Marina 33

We talked a lot about a various of different things this week that I could easily talk about in this blog. But instead I wan to take a minute and talk about something that I just read 5 minutes ago. 

As I was scrolling through facebook, like do on an hourly bases, something caught my attention. It was a status by this girl, whom I havent seen since highschool, and it said RIP Marina and then had a link below. I clicked on the link and started reading this tribute to this girl who recently died in a car crash. 

I have lost five friends over the years, and whenever I see a status that says RIP in it, my heart stops. Its one of the worst feelings to loss someone close to you and not understand why. Why did this have to happen to such a great person and why so young?

As I was reading this beautiful tribute, to someone whom I have never meet, I got chills. The tribute goes on to explain how great a person this girl was:  "we were honestly blessed to have had her voice."

but what caught my attention and the reason for why I am blogging about this is when she wrote:

  "I hate the Internet when it comes to death. It’s so easy to grow morbidly obsessed, to fall down the rabbit hole of Facebook posts and hateful comments and crash reports. But I love how the body of fantastic work that Marina produced in twenty-two years is accessible through a simple Google search."

I have read this line over and over again in my head and shes right. Technology is a fantastic thing when it comes to allowing someone to continue to live through the work they have produced on the internet. Friends facebook pages still live on, even if they dont. I have friends who I continue to write to through facebook. Idk why, maybe I think they can hear me. Its like visiting a grave, stopping by just to say hello, letting them know that we have not forgotten them. It so easy to get caught up in the internet and everything that is flying around out there, but every now and then I stop and think how wonderful it really is. I am allowed to look back and see my friends, however its just pictures and videos, but I get to remember. I miss my friends dearly but getting to visit them through the internet is nice sometimes, just to say hello or how much i miss them, or maybe share a story. 

For Marina, her friends can still look at her facebook page and read the beautiful stories she wrote and it is all possible because of the internet. 

I posted the link below because i thought it was beautiful written and wanted to share this girls stoy with someone else. 

http://alannabean.tumblr.com/post/23957934265/marina

Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston MA

I have been at Wentworth for 4 years now and I grew up in Massachusetts and have been to the MFA more times in my life then I can remember. I took field trips then when I was in Middle and High school. I was younger then and didn't have as much appreciation for it as I do now, but every time I go there I learn something new, something different. Today we walked through and talked about, Egypt, Greece, and the renaissance. We looked at painting, sculptures, carvings, pottery etc. I sat there and listened and learned about all these different things. And as I listen I just kept thinking, wow how many times have I been here and walked past all this art not even knowing what I was looking at. 
Art has always fascinated me and I loved learning about and as I look back on my life I wish I took more time or more classes to learn about it, understand the meaning and why this is that way it is and how it has influenced our lives today. With out art we wouldn't even know a lot about history and they way people lived back then, we wouldn't know what they looked liked, and how they perceived the world. 


I see the MFA to ways, one way is through the eyes of a Designer and the other is through the eyes of an artist. I have been to the MFA to learn about the art pieces, to draw the art sculptures, to look at the lighting, to look at textiles, to look at interior details, to look at the design. It has been great living so close to the MFA because I get to learn about not only the art that is being displayed but everything else that was put into the making of such a great museum. Now everytime I go there I appreciate the space, I observe different aspects of the spaces that I enter. While yes the art is the main reason people go to a museum but the museum is so much more then that. It about the details that go into to making it, the sequence of spaces and how a person moves from one room the the next, and the lighting both natural and artificial and how that impacts the space and the art.
Below are some sketches that I have drawn over the years while visiting the MFA.

Are we getting stronger or weaker?

With all the things that humans have now, compared to what we had 1000 years ago, are we becomming weaker?
Survival of the fittest doesnt seem to apply anymore, because people who are weak/stupid still recieve healthcare and continue to live instead of dieing off. So as a result do you think that humans continue to get weaker and weaker because of the mer fact that the weak are reproducing?
I think we are weaker and stronger
In terms of physique, I think that we are getting weaker or I would say lazier. If you look at our ancestors, they had to hunt to survive by killing animals much larger then themselves. Today, however, we no longer have anything to strive for we are not fighting to survive and feed ourselves. But there are two sides to every coin. Though we grow weaker in terms of strength and speed, we grow stronger in our intelligence. As we evolve we are growing smarter and wiser, learning from our mistakes. We continue to learn how the human body works and the more we learn the stronger we can all become. We learn what is good for us and what is bad and if your care about your body and health then you can become a very strong person both physically and intellectually. 


So in ways we are weaker but we have also never been stronger. 

"There seems to be a kind of order in the universe... in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own."



I'm not perfect.
I never thought I was, and I'm never going to think that.
Because no one's perfect.


The universe has order and we have chaos.
Nothing is flat, except a pool of water. 
Perfection to for me relates to happiness.
Happiness is not a destination,
It is a mood, it is not permanent.
It comes and goes.
Perfection is not something you can see
Perfection is different for every person.

Loft Design

Open floor plan, unique furniture, fun colors, funky beds, interesting stairs, loft apartments are always fun to design. Its modern, simple and creative. For school I got to design a loft apartment and it was one of my favorite projects. It was the little things that really made the design, and the spatial relationships that were created. One aspect that I love and always find interesting about loft apartments is the stair design. The stair case can have a huge impact on a space and can be designed in so many different ways. 

Fat Cow Restaurant By Brewin Concepts

A sprawling Grid of timber cubes covers the ceiling of a restaurant.

There are a few things that I admire about this restaurant design. The first is obvisouly the design sculpture on ceiling. To me the ceiling is a clear canvas, an oppurtunity to be ceative. When you first walk into to a space the ceiling can easly draw your attention. So put as much attention and design into the ceiing as you would the rest of the space.

Second the use of such a simple material, taking the materials of our day (like timber) and converting them so that they become symbolic. 

Simple materials used in interested ways.

Koza Holding Headquarter by craft 312 studio

I am a huge fan of using light as a primary material when designing a space. 

“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” - Le Corbusier 

They use light here as an additional material to an already elegant palette. Light is used to define edges of materials and enhance linear elements.