Lab Hours 3/30

Spent about 2 hours in museum last Wednesday, but not much else to log :/
I was hoping to come in Thursday to help with the cases, but I won't be available. Boo... But everything is looking great! The geneaology wall turned out well.
Guess I'll be seeing the final product next week

Lab Hours 3/24

Well I wish I could say that this week was as successful as last week in terms of lab hours. I spent about 45 minutes going through everyone's blogs. Thanks Nessa for organizing the feast with Alexis and SAS! Looking forward to it and also to Dr.C who had to go through all our group stuff!
But it looks like everyone did a great job.
I went to the museum after class yesterday to lend a hand, even if it meant making little puddy balls with Stacey or picking scraps off the floor. Carrie and I also worked on mounting some images onto foamcore but I think I need some more practice...
I was there for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Also spent 30 minutes on reading for today, but I think that's pretty much it. I'm hoping to help more in the museum this week/ over springbreak [if Dr.C will be there one day, but then again, she probably wouldn't mind a vacation]

Time: 3 hours

so sleepy...must..log...hours

This week has been crazy...!!
I'm very happy to say that I have completed the write-ups for my section of Group2. We did a pretty good job keeping in touch over the last week via email, which seemed a little overwhelming at times [sometimes I'd log on and there'd be 20 new emails!] But it was an effective way to communicate so we could go back through our ideas :)I'm very proud of our group. Thank ladies, we rocked it
Most of the labhours were spent sifting through smugmug [again] as well as the accession file, and also writing up the didactic panels. There was also a considerable amount of time proofing everyone's text panels and discussing ideas.
Today I went by the museum and spoke with Dr.C regarding some picture/text display questions as well as the mysterious mini-baskets...dundunDUUUN! But it ended up being an interesting story-theory and I was glad I was there to witness Dr.C's shock moment. lol.
I can't wait to see how everything gets fabricated.

Time: 9.5 hours on computer [group emails, proofing, writing, organizing]
1 hour at mueseum with Dr.C

getting the ball rolling and lab hours

Unfortunately, my blogged was hacked at some point, so I spent about 30 minutes adjusting settings, the cookies, and changing password before taking Dr.C's suggestions to take the fish tank gadget off my page :( but it worked, and seems to be working fine.
There has been much progress this week with everyone starting their portion of the exhibit. I met with my group for a total of 1.5 hours [ 15 min Wednesday, and 1 hour and 15 min this psat Monday] to discuss our ideas and splitting up the main focuses.
I spent a lot of time [3.5 hours] looking at the ethnohistoric documents [Cotton's notebook], the accession file and Dr.C's smugmug gallery, studying the Cotton labels as well as comparing them to the transition museum tags. Also caught up on readings.
Our group will be meeting again today to assemble the storyboard [but I suppose that time will count for next weeks hours]
Looking forward to seeing what the other groups' visions for their sections.
It's coming together :)

Johnson lecture and Featured Basket...meeting outside class??

It was great to hear Dr.Johnson lectre last week; who knew our awesome artifacts/museum had been treated so crappy [well by outsiders]?? It was interesting to learn the history of the collections as well as what the department has gone through to ensure their safekeeping, which some people did not respect unfortunately.
I also appreciated his good/bad stories about working in museums. I wish we'd had more time to hear more and about the Cotton Collection [which I think he was beginning to touch on as we all had to leave :(]
I was jsut reading Dr.C's blog about how we don't have the bride's cap for the feaured object part of the exhibit. It's too bad, it seemed like a good piece to use. Does this mean we'll be using the burden basket? I think it would also work well, but maybe we'll discuss this in class.
We should all try meeting outside of class, at least in our interpretive groups, to get a better understanding about our various tasks...I don't know about anyone else, but I'm a little lost. But mayeb we just need to get things flowing.

lab hours

A litle late for putting up the post for this week...
The Deed of Gift assignment turned out to be kind of fun and infromative; Marina and I started out overthinking the assignment, but Dr.C saved us a lot of time. As Marina already mentioned, we got to be creative while still getting an understanding of the Registrar's job.
Even though Dr.C assured us that we weren't supposed to put so much time into the assignment, it still made up most of my lab hours for the week.
Roughly 1.5 hours was spent meeting up with Marina at school and our communication through text/emails.
I also spent an unusual amount of time [2 hours] researching my 'hypothetical object' trying to get appropriate details and information for the backstory.
Another 1.5 hours spent catching up on everyone's blogs and this weeks readings.

Total: 5 hours

Lab hours and Creepy Urn :D

I spent about 2.5 hours yesterday going through everyone's blogs as well as Dr. Castenada's, which took a while but I feel like I have a much better understanding of the exhibit process. I also spent part of this time viewing all the images of our objects, and saving/loading the pictures of my objects onto my blog-page [which I'm very proud of myself for doing] I'm glad that the photos are so detailed and am very excited about the original tags.
Today I've spent 2 more hours attempting to load an RSS feed, and despite all the instruction we've received about it [and reading Carrie's blog] I still don't get it. I downloaded the Feedreader but am hesitant to use it due to the drawbacks Carrie mentioned. I have Yahoo as my homepage but can't figure out how to add the RSS gadget. [Going to keep trying, but just wondering if it's absolutely necessary to have?]
Also went through the accession file on SacCT, and we have a good spread of objects from various areas [it will be hard to pick just one to follow]. It was interesting to read all the letters and evaluations of the objects over time. I got all giddy when I read the notes about the ceramic urn...which has an interesting story to it.

For that reason I need to decide between BAS147 and the ceramic urn to be featured on the postcard... It would make the most sense to feature the basket so it will flow with the rest of the weaving detailed thumbnails that are featured [and it would be great to have a close-up of the red feathers]. So I've decided that this basket will be on the postcard [I believe this is the Pomo one].
I'll finish up the evening reviewing the readings for the quiz, which I guess can count toward 30 minutes of labtime?

Looking forward to class discussion/ guest speaker tomorrow

Total: 4.5 hours