Almost there

THe semester is almost at an end. only about 4 weeks to go and i am going to be finished with my first year of college. it has gone by so fast. I think about how life was back when school started. everything was new and exciting. I loved it. Not to say that  idont still love it here in lawrence, its just the newness kinda wore off. So I am nearing the end of this chair project. I just need to finish sanding it and all will be complete. I am a little worried about what tom is going to say. he has continuously given me looks while walking past my chair like he is not a huge fan. Oh well, I feel like I am doing a pretty good job this being me first time actually working with wood. My goal is to finish sanding it today so I dont have to worry about it over this weekend. Wish me luck

chairs

So it is now april and we have finished our tree house project. In that time we have start3ed and finished a few projects. or a couple i guess it is. We made  acard boardchair that not only looked sweet but held my weight. I had problems with this because one of the stipulations was to not use glue. and well, i used glue on my first prototype. Since i did that i had to rip the old one apart and put a new one together in only two days. but i got it finished! THe next project we startted on was to make a chair using the common shop. the materials in this project were sheet metal and plywood. So far i am behind because of this weeks rotc stuff. i am about to head out and get some plywood from home depot because they were all out in the shop. :( so wih me luck that i can get this stupid thing finished

finished the tree

so we fnished our tree project, and I must say, I loved working on it. I have always been interested in drawing and depicting trees, adding in the place to chill was just an extra bonus. Here is the finial design poster

So our next project is going to be working on a "seat" a chair made of cardboard. Currently i am working on sketches to work toward this.

On a final note, I have decided to enter a scholarship opportunity for the think and make class. I have to get a couple of my works done in class over this semester ready to present. So i got a whole lot to do :p until next time

Finishing up

So i spent a total of eleven hours in the design studio working on my model and low and behold it falls apart a few days later. Not very cool. oh well i have moved onto bigger and better things. So I have begun working on a poster for the final representation. Its coming up soon and i feel that  i am right on track. Here is my poster as far as i have it right now. I am hoping to get Tom's feed back one more time before printing it out so i can get a final critique on it. 

Today we finished our "mindboards," basically a poster that showed what i have been doing this whole time. I spent a couple hours on it liast night and liked what i ended up with. I thinki may have spent to much time on it compared to the other people in my class. Oh well i want that A this semester. I felt i worked hard enough last semester to get the A, but i guess the quality of my work wasnt good enough for the A. So I am trying to figure out what the next step is going to be in this project. i am drew some flor plans last night that I actually liked a lot. But  I am worried about how I am going to further the design. MY concept is a bit, well out there compared to the other contemporary designs. Moat of the houses are just boxes in trees. I almos feel i bit off more than i can chew.  but after working on my project for over 11 hours today i am starting to really like the direction i have gone :) more later

so we have started drawing trees, and i am very excited. this is going to be very shourt because i have a pt test in the morning and need to make sure i get enough sleep. all i need to say is that i am excited, but nervous at the same time about this project. i am not all that great of a drawer, better than some, but not as good as most. So because of this i am worried about how i am going to be eventually representing this idea. ihave a couple intro sketches, and i am guessing we will just be expounding on each as we go. i guess its just trial and error fro here. uhg

TREES

I feel very inadiquit... Our way finding project was presented today. In my opinion we failed... by choosing a project that spanned over 5 mi it was very hard for us to get from point a to point b, let alone finding people that were willing to help out our cause. We were not able then to test out how ou rsignage worked. second we were all very busy, not taking design seriousl yyet. not a good plan. I plan that on my next project i am going to focus, and work hard on doing the very best i can. I think the new project is designing a tree house. ihave already begun to brain storm ideas for it in simple ways. For example walking through campus to class i have been looking around at the trees and the landscape as a whole. This has given me an idea of how a tree house would fit in. when i think of a tree house i often imagine an environmentally consious design that looks organic. sSince it is in a tree the actual design needs to replicate a tree, or at least blend into it. I am very excited to get away from this last project, it seems like we have been wasting our time on this, but that could jut be my uneducated opinion. regardless i am very excited to showcase my talents on this next project