Homework: find, identify, and draw five birds. Do one field drawing and one drawing from photo/field guide, for each, in your journal.
Meet in the classroom. We will be drsawing bird skins.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Landscapes for October 30
Journal are due before 5 PM on Tuesday. Midterms are due at the beginning of class.
For your journal entries:
You aere assigned the task of seeking out a local farmer's market a couple weeks ago. Many of you are finding that they are either closed for the season or not open during the week. So here is what you need to consider: when we first started discussing the readings last week, many of you thought the locavore idea had a lot of merit. How practical is it to implement? Is it easy to go to farmer's markets in LBB? All year? What do you eat during the "off-season?" Is it easy to get to farmer's markets by bike? What about the local grocery store? Where do they get their food? Where do tomaotes come from in winter?
If an idea has some impracticalities associated with it, does that lessen its merit? If it still has merit, what can/should be done?
As you can see, there is a lot that you have that you can use as a srpingboard for discussion here, even if you had no luck finding an open market (and I expect to read about you trying)--so discuss in your journals!
For your journal entries:
You aere assigned the task of seeking out a local farmer's market a couple weeks ago. Many of you are finding that they are either closed for the season or not open during the week. So here is what you need to consider: when we first started discussing the readings last week, many of you thought the locavore idea had a lot of merit. How practical is it to implement? Is it easy to go to farmer's markets in LBB? All year? What do you eat during the "off-season?" Is it easy to get to farmer's markets by bike? What about the local grocery store? Where do they get their food? Where do tomaotes come from in winter?
If an idea has some impracticalities associated with it, does that lessen its merit? If it still has merit, what can/should be done?
As you can see, there is a lot that you have that you can use as a srpingboard for discussion here, even if you had no luck finding an open market (and I expect to read about you trying)--so discuss in your journals!
BBB for October 28
Meet in class on Tuesday. We'll go from there to begin our field drawings of birds.
Midterms are due at the beginning of class.
Midterms are due at the beginning of class.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Landscapes for October 23 WEATHER UPDATE
The forecast for tomorrow is breezy and cooler, which would probably make sitting outside discussing the readings and then riding to Market Street uncomfortable. So our plans have changed as follows:
Bring your bikes and park them outside the admin building.
Meet in the classroom for discussion of the three readings (one Kingsolver in packet; one Kingsolver as handout; one Pollan from link in post below). Have your discussion points ready to go. Do a little extra research on the issues of fair trade so that you are familiar with the concept.
Following the discussion, I'd like to get on our bikes and do a tour of everyone's midterm campus sites. Be prepared to tell us why you selected the spot, how it does or does not relate to sense of place, and what you are planning to sketch. We'll ride to each spot on our bikes, and we'll be standing around listening to people talk, so be sure you dress for the weather.
Bring your bikes and park them outside the admin building.
Meet in the classroom for discussion of the three readings (one Kingsolver in packet; one Kingsolver as handout; one Pollan from link in post below). Have your discussion points ready to go. Do a little extra research on the issues of fair trade so that you are familiar with the concept.
Following the discussion, I'd like to get on our bikes and do a tour of everyone's midterm campus sites. Be prepared to tell us why you selected the spot, how it does or does not relate to sense of place, and what you are planning to sketch. We'll ride to each spot on our bikes, and we'll be standing around listening to people talk, so be sure you dress for the weather.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Landscapes: Links and assignments for next week's class
Pollan's article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?scp=2&sq=pollan&st=cse
Community supported agriculture:
http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
Homework: Sometime this week or next, visit a local farmer's market. Record your impressions in your journal (sketches and writing).
If you need a ride to a farmer's market, leave a comment on the blog. If you can offer a ride to a market, check to see if there is a comment from someone who might need a ride.
Prepare to talk about the issues involved with the locavore movement.
Next week we will discuss the readings and then ride to either Market Street or Home Cafe.
First draft of Midterm paper is due at the start of next week's class.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?scp=2&sq=pollan&st=cse
Community supported agriculture:
http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
Homework: Sometime this week or next, visit a local farmer's market. Record your impressions in your journal (sketches and writing).
If you need a ride to a farmer's market, leave a comment on the blog. If you can offer a ride to a market, check to see if there is a comment from someone who might need a ride.
Prepare to talk about the issues involved with the locavore movement.
Next week we will discuss the readings and then ride to either Market Street or Home Cafe.
First draft of Midterm paper is due at the start of next week's class.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Landscapes for October 16
Meet at Tech terrace park 23rd and Flint). We will be car-pooling out to Haute Goat Creamery.
BBB For October 14
Your first botanical is due at the start of class.
Have your midterm botanical sketches ready to put on tracing paper. Have all supporting photos/info you need to start work on it.
Have your midterm botanical sketches ready to put on tracing paper. Have all supporting photos/info you need to start work on it.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Spanish Renaissance
Woohoo! Check it out: Spanish Renaissance
I humbly stand corrected. Now, maybe I should send it to that Architecture prof...
I humbly stand corrected. Now, maybe I should send it to that Architecture prof...
Landscapes for the class date of October 16
I am still working on the locationg for next week. Check back in a day or two to find out where we will meet.
Homework: If you haven't checked out your midterm place and ideas about it with me, do so ASAP. Otherwise, if I have given it the nod, create an annotated outline (show me not only how your paper will flow, indicate the thinking behind each section, as well as any preliminary research you have done.) and either email it to me as an attachment next week, or drop it off at my office. I may have additional suggestions for you after I see it. The finished midterm will be due October 23.
(Hint: Think of the annotated outline as a kind of grant proposal--you are trying to give me enough information to know not only where you are going and why you are going there, but that you have done enough thinking and research to give me confidence that you will get there successfully.)
Finish your box o' trees and do another perspective drawing of your choice.
Read the two essays by Kingsolver. If we do not go to Haute Goat next week, we will discuss the essays and then ride our bikes to Market Street. If we do go to Haute Goat, we will meet at Tech Terrace Park and car pool to the creamery. We will begin discussion of the essays at the conclusion of the tour and finish it the following week.
Homework: If you haven't checked out your midterm place and ideas about it with me, do so ASAP. Otherwise, if I have given it the nod, create an annotated outline (show me not only how your paper will flow, indicate the thinking behind each section, as well as any preliminary research you have done.) and either email it to me as an attachment next week, or drop it off at my office. I may have additional suggestions for you after I see it. The finished midterm will be due October 23.
(Hint: Think of the annotated outline as a kind of grant proposal--you are trying to give me enough information to know not only where you are going and why you are going there, but that you have done enough thinking and research to give me confidence that you will get there successfully.)
Finish your box o' trees and do another perspective drawing of your choice.
Read the two essays by Kingsolver. If we do not go to Haute Goat next week, we will discuss the essays and then ride our bikes to Market Street. If we do go to Haute Goat, we will meet at Tech Terrace Park and car pool to the creamery. We will begin discussion of the essays at the conclusion of the tour and finish it the following week.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Landscapes! for October 9
Meet at English Philosophy courtyard.
Homework: Read Kingsolver in your course packet.
Midterm: Find a garden landscape on campus that you respond to. Find out about it--what is planted there, what it was before, if there are any special considerations (e.g., drainage); think about how it does or does not reflect a "sense of place" and prepare to make an argument for that; tell me something about it that I don't know 9this will be your "thesis statement").
Formulate your thesis, then make an appt with me to discuss it sometime this week.
Homework: Read Kingsolver in your course packet.
Midterm: Find a garden landscape on campus that you respond to. Find out about it--what is planted there, what it was before, if there are any special considerations (e.g., drainage); think about how it does or does not reflect a "sense of place" and prepare to make an argument for that; tell me something about it that I don't know 9this will be your "thesis statement").
Formulate your thesis, then make an appt with me to discuss it sometime this week.
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