The whole movie project made me worry right away because I have trouble seeing things in that medium. Then being told that it had to be shot in the same park by everyone made it even worse. It actually wasn't too too terrible to create after I stopped and looked around the park for ideas. Our movie was a sort of discussion on the ideas of the golden section and the fibanacci sequence that we talked about in class. Joe and I agree with the need and desire to fit beautiful things into some type of mathematical scheme. To create a unifier among a vast amount of things is much easier than it may sound. To draw basic geometric allusions and infer ratios between man made and natural things is suprisingly easy to do in Italy. It might be just as easy to do at home too. I think that balance is more more prominent here. I do agree that time was taken to create an order and symmetry in so many things that are around me here. We both thought that many of the ideas and images we saw in class seemed to be forced into this idea. The section can be draw upon most things if you look for the lines on it. On a whole most cities are a mixture of these principals, thrown together in a heap, attempting to keep balanced. Some cities, like Rome, seem to emit some type of grandeur that others don't. I think its because of the "flow" that is created by the architechture and surroundings. The softness of marble mixed with the rigid tile roofs. Who knows. The point I am trying to get to is that my eyes were whirling in circles when I tried to place this city into some sequential idea. Maybe I'm not math minded (obviously) and maybe I instinctively use these ideas already. Maybe I use them and see in them so much that I can't decipher it further without breaking down my entire optical view?
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