Sirada Laomanutsak

California College of the Arts

Friday, January 29, 2010

Naked House

Abstraction is the process of generalization by reducing the information content of the concept or an observable phenomenon, typically in order to retain only information, which is relevant for a particular purpose. For example, abstracting a leather soccer ball to a ball retains only the information on general ball attributes and behavior.


For this project, I want to focus on the abstraction of Naked House. My concept abstraction is about the movement. The reason that I choose the movement concept is because there are five family members of this house; father, mother, 2 kids, and grandmother who live together and often like to rearrange their home. However, they have a low budget to build this house. They need to save money as much as they can.

Processing
1. Researching in the library about the Naked House.
2. Drawing plan and section on vellum paper 18”x 24”. Scale: 1/4 = 1’- 0”


3. Three-concept abstraction drawings on tracing paper. Scale: 1/8 = 1’- 0"




4. One sketch concept models. Scale: 1/4 = 1’- 0”


5.Revising models and drawings.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Digital Publishing

Where do you find the information that you can trust?

Where do you get your local news?

Why do you trust that source?

Is it important to you to know what's going on? Why?

National Library

All the information that I always get and trust the most is the National Library. National Library is the place that sometimes can represent the reputation of the country. Thus, the government always scans and searches the information of the books to make sure that nothing is wrong with its content. Otherwise, if an error or false fact is found in within the information, people will see this source as unreliable. Moreover, I also have specific kinds of books that I trust, Physics textbook. I feel like this source has such strong proves and enough evidences, especially all the experiments for the Physics; all the scientist had argued about those problems long time ago, until now they agree to make the theories and the laws for the Physics. Everything about Physics has the source and the result. For example, if I want to build a building, I must calculate all the laws about the structure of the building that’s the number are exactly right, otherwise the building might fall to the ground. This is the result why I think Physics textbooks can be trusted.


All the information has been undated all the time, it is very important for me to update Physics’ news. I don’t want to be a person who does not know anything about the world. So I try to go to the National Library and read as many books as I can.

Digital Publishing

What do you think achieves clarity of information?

I think I getting used to design by Dreamweaver and I enjoy to create the blog. Instead of setting up an online blog, I learn how to make a website by myself.

Don't understand???


It is my first time to write a blog. I did not know how to set up a blog from internet. After I tries to search from online about the information of the processing how to make a blog. It makes me feel more comfortable.

First Day of Dreamweaver

I learn how to make website by using Dreamweaver. There are several technique that I find out before, but I have never tries. It is very interesting. However, there are several ways to use this program which I have never heard before.