HOW COME YOU NEVER GO THERE

As it has become painfully apparent (to my maybe 1..2...maybe 3 followers?) I am fairly incapable of keeping up this blog, especially with the kind of content I originally envisioned. Over the last three years this blog has been a great sort of personal diary for me, as I navigated through the murky waters of University life, but as this is my last year before I graduate I feel like it's time to transition into something more in line with the direction my life is now heading.

I love fashion, and is something that makes a great hobby, and a welcome distraction from my "work".

From this point on I'm going to try and put more effort into creating a blog that will hopefully help me explore architecture, the field I'm training to enter, and will give me an opportunity to narrow my focus. If I get the urge to express some personal style I may sporadically update my lookbook . But other then that please check out my new blog:

DRAWING IS THE NEW (http://drawingisthenew.wordpress.com/)

This new endeavour is going to focus on architecture as I see it and as it happens in the world.

Also please be sure to check out my new twitter as well (DITNBlog)

SOFT SHOCK

These are pictures from our final pin up on friday. The Australian submission system is so different than what we're used to back at home. This submission was our third for the same project (The cellar door) and this was the 'Developed Design'. We didn't have to present our project because at this stage our tutors are apparently meant to have enough understanding of our project that they can describe it to the other tutors (while marking as a group-another concept that isn't employed at home really). We had to hand up an A2 documentation set which was by far the biggest challenge of this semester. We actually went from never seeing a working drawing to producing 18 of them, ready to submit to a contractor. I was actually quite proud of what I accomplished, and I definitely learned a lot that I never would have learned back home. We also had to submit an A1 panel that conveyed our design both formally and conceptually. Then we had to do an A2 sized 1:200 site model and a 1:50 detail model. It was weird to have the guidelines be so specific for a submisison, but it was kind of cool how everyone was pinned up. Today the tutors were marking, and I'm actually quite interested to see how I do (It's unsettling when you don't really know how they mark, especially after getting so used to a specific system) In addition they are choosing five projects to send to the owners of the site, and I'm even more interested to see which ones they'll chose (and what basis they'll choose them on).

Overall they had a very different approach to their presentations than we're used too, but there were actually some really cool ones. There were also some really questionable ones (although I'm sure we have our fair share of those as well)

Panel with all the stickies (That's a good thing) by yours truly! Each student was given three stickies as part of a peer evaluation, and you were meant to put them on your three favorite panels (I got the second highest number in our studio!)

PLAYGROUND LOVE

Where to even begin? These last five months have been incredible. Probably the best experience of my life, and to think before long it will all be coming to an end is almost unimaginable. Needless to say this little blogity here has been more than neglected (as it tends to be while I'm at Uni) but now that I'm pretty much done for the semester I'm planning to give it a little bit of love. I'm still in Australia for the next few weeks and then it's back north of the equator for a low key summer in cow town.

The people and experiences I have had while overseas are all so amazing. I am going to miss everyone and everything about this country. I'm hoping over the next few months I can chronicle my adventures, all the cultural, architectural and self learnings that took place.

The image above was taken last weekend during a sunset walk along a beach near westlakes. I had just spent the afternoon at AAMI Stadium watching the footy, and it was a perfect end to a perfect day.

GO LONG

I'm planning on getting this tattooed on my shoulder. I wanted something geometric because I feel I wouldn't get bored with it. I like the infinite looping of it, and the triangular shape is vaguely reminiscent of architecture. I'm reminded of my all time favorite quote from The Great Gatsby,

"So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaslessly into the past"

ROMANCE IS BORING

Good lord, I just realized I never published this post and now these images are like fifty years old in fashion years, but here goes nothing anyway.
I'm loving the idea of a man clutch and these Vuitton ones shown on the fall runways are getting me going in all the right ways. The terrible terrible things I would do to get my hands on one of these bad boys.


Also loving the embossed damier leather and desert boots. Why am I not a millionaire? Life would be so much better


ASIDE: Lately my life has been crazy and I can hardly keep up! (it takes a lot of work to be as lazy as me I'm telling you) We only got internet in our house like last week I think and it's the slowest internet I have ever experienced in my life (well second slowest, Cibos down the street where we got internet before wins the slowest)
I have developed an uncontrollable affinity for everything cheap since I am beyond poor at this point in my life, and can somehow therefore justify the purchase of like a million t-shirts all under 10 dollars from my new favorite Australian chain store Cotton On. haha oh man. I shouldn't even be writing right now, I'm somewhat delerious from lack of sleep due to the studio project that was due today. Well that's all for now folks!

I'LL BE WAITING

I'm finally going to be resuming posting on this here ol' blog of mine. I've spentthe last almost 2 months now traipsing around Australia but I'm finally settling into Adelaide where I'll be studying the next semester. This post was actually planned before I left I just never got a round to posting it and then was without internet for longer than I care to think about. It does however sum up fairly well what things have been like lately. Hopefully I'll get my life organzied fairly soon and will have some great Australian themed posts coming!

Acne Shirt, AA Shorts D&G Sunglasses

FUTURE OF A NATION

I have reached 100 posts!
It's so crazy to see how much has happened, how much has changed and how much I have evolved over these past 3 years.
Tomorrow I'm embarking on a journey across the world to AUSTRALIA
Here's to the next phase of my life, and this blog!