Oct 7, 2009 - College / Updates    No Comments

Can’t Dud With the Spuds

My 3-D Design class has been interesting thus far. Josh Downs Jersey No, we are not starting off with the infamous pasta structures or the repetition of manufactured objects to create form (anything from plastic hangers to Tylenol). Dominic DeLuca Jersey We began our class by building… Rett Andersen Texas Jersey bridges. LSU Gabriel Reliford Jersey Cardboard only, no adhesive. Jack Bouwmeester Texas Jersey Sound okay? Try spanning three feet without using a single piece bigger than twelve inches. Still okay? How many potatoes do you think your structure will be able to hold in the bucket suspended from your cardboard bridge? Yes, you must add potatoes till your pride and joy is damaged.

Today was the day of damage. My group worked very well together, and we ended up calling ourselves Team Killer Whales due to the way our design turned out. Looks like two monster whales (complete with teeth and eyeballs) sharing a train Lady and the Tramp-style. Caleb Shaffer Jersey Evan Stewart Oregon Jersey It broke. In half. (Technically, about at the 1/3 mark.) Twenty-seven potatoes later. Not bad, really.

Now we are exploring shapes and space. First we built these perfect little geometric shapes out of bristol board – a cube, a pyramid, a cylinder (so tedious), an accordion fold, and a curved accordion fold. Nick Tronti Indiana Jersey Today in class we were instructed to deconstruct them. D.J. Fluker Alabama Jersey Yes, cut into them and reassemble them in some nonsensical way that contrasts sharply from their former Platonic solid selves. This one is in the works – and I am having so much fun with it.

So 3D? Learning to appreciate my work while it exists? Being flexible and open to change? Who knows where we’ll go from here. Devon Baxter Michigan Wolverines Jersey Tiz interesting.

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