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The Art of Scrap, Friday, Period 4

Jan 06, 2012 02:09

Okay, cool. Dean had been on the island for exactly a week now, and so far he was still more or less sane. This probably had something to do with the way he'd managed to avoid actually meeting any of the students yet, granted. But for the time being? Sane ( Read more... )

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Present Your Masterpieces! advanceapology January 6 2012, 06:19:08 UTC

Dean cleared his throat near the end of class, standing up and holding up a newspaper collage that turned out to actually be a pretty impressive portrayal of a mug of coffee, made using mostly bits of pictures of women's hair for the coffee in the mug, and blue skies of different hues for the mug itself. He'd run out of time and used a wisp of cigarette smoke from an old ad for the steam, instead of trying to piece that together out of words from the newsprint, like he'd been planning to do.

"Self-explanatory, huh?" Dean was smirking as he nodded toward his own coffee mug. "The stuff of life, kids. Trust me. You'll understand someday."

Like, as soon as they made it to college. Especially if they went on to art school.

"Okay, your turns. Let's see your work, hear your names, and learn a little something about what you put together, there."

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! notmyownage January 6 2012, 19:01:44 UTC

"Claudia Donovan," Claudia said, offering up an odd little salute. "And, uh, this -- among other things -- is what I do."

She set a fresh, steaming cup of coffee on a nearby desk, then held her work for the day over it. A big paper fan stuck off one end on a scissor axle, spinning slowly thanks to the steam rising off the coffee, setting off a chain reaction of little wound paper belts and posterboard-covered-in-car-ads gears.

"It doesn't actually do anything other than spin." She shrugged. "And, you know, look kinda neat."

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! advanceapology January 6 2012, 19:08:08 UTC

Well, Dean was suitably impressed. He'd made one or two sculptures that had moving parts in the past, but not out of paper and coffee steam. He let out a low whistle.

"Well, this is art class," he pointed out, walking over to get a better look. "Looking 'kinda neat' is one of those things that comes in kind of handy with this sort of thing, you know?"

He watched the whole thing at work for another moment before glancing up at her.

"So, you're some kind of mechanic, I'm guessing?"

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! notmyownage January 6 2012, 19:38:34 UTC

"Amateur physicist, mostly," Claudia explained. "And general tech whiz. You need something hacked into or cobbled together, I'm your girl."

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! advanceapology January 6 2012, 19:47:08 UTC

"Physics, huh?" Dean pursed his lips thoughtfully as he looked at the coffee-powered papercraft.

Oh yeah. He was impressed.

"Not so sure about the hacking part," mostly since he had no idea that it existed in a computing sense, "but the cobbling parts are going to come in handy this semester for you, I think. A lot of what we're doing is going to involve a bunch of bits that aren't going to fit together at all, at first."

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! notmyownage January 6 2012, 19:49:40 UTC

"I'll have to remember my tool belt next week, then," Claudia said cheerfully.

She'd always been the more hands-on of the physics geniuses in her family.

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! advanceapology January 6 2012, 19:53:09 UTC

"Next week is mostly going to be the basics," Dean replied, smirking a little. "Some theory before we get started. But some pliers and wire-cutters couldn't hurt."

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! notmyownage January 6 2012, 19:57:46 UTC

"Duly noted, mon capitaine. Anything else you want me to bring along? You said you might need a TA, and I'm pretty good at acquiring stuff."

She had lots of practice, thanks to Jamie's mostly nonsensical lists from last semester.

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! advanceapology January 6 2012, 19:59:55 UTC

Dean couldn't help but look thoughtful at that suggestion.

"... You know any good place to pick up a couple rolls of chicken wire?"

That was not as random a request as it sounded. Honest.

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! notmyownage January 6 2012, 20:05:49 UTC

"Sure. You can get anything on the internet." Heck, with Craig's List and Freecycle, she might not even have to pay for 'em.

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! advanceapology January 6 2012, 20:08:09 UTC

So help him, Dean couldn't quite fight back that momentary blank stare, there.

"That sounds kind of useful," he admitted as he shook himself out of it. "You're going to have to forgive me, I'm fresh out of the fifties. But... internet?"

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! notmyownage January 6 2012, 20:17:00 UTC

He was from the fifties? Man, that explained a lot. You'd think Claudia would have some experience explaining the internet to a computer newb, but H.G. Wells had actually been pretty up on technology, and they hadn't managed to accidentally unleash any other historical figures on the world at the Warehouse, yet.

"Well, uh. It's basically this giant network of computers. . . ." She trailed off, then decided to go a different route and pulled her laptop out of her bag instead. "Here, I can show you." She called up Google and did a general search for chicken wire, then turned the laptop so Dean could see.

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! advanceapology January 6 2012, 20:26:14 UTC

"... Whoa."

Mind = Blown. Dean was going to need more coffee for this. Between the size of the computer itself, and just how much information he was staring at, all about chicken wire, would anybody really blame him?

"So people just... type what they want, and it shows up in that little box there, and then you get... all of that?"

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! notmyownage January 6 2012, 20:34:58 UTC

"Pretty much. You can be as specific as you want, too, and sometimes it'll try to guess what you're looking for as you type, based on what other people around the world have searched for." Claudia typed in "chicken", and the little box popped up, suggesting "chicken recipes", "chicken out", "chicken breast recipes" and "chicken parmesan".

Because that was totally going to help with the blown mind situation.

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! advanceapology January 6 2012, 20:43:39 UTC

Oh yeah, that was clearing it all right up.

"It's spitting out results as fast as you can type," Dean noted, trying, oh, he was trying, to be casual about this. It still wasn't working so well for him. "Chicken parmesan is pretty popular these days, huh?"

Re: Present Your Masterpieces! notmyownage January 6 2012, 20:51:21 UTC

"Eh, I like chicken tikka masala better. But yeah, that's because our wi-fi network here is really fast. It works kind of like a telephone, you know? Almost instantaneous."

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