ICA

I could not pick between two pieces that I found at the ICA. One I really like because of it's originality and that is the line of Kidrobot toys. As far as I could tell from the description, every set of toys they come out with is limited edition and after that they are no longer manufactured. So rather then thinking of the toys as toys you can think of them as collectors items. Most of them all have the same shape, sometimes with accessories, but the difference between them is what is printed on the figure itself. None of them have movable parts which also helps to differ them from your average toy.

The other piece I liked was the conceptual model for the Museum of History in California. Originally I liked the piece because I thought it was for something else and I over analyzed it and thought it was a lot cooler and had deeper meaning then it really does. Then i saw the actual comments for it and realized what it really was so it lost a lot of meaning to me, but I still thought it was a very cool way to represent something. I had never seen an architectual model made with only straight lines, let alone strings. I thought that the piece was very interesting, and a new twist on an old concept.

The pieces I picked really stood out to me, but it is hard to write about my first reaction to them because I had already seen them when I went to the ICA for my form study class.

I was also wondering if I could do 5 sketches / drawings from each and do half and half for the original pieces too...

If this isn't sufficient for a write up please let me know and I will write more...