Project 3

 Precarious

- Dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure; a precarious livelihood
- Dependent on the will or pleasure of another; liable to be withdrawn or lost at the will of another: He held a precarious tenure under an arbitrary administration
- Exposed to or involving danger; dangerous; perilous; risky: the precarious life of an underseas diver. 
- Having insufficient, little, or no foundation: a precarious assumption.


The Idea was to create a sculpture that represented the word precarious effectively.
my sculpture showed dependency on one another and on the precarious nature of the stand i made. with bad welds, and pin-point 

connections, precariousity screams out through the movement of the piece.

Project 2 (a)

 Starting above is the finished product.. below i go about explaining  the process of getting the board into the laser cutter then into my ondulating shape.






So i started this laser cutter project with an image file and was going to have fun burning an image of my face into it, till i decided maybe it would be fun to do something TRULY artistic with this laser cuter!
This was just a playful shape i came up with to start messing around with the program and figure out exactly how i was going to do this project.

*Started with a planar Surface undulating in craziness..

*So then I used the contour tool that will contour the shape i made into as many 'slices as i want'








*Easy Offset tool to the thickness i want, then i 'loft' the two lines into the hundreds of intersecting planes you see now








*A closer view of one of the curves allows me to find the intersecting point, plot it, draw out the dimension of Face B (hidden in image) in an attempt to notch away







*The Final product shown here now gives me the actual shapes i need with the proper cut away in order to lock these faces into place. it is a matter of separating all of the faces, laying them flat, number them, and laser cut.

Project 1 Final

 Batteries Final
     So the conclusion of the casting assignment came out to be a hanger. I ended up casting and hanging over 75 ipods, 9V, AA, and AAA batteries with stripped out copper wiring. you can see from the images that i did a sort of wrapping of the batteries for a cool look. I hung them all and entertwined them making a complete mess of things.
     The idea was to look at the plaster batteries and sence a coldness and almost death of the suggested energy and ipods. Ipod being an instantly recognizable object in my model i wish i would have done a lot more or a lot less. Because i introduced the ipod however it felt as though i needed to introduce more gizmos and gadgets to really complete the piece. I did however like the way i portrayed a sort of dependence between the batteries and the ipod and felt like i was successful in conveying that concept.

Signing out Project 1

Project 1(c)

 BATTERIES!

 This is probably my favorite idea so far. Good solid objects that can be made into multiple molds quickly.

I also have the option of using different kinds of batteries for diversity and irregularities amongst regularities. 

I think it would be fun to hide a real battery in the pile of cast batteries, and then run wires from all of the fake batteries to a light bulb, connecting them all and lighting the light bulb; real battery being un-known of course.
 

PART 2


So i have reached a few conclusions over the last couple of weeks as far as my plans for this project.
First of all as you can see through the process of rubber mold making i have made a lot of plaster batteries and... what is that? Ipods!. i thought it would be fun to play with the relationship between this sources of energy and our reliance/dependence on it for this entertainment that we have been conditioned to love so much!
I have been encouraged to look at these batteries and ipods as objects rather than batteries and ipods and so you can see i have been playing around with organizational patterns trying to find something that clicked. below (image with my hand) you can see me playing with the idea of connecting all of my 'objects' with wires in an attempt to echo even more so the concept of dependence.

Project 1(b)

Inspired by existing work

 

For this idea I started going along the path of awareness. It is said that 50% of marriages end in divorce; I wanted to say something about that.

Project 1 (a)

 

My first idea for project one stemmed from the phrase "Concrete Jungle." I started playing with the idea of how I could represent in a fun way the before mentioned phrase. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As I explored the phrase "Concrete Jungle" I started to think about the characteristics of a city. The first thing that came to me were skyscrapers and their ability to somewhat defy gravity by growing into the sky. Obviously i am aware of the fact that this is 'not' an actual defying of gravity but is in fact the exemplification of gravity.

Either way ... Antigravity 

So then i thought of the super fun toy most of us had growing up; Barrel of Monkeys!

 I thought that monkeys would be an awesome tool to use for the 'Jungle' part of my phrase! I thought it would be cool to link the arms of the monkeys with a spot of binding (glue) and then stand them up 'anti-gravitationally.' arranging them in the conceptual form of a city. 



 Because funds are limited for me I'm going to have to use a more viscous material (plaster) than a liquid plastic thus not being able to create the thin monkeys from a mold. So i will have to venture off and come up with some other idea!