MontyZ said:
I'm curious, then, why did you go to Parsons and into the field you're studying if you don't like art history or graphic design? How about Warhol or his contemporaries? He was based here in NYC, and so many of his "disciples" are still around and kicking.
Good question, I've been asking myself the same thing a lot lately. I really liked the Design and Technology program when I visited the school last year. It was perfect for me at the time. But I got accepted into the program, came to New York, and I no longer am interested in technology which is what I imagined myself specializing in (as opposed to the Design part of D&T). But, surprisingly enough, my best class is my Design Lab class. I think I have the second highest grade in the class, and I've never dabbled in design other than amateur web design. I am not doing so good in my technically oriented class, Web Persona. I get a lot of work from that class, and it is all very technically oriented. Since I don't enjoy computers so much anymore, I feel totally discouraged and don't put my all into my assignments. If I did I'd be spending hours upon hours on work that wouldn't benefit me.
So, I'm trying to get out of my program, Design and Technology, and into Design and Management. A business degree will help me in almost any career and there's a lot of room to go your own route in that degree. I think I'll concentrate on small business, but I'm not sure.
As for Warhol, I really don't know much about him, so I shouldn't say anything
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leekohler said:
While I agree with you on van der Rohe (his stuff is s***), I think you're being harsh on the Bauhaus in general. And I was under the impression that you were into more contemporary forms, that's why I mentioned it. Calm yourself down.
I mean, you love the way your PB looks right? Would you say it's form over function, the reverse, or a bit of both?
It's an excellent fusion of both. The paper I have to have written for next week is about form vs. function and I'm analyzing my iPod, my wallet, and my sneakers
. So, it's funny that you mention form and function.
However, I think it's over-analysis of art and design, which is subjective in the first place. The Bauhaus was way ahead of its time, but I really just don't care about it
. Do we always have to have long, drawn out, abstract reasons to justify why we think something is aesthetically pleasing? The Bauhaus, Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Mies, etc. were all minimalists, they hated ornament. I've written paper upon paper about how they view ornament, and how that relates to form vs. function, and after all of it all I have to say is I don't care.
It just seems so abstract and pointless to me.
Oh, and I got my first NetFlix today! Get Real
. I'll probably watch it tonight. This is my queue:
Everyone approve?
_Emerson
