Global Change Project

10 Links to Global Change Organizations:

http://www.wellhome.com/blog/2010/02/10-renewable-energy-ideas-that-could-change-the-world/

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=healthcare.ashe_july_aug_2007

http://orgs.tigweb.org/the-world-change-foundation

http://www.changetheworldkids.org/local-work/help-local-orginizations/

http://www.fullframe.com/

http://www.9to5.org/

http://worldstoryorganization.org/about

http://www.radcampaign.com/

http://www.worldchanging.com/about/

http://www.who.int/about/en/

http://www.wmo.int/pages/index_en.html

Proccess work for Topic Transportation Project for Museum:

Topic Video: Prelimanary Resaerch and Design

This project is based on providing the public a learning experience based upon the future of electric cars.  This topic is strictly about global change, sustainability, and social communication.

3 Ways to Help Belly Fat

After having two kids and still very young in age, it is essential for me to keep my figure to continue my hobby of modeling.  My mother has told me different ways to keep baby belly fat off by wearing high waisted panties or pantie girdles.  However, these methods don't keep your belly entirely flat or lean.

After watching a Dr. Oz show, he suggested that eating certain foods will help keep your belly fat under control along with exercising.  The three foods he recommended eating were blackberries, blueberries, and avocados.  These fruit are considered to have antioxidants and help remove belly fat turning it into waste.

I have added blackberries and avocados into my diet, and I have seen an enormous change.  My belly is less flabby and even after I eat there isn't a pulge or bloating.  I have even gotten so many compliments from friends on how I keep my figure after having kids.  It just takes time to exercise and having healthier eating habits.

Message from the Bottle

For lunch on Tuesday, a friend and I went to Kroger to grab a few healthy things to eat.  While searching for a drink, I came across a new drink by SOBE so I decided to try it out.  It has all natural ingredients with only 5 calories and boosts your antioxidants.  I tasted the drink which was obviously delicious and refreshing.  Although, the taste wasn't what I loved most, it was the message in the bottle cap that caught my attention.  The little message "we miss u smooth LIPS" had absolutely made my day and put a smile on my face.

It is a part of SOBE's product and advertising to put these capturing messages in there bottle caps.  Being a consumer's of SOBE's drinks for a while I had gotten to the point that I would look forward to a new message every time I bought a drink. 

 

However, not only are the bottle caps with there silly messages a little something to want to collect or keep just to make you laugh, but I would sometimes keep the glass SOBE bottles to drink in again.  The bottles are made of glass and tall therefore, it better to keep a drink in than a plastic bottle.  In addition, the bottles are engraved with two little lizards which is a part of the SOBE logo. 

Crazy as it seems, I am a huge fan of SOBE drinks because of there delicious drinks, cool packaging, and especially loving there captivating messages in their bottle caps.

Other bottle cap messages...

Purple for Winter 2011

This pass weekend was extremely busy for me.  I had two birthdays to celebrate, a fashion show, make sure I went to church after all my fun and of course school work.  However, through my weekend I began to notice a strange occurrence of one very popular color.


I went to shop at the mall for a gift and a party dress for my sister's birthday.  I was looking for a particular style of dress, just a simple dress fitted with long sleeves in a solid color.  I didn't want to overdue my look for my sister's birthday because it was her day to shine.  Therefore, the first store had the dress but it was almost see through, that was a "big no no."  Continuing on to the second store, they didn't have the dress I was looking for but, I fell in love with this Purple one shoulder strap dress.  It was the cutest little cocktail dress for a party!  Although, it wasn't what I was looking for so I asked to put it on hold and I continued my search.  After an hour of more shopping I could not find anything to top the purple dress, everything else was rather boring and dull.  I found my way back to the second store and bought the purple dress for the party. 


Every since this experience in the beginning of my weekend buying this purple dress, I swear I began noticing purple everywhere.  I went to my fashion show on Saturday, and to my surprise all the hair and make up team were coordinated in purple.  They had on either purple shirts, scarves, dresses, or a vest.  It was so stylish and very cute to see a team so well coordinated in their purple.


Finally, its Sunday time for church and I decided that well since purple has been so popular this weekend that I was going to wear my purple tights with a cute black dress and boots.  I get to church, find a seat and sit down but with no surprise a lady sits down in front of me with a silky purple shirt.  As church continues, during communion I get the chance to see everyone's outfit.  The ushers come up to help, one lady has on a purple dress, a man has on a purple shirt coordinating with his wife that also had on a purple scarf, another member walks by with a striped suit in shades of purple, and then I finally notice there is a little girl that also has a jacket striped in purple. 


Either I'm going crazy over purple and noticing it everywhere, but I'm pretty sure I can say Purple is "in" if men are wearing it too!

Analizing Chicago's Columbian World's Fair

After the Chicago's fire in 1871, the city had to rebuild and wanted to showcase the new "Chicago" to the world in the Columbian's World's Fair Exposition in 1893.  The expo was composed of several government buildings, the fair grounds, and an island. 

The exposition also held the first fair grounds or midway that was approximately 2 miles long.  The first viewing of the Farris wheel was presented at the world's fair on the midway.

The main part of the exposition was held at the Court of Honor or also known as "White City."  The architect D. H. Bernham was the director of structures designed for the White City.  He composed three rules in which his team had to abide by such as a 60 foot cornice height, to use Beaux Classicism from l'Ecole Des beaux Arts, and all the buildings had to be white giving it the name White City.  

On display at the expo was also a viewing of electricity the new invention during this time.  Overall the well designed plan of this exposition influenced the City Beautiful Movement in which cities such as Washington D.C. reconstructed their city, building boulevards and new building structures. 

Car Parts Create Furniture Pieces

The ability to use recycled products is currently at its peak in design.  Recycling old car parts however is very less likely to be used in Interior design but here are a few example that I found to be really unique.

This picture up above is an engine which is used as a base for a cocktail table.  If you look closely they have also made the engine operable as a wine holder underneath the table.  This engine cocktail table is as simple as just adding a fitted piece of glass attached to the top.

In this picture, you can see the transformation of a car hood into two coffee tables beside this chair.  This is  much harder to create than the engine cocktail table but created a great recycled piece. The two tables can also be pulled together to create one table.

Furthermore, is the creation of this unique 4 foot sink from recycled tires.  The tires are cleaned from debris and melted into this flat form and stretched over a plywood sink.  Only 15 percent of the tire was used in this process leaving an excess of materials to make 7 sinks from one tire!

It is critical to our environment that we reuse materials that we have made that is not biodegradable.  If we continue to dump our garbage in waste fields we are the ones that are loosing.  We are throwing away unique resources that can obviously be transformed into usable creations.

Architecture and Modeling

In February 2010, I did a photoshoot at Atlanta's Fox Theater for the grad students in the SCAD fashion department.  This picture is from a particular room referred to as the "Egyptian" room due to its architecture, color scheme, and furniture selection.  However, really looking at the details of the entire room it was more than Egyptian and actually very eclectic, composed of several design influences.  In the picture, you can see the keyhole door way which is common in Islamic architecture such as on mosque.  Another very similar arch to this keyhole arch is the horse shoe arch which can also be seen on mosque.

Keyhole Arch

Horse Shoe Arch

Comparing the two arches is almost hard to extinguish the differences, but its possible by observing the details closely.  The keyhole arch is distinguished by multi-foils which are like trefoils or quartre-foils with half circle defining the top of the arch.  Also the keyhole arch is more of an almost closed circle arch while the horse shoe arch is much wider and less closed. 

Referring back to the picture, it is also more of an Islamic influence than Egyptian because of the use of the star painted in the middle of the arch similar to the Star of David.

Islamic Building

In this Islamic architecture, the Star of David is visible similar to the star at the Fox theater both having six points on the star.  In Islamic culture, the Star of David is referred to as Najmat Dawud in Arabic.

Overall, this so called "Egyptian" room in the Fox Theater obviously looks back at Islamic architecture also. Here are some more picture from the Fox Theater...