Dissertation tutorial

Had a tutorial with Patrick today about my dissertation then a class with jamie, which turned out to be really good, learnt a lot today used some adverts from magazines to help produce a design that linked in with the advert. was a very good lecture and very inspirational.

Kew gardens

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Went to Kew Gardens yesterday to see the Nights of Glass exhibition by Chihuly, it was OK, some of the glass features were really good but other than that theirs nothing much to brag about but im glad i've seen it. £7 to get in tho (not worth that much) although it turned out to be a mission to get their, as their were no trains running between earls court and richmond. later took a trip into soho and had a few drinks. got a bit tipsy and felt a bit worse for wear this morning.
Image No1 was oen of the main pieces, it was meant to be the sun, the raeson for this was the fact that it was in the tropical house and it was all associated with that sort of tropical climate, it weighs a total of 4,600 pounds and is made up of over 1000 pieces of hand blown glass. My oppinion on it is that it looked like a mass ball of snakes slithering around.
Image No2 is looking on to the area called the 'Reeds' this was all done with blow piping and some machinery, was really interesting to look at, especially the way the purple and red pieces reflected the light, almost making them illuminous.
Image No3 Called the 'Green Grass' this part was my favourite, for several reasons not only did the pieces look really funky but the spikes really blended in well with the plant structure around them, these pieces were beneath a big leaved tropical plant(no idea of its name)but the spikes looked really impressive agains these plants. creates a really bold structure

This is one of the installations the Saatchi gallery in London, i went to the gallery in my first year and saw this, and thought it was the most pointless thing i had ever seen, it simply was a bed with a load of rubbish alcohol and fag butts all over the place, reminds me a bit of my bedroom other than the fag butts. the reason why im writing about it here is because of how pointless it is. never the less it's still stick's in my mind and i suppose it gave me some sort of reaction.

Welsh flag

Ok just experimenting with a some images starting with one of the best.

Key words

Today we had a tutorial with Andrew, was quite interesting although it got a bit daunting towards the end. oops. main thing i picked up from the lecture was to make sure i list the key words of a site, this helps to develope your work and keep on track and in line with the project.

Key Words for Hastings : Tourism
Area's of deprivation
Geographically interesting (e.g. curves, valley, layers

oo and i just discovered how to put photo's onto my blog thing.

Gareth

Been working today behind the bar, it was dead but did some dissertation work, flicked through some books on swansea and it's history, plus the rebirth of the city after the fall of the industrial revolution.