Early in the morning after the best sleep I have had since arriving in Italy we took the subway to the largest Convention Center I have been to. Today is the only day open to the public and as the time got closer to when the event began the more people started to show up and crowd the entrance. It was almost like the people outside stores the morning after thanksgiving but with a little more calm thrown in there. The rush hit as the clock changed to 9:30. We took off down to the other end on moving walk ways. It took us ten minutes to get there, the land of Kitchens. The first couple of hours we wondered through in amazement. I can’t believe that the three of us out of twenty-one from Orvieto came and only six out of nine IA students and six out of the 50 plus KSU CAPD students in studying abroad. We could all learn something. I strongly suggest that anyone who is able to make it for this annual event should. This has been the only truly beneficial thing towards our major. There was exhibit, furniture, product, space, and lighting designs for us to learn from professionals and other students. I would love to someday have the IAPD department at KSU have a exhibit at this show to share our creations. There is no doubt in my mind that our students could compete with what we saw. There were things similar to pieces created by previous and current students in our program. There were a lot of new technologies as well. One was by some students from Japan. It was a unique and unconventional camera. It looked like speakers or something but was a camera. One of the students was wearing the Ushaped thin camera around his neck. Just as if he had picked up a modern horseshoe and decided to wear it as a necklace. AS I approached to get a better look he drew a circle in the air. I soon saw my face on the screen behind him. Creepy, no Awesome! To take a picture all he did was complete a shape in the air. The camera was designed to read his movement to take a shot of whatever the wearer desired. By the end our brains were on overload with ideas, images, and thoughts about interpreting and understanding all that we were seeing. In the 8 plus hours we spent at the show we were able to understand more than what we have been taught. I did not care how much my body and feet ached, or how much it cost me to get here. It was well worth it.
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