Hmmm...about halfway through the semester already...someone had counted down already to around 60 or so days...I'd rather not think about it. Graduation information came inthe mail today-face reality. I am thinking of taking a month off after graduation (June) to go home, soak up some TEXAS and... View full entry

So I took the milk jug out from the mold after a short delay...it kinda looks "frakenstein-ish" besides that, nothing much studio as usual. Except that I tried to fly down the stairs at the Field Museum and am now on crutches, with a fancy medical boot an brace. Too cool for school...-pamela View full entry

So, alot has happened in the last couple od days-since my comparison of my studio to mucking horse stalls... I'm posting some picturesof: -my really ugly looking mold from my sculpture class...I made a casting of a milk gallon jug, and some glass insulators from telephone poles... -some studio... View full entry

Thesis project seems to be similar to cleaning a wet soggy horse barn in Texas. It smells like crap but I do it because I love it...I can only make this comparison becuase I am from Texas and we have 3 horses and it is a swamp there alot of the time. And shoveling horse poop in the rain is... View full entry

So I finally got my site plan finished and AUTOCAD'd, construction can now commence on my "urban chapel" Tomorrow we have progress pin-up. Hopefully it will actually happen, sometimes students and professors at SAIC tend to get very offtrack and we can spiral into "wanderingness". Hopefully I will... View full entry

So, I accepted the Co-op position at the Field Museum in the Exhibits department, not directly Interior architecture but in a round about way it works for me. Plus they'll teach me Vectorworks... So, I want to say thanks for the suggestions for getting the site plans for my thesis projects. I... View full entry

So, we've been at our thesis projects for several weeks now, and still no floorplans. I am going to be taking over the Nick's Fishmarket site in Bank One Plaza in downtown Chicago for my Urban Chapel. But how to go about getting a floorplan of the space? It seems no one wants to return calls or... View full entry

It's almost over... So, it is my final semester in the Bachelor of Interior Architecture here at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). A little about me: I transfered from The University of Houston and the Interior Design Program 3 years ago, and now I am here at an art school getting... View full entry