MDP's Annual Dialectical Bus Tour 2008

Every fall everyone from the MDP including all the new students go on the

"Annual Dialectical Bus Tour"

This years hosts were:

Norman Klein, cultural historian, author

Tim Durfee, architect and exhibition designer

Peter Lunenfeld, media theorist

PROGRAM

Friday, September 5

1:15 pm Warner Brothers studio tour

4:30 pm Americana at Brand, Glendale Ended with a charette assignment (create a media city) and individual group dinners
Saturday, September 6
10:00 am Short charette meeting in MDP studio 6:00 pm First charette critique in MDP studio and alcove

Sunday, September 7 (chartered bus)

9:15 pm Bus departs on tour to: Chinatown, Downtown, Silverlake, Los Feliz

2:00 pm Bus returns to parking lot of Hillside campus

2:00-6:00 Charette, part two in MDP studio and alcove

6:00 Pizza + charette final critique

at the Warner Brother studio


in the studio - one no American


during the bus tour in down town LA



down town LA





raw media city


projected images on media city



final critique Sunday night

I had a lot of fun and even found out that the Michael Jackson video "Thriller" was filmed really close to my house. Check out the rest of the images at my flickr

It has been a while

I just realized that it has been forever that I blogged something "new". Well it doesn't necessarily mean that my life has been boring and nothing exciting has happened since my last entree, but I guess nothing too spectacular for you to read about. I have successfully completed my third term of grad school and two weeks ago started my fourth. Half of my mates are doing internships right now and will start their fourth term in the spring when I might do my internship. My goal this term is to figure out all kinds of things, my thesis, my deepest interests, knit everything I have learned from the past year together - try to make sense, and hopefully get a change and look at things that are currently hot and happening. I am also starting a thesis workshop blog.
Last weekend I was in San Francisco, which was a very inspiring and extremely pleasant due to all my amazing people up there, being reunited with family, the playfulness of the city, and the wind blowing in my face.
-My first time ever on Alcatraz - I liked the audio tour - got me thinking of what else could you do with this island
- Virgin America is a totally new flying experience - allowing you to chat with any passenger on the plane via a little screen in front of you. I didn't do it, but could this be the new cloud no. 9 dating experience... funny.
I am really into IKEA cake right now - the flourless kind - don't buy it, it is devilish!