This week I really got my project somewhat complete in composition. Honestly, after last class I was a bit disheartened about my project because I felt like I wasn’t capturing the vision I had in my mind and was beginning to brainstorm other projects I could switch to. That was until I tried to get…
Everything Working
I’ve worked on this project a LOT this week. I realized pretty quickly that most of it is not hard but is very time-intensive. I melted a lottt of plastic bottles (will still need to do more) and spent countless hours marking, cutting, and gluing pieces together. I definitely learned tips and tricks on how…
Everything Working
Made a decent amount of progress this week and things are really starting to come together. I built a cleaner, more polished version of my forced perspective model and got it mounted in the shadowbox. One of the big updates is the flooring. I used a carpet material to give it some texture, and made…
Everything Working!?
More learning & application this week! I spent the time learning about particle simulations and the like to really get the focal point done so I can finally move on to something else. I’ve got what I think is my final for now, so in the coming days it will all be modeling & what…
Everything Working
Although I have not yet begun assembling my project due to an intense ROTC schedule over the past couple of weeks, I am now entering the final stretch with all necessary components in place. I am fully prepared to assemble the physical piece within the time I have allotted to finishing it this weekend. All…
Everything Working
This week was a bit more of a failure and recalibration for me, but as of now everything is working. If you remember from last week, I was not able to get much work done and therefore did not have much opportunity for failure. Which means that this week I got the honor to trip…
Everything Working
With every photoshoot and every editing session, I have definitely started to cut down time in my trial and error process. This week I did a photoshoot at Cascading Waters in Worcester. I had no idea until just recently that we had such an amazing piece of nature so close by and if you haven’t…
Everything Working (finally!)
Initial Design I started by whipping up an initial design for the LED enclosure. The idea was the have a front panel that can help direct and diffuse the light for the LED’s and a back panel that holds the electrical components and my phone: A Late Bloomer… I then switched over to trying to…
Failure, Recalibration, and Iteration
At first I didn’t think I had a lot of failure this week since it wasn’t in a three-dimensional space. However after thinking about it this week came with a lot of failure. I decided to do a test block of a different flower pattern that I found online in the size of yarn I…
Failure, Recalibration & Iteration: First Burn
This week, I chose to explore the dynamic parts of my project by creating hinged beams which would move once a rope which held their initial position burnt. I expected to fail during this test, yet I was successful in obtaining the desired effect on my first try. I also expected to fail in igniting…
Failure, Recalibration & Iteration
I failed this week & last week, consider me an overachiever! Last week, I tried methods of combining the pieces of plastic that didn’t work. But then I figured out that hot glue worked pretty well. Let’s go over this week: First: I bought supplies (colorful Sharpies & black hot glue gun sticks) Second: I…
Failure, Recalibration, & Iteration – One hell of a mistake
The perfect week to make mistakes, and boy howdy was there a mistake this week. I was making some decisions about what I wanted in the scene and after reading through a magazine about undersea photography and seeing the interesting way that flashlights behave underwater (example below), I did away with the large column and…