Performing Arts - Newbie

I think I had stage fright for most of my life, but out of blue it just disappeared. 

Even quite the opposite - I felt sudden urge to do performing arts: music, dance, theatre (maybe even minoring in it).

The funniest part of filming this monologue was Fady being my acting coach and teaching me this 'bitch please' attitude while I could not stop laughing. He made me say 'you know nothing' for like a thousand times, until I could finally be serious and truly believe that You, Bitch, know nothing!!

Many many thanks to Ben, Radhika, and Fady.

P.S. Screenshots from previous Ben's work where I swam in a fountain while by-passers just starred at me in surprise while hurrying to 8 am classes.

USC SOA: Architorture

It has been two weeks into the semester, and we already see our peers dropping out, scared by what some people call archiTORTURE. Sleepless nights, lack of social life, endless studio hours are awaiting for us, and I can not help but wonder if it will actually be that bad. I heard stories of B.Arch students bringing their sleeping bags into the studio for finals, not showering for three days in a row, working insanely hard. Whenever I told people my major was architecture, they just wished me luck and gave this sympathetic look.

This paragraph above was a draft in the very beginning of the semester. A lot has changed. My whole perception of what this work is like was altered once I went through my first sleepless week experience. Exhausted, at some point I was feeling like zombie listening to my playlist for the hundredth time and cutting museum board into rectangles to build my model. It is really rewarding though. I never imagined that there can be so much work and I never imagined this amount of work can be actually manageable. I mean, come on - it only took on average fifteen hours per day in studio to prepare this midterm project.

The task was to use our analysis of Schindler-Chace house on the Kings road to create our own spatial building and site. Spatial meaning you do not have to consider real world's necessities and restrictions. Having this in mind, I used hedges as columns for my multi-level park - complete fantasy.
The deliverables were eleven drawings and two models. Models, by the way, take forever. Take the approximated time for your work and multiply it by 3 to make it realistic. 

So here is what we got:

                                       

                                         

P.S. Some of us actually finish work in time and do not procrastinate... Big shout out to Fady :)