"We can Rock Acrylic"

This weekend, quick recap: Friday night, Jen, Ben, and I made chocolate dump-it cake from the new york times recipie. We created a huge mess in the kitchen, had to run back to Jen's place for a tube pan, and the grocery store for more sour cream, but it came out absolutely beautiful. Jen frosted it for us and so we caked it up friday night. Saturday night, we studied history. Sunday night, we went to see Tim Burton's Corpse Bride which had a surprising amount of humor and groaners. In the dia de los muertos inspired underworld, a frenchman's head comes out carried by scurrying roaches. He's the head waiter. There's a few "dying to get in" jokes. On the whole, the style and characters are the biggest draw. It's amazing what they can do with claymation. The parents of both bride and groom are hilariously charactuered, as well as a solomn looking minister voiced by Christopher Lee. I actually saw a lot of similarities to Sleepy Hollow, although a lot more lighthearted.

Today finished memorizing the dates for my architecture exam, and working now on remembering specific details about the sites and various images.

Also today, we took a shop tour. The shop in the archiecture building is strictly limited to upper division architecture, interior design, and industrial design students. They can do pretty much anything to anything down there, wood, plastic, aluminum, steel(except stainless steel), but especially acrylic. "We can rock acryclic" was how the shop supervisor put it. They have a sandblasting booth, a vaccum-from, a plasma cutter, every conceivable type of welding equipment, band saws, table saws, grinders and sanders, metal benders and rollers. One really cool cutter worked like a giant paper cutter, with a really long foot powered lever for cutting sixteen gauge steel. Just snips it right off. Safety proceedures and proper were the main reasons for the shop tour.