Undiscovered

Friday, September 5, 2008

The Wheels On the Bus Go Round and Round!

This was a very interesting assignment to do. At first I thought I was going to hate it , but it actually turned out to be really fun. The assignment was to ride a public city bus at least a mile and to observe the surroundings. It started out with me and my friend Shannon trying to read and understand the route map and times. After and hour of confusion we finally figure it out that there was a bus stop a block away from our house.
On our way to the bus stop I saw a city bus coming. So I yelled "Shannon! There it is!" (of course Shannon was already crossing the street trying to find the other bus stop) she ran across the street and we both then ran to the bus (looking like complete idiots) and then found out that it wasn't the bus that we wanted to get on. We cross the street again and wait for the bus at the bus stop we were suppose to be at. The bus comes, we hop on and scan our student cards and look what we found.....

Lilly and Jenifer! Some familiar IARC faces! We were relieved to see them and relaxed a bit. We all decided that we wanted our final destination to be the Friendly Shopping
Center, but in order to do this we had to ride to the depot in downtown Greensboro to switch buses. On the way there I noticed this plaque in the window...

I immediately thought of our reading about civil rights and segregation. It made me think of how things use to be. That if the bus had been full when I got on, a black person would of had to give up their seat to me. It's absolutely ridiculous that someone would have to give up their seat just because of the color of their skin so ROCK ON ROSA! Thank God, things have changed!
(I also noticed there was a lot of trash on the floor.)

After about a 5-10 minute ride we arrive at the depot. We spotted the number 7 bus that we needed to get on and ran to it.

We all make it to bus number 7 and off we go again. As soon as the bus starts to go, I notice a sign behind our seat...

OOPS! We didn't get yelled at, but we still felt bad.
There were lots of different people on the bus, it was really interesting to observe.

We were scared to take pictures of people without them knowing so we acted like we were taking pictures of each other and just aimed the camera over who ever's shoulder. (haha)

Finally! Friendly Center at last! Along with being the last ones off the bus! ...I had a lot more fun than expected!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Chair

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

First week REPRESENT!

This sketch pretty much sums up the first week of school for me....it rained ALL week and having to walk 20 minutes both ways to get to and from class isn't really my cup of tea. It was very stressful having a project due the first friday of school, but it got done and we were all happy with the outcome.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Elsewhere

These sketches are from a place called elsewhere. It's a place in downtown Greensboro that has stuff EVERYWHERE and pretty much every random thing you could think of in it. I liked and didn't like this assignment. Elsewhere had plenty of interesting stuff to draw, but it was all covered in dust and my allergies are horrible, so I pretty much died every time I went there to draw stuff hours at a time. Our assignment was to mark off a space with some duck tape and then draw that one space in detail. My space took up 2 class periods to draw so I'm pretty happy with the outcome of it. The other sketches were ones I did when we weren't working on our final sketches.

My final sketch....