so not worth it

I stayed up all night working on this. As I said before, so not worth it.




Didn't turn out very exciting or pretty...but hopefully I'll get better at it by the time I do the rest of my renderings. It's hard to mimic some of the effects I want in photoshop. I want more texture and stuff...prepare for an update on Thursday. Do your zamm homework.

grinding some angles, dude

So...today I've been more or less useless. Yesterday I made a circle. Here's me cutting it off my jig with an angle grinder, hurray!




And so then I had this...I thought it looked like a much smoother circle, but it doesn't appear so in pictures. This is a bummer...but the circle is a fairly unimportant part of my design anyhow.




And so that other thing I made is the smaller metal nest thingy. I was having some trouble welding today, so this one isn't so nice, but hopefully I'll be better at it next time. The one shown is actually only about half as long as a final one, and there will be seven.




So now my dilemma is what to do about the finish...I actually really like it raw like this, not polished with visible discoloration on the washer. I think it looks neat and that it's interesting to see right where the weld affected the stainless steel. However, there's definitely some concern that I'm subconsciously convincing myself that it looks good because I'm lazy and don't want to bother finishing it. Bleh...




Anyway, today is Jenna's birthday! Yay Jenna! We got our helices pierced to celebrate.

Chain of fools

What am I getting myself into?

So...I went to the scrap metal yard with my dad and found these things. Pretty much just stainless steel washers with little rods attached to them. I thought they looked like little flowers and were kind of cute so I bought some.




I bought 22 pounds of them to be exact, digging them out of piles of rubbish and throwing them in a pile.




And then I organized the pile as such.




The plan is for them to be the backside of my chair. I'm going to weld all 1 bajillion of them together (I have no idea how to weld). The side shown here is going to be covered with a quilted cushion (I have no idea how to quilt), so the side that will show will be smoother and mostly just look like a bunch of washers.




I got pretty tired from organizing them all, so I took a nap next to my creation to show scale.



This is going to be a catastrophe.



Some photos from happier times:






Visiting my brother in Colorado...p.s. I'm going to work for him this summer in Fort Lauderdale! Hurray...








Utah!

lollipops and gumdrops

Oh geez...as if my designs didn't already scream like a 10 year old girl redecorating her bedroom, blogger seems to think they'd look better in bright blue. I'll try to repost them later - in the right colors.

Off to another all nighter! Thanks for all the homework guys...

great and pretty ok things

Stayed up a little too late last night doing...stuff. Now I'm a little sleepy and can't draw, so I'm spending my morning looking at pictures.

Let's start with great things...like milk bottle sculptures!


And candy sculptures!


And sweet chalk bike trails! Holy crap!

What a great thing...

Now, on to some pretty good stuff. Pretty ok seems a little harsh, it's really quite good, excellent even. I rescind my previous statement.


Knitted chairs are really cool...I'm thinking very seriously about knitting my cushions on my chair. Good because I know how to knit, and I like to knit, and I like knitted things. The trifecta of knitting goodness.

Also - need to learn how to melt plastic. In a cool manner. Alla Tertium non Data or the milk bottle sculpture. Maybe even those little plastic things that go around 6 pack cans and bottle and kill birds and turtles. OR plastic bags...although the plastic bags seem to be getting a little played. It's all about being trendy in your eco-friendliness, really. Hah...I just think plastic bags get a sort of strange amount of attention...not that I don't know plastic bags are incredibly wasteful and all that jazz, I use cloth bags, but it seems like that's the new go-to cause, and maybe there are some more deserving things. I think maybe it's more economically friendly than eco friendly. I don't think too many people are losing sleep about plastic bags companies going out of business so the stores are happy to get behind it, but other disposable things just make these companies way too much money. Stores are fine with having us buy something that they gave away for free. The company is all like "yeah, go ahead with your piddly little cloth bags, I'm gonna eat you, nom, nom, nom..."

Clearly I've lost my train of thought. Stop.