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Urban Lessons from Disneyland

“To all who come to this happy place – welcome.” Walt Disney walked up to the podium, and with these words a new world was born.
Once entering the park, one passes under a bridge for the miniature Santa Fe Railroad, where a centrally placed plaque meets every guests' eye with the phrase, “Here you leave Today / And enter the world / Of Yesterday, Tomorrow / And Fantasy”. The effect of this entry sequence is phenomenal, as this passage opens onto a land removed from specific time or place. Yet, Main Street, U.S.A. is filled with recognizable architecture and institutions from years past. This place detaches its guests from reality, creating its own existence in the imaginations of its inhabitants. Most of all, however, it is the separation from the present that has the greatest contribution to the creation of a new reality.
Disneyland was conceived as an alternative to a movie studio as a tourist destination, and in that same instance works nearly the same. The stories that Disney is known for are created with the same basic principles of movie sets – false stages, floats, backdrops, facades, and the combination of timing with the power of illusion. In every corner of this park is the essence of stage presence.
The potential effect of this land was unknown at the time of its inception, but it has had an astonishing influence in the world of architecture and urban planning. Malls, communities, even entire cities are now being planned with the same ideas of narrative that Walt Disney and his team of Imagineers employed in the design of this fantasyland.

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Chinese (Simplified): 记叙文
Chinese (Traditional): 記敘文
Czech: historka, příběh
Danish: fortælling
Dutch: verhaal
Estonian: jutustus
Finnish: kertomus
French: récit
German: erzählend
Greek:ιστορία, αφήγημα
Hungarian: elbeszélés
Icelandic: saga, frásögn
Indonesian: cerita
Italian: narrativa
Japanese: 物語り
Korean: 이야기, 서술
Latvian: stāsts; stāstījums
Lithuanian: pasakojimas
Norwegian: historie, fortelling
Polish: opowiadanie
Portuguese (Brazil): narrativa
Portuguese (Portugal): narrativa
Romanian: povestire
Russian: рассказ, повесть
Slovak: príbeh
Slovenian: pripoved
Spanish: narrativa, narración, relato
Swedish: berättelse, skildring
Turkish: öykü

Noun: narrative:

• a msg that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence of course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program (wordweb)
• a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious(dictionary.com)
• the art, technique, or process of narrating (dictionary.com)
• Fine Arts. representing stories or events pictorially or sculpturally (dictionary.com)
  

Adjective: narrative:

• consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

nar·ra·tive·ly, adverb
—Synonyms 1. chronicle, tale. Narrative, account, recital, history are terms for a story of an event or events. Narrative is the general term (for a story long or short; of past, present, or future; factual or imagined; told for any purpose; and with or without much detail). The other three terms apply primarily to factual stories of time already past. An account is usually told informally, often for entertainment, with emphasis on details of action, whether about an incident or a series of happenings. A recital is an extended narrative usually with an informative purpose, emphasizing accuracy and exhaustive details of facts and figures. A history, usually written and at some length, is characterized by a tracing of causes and effects, and by an attempt to estimate, evaluate, and interpret facts.

narrative idea...??

...and this is how our 'wall/blog' should look like : )


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Hey everyone!

I just wanted to ask if anyone has any ideas as to how to move forward with the shop cafe or wha else we can do (more installations, etc.)..plz email me at fakhrald@usc.edu ...also, whoever is working on the delerious hour plz email me and let me know what you guyz r doing?and planning on doing...and Greg, plz post ur work...really cool idea...let me know if u need help.

POST THINGS PPL!...ideas, progress, etc!...COMMUNICATION IS KEY!

-Suky

access to the site

so for all of you who find it hard to access the site, i apologize, and we are trying to make it easy as pie

i sent most everybody i could find a link to it explaining the username and password, if you didn't get this, send me your name and email address to milholla@usc.edu

i will send you an invite to the site and it lets you create your own blogger identity so you can leave posts from an individual username instead of the meanstransfer all incompasing username

for any other questions, send them to me at the aformentioned email
other than that, just keep on posting
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So...

I find it difficult to sign onto this blog. Why can't I just post a comment from my Personal Blogger Profile?

hello hello,

i think we should do more insane installations and this time actually interview people about it. yesss?

narrative cover ideas...

these were some rough ideas suggested for the cover last meeting - let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions :)
-kelly wong (2nd yr)

++woop. ... .. . woop===

Well all, I think peeps should be all about this thing and post like crazy so we can do all sorts of stuff here. The two people who made the articles on friday need to post them so we will hope to see them up soon, so if you read this bug them to put it up until they do, then say yeah woooh good job.

Oh and even if it isn't articles, we should all be posting what we are doing for FISHBOWL at all times. Like next time, if there is a shop cafe esque project, it will be up here for all to know as well as emails i hope. At the same time, we want more ideas for things like that here too.

Any sort of idea at all people. Post it up and we can talk it over and stuff.

So pretty much post or die
figuratively that is
in the mind

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ps somebody comment on my idea at the bottom so i can revise and stuff

DANA is still here

We will be unleashing DANA to the school coming this Monday

In rememberance of Dana Smith, who is leaving USC for his own architectural pursuits, we will be posting his face just about everywhere. He was one of our school's most valued staff and should be remembered because whether or not you knew him, he most definitely had a gigantic influence on you through the school.

We have a file of his face and will be printing them out in various sizes for distribution, wearing, and pasting on the walls. We were hoping to have some large plots to post up, masks which we could wear around, and small faces to put on everyone's desk and teacher's mailboxes.

We will all have to pull together to make this possible without spending money. I will distribute the file through email and we can all print out 50 or so small ones and a mask for yourself and maybe another mask to give to someone else. We can use clipper for plotting the larger ones. Since monday will be the first day without him, I feel this is a great time to show our support.

We will also be having a documentation team to start our records of our acts in and around the school. Giving as how this is the first of many, lets do it with style and a good attitude.

As well as all of the printouts, we will place a small blurb on the back of the prints and on the large plots saying we will all meet at a certain time, probably after studio monday to gather with prints and masks in rememberance of Dana. Hopefully we will gather a large group and take some amazing pictures for us, as well as to send to Dana to show our support.

If there are more ideas or questions, send them to milholla@usc.edu

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who has portable homeless housing ideas?

made of cardboard and can be used for emergecncy housing as well.

http://www.designboom.com/shop/cassettewallet.html

deliriousness

I just wanted to share this:

Dean Ma at the AIAS delirious hour: beer pong tournamens!

(olens in the background)

and im buzzin off stolen beer after a fisbowl meeting in the same place we were holding the meeting.

hellooooo

naan is the best.

Sweeet!!!

I think this is a great idea. Lets set a time for anyone who wants to be involved in the planning of this event to get together. A more dynamic space could be great for more than just two artists, ie...if we can collaborate with that tshirt design collective. BTW, can someone post the link to their website...please=)