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W – Week 7 Log

February 17th (Santa Barbara)

2 hours: reading

1 hour: homework/writing

2 hours: walking on the beach

1 hour: playing music

February 18th (Santa Brabara to Santa Cruz, CA)

5 hours: driving back to Santa Cruz

1 hour: reading

.5 hours: writing

February 19th (Santa Cruz, CA)

2 hours: reading

2 hours: writing/homework

2 hours: exploring Santa Cruz on foot, walking on the beach

February 20th (Santa Cruz to Davis, CA)

1 hour: bus to San Jose

3 hours: train to Davis

2 hours: reading

1 hour: writing

February 21st (Davis, CA)

2 hours: reading

2 hours: hiking at Putah Creek with my dog

2 hours: writing/homework

1 hour: family dinner

February 22nd (Davis, CA)

3 hours: hiking at lake berryessa with two of my friends and my dog

1 hour: reading

February 23rd (Davis, CA)

2 hours: reading
4 hours: sister’s birthday party
1 hour: family lunch
.5 hours: writing/homework

 

Totals

This week: 42 hours

Cumulative total: 146 hours

Reading List:

the little prince, on the road, the i ching, the poetics of reverie, the hobbit

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W – Week 8 Log

February 24th (Davis to The Big Sur, CA)

4 hours: driving

3 hours: hiking 6 miles

1 hour: reading

1 hour: journaling/homework

February 25th (The Big Sur, CA)

3 hours: hiking 5 miles

2 hours: reading

.5 hours: writing

February 26th (The Big Sur, CA)

4 hours: hiking 7 miles

3 hours: reading

.5 hours: writing

February 27th (The Big Sur to Davis, CA)

2 hours: hiking three miles

4 hours: driving

1 hour: train

February 28th (Davis to Olympia, WA)

18 hours: train

2 hours: reading

2 hours: composing multimedia

2 hours: homework

March 1st (Evergreen)

1 hour: reading

1 hour: homework

March 2nd (Evergreen)

1 hour: reading
2 hours: homework

 

Totals

This week: 58 hours

Cumulative total: 204 hours

Reading List:

On the Road, the little prince, the poetics of Reverie, the i ching

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M – Week 7 Log

February 18th

1 hour – morning yoga

3 hours – reading

1 hour – preforming exercises in two books

4 hours – entangled movement with another

February 19th

1 hour – morning yoga

4 hours – reading

30 minutes – preforming exercises in two books

2.5 hours – organizing term paper – writing

February 20th

30 minutes – morning yoga

1.5 house – modern dance – stretching

1.5 hours – acro- yoga

2 hours – organizing term paper – writing

February 21st

30 minutes – morning yoga

1.5 hours – acro-yoga

1 hour – reading

2 hours- writing – organization

February 22nd

1 hour – morning yoga

2 hours – reading

2 hours – forest walk – preforming exercises in two books

2 hours – running – rock climbing – stretching

1 hour – organizing term paper

February 23rd

30 minutes – morning yoga

4 hours – reading – organizing paper – note taking

February 24th

1 hour – morning yoga

2 hours – reading

1 hour – preforming exercises in two books

2 hours – writing – poetry

1 hour – organizing term paper

 

Totals

This week: 48 hours

Cumulative total: 168 hours

Reading List:

  • Body and Earth
  • Your Sacred Anatomy
  • Body Stories
  • Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones & More!
  • Poetics of Reverie

 

 

 

 

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Wo week 7

February 17th – February 23rd

10 hours – in shop

8 hours – in class

6 hours – reading the Dhammapada, In Praise of Shadows, What Is Japanese Architecture?, Tea in Japan, Reading in the Brain, Japan: Culture of Wood

3 hours – hot yoga

This week found a busy assortment of assignments for the Chanoyu program.  A mid-quarter response paper to the book In Praise of Shadows by Jun-ichiro Tanizaki was due on Wednesday with a whole class seminar on the text.  Discussions centered around what purpose the use of shadows in traditional Japanese dwellings served, and tied in with our discussions on Ma.  In Buddhism, the idea of emptiness encircles one of the founding principles guiding Buddhist meditation.  Though this idea is not elaborated upon in the Dhammapada, it can be found in the Heart Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism, and is integral to many of the thought experiments within the Dhammapada.  In Praise of Shadows  highlights (no irony intended) the role and development involving the use of low lighting, subtle shading, and deep shadows up until the introduction of electrical lighting systems at the turn of the 20th century in Japan.  The essoteric effect created by shadows invites mystery and creation of interpretation by the viewer through the imagination.  That is to say, shadows allow someone to draw their own lines around boundaries as well as dissolve them, allowing creation through imagination of what actually exists around them.  Lights and objects serve to highlight the shadows, and the shadows in turn serve to highlight the objects.  This, in some ways, is the essence of Ma.  Ma is essentially what the Buddhists would call Dhamma.  So the use of shadows can be said to induce an awareness of Dhamma.

“Perceive the world as a bubble.  Perceive the world as a mirage.” Dhammapada, 47

This week began my sessions of Hot Yoga at the Hog Yoga studio on 4th Ave, Eastside.  It consists of an hour and a half workout containing various yoga poses of the Bikram persuasion in a room heated to about 110 degrees Fahrenheit.  Parallels between woodworking became apparent immediately.  Upon entering, the students are briefed on the foundations of proper practice.  Anitol (the owner and instructor) professed to us earnestly that “it is about the practice, not the product.”  Daryl Morgan (the woodshop teacher) expressed the same sentiment in his introduction to traditional Japanese hand working techniques.  In each, you spend time honing the technique to the best of your ability, striving to do better than you did the day before.  One difference I could infer is that with woodworking, the product often supports their economic livelihood, and so relies on the quality of the product much more.  But the sentiment remains that one can never fully master the techniques because you can always do better than you did before and therein lies the joy of practicing.  In my first yoga sessions, I was unbalanced and fatigued.  It reminded me of first using a Japanese saw as it wobbled and shook as i tried to saw a straight line.  My arms also became tired after hammering and sawing for a time.  I anticipate reaching comfort within the yoga sessions as my technique and confidence with the Japanese tools improved.  Even by my second yoga session, I had more comfort with the routine.  As I became more confident with Japanese tools, my mind became less focused on immediately what was in front of me.  It became intuitive and my mind would wonder to other thoughts or feelings almost unconsciously as I still engaged the woodwork.  Anitol preaches this as one of the values of yogic meditation; that your mind will clear and unconscious awareness pervades you.  Thoughts streams carry themselves to completion without any effort on your part.  It’s a very therapeutic process.

This week we also finished the shoji screen my group had been working on and it is now ready for use in our mock tea house that we set up in the Sem buildings.  In class we continued to practice napkin folding and tea preparation.  These somatic exercises also remind me of yoga.  There is a very particular and precise way of moving, and it is through concentrating hard on carrying out these movements that the moment of meditation comes.  In Bhuddism, it is not somatic but internal, yet still with an emphasis on focus.  It is through the focus that calmness and clarity comes.  The emotional and spiritual effect of the tea meditation, yoga, or tea ceremony come through.

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co- week 7 log

February 17th

4 hours – reading (Hebdige)

4 hours – listening to music

February 18th

4 hours – reading (Debord)
2 hours – taking notes (Debord)

February 19th

4 hours – writing poetry

February 20th

2 hours – looking for shows

2 hours – listening to music

3 hours – creating artwork based off of punk music

4 hours- reading (Biel)

 February 21st

2 hours- reading (Debord)

3 hours – reading (Hebdige)

1 hours – notes (Debord)

5 hours- downloading video editing programs needed for interview editing

February 22nd

3 hours –  shopping for final art piece canvas

3 hours – reading (Hebdige)

2 hours – notes (hebdige)

February 23rd

3 hours – writing and reciting lyrics

2 hours – revising poetry

Totals

This week:53

Cumulative total: 151 hours

Reading List:

  • Beyond the Music: How punks are saving the world with DIY Ethics, Skills & Values by Joe Biel
  • Subculture the meaning of style by Dick Hebdige
  • Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

P(r) – Week 7 Log

Sunday 2-17-13:  2 hr Vagina Monologues, 2 hr reading Bachelard, Affect Theory Reader, 2 hr writing.  Total:  6 hours

Monday 2-18-13:  2 hr writing, 1/4 hr e-cises, 1/2 hr belly dance, 1 hr fighting with WordPress, 3 hr reading Dehaene & Perloff, 1/2 hr meditation, 1/4 hr vocal exercises, 1 hr Spring ILC, 1/2 hr typing notes for Holdrege paper.  Total:  9 hours

Tuesday 2-19-13:  1/2 hr meeting with Sarah, 2 1/2 hr walking meditation/reverie/note taking, 1 hour belly dance.  Total:  4 hours

Wednesday 2-20-13:  1/4 hr e-cises, 1/2 belly dance, 1/2 hr Vixia proficiency with Media Loan, 1/2 hr meditation, 2 hr reading Weight/Varieties of Presence.  Total:  3.75 hours

Thursday 2-21-13:  1/4 hr e-cises, 1 1/2 hr belly dance, 1 hr reading Noe, 2 hr letter for Spring, 1 hr online research, 1/4 vocal exercises, 1/2 meditation, 3/4 hr watching interviews with Alva Noe on YouTube.  Total:  7.25 hours

Friday 2-22-13:  1/4 hr e-cises, 1 hr belly dance, 1/2 hr meditation, 6 hr reading Dehaene/Perloff/Noe/Feldenkrais.  Total:  7.75 hours

Saturday 2-23-13:  1/4 hr e-cises, 1 hr bellydance, 4 hr reading Mindfulness for Beginners/Pain Free, 1/2 hr meditation.  Total:  5.75 hours

Total:  43.5 hours

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L – Week 7 Log

February 17th      

4 hours: Reading
2 hours: Listening to The Doors
11/2 hours: Drafting

February 18th


2 hours: Reading
1 hours: Notes about Jim
1 hours: Outlining Holdrege
2 hours: Listening to The Doors

February 19th

2 hours: Watching Documentaries
1 hours: Drafting
3 hours: Watching Interviews

February 20th

2 hours: Listening to The Doors
11/2 hours: Journaling
21/2 hour: Reading

February 21st

1 hours: Drafting Holdrege
2 hours: Drafting
1 hour: Watching last Documentary

February 22nd

1 hours: Listening to The Doors
2 hours: Morrison/About Morrison Interviews
2 hours: Drafting

February 23rd
21/2 hours: Reading
1 hour: Drafting
11/2 hours: Listening to the Doors
2 hours: Holdrege paper work

February 24th

1 hour: Reading
2 hours: Watching Interviews/Lost Paris Tapes
2 hours: Drafting Poetry

Totals

This week: 46.5

Cumulative Total: 121.5

Reading List:

The Lords
The New Creatures
The American Night
No One Gets Out of Here Alive

Documentaries:

Feast of Friends (1970)
The Doors: A Tribute to Jim Morrison (1981)
The Doors: Dance on Fire (1985)

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O – Week 7 Log

Week 7

Monday, February 18
1 hour perusing ealphabet site and posting logs
traveled to Corvallis
2 hours writing seminar pass
1 hour writing poetry
(4)

Tuesday, February 19
.5 hour reading sem passes and responding
4 hours walking, observing, photographing and writing about the shore
1 hour reading Poetics of Reverie
(5.5)

Wednesday, February 20
3 hours in the presence of the sea: drawing, painting, listening, watching, shivering (started raining)
2 hour reading Poetics of Reverie and daydreaming
2 hours journaling for reverie, drawing and researching Lila Zemborain and HD online
2 hours composing reverie, posting online, perusing the blog and adding to luminoussea
2 hours editing photos
(11)

Thursday, February 21
.5 hour finishing interview with Zemborain with Leonard Schwartz
.5 hour reading NYT article about salmon geo-magnetic naviation
2 hours drawing
1 hour reading Never
2 hour writing
.5 hour braving the storm to experience waves & wind
1 hour reading The Eyes of the Skin
(7.5)

Friday, February 22
.5 hour looking at waves in a surfer magazine (way too wet to walk to the beach)
1.5 hour researching ocean-architecture and other ocean art to compile to luminoussea
3 hours roughing out my 7-steps and experimenting with other ways to organize a term paper
1 hour ocean visit: low tide sunbreak
(6)

Saturday, February 23
traveled to Portland
2 hours reading Eyes of the Skin (finished)
.5 hour listening to Gertrude Stein
2 hours writing term paper
.5 hour testing out my idea for a term paper idea on a friend
1 hour editing photos and reading Walt Whitman
(6)

Sunday, February 24
1 hour editing photos
1 hour posting to blog
1 hour writing poetry
(3)

Total: 43 hours

Reading List:

The Eyes of the Skin by Juhanni Pallasmaa
mauve sea-orchids by Lila Zemborain,
Never by Jorie Graham
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Poetics of Reverie
Reading on the Brain
Unoriginal Genius 

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E – Week 7 Log

February 17th

Seminar paper: 1 hour

Research: 1 hour

Reading: 4 hours

Editing: 2 hours

Total: 8 hours

Weekly total: 8 hours

Texts: Reading and the Brain, Unoriginal Genius

February 18th

Seminar participation: 1 hour

Editing: 4 hours

Meeting: 1 hour

Total:6 hours

Weekly total: 14 hours

February 19th

Discussion participation: .5 hour

Paper writing: 1 hour

Logistics, organizing, preparing: 1 hour

Reading: 1 hour

Texts: Writing Books that Make a Difference

Total: 3.5 hours

Weekly total: 17.5 hours

February 20th

Reading: 1 hour

Paper writing: 2 hours

Total: 3 hours

Weekly total: 20.5 hours

Texts: Writing Books that Make a Difference

February 21st 

Reading: 2 hours

Paper writing:  4 hours

Total: 6

Weekly total: 26.5

Texts: Writing Books that Make a Difference

February 22nd:

Paper writing: 2 hours

Logistics and organizing: 1 hour

Poetry writing: 2 hours

Poetry observed: 2 hours

Total: 7 hours

Weekly total: 33.5 hours

Master total: 149.5 hours