(Lke that's new, right? Ha ha)
Right, so I've been up all night. I decided that I would force my brain into an all-night bootcamp, and I think it worked. See, I've been struggling with my Guild project. I'll design something, then I'll hate it, then I'll try again....(It was bad enough that I went through a whole lot of back-and-forth trying to decide on a guild to begin with, but the indecision didn't end there. ) Anyway, I had to decide, arches or no arches? Serpentine plan or not? What was the best way to mimic the characteristics of Japanese food without someone approaching my structure form a mile away and automatically shouting, "OHMIGOD! That building looks like a roll of sushi!"
Wack, right? Right.
SO, Thursday night, I decided that I needed to refocus and try to get rid of all the loose ends in my idea. I needed to start over, to break down my concept and build it back up again. This meant a lot of writing and time spent on Google. I looked at the steps to become a chef. I found out what ingredients are used most often in Japanese cuisine, what these ingrediants looked like. I researched what finished Japanese dishes are "supposed" to look like.
Friday night, I dreampt up a variation of the structure I'd been working with. As I slept Saturday night, my mind played a series of SketchUp animations of different ways I could build onto the variation from the night before. True story. Sunday, I worked through my dreampt-up ideas (this time in real life, on paper and on SketchUp in real life). And, for the rest of the night (until maybe an hour or so ago), I built up my program and so on....
Mission more-or-less accomplished.
For now, it's naptime.
And, boy, do I have a craving for Shiitake mushrooms...
**Washoku: Japanese term for "traditional Japanese cuisine"
1 comment:
I know Im a little late but this process of dreaming is something that I do often. Sounds crazy but I totally know what your talking about with the whole sketch up thoughts. Sometimes its those moments that you rest when you figure things out, And I definitely feel your pain with the indecisiveness.
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