Week 4: Recap.

This week has been the most fun thesis week to date. I took a few trips to Home Depot, covered my apartment in stain & paint, bought, photographed (then ate) food items, and spent most of my time away from the computer doing hands-on projects.

The work is starting to pile up each week as I work on new programs. I introduce something new each week, but the older work is still there and in need of refinements. In a few more weeks I will have more work than I can think of. Eventually I will need to put them on hold for the semester "break" to be sure my other class work does not suffer. This week my eye began twitching, it has not stopped for 5 days now. I wonder what interesting things will happen with my lack of sleep next week.

I am still refining my brand book, but am sort of on hold while I wait for the snow to go away and the farmers markets to open. I need to gather more images because I am using what I took last summer as place holders. When I went out last summer I had no idea what I may need, so I just took as many as I could. Now I have specific shots in mind and will go back out when the markets open.

I will continue to refine "celebrate" which is my Harvest Celebration event. But I am close to it being done enough to post "final" pictures. I stained the ticket box and painted the cover, but I keep thinking of more "what if's" and want to try one more thing out. So close to being done!

Last week the majority of my time was spent on "Eat", which is a eat-in area within City Farm. The meals are made from food grown in the building. The eatery is called Farm Food and resembles a backyard/garden. The floor is grass and the serving items relate to the "garden" concept. Guests will eat off picnic tables, will fill up their water glass from a watering can and will eat out of clay planting pots specially made for food. Forks and spoons will be garden tools made smaller for eating and the area will be decorated with tomato plants and living walls. The menu will change based on the season and the take-home items will be housed in pita bread, or recycled paper bags.

I did mock-ups this week, so the work I have is not detailed enough to post. I have a lot of refinements to do this week and hope to have the program mostly wrapped up by next week. (wrapped up just means it is more done, than not). Next week I will have a lot of eye candy to post.

Now onto refining, refining, refining.... then staining, painting, playing and eating what I photograph.