I'm still alive...

It has been a while since I have written on my blog. I'm not sure why writing on this blog has become such a difficult task to remember but it has proven to be the hardest and easiest thing this semester. I have been sick for what seems like weeks and missed our last class on the 13th but I feel alive again and am now ready to get to work.
I have been doing some work trying to see if my work will let me do a project which includes updating the drawings for the building and it hasn't paned out like I was hoping. Pretty much our corporate lawyers don't want any information about the building plans to become public information so a project doesn't seem like the route. I still want to research drafting programs advancements and I think I will have to write a paper, while leaving out any information about the company I work for and use examples from other companies. So with that change of plans here is my rough outline for the paper. My concern is that I'm not giving both emphasis equal time and I think I might focus on Technology Management rather than Art History. I'm not sure if I can do them both justice with the outline I have.

Part 1 Building an artistic foundation (high detail)

In this section I would like to work on showing how drafting can be considered an art form. I will show examples from Leonardo da Vinci which he draft his inventions while still in conception and how these drafts are hung on many walls for their aesthetic beauty. Other artists that had their drafting held on the same level as their paintings would be Michelangelo and Walter Gropius. This section needs to show how it takes an artist to design and the ability to take an image or idea from the mind onto paper so that others can understand each other on a new plane not achievable by the spoken language alone.

Part 2 Road map of drafting practices (low detail)

In this section I want to show where drafting came from and some of the technological advancements over time that has brought it to its current form. I think this section should be low detail and should take too many pages. I’m not writing a history paper but I do want the reader to see how small advancements made huge impacts on the design.

Part 3 New drafting techniques in use (medium detail)

This section will cover how technology companies use and rely on advanced drafting practices to stay competitive in their industry. Give examples including a study done on Crate & Barrel stores saving millions by using new design practices and programs. I think it’s important to show how drafting is in use in different industries. I want to show that not only in construction is drafting being used but how construction has actually fallen behind compared to the rest of the drafting world and should be playing catch-up over the next few years.

Part 4 Future of drafting (high detail)

Thanks to advancements in technology where will drafting be headed in the near future will be the focus of this section. This section needs to be in more depth to show that thanks to technology advancements drafting design will be making huge strides in virtual reality. How much of what will be forth coming is already here but it just needs more high power computers to tap into the full potential of where it could be.

Part 5 Bring them together and close (high detail)

I want to bring my two emphases, Technology Management and Art History, closer by showing how the advancements in art and technology rely on each other. I want to make sure that I am clear on what my emphasis are and how they impact each other. Even though these two studies are very different they have more impact on each other than we might give them credit for.


If anyone has any ideas on how to improve this outline please don't hesitate on letting me know.
Thanks.

Assignment 2

Thanks to some helpful comments I'm starting to think that I could not only write about how art influences but also how technology influences art. In the mid 1960's computers and art made history together by creating the first digital art form. Today thanks to technology many drawings created using a computer can be easily mistaken as a real image. So, where will art go next thanks to technology? Has the need for new art forms driven new technology? Thanks to the comments this has widened the possible avenues I can take with my research.

Assignment One

Ok, I think I have finally figured this blog thing out... You would think that I would have a better understanding of the different social sites but this is completely new to me.

But for the questions in the first assignment I think I might have a hard time. I have picked two studies that are nearly polar opposites. I'm a Technology Management and Art History student. I have an idea for the senor thesis but I'm not sure it is deep enough to cover the requirements for the senior thesis. My idea is to show the correlation between art and technology. During my courses with art history I found an interesting correlation suggesting that the art industry leader is usually the technology leader. Some of the time periods that reflect this idea is Egyptian, Greek and early American. Then I could take this idea and see if the technology leading companies like Google, Intel, Apple and Samsung embrace art to the point displaying at their sites. I currently work for Intel and Micron and we have no art displayed at our work site. But I'm not sure if this idea for a topic is enough to cover multiple pages or if it is even interesting enough for the audience to read.