedrooms and dressers which I thought were very out of the ordinary, but in a very cool way. One bedroom I remember was an all gray bed where the wall and floor surrounding it was painted in a matching hue. The gray color even overlaped half of the nightstand next to the bed, almost like a shodow had cast over this part of the room. He has done photographs as well, one of which is a photo of a chrome paint bucket labeled "An Orange." One table he designed is actually a dresser lying on it's back with a pane of glass on top.

It was difficult to locate a piece of art that I didn't like, I'm very open minded, and very accepting of the abstract. I have to admit, the bench is a very nice place to park one's ass and enjoy the view. I do however, after seeing more of his collection, understand where he was coming from, but I still think It doesn't belong.