Best of the Day: Hospitals Lights

Every person has a dream job. For some it may be to be a teacher, a pilot, a cook, a writer, a mother or father. If you were to ask me what my dream job would give them a list of things I want to be, a list of things I want to achieve. Considering I must choose at least one job to pursue going into and after college I chose to be a nurse. I do not want to be just an average nurse likes the ones you see in movies. I want to be a neonatal nurse. Now I did not suddenly just wake up and realize this is what I want to do for the rest of my life because it doesn't work like that, well at least not for me. I decided I wanted to be that nurse starting with the moment I saw that hospital at 12:32 AM.

I thought to myself that I had never seen anything more peaceful in my life. A building. A square, tan, tall, wide building. A building full of windows on ever floor. A building with a lights on in every hall way. A building that does nothing but sit there while chaos is within it. How and why would anyone think this think is hospital is beauty?

In class today, my group and I were brain storming ideas on how to make a hospital clinic attract the attentions from viewers on the outside. It's all about architecture. The way the building flows with its surrounds, or even how it doesn't flow with the surroundings. These are both key element on attracting the human eye to a structure like a hospital clinic. This observation of our really made me think. Why would I be so attracted to a boring hospital at 12:32 at night when it doesn't even have great architecture? And why would I ever wanna work in such a thing.

It took me a while to answer these questions. Because we talked about architecture so much in class, I thought for sure that had something to do with the problem. But surprisingly I was mistaken. I realized something I never realized before. This something was one of the best realizations I came to earlier today. This something was light. But this wasn't sunlight. This was artificial light.  The kind of light you get from lightbulbs. As I drove past the hospital that Friday night, I realized that the reason I loved it so much was because unlike most buildings this building never loses light; whether it is sunlight or artificial light it is always glowing. You can see hospitals from far away distances at night time because of light. You can see into the hospital hallways because of light. You can see that even though most of us may be sleeping, the hospital is not, because of light.

It was the light that brought me to love the look of this building, even as square shaped as it is. It was the light that lead me to believe that I wanted to be in the light, I want to have that light surround me everyday. But when the lights do go out, even for a moment, it stills seems to shine because in reality, it is the people that are the light. It is the suffering, sick, and helpless people that are shedding the light and I now know want to be someone to follow that light for the rest of my life.

Blogging Around

Katie's blog was the most recent blog we did. She made a great connection between postmodernism and the commericals and things we see in the real world. The video she showed from the Superbowl was this very emotional and moving commerical that in the end turned out to be a car commercial. I really enjoyed reading this post.

Hi Katie J.

I was sitting on my couch and saw the the exact same commercial! This is a perfect example of postmodernism, I couldn't agree with you more. Everything you said makes sense to me and describing the commerical in a postmordern way helps me understand both postmodernism and the whole message the video was saying.Your writing was very insightful and I really enjoyed reading it. GOOD WORK KJ!

-Katie Dwyer

 

In Annie's blog post she talks about technology and how she and everyone around her is pretty much addicted to the technology around them. I truely loved this blog post. This blog post brought up a question I ask myself everyday. How and when did technology suddenly take over man kind!

 

Annie
I honestly couldn't agree with you more. I ask myself that question almost every day. This issue is everywhere we go, even with in the walls of Glenbrook South. There is not one day where I dont see a large amount of people around eachother on their phones instead of talking and interacting with the people around them. It shocks me everytime I see it. But the worst part of all of this is that I am sometimes one of those people. I think out of everything that technology has done to human beings, the fact that I am a culprit of not sociallizing when I have the chance to is something that will always bother me. Other than that, I really liked this blog post. Good work!

 

iMedia: Playgrounds

Modernism and postmodernism have been difficult tasks for me to grasp. There are so many distinct differences between the two, yet I still find myself to get confused when approached with something and asked if it is modern or postmodern. So, in order to help myself understand this concept I went on a search through the web and found myself in a deeper hole than I already was in. Out of pure frustration I then decided to take a drive and go get myself some Starbucks. On my way home I took the long way back to my house just to stall even more time. As I was driving, there appeared out of the left side of my window and school playground which I had never seen before considering I always take the short way home. And in that moment thoughts went running through my head and I finally got myself to understand, or begin to understand, this difference between modernism and postmodernism.

Who would have thought that a playground would help make two ends meet for me? Who would have thought that a little frustration and a little sip of a white chocolate mocha would lead me to getting on my computer and checking out design plans and ideas for playgrounds for kids?

Let's take this picture for example:

This picture is the kind of playgrounds I grew up with. The swings, the sandbox, the slide, and the spiny thing that always made me feel sick. Those are what I used to have fun. Those are the basics to playgrounds. Those are the foundation to modern-day playgrounds. Those are representations to my understanding of modernism.

Modernism was the building blocks to the post modern world. Without modernism there would be no post modernism. Without the basic slide, without the basic swings this wouldn't go from this...

To this...

and this...

Let's analyze these differences just a little more. What post modernism does to change from modernism is first the overall appeal to this playground. The appeal of the middle school playground was the one thing that caught my eye. This playground went beyond all the boundaries of traditional playground. This playground broke down lines, broke down circles and triangles and bent and curved these shapes to create figures that look appealing to the modern day eye. This not only accomplished the postmodern appeal in my eyes but it also caught the appeal of many children's eyes. I will argue that any playground is fun to play on, but for children if there is a challenge, if there is something that stands out to them they will feel more inclined to play on this work of art. Yes, this playground is a work of art, its a work of art with many purposing but its main purpose is to provide this postmodern appeal for kids all around.