17. October 2008 by justdanika.

I assaulted Mike Davis last night (my rugger Erika’s husband) who was out here on business. By assault I mean forced a hug on because I hadn’t realized my lack of human contact since leaving my friends and family far behind. The last real hug I had was when Tom left to go back to Colorado. That is a while ago for a girl who is use to constant human contact with those I care about.

So I get to the Loft in the morning and explain to my loft neighbor Karen my feelings about this lack of hugging. Little did I know that as the JPD group went to our Friday morning bonding - Calibrating the Instrument - that we were doing contact improv instead of the usual improv we were use to.

What is this contact improve you speak of Danika?

For 1 and a half hours we did interesting activities to help us understand how our bodies move, twist, and react to weight. We poured our weight onto each other in artistic and not so artistic ways. I did backbends over Hyejin, ended up tango-ing with Martin, body surfing over John and getting a full weight hug from James.

It was just what I needed actually…talk about taking the weight off…or adding it on depending on who was doing the hugging

A few pictures for those I have been meaning to send things to.

My Loft Space

My Team for DP1: David & Minjeong

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17. October 2008 by justdanika.

I honestly thought my professor was crazy when he assigned us a project to paint 3 sets of 100 objects and arrange them in

• Dark to Light
• Saturated to Desaturated
• Warm to Cool

So for 13 hours I painted 100 different colors, 3 times each. This was no small feat…

I am not even a little exaggerating the work I did. I learned a ton about making tints, hues and tones by adding white and/or black to my 8 base colors. Then I combined my colors to create some beautiful colors and some not so beautiful colors.

Arranging them was a hefty task as well. Trying to decide if a dull green or a dull blue is more desaturated can make you go blind in fact. Thank god for the laser-camm allowing me to cut 101 of the exact same shaped holes for me to pop my ice cube trays into…

It actually turned out…beautiful.

Above: Warm to Cool

Above: Saturated to Desaturated

Above: Dark to Light

Final Objects Pre-Arranging:

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