influential... like the cheese that has holes in it

Sooo.... our final project in contemporary design is basically wiiiiiide open for interpretation. The syllabus reads like this: 

The
point
of
this
class
is
to
help
you
discover
the
designers
and
artists
who
have
come
before

you
in
order
to
develop
your
design
canon.
Your
final
presentation
can
be
about
a
particular

artist,
designer,
architect,
scientist
that
is
inspirational
to
you
or
about
your
relationship
to

design
history.
You
need
to
produce
both
a
physical
document
of
your
project
and
a

presentation
about
it.
The
physical
document
could
be
a
mind
map,
a
diorama,
an
installation,

etc.




Normally I would be uncomfortable with this utter disregard for guidelines and direction, but to show which designers and artists that influence and inspires me will not be difficult. Besides, I don't even need guidelines. 

I'll make my own rules thank you very much!

Stay tuned... I'll have it posted relatively soon. 

Fall review is coming up. It is occupying most of my thoughts as of late and even though I'm trying very hard not to freak myself out... I know I'm going to. Freak out I mean. I gotta think that freaking out is just a part of my internal checks and balances. I'm pretty sure that if I wasn't freaking out it would mean that something was REALLY wrong. And who KNOWS what would happen then. 

(one shutters at the thought)

I'm anxious to see who all shows up. I know Colin has invited a variety of people. I guess we're supposed to be prepared to talk to people about our work for like an hour or something. Oh, man... I hope they're not mean. And I hope I don't say "like" like, a MILLION times. 

Mackenzie will say "um" because I know he's already concerned himself with trying NOT to. I think that's how those things work. You think to yourself, "don't say_______" and then the next thing that slips out of your betraying mouth is the very thing you didn't want to say. In fact, it's likely to be the last thing you wanted to say. 

I just realized how strange that expression is. I mean, to say that something is "the last thing I wanted to say" is kind of weird, right? Especially when you think that in many instances you might save "the best for last" the way you would want to at the end of a speech or something. No. When someone says "that's the last thing I wanted to say" they mean that they did not want to say it at all. And most likely they are red in the face and wanting to somehow be beamed out of whatever awkward situation they are now in. 

Communication is a tricky thing.