animation meets architecture

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halloween and other storis

yep, october 31st, but still thinking about the professional practice project, ghosts or no ghosts. anyhoo, created a facebookgroup aptly named "on art and architecture", classified it though as student group and then in the subcategory as academic group. invited three people, but did just specify my request for input in one. am kind of learning how to use this group application while i go. the first invitations i sent without request for input and after i sent them i could not really go back, the software did its own thing. read today something in the Georgia Straight about how to start a student news paper. someone at kwantlen is starting one, his budget was 300 000 dollars though. maybe, i am making a mistake here. my budget was 1000 bucks period. i thought of 100 copies of a magazine at a dollar a pop each. ten months and you have 1000 dollars. obviously this is just printing cost, thus writing and typing is pro bono. for the fun of it, for the love of being part of something bigger than yourself. well, good luck. anyways, each volume would have twenty pages, on ten sheets of paper, doublesided. have to learn how to do the doublestitching thingie. vaguely remembered reading the last edition of "emigre", how the founder learned how to stitch the papers together to make a magazine. he did that to get a green card,. something like that. anyways, "emigre" was pretty big.

first day of research

so i went downtown, it was raining and i headed to vcc and then to the architectural institute of british columbia, i went in and asked if they publish a magazine, turns out they do, it is a quarterly publication, the woman @ thereception gave me a copy and two businesscards of the two main editors, one male, one female. The magazine has about 3700 copies printed (each volume) and it has forty pages, which means there are twenty pieces of paper that are printed, doublesided. It is kind of glossy, full of images and exactly the format i detest for this my project.Anyhow, i walk thru the rain to the next stop: "the contemporary artgallery". chat with the receptionist, who is supernice, and head in to scrutinize the exhibition. I must add that i had listened to the lecture by the curator, whose name is beatriz colombia, she teaches at princeton and started this exhibit at "the storefront of art and architecture" in nyc, the exhibit then travelled to montreal and, i guess berlin and amsterdam, and finally to the cag here in vancitay. The lecture i listened to was in ubc robson street, the name of the exhibit is "clip, stamp, fold", it is mainly about little magazines that are about architecture, most of them were published 1n 1960 to 1980, lots of them very rudimentary, produced at people's kitchentables, and they were dealing with a lot of things, not necessarily architecture. they supposedly mimick a movement in the 1920's and 1930' where little magazines were a precursor for changes in the "making" of buildings. anyways, what was fascinating about the magazinecovers is the stab at taking writing about architecture into a different direction, trying to add to the discourse of architecture, trying to bridge the gap between theory and practice. so, maybe my next research should be into film and animationmagazines. because in the end, i want to do research into stategies for publishing a magazine called "on animation and architecture", so i am kind of baffled @ where 2 start, i put down my experience into the journey towards finishing this researchproject into this blog. It is for my "professional practice" class at the emily carr university in vancouver.