Our Final Review will be held at CCA on December 10, 2006 from 1:30pm-4:30pm in the Bruce Galleries (across from the Boardroom). Food and drink will be provided and please invite people to the review!
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Exhibition Space
Each Team will have wall space of approximately 9′ high by 12′ wide including approximate 3′ in front of the wall for models and other projections from the wall. The Thoreau Center has only a few pedestals for exhibition, so you may need to inquire at CCA about using additional pedestals if they are needed. The exhibition wall is constructed of gyp.bd over wd. studs. We intend to locate the studs with a stud finder to assist any of you who may want to add a shelf or other heavier presentation. I encourage each team to visit the Thoreau Center before the end of the semester and in sufficient time to help plan for your final presentation on December 10th/13th.
Any specific questions regarding the space can be directed to Bruce DeMartini at Email: bruce@thoreau.org and Web:www.thoreau.org.
The address of the Thoreau Center is:
Thoreau Center for Sustainability
1016 Lincoln Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94129
As you all know by now, attendance for the class is important and required. If you need to miss a class for any reason, please contact me at klambert@cca.edu or at 415-336-9054. You are allowed one excused and one unexcused absence before your grade starts to fall because of missing class. When you e-mail me the day of class to let me know that you won’t be there, it is an unexcused absence. Having me approve an absence several days, if not weeks in advance, is an excused absence. If you are ill and you have a doctors note, it will count as an excused absence. I hope this helps for those of you who need my contact information.
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Here is our home movie from the dump.
It is steaming video so give it a sec. to load.
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The Interactive Institute designs projects around energy consumption for example: Energy Curtain is a window shade that collects sunlight during the day to power a glowing pattern on the inside of the shade during the night. Appearing Wallpaper is a wallpaper that changes its pattern over time as sunlight exposes textures printed with UV-sensitive ink. Disappearing-Pattern Tiles are bathroom tiles decorated with patterns in a thermochromic ink that reacts to heat, fading away to reflect splashes & intensities of hot-water use. Erratic Appliances is a radio that “untunes” when many objects in the room are consuming energy, visualizing the consumption by its unexpected response.
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Hi class. I’m writing on the eve of Yom Kippur, the start of the Jewish New Year. During this time of year, we are asked not to eat or drink, not to wear the skins of animals, and not to operate any mechanical and electrical devices, including turning off and on lights, watching television, or driving a motor vehicle. It is the time of the year that we put the conviences of the modern world aside, in an effort to not make any negative impact on the world for a period of twenty four hours. Additionally, we do not spend money, engage in business, we’re even asked not to strike a match or tear paper. It is as if our presence on Earth had no toll on the environment in any way, with the exception of the amount of focus we put into our souls, and asking that we be “inscribed in the book of life” for another year.
And it is tradition, in any church, mosque, or synogauge, to ask for some sort of contribution from its congregation. It is also tradition, in all of the religious sermons I’ve attended, to take the topic of the current political situation and link it to matters of the soul. I’ve noticed this year, that the focus of our current situation is on the enviroment as well as on war. In addition to asking for financial support, the community organized several constructive measures of collecting food and organizing groups in the interest of educating people on the environment and working towards peace. An interfaith group was organized to view a screening of Al Gore’s “An Inconvient Truth.” In this context, people are driven to give and to be conscious. Filled with the spirit of the season and inspired and educated by community, the people who enter the doors of the synogauge leave with a focus to improve things in the world, and will hopefully return to take part in these groups.
I wonder, is there some way to create a global community? One where we can educate and inspire? Take time to think of our actions impact on the environment we all share, our responsibilities to it and beyond that, our inter-connectedness? Maybe embrace a new year and a new start?
I invite you all to think of this, and wish you all may be inscribed in the book of life for another year.
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Hi,
Here is a fun project I’m doing for GD4 that has to do with trash.
Well it uses trash to help in the search for Maxwell’s Demon. If you don’t know what that is check out the site.
It still needs a little work on the games code, but it is working and kind of cool.
Sometimes the drafts are cooler then the final project.
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