(Source: myladyemily)
Think one person can change the world?
Cass Gilbert, Plan of Allen Memorial Art Museum, 1916.
untitled by cementlilies on Flickr.
Did you know that Oberlin has a letterpress studio? A dozen students have spent the month of January in Mudd library learning everything there is to know about typesetting and printing presses, and now they are completing their final project: a collaborative art and essentials book for a post-apocalyptic world.
Read more about the beginnings of the Letterpress at Oberlin on the blog of Eli Goldberg ‘12.
Photo by Ma’ayan Plaut ‘10.
My Oberlin Winter Term project this year has been learning the basics of using Autodesk Maya. I’m super excited about my project, even though I’ve only had access to a full version of the software for the past week and a half of the month. Today I finished rigging a simple set of models! Originally I built the rabbit in Blender, then I imported it into Maya last week (and made a lot of changes). Considering I had never used Maya or Blender before this month, I’m rather proud of this. Hopefully I’ll finish a short animation sequence with this character before WT ends.
The physics students warned me that if I got too close to the laser, my acorn would disappear! I stayed far away.
“The bust of James Peck Thomas strikes the eye.
He rules the Sculpture Court with a bold stare.
His features shine with confidence, but why?
He knows we envy him his facial hair.
He seems so stoic with that solemn gaze.
He looks like he would never scream or shout.
He must have needed patience all the days
it took for him to grow his mustache out.
Though James himself was never known to sin,
his portrait’s presence borders on injurious.
What hipster would not give his cardigan
for a handle-bar and sideburns that luxurious?
I know I’d pay a million dollars cash
to have such a magnificent mustache.”
Edmonia Lewis’s Bust of James Peck Thomas, a fifteen-minute sonnet by Sarah Riecke (OC ‘13) - student docent at the AMAM, written as part of a gallery exercise for this year’s Practicum in Museum Education.
Image:
Edmonia Lewis ( American, 1844–1907)
Bust of James Peck Thomas, 1874
Marble
R. T. Miller Jr. Fund, AMAM 2002.3
Do you think lasers are cool? (Of course you do.) So do these folks!
Jacob Baron ‘12, Sophia Chen ‘12, and Mike Rowan ‘13 are working in Jason Stalnaker’s lab, and are using lasers to measure the light emissions of different elements.
Photo by Ma’ayan Plaut ‘10.
I visited the From Yarn to Garment winter term class yesterday. They made me a hat out of some scraps. It was so soft! Almost as soft as my tail.
Don’t Worry, Blog Happy: A Compilation of Winter Term Blogs by Obies
Don’t see yourself or your blog? Drop your name and link to your winter term blog in our ask box!
- Carrie Fowler ‘12 is flying standby where ever the wind may take her.
- Raven Davis ‘12 is writing and analyzing Disney films on The World According to Disney.
- Eli Rose ‘12 is writing a eulogy to everything he eats this month on Callow Youth.
- Zoe Beckett ‘15 is swimming and painting.
- Emma Conner ‘13 is designing and knitting a different monster each day.
- Zoe Madonna ‘15 is taking the intro TIMARA class.
- Gee Tatem ‘14 is cooking while distracted.
- Alexis Aime ‘14 is cooking and serving food around her Southern table.
- Amanda Palmer ‘12 is traveling in Finland.
- Flora Samis ‘12 is researching and visiting wool mills for her project, Made in America: From Fiber to Fabric.
- Sarah Feigelson ‘14 is collecting and preparing family recipes.
- Garrett Wallace ‘15 is building and taking photographs with a pinhole camera.
- Emily Asp ‘13 is cooking with family and friends — and now has relocated to Sweden.
ETA 1 - Lexie Sharabianlou ‘13 is traveling in Spain and Portugal.
