tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11506637254088929692011-09-09T04:10:20.098-07:00art design yoga nutritionSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-3000050010613884872010-12-12T15:01:00.000-08:002010-12-12T16:26:48.250-08:002010-12-12T16:26:48.250-08:00I just got back to the southern land (thank God). The cold was definitely not serving my mental state well :) But just being two days done with school, I can say, this was the best semester at CMU Design yet. I think I learned more about who I am as a designer, for example, how design crosses so many different disciplines and is unable to be defined narrowly within professions. I actually wrote Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-71173838828062232762010-11-12T19:01:00.000-08:002010-11-12T19:35:40.322-08:002010-11-12T19:35:40.322-08:00Fall 2010So this semester has been a doozy so far. Yeah, I said it, a doozy. The summer ended faster than I could blink my eyes and here I am mid-november not remembering how I got here. Anyway, I thought I'd give a quick update on work stuff and school stuff. Work stuff:Jeanette and I finally finished Squash & Beyond today (woo hoo!) We did our best to make it as fun, energetic, user-friendly, and Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-73356445586826248032010-07-29T05:57:00.001-07:002010-07-29T06:30:29.821-07:002010-07-29T06:30:29.821-07:00SUMMER 2010I figured I should post something interesting to my blog since I haven't done any blogging this whole summer.In case you were wondering, it's been the best summer ever. I've taught a lot of yoga, I went to Seattle to present GURU to Microsoft, and most importantly, my CMU classmate, Jeanette Leagh and I have made a mini design firm (Leagh + Calandro). Between the two of us, we've gathered a Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-54465984797823528772010-06-01T08:12:00.001-07:002010-06-01T09:09:52.091-07:002010-06-01T09:09:52.091-07:00Don't use Comic SansFor all of those type and colour junkies out there (yes, coloUr), check out Facebook.Helvetica with Comic Sans from Sarah Calandro on Vimeo.Color & CommunicationKristin Hughes and Mark MentzerCMU Spring 2010Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-24647923525722249692010-05-09T19:54:00.000-07:002010-05-09T20:03:46.036-07:002010-05-09T20:03:46.036-07:00Flex Time Standards Act for Information WorkersSarah CalandroDesign Seminar IIArgumentI am living in Los Angeles, CA working for an architecture firm. I'm supposed to be in my desk chair at 8:30 am (sometimes, I am about eight minutes late). I check my gmail, then my office email, and then I open powerCADD to begin a day of click-clicking on my mouse. Around 10 a.m. I refill my coffee mug in the kitchen, have a two-minute conversation with a Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-28208791040451684132010-04-25T15:03:00.000-07:002010-04-25T15:14:22.637-07:002010-04-25T15:14:22.637-07:00Blaise J. Calandro, Jr. (my dad)A Narrative HistoryDesign Seminar IIOn a Spring day in 1956, nine-year-old Blaise and his brother Charles exit the school bus at 4142 Government Street-right at the edge of South Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Blaise's routine is always the same. He enters the front screen door of his family's grocery store-known as Calandro's Grocery. The words "Plee-zing Food Store" are written in bold letters across Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-44394964006558698872010-03-24T20:50:00.000-07:002010-03-24T20:54:50.841-07:002010-03-24T20:54:50.841-07:00A bit about why Architecture (with a capital A) is awesome.Information WritingDesign Seminar IIHave you ever stood outside of a very tall building, looked up at it, and wondered how, in all of its complexity and largeness, that it came to be? Have you ever been to a museum clad in curved glass with funny looking angled panels on the roof only to go inside and find that the light most perfectly blankets each piece of artwork in the most precise way? If Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-1052702027845181622010-02-21T06:29:00.000-08:002010-02-21T06:58:40.988-08:002010-02-21T06:58:40.988-08:00Snow Day at Mellon ParkScenic WritingDesign Seminar IIMellon Park is three feet high in snow. The black gate encompassing it is merely black spikes rising out of an infinite white blob. On one side of the gate is the street that can't be seen under all the snow. And on our side is the valley of the park that inches its way up the hill. The hill is like an enormous ocean wave right before it's peak that has been frozen Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-35417790958590813112010-01-27T06:20:00.000-08:002010-01-27T06:26:53.651-08:002010-01-27T06:26:53.651-08:00love with a citySelf-PortraitDesign Seminar III absolutely could not wait to look out the window of the plane and see the 405 and 10 intersection— and the miles of traffic that signified we were above Los Angeles, California—my true home away from home. I looked miles below to the ground. It was brown with layers of cracked earth indicating steep, mountainous terrain. Every now and then I noticed a road with a Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-74991365624602855572009-12-19T11:01:00.000-08:002009-12-19T11:25:59.521-08:002009-12-19T11:25:59.521-08:00My friends.I have 809 friends on facebook (I know - that's a totally cliche thing to say). But of those 809, there may be about 20 people that I am actually truly friends with. And of those 20, there may be about 10 that I actually truly talk to often. And of those 10, there may be about 5 that are actually truly close friends. Some of you may object to this statement because I always say, "my best friend Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-48111422824832678202009-12-09T13:45:00.000-08:002009-12-09T13:49:28.289-08:002009-12-09T13:49:28.289-08:00Visualizing the Information Space...of HarmenLiemburg.nlHere's my final studio project that I've been slaving over for the past week.Check it.Visualizing the Information Space... from Sarah Calandro on Vimeo.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-73065368734849271122009-12-01T18:04:00.000-08:002009-12-01T18:33:08.484-08:002009-12-01T18:33:08.484-08:00How Yoga Teacher Training, Edward Cullen, and Raw Chicken Changed My LifeIn the land of yoga, Yoga Teacher Training marks a major life transition. People go through teacher training for multiple reasons. Some people want a complete career change. Some a new side income. Some want to deepen their yoga practice. And then others just want to meet interesting folk and practice yoga with them. I wanted to become a yoga teacher not only for the obvious - I loved yoga and Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-62312026911557078282009-11-30T18:29:00.000-08:002009-12-01T18:02:07.126-08:002009-12-01T18:02:07.126-08:00How My Yoga Neighbor Teaches Me YogaThis is a story I posted a few months back of a situation I encountered in yoga class one day. I have re-worked and it is much better flowing and more clear. Please send your comments!Yoga class (unspoken) etiquette rule #1: Do not enter the yogic space of your next-door yoga neighbor. Your presence is not welcome. Thank You.After three agonizing days of a sketching intensive in my summer design Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-85037730120801994662009-11-10T04:30:00.000-08:002009-11-10T11:30:43.580-08:002009-11-10T11:30:43.580-08:00Teaching Yoga is like Ustrasana.Teaching yoga is like Ustrasana. Ustrasana, or Camel pose, can provide 1 of 2 ‘good’ outcomes - the liberating in-the-moment-back-opening-feel-good ‘good’ or the exhausting I-think-I’m-going-to-throw-up-or-pass-out-but-I-know-this-is-good-for-me ‘good.’ For me, moreso than not, it’s the latter. And on the rare occasion that it’s the former, I bask in all it’s glory. As a newly certified yoga Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-63097741993150418752009-11-02T19:38:00.001-08:002009-11-03T02:58:46.162-08:002009-11-03T02:58:46.162-08:00flying words down penn ave: the future of readingshould be self explanatory. ENJOY!flying words down penn ave: the future of reading from Sarah Calandro on Vimeo.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-71126641425947018542009-08-24T16:29:00.000-07:002009-08-24T17:06:47.838-07:002009-08-24T17:06:47.838-07:00Today...I started grad school.During my sabbatical from 'real' life that began on April 25, 2009 (the first day of my non-dayjob lifestyle) to August 23, 2009 (yesterday), I have found myself involved in the following: 1. Doing whatever I feel like doing... whenever I feel like doing it. 2. Collecting and reading every single book that I have come in contact with that I find slightly interesting. These Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-63968247846164916222009-07-24T16:02:00.001-07:002009-07-24T16:07:32.576-07:002009-07-24T16:07:32.576-07:00wo.rd. line. paragraph. column. / the manuscript gridCheck out this weeks work on aftereffects. It was my first time to ever use the software and I'm quite impressed. I think it may become one of my new favorite programs :)wo.rd. line. paragraph. column. from Sarah Calandro on Vimeo.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-78166840019202630692009-07-18T13:03:00.000-07:002009-07-18T15:04:04.204-07:002009-07-18T15:04:04.204-07:00"Enjoy the little things...for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." -Robert Brault. From May 12 to June 27th, I found myself in a Timewarp. 47 days...............of Timewarp. After being in the big city. Doing everything myself. by myself. for myself. plus a lot more. figuring things out. living, loving, aching...... Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-32908593556312225772009-07-12T14:27:00.000-07:002009-07-24T16:10:52.053-07:002009-07-24T16:10:52.053-07:00school update : hcd movie1. design observation2. physical interaction3. cognitive interpretation4. emotional resonanceit's a silly video; though, it will give an idea of how the summer intensive is going at CMU.human-centered design from Sarah Calandro on Vimeo.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-81211803008313762072009-07-11T11:54:00.001-07:002009-07-11T20:42:01.684-07:002009-07-11T20:42:01.684-07:00immersion in humancentered-ness = purge of excess.the title of this post may seem a bit... um. hypocritical? my goal is that i'm not being hypocritical.This past week in class, we began a discussion of human-centered design. This discussion will continue for the next 2 years with the intent of teaching my classmates and me how to design for users / viewers / regular people [aka, people who know nothing / a little / a lot about design]. This Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-45664443866229353392009-07-04T05:30:00.000-07:002009-07-04T08:18:10.742-07:002009-07-04T08:18:10.742-07:00Word.A transition in progress... quick progress. My life changes every day so quickly I've gotten to the point where I just sit back and watch, un-biased, merely an innocent bystander in the progress [or lack of progress] that occurs here. Six months ago, generally-speaking, I was the same as I am now [minus the few 'wisdoms' that currently sit at my forefront], but the terrain was very different. My Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-74583669885861821212009-06-25T14:28:00.001-07:002009-06-25T14:40:36.188-07:002009-06-25T14:40:36.188-07:00thus far, pittsburgh:car-negg-y. not carn-a-gy.old bricks and cracks in the side walk to trip on.trail/track-running culture (i love this).hot (yes, actually hot. but cooler than louisiana).empty house with lots of yellow walls.whole foods and trader joe's down the street (sah-weet!!! i can eat un-processed organic food!)amazing yoga (really is amazing. they are right).confusing bus-transit system (better than a car)Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1150663725408892969.post-14371750391799339162009-06-18T17:33:00.000-07:002009-06-22T06:19:39.162-07:002009-06-22T06:19:39.162-07:00the next step....i'm sitting outside at my parents GIANT new house in baton rouge, la. i am listening to some cheesy xm station that my mom turned on earlier. and in the background i hear the trickling of water from the pool fountain and some birds chirping in the cypress tree in the center of the lake. the sun is beginning to go down so the light is quite nice and yellow-y. it's still pretty warm out, but Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482881611560567941noreply@blogger.com2