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January 17, 2006
awesome day!
i had an awesome day today. firstly, my class didn't start until noon, heheh, which meant i got to stay in bed till ten. lazy sleepyhead, i know. i met up with joe at romolo train station and we walked over to the off-campus place where the first lecture was taking place.
the lecture was by marina abramovich, and she really had me captivated throughout her talk. she is just so fascinating, speaking about performance art, the time-based performance, about the charismatic meta-physical space that the performance artist creates around themselves during a performance or installation, and all the theories about present, past and future times. totally inspiring.
then, joe and i somehow separated ourselves from the rest of the group while getting back to school, and when we were at porta genova waiting for our bus, i spotted the usual vegetable-and-fruit truck and spotted the weirdest cauliflowers ever. or at least i thought they were cauliflowers. i guess they are a broccoli-cauliflower hybrid.
anyway, they looked cool, and really beautiful in a nature-made-fractal-art way so i bought one, and a kilo of clementines. i still need to figure out how to cook the alien vegetable but we ate the clementines during the afternoon class; i've made it a mission to keep myself and my classmates healthy, eating nutritious food, during this year. :)
the afternoon class was conducted by massimo banzi. physical interaction design and the craft of interactive prototyping. omg, this guy is amazing! this is one guy who completely understands what i want to do and achieve in this MA course.
my entire class was also really excited and we just crowded around massimo after the lecture, asking questions and i showed him some of my work on my iPod. everyone was on a high. even some other guy from the other MA course, something like architecture or other, wants to transfer to our class. yeah, interaction design rocks!!! :)
oh, and both lectures today were done in english instead of italian.
when i got home, eva was in bed, sick. so i made her a cup of tea. she doesn't want to eat anything and i hope she'll eat something soon, otherwise she won't get better. :(
talked to gerard on skype for a while. i miss him. skype was acting up so i couldn't hear him no matter how many times we restarted. so in the end, i talked, and he typed, hahah. weird interaction. i'd ask him something and on my screen, the pen icon would appear to show that he's replying to my question.
anyway, that was the story of my day :)
p.s. the delightful mr k seems to be going a little crazy at home without me. see photos below...
Posted by Yasmina at January 17, 2006 10:51 PM
Comments
That's one cool looking... life form!! Glad things are going well in school. :)
Hmm... funny photos! I like the big chin and hair one, made me laugh!
Posted by: kathya at January 18, 2006 12:10 AM
wow, that vegetable thing looks cool. it's like an avant-garde edible sculpture. how big are they exactly?
anyways, those photos of robert made me LoL this morning. the first four could be pictures of characters in Shrek. i hope he likes Shrek...
Posted by: thalia at January 18, 2006 05:14 AM
yasmina! your classmates are very fortunate to have you in their class. what is clementine? and what a peculiar veggie that is. please tell me once you've found out. how long are u gonna be apart from your hubby? that's aweful! but i see that he has become more creative, hasn't he? hihihi..
Posted by: novs at January 18, 2006 06:15 PM
LOL! Kasian si Robert kesepian ga ada yg digodain =P Kelasnya asik banget siy Yas kedengerannya. Wahh.. gue ketinggalan cerita hari pertama elo sekolah lagi... mo baca2 dulu aaahh..
Posted by: susje at January 19, 2006 10:51 PM
huee lol
Posted by: kangmasanom at January 20, 2006 04:22 PM
huee lol
Posted by: kangmasanom at January 20, 2006 04:22 PM
