Blog #1

I have to say that these first readings took me off guard a little bit. When I signed up for this class I did not really know what to expect. Actually, I still don’t really know what to expect even after reading these chapters. But I am a little more familiar with at least the basic concept. The topics addressed in the 3, 4, and 5 chapters were extremely interesting to say the least. I am interested to see how we are going to adapt this idea into our feature.

Probably the most interesting part of the chapters, for me, came in when the author addressed the use of the square to represent life, nature and fertility. I may have found this interesting partly because I am in Group 2, and deal with the number four in that group, but I also enjoyed the simplicity of the idea. The fact that ancient people used the square to show the earth was not a surprising fact. Then the author illustrated the idea of mountaineers, and how the perfect body fits into a square, the diagonals of which cross over the genitals of the body in it. That was just so cool to me! I don’t even know why. It just seemed so philosophical. I went around talking about that fact to friends the other day, and none of them seemed to find it as amusing as I did, but that’s okay.

Overall I am excited to see what the other 2 groups bring to the table this semester. I want to see what other examples we can find that these readings did not cover. I’m sure there are countless amounts of them. I am enjoying this information, but will admit that I am still unsure of what the final product is projected to look like and I am nervous about getting to that final feature. Guess I’m along for the ride.