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Can we talk about the amazing game that Tech and UGA just played?  I can't believe we won, but I am SO unbelievably happy!  GO JACKETS!  FIGHT, WIN, DRINK, GET NAKED:)

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i hate it when a make a beautifully laid out post, and then when i publish it it does all this crazy text wrapping and line shifting crap... saddness... but oh well, im not taking the time to fix it

ledoux and the oikema

So I get to my preceptorial for architecture history today, thinking its going to be just as boring as every other week.  I was wrong... by far the best preceptorial I've ever been to.  We spent the majority of the class watching an "educational video" on the royal saltworks at arc-et-senans, but at the beginning of class we spent some time talking about neo-classicism and Boullee and Ledoux.  My preceptor was trying to emphasize to us how Boullee and Ledoux created buildings that were not as ornamented on the outside because they wanted to focus on experimenting with geometric form.  Ledoux continues to push this symbolism to a bizarre level in order to express the function of a building in its shape.  Ok, I'll buy that... lets have some examples shall we?

Here we have a design for Newton's Cenotaph by 

Boullee and Ledoux... as you can tell from the drawings, this building's purpose has to do with space, the solar system, constellations, etc.  Ok, this works, I'm feelin' it.

This is a design for the inspector of the Loue River.  Ok, this makes sense as well.  Your

job is to watch the river, why not have the river flow right through the middle of your house? It

seems perfectly acceptable.

Then he shows is this drawing for the Oikema. Ok, so... I'm not really getting how the shape of this building represents its function, oh well.  Oh no... here is the plan view...

So I'm thinking... well I know what I think it looks like... but surely they didn't have penis shaped buildings dedicated to oh I don't know... penis enhancement back then.  Well, no, it is not for penis enhancement.  But apparently the idea was for this to be a communal buildings to lead young lovers into an appropriate sexual life where they could receive a thorough sexual education.  Well, ok then.  My preceptor did have a rather hard time discussing this one though... he took a lot of silent pauses and he couldn't get the word sex out.  But all and all it made for an interesting class.  I guess you had to be there to see how it went down.  But I'm for sure a fan of Ledoux now.  

if you'll put a cigarette in your mouth, you'll put anything in your mouth

Sorry it took so long for the update, I had to get my personal apple genius to teach me how to switch an imovie file to .mov :)

ok, so i got sidetracked

But now I'm back on top of things... I think.  

I'm in history of architecture right now... I just looked up and my preceptor is talking about the syntax and semantics of sentences... what does this have to do with architecture?  No idea, I think he's comparing the elements of architecture to the structure of sentences...

On my way to class I saw that the "protesters" are here.  It's a group of men who come every year and stand at the campanile preaching about our wrong ways.  They carry these ridiculously large signs that say things like "homo sex is sin".  They bring their wives who sit behind them in folding chairs, skin completely covered.  I'm talking they have on pantyhose, long wool skirts, long sleeve shirts, blazers, close toed shoes, and sometimes hats or headscarves.  It's downtown Atlanta, it's friggin hot right now.  Their hair is always long and braided down the back and I haven't seen them speak once in three years.  They also bring some of their children, the ones I saw today were about 8 years old.  Why aren't these kids in school?  Good question.  But anyways they come every year and the tell us homosexuality is wrong, this is their big issue.  They also talk about how we are doomed for hell, masturbating is a sin, they call fraternity brothers whore-mongers, and say that every girl who goes here is a slut asking for diseases and unplanned pregnancies.  Today I heard them say "I'm going to ask you all a question and you can raise your cloven hooves of you have an answer".   All in all the student population looks forward to their appearance on campus every semester, it's quite entertaining, it's  kind of like dinner and a movie, except it's lunch.  I'll post later with pictures and maybe some video.

it's 3:51am & i'm tired

it's still not done yet, but it'll do for now...

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EVERYONE needs to go check out the marta chronicles blog.  It is an absolutely hilarious and completely true portrayal of life in Atlanta.