Intervention Monument

Intervention Documentation

Pulgas Water Temple, Woodside, CA

List

Tall, foresty, animals, wildlife, trees, bushes, plants, cyan, granite, columns,  frieze,  reliefs, steps, grass, trimmed, pool, water, pipes, cone, motos, phrases, frogs, croaks, ribbit, bricks, stones, peaceful, road, bicyclists , sky, gravel, paths 

Points

-I choose this monument because I had been there once but I didn't know what it was suppose to be and it wasn't located in the city. 

-It has classic Greek architecture with classic Californian landscaping. Large tall trees, as well as the tall sculptured trees that line the reflecting pool. Some kind of pipe or aquaduc runs seemingly underneath the temple and in line the reflecting pool, but is only visible behind a fence behind the temple. The sides and bottom of the reflecting pool are painted an ungodly cyan color. 

-Located at the back of the property, one needs to walk though the trees on a dirt path to the perfectly manicured lawns. 

-Commemorate the building of the Hutch Hutchy and bringing a stable supply of drinking water the bay. Very accessible within reason. 

-Very relaxing atmosphere. Very quiet, the road is not very busy. The temple kind of freaked me out but I think that's just a personal thing. The center of the temple had a grate in it and I could hear water flowing but I couldn't see it. 

Levine Response Reading

Commemoration requires closing a section of history off as finished, done forever. This cuts the item being commemorated off and leaves it stranded in the past.
Monuments are important thought because we can remember entire concepts/stories by looking at the associated object.
The question is how to create an everlasting monument. So we do not have to continuously re-commemorate important events.
The point of commemoration is to place a physical trigger to that memory, but how to make a monument we do not become numb to after repeated exposure?

SF MOMA Trip

Casey Reas, Process 7, 2010; multimedia

Casey Reas's "Process 7" was very neat to watch. Art that moves and a grows and changes on its own. As I understand it, the artwork is program that is like a formula that allows for it to grow and change within certain parameters. Feels very conceptual. With painting and sculpture you can only look at it for so before you are "done". This artwork can be viewed infinitely, I don't think it ever "loops" it just keeps growing. I didn't know that the word multimedia was in use a gallery setting to describe medium.

What really amused me was the Ed Osborn, Night-Sea Music, 1998. I loved the whimsical wriggling wires and the chiming music. I took it at totally different face value that what Ed Osborn meant it to be. Well, now that I've read what it's about it's very obvious. The short and tragic life of sperm. That's art worthy, maybe for man?

Project 3: Mining New Frontiers

Not Being in Student Body Govt = Real Life Experience

Exploration experience with Student Body Govt and how it effected me in the end. 

Shrimpums Closed System?, Not at All

How my pet Opae' ula react to stimuli outside their "closed ecosystem" as well as a possible display idea for their activities. 

Student Body Govt Run Around

Cause and effect of Student Body elections/ being President, Vice President, etc.

Other concepts related to Student Body Govt