Visual Journal

More images from the sketch book. On the left is PK22 by Poul Kjærholm, the chair I've chosen for my paper. On the right is just a generic aluminum tube and wicker chair from the Paustian store we visited.



We had a couple short lectures today. One from a current third year in the Architecture department.

What you hear you forget.
What you see you remember.
What you draw you understand.

Sketching is 70% looking/thinking and 30% drawing.

She had some great insight into the practice of sketching and showed some really nice examples of previous students' work. We'll be starting a traveling journal when we head out Thursday for our Scandinavia trip.

Then Erik Skoven gave us a short talk on Denmark, Sweden, and Finland and gave us information on our trip, which last from this Thursday to next Friday. Finland takes the Euro, but Sweden uses Swedish Kronor, so I'll have to take some out while I'm there. I'm thinking when I head home in August, I'm going to be carrying at least 4 different types of currencies. It'll be nice having my $1 bills back, though. It throws me off being able to carry $20 while only having 5 coins in my pocket (Their 20 DKK coin is worth about $4 US).

Since I'm on Tour A, I'll be visiting Western Denmark first. After two nights, we'll take a ferry to Sweden and travel through Sweden to Stockholm. Two nights in Stockholm, and then an overnight ferry to Helsinki for two more nights. Then another overnight ferry back to Stockholm and then blazing another trail through Sweden before we get back to Copenhagen.

I haven't decided yet if I want to take my laptop with me. It would be nice to be able to update everyone on my journey as it's happening and upload pictures everyday, but we'll be staying in hostels, which may or may not have lockers for our things. They say they've had little experience with things going missing, but I don't know. Maybe I'll buy a combo lock and bring it along. If you have an opinion on the matter, let me know. I'm seeing both sides. Perhaps I'll take that week to send out a bunch of postcards.

I'm just glad that they'll be providing us with two meals a day--I've been getting quite tired of sandwiches. Although today I switched it up a bit and had sliced cucumber on pita bread. Not bad.