Digital Project | Gollum

a wireframe Neil built for us to work in



Tomorrow is our last day of a 30 hour seminar on Digital Project/CATIA with Neil Thelen from Front. Neil is an apt tutor and a talented communicator- and with a program like Digital Project, that is a necessity, not a luxury. So far this week, we've power-copied and instantiated ourselves into craven lumps of saucer-eyed flesh, uncovering small portions of what this program can do in each session. Learning CATIA is like hiking in the mountains, each zenith revealing a greater vastness to the range than the one before.

I anticipate the possibilities open to those who would have proficiency with this tool. This anticipation is temporarily intoxicating, thoughts of creative and professional liberation fueling each mouse click.

But that vastness just gets more vast.

Genesis

This is our required blog for this semester's digital fabrication studio with Professor Mark Weston at the USF School of Architecture. We are a dream team. It's like the USA Olympic Basketball Team.

Seriously.

Today we used a cobbled-together matrix outlining each student's questionable abilities to choose fair and balanced teams for our class project. We have a 4, a 3, and a 2- from a scale of 0-5 (5 being hero). The 4 is a charlatan. The 3 is whipped. The two says she's a quick learner.


We'll see.