ISU Oscars

Last night all of us students presented our neighborhood films for our film class (10 films in total) --- my group's film was over Corviale -- which I posted some time ago. After these were all presented a juror of professors and students nominated and awarded teams with ISU Oscars. Corviale took home TWO! One for Best Directing, and another for Best Representation. We also received Honorable Mention for Best Soundtrack. Go us.

for more info on this, check out the program website! ---  http://web.me.com/polytekton/rome2011/News/Entries/2011/4/19_Finalists_for_ISU_Oscars_Announced.html



for a refresher on our video, it is below ---

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Italian Dinner

More photos from our dinner with our Italian friends from Roma 3 at our apartment

"Ciao," ...."Buonasera"

The boys lovin it

Sneakin in photos

Doing a bit of performing....of course

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Nice Sunday

We had a nice long 4 day weekend and I chose to do my better part of it taking a chance to relax. It was fantastic -- only downside of it was the construction that is going on right outside our building on our balconies -- suuuper noisy at 8am! ----Photos courtesy of David Brockshus----

Me and mike hanging out on our balcony having ourselves a good read!

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Also, on this glorious weekend we had some of our Italian friends over from Roma 3 and they cooked us some amazing Spaghetti Carbonara! #greattimes

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Drawing Project Final

Last week we had our review for our final drawing project. For mine, I made an accordion book of a bunch of sketches ive done in the past weeks and put them on the front and back of each 'page.' You can view my project intimately as a book, but it can also be folded out as somewhat of an exhibition piece, making the viewer casually walk around the book to see each piece.

 I focused on public spaces, like piazzas, because they are so frequent here, as well as successfully designed 'human' spaces where people can gather and socialize. I thought, with the continued use of computers that we as Americans are socializing physically less and it is becoming a more of an indirect socializing culture as time goes on. So I made it a point to focus and try to learn from these spaces to better understand what it takes for a public space to be successful, and how to design to bring people together in public areas to socialize.

my book!

In review...She's saying "Cory, the drawings are nice, but try to work more on the difference, understanding, and representation of depth..." #somethingineedtoworkon

Other projects from the students in my class

David Brockshus

Sam Mulholland -- faces with big noses

Paul Gehrke -- Shading with spent cigarettes

Mitch -- watercolor

Andrew Holcombe -- Cobblestone investigation

R.J. 

As you can see, the review was a big success!

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Beach Day

This post is about two weeks overdue, my apologies -=- too all my readers out there I just wanted to make you jealous by showing you some pictures of a day me and my arch friends spent on a gorgeous Italian beach in Sperlonga. Loved this day --

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Roma 3/ISU design charrette

Just some images from the design charrette ISU had with a local architecture school here in Rome called 'Roma 3' -- Unfortunately during this charrette I was not in attendance because of my travels to Berlin


for more information on the projects that were made visit this website:
http://web.me.com/polytekton/rome2011/News/Entries/2011/4/12_Roma_3_Workshop_Finalists.html

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More from Berlin

Some more photos from our trip to Berlin!

Afternoon drinks 

Large German Church

Night clubbin!

Inside our hostel room 

The crew

Some strange festival for no reason on a nice Sunday afternoon

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