Monthly Archives: December 2007

Life is a Highway 0

After I made the decision to take a break from the metaphor “Time is an endless circle,” I decided to take a whack at the metaphor “Life is a Highway”.  This metaphor is much easier to work with.
The wheels are churning!
As I continue to work on this metaphor, a thought did cross my mind.
Do I [...]

Capstone Dinner 0

Last night, a couple of my fellow capstone students and I had dinner at our professor’s house. It’s a way to keep us all in check and informed of our each other’s whereabouts during our Capstone process.
After giving my update to everyone, I talked to Andrew Luly who had first initially give me the [...]

Time is an endless circle 0

I am currently working on my first metaphor – time is an endless circle. There are many ideas that can fit into this metaphor.
Some ideas are:

Rings of the tree

the inner part of the ring is the oldest, while the outer part is the youngest
example website that my professor pointed me to

Nautilus
A pie chart
Atoms/Molecules
Clock

It has [...]

The hiatus and reading 0

The past few days, I have been on hiatus with Christmas shopping and all.  Even though I didn’t do that much work on my capstone, I have been doing some.  I’ve been reading and figuring out what books to buy.  Why?  Well, they have to be returned to the library.  I’ve already received a request [...]

Building an image library 0

I’ve started to work on a couple of metaphors (Life is a Highway and Time has a circular motif).  As I was working on sketches- I realize I would need some images to represent the events so that I can move things around on paper.
Here is my list so far that I have come up [...]