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mfa

A collection of 93 issues

I think I want to be an architect instead....

I’m taking an urban design class this quarter and I really like it. So much so, that I’m toying with the idea of applying to the UW’s M. Arch. program when I’m done with my MFA. Then I can do things like this. I’m also

Cool music + Filming, Take Two.

, originally uploaded by Daskar. It’s from the opening titles of Inside Man; a really good movie. Denzel Washington is awesome as usual and Jodie Foster was HOT! Muy caliente!! The cinematography was really beautiful, too. There were two different camera languages used, one for the hostage interviews and another

Jocelyn Robert: Experimental Sound and Video

One of the coolest parts about my job is that I sit on a committee to pick visiting artists and designers for our lecture series each semester. I get introduced to talented sound and video artists like Jocelyn Robert. I especially love his Ground Station project: Ground Station produces music

Form.

, originally uploaded by callieo!. This is a photograph taken during 10 weeks of form studies. My object was a bag of white plastic tile spacers. This image was created by taking two of the spacers, melting the ends together, then pulling them apart, creating strings of plastic. I then draped

I want new letters.

The fact that graduate design programs bestow upon their students the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree is antiquated and irrelevant. Instead, the design discipline should have its own standardized classification of academic distinction, as programs at IIT, Cincinnati, and Carnegie Mellon do: a Master's of Design. And

How Steve Jobs got me through grad school.

Will is an engineer. I am a designer. When we first got married, I was a Mac, he was a PC *. My goal was to change that. In February 2004 while I was finalizing grad school applications, he switched, ditching his ugly Dell for a 17″ aluminum PowerBook. He used

Ha.

This is kind of funny. I’ve been anonymously quoted in the online Yale alumni magazine. It was from a comment I posted on Design Observer: One critic suggested it smelled more of fine art than “design as a practical, problem-solving discipline.” It was taken out of context, though. They

Blur.

Cala Lily, originally uploaded by rustman. This is nice, too, but not as an overall aesthetic. Maybe interspersed throughout the film….

Whew!

originally uploaded by callieo!. We did it! Here we are, done. Graduates. MFAs. UW alums. More photos here.

A visual language?

PEKO, originally uploaded by delideladelo. Searching images on Flickr for inspiration for my thesis film…. I like this one, but maybe on a black background instead of white.