for the first time ever in my life I have come from a crit feeling better about my work than when I went in, <\/P>
If you don’t know what a crit is, its basically when the tutor sits infront of a clas of your peers, usually between 30-60 people and criticaly analyse the work done for the set assignment…..<\/P>
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sounds straight forward right???<\/P>
wrong, for the most part tutors have no human feelings, so an analysis is more like a little ritual they have of opening your chest, tearing your heart out and dancing on it in front of everyone you know…. In the past I have seen tutors make people cry, hell, twice last year (in my first year of design) I left the crit in tears, but apparently we aren’t meant to take it personally.<\/p>\n
I remember last year an issue of the university student magazine salient, wrote an article as to what a crit is. I remember Lisa reacting to it, and being glad that she hadn\u2019t done design.
\nI think the worst crit I ever had was when Gail, my tutor, who happens to be the wife of the head of the design school, told me I hadn\u2019t obviously been bothered to put any effort into my work.. That was more upsetting considering I hadn\u2019t slept in 2 days to get the assignment finished, and there had been a fire in my building at 4am, and I had to stand outside half in pyjamas in the rain on the side of the road in central Wellington. I hated her for a long time after that, I am over it now, well maybe not, but she was a good tutor. Just very, very harsh.<\/p>\n
Today was the ultimate exception, I never expect to have this joy again, there is absolutely no way I will ever have a crit this good ever again. It was for interior architecture core, and I was designing an interior wall space. I made the whole piece from glad wrap, which I had painted red and layered together and burned. It was the ugliest thing I have ever produced. Not to mention the stinkiest thing for my flatmates to endure. They had to sit with me in the lounge as I set fire to this plastic square for 2 weeks on end. Total assignment cost??? $10
\nI was more nervous because my flatmate Francine had made her assignment from resin, which had cost her about $120 all up.<\/p>\n
The tutors sat around taking about the wonderful materiality and texture, and the concepts involved with glowing praise.
\nI am actually a little nervous about that too, cause maybe I am over thinking it, and think I did better than I have, I guess the marks will tell all.
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For days on end, and the nights so cold, for the first time ever in my life I have come from a crit feeling better about my work than when I went in, <\/P> If you don’t know what a crit is, its basically when the tutor sits infront of a clas of your peers, usually between 30-60 people and criticaly analyse the work done for the set assignment…..<\/P> <\/P> <\/P> sounds straight forward right???<\/P> wrong, for the most part tutors have no human feelings, so an analysis is more like a little ritual they have of opening your chest, tearing your heart out and dancing on it in front of everyone you know…. Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSong of the day:
\nThe Climber, Neil Finn
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\n\u201cI try to reach the top most every day
\nIn hope I turn my face up to the sky
\nThe cover hangs so low
\nI see no sign of life
\nNothing springs to mind
\nAmong the flies that wait in line<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s always so intense.\u201d
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\nPerson of the day:<\/B> the poor supermarket guy who had to deal with splitting our grocery bill 5 ways tonight, as well as our other 5 separate transactions.<\/Font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"