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It's been a while folks, but here's the skinny on my life these past bunch of weeks:
-I entered a competition, sent in my stuff on Oct. 3rd. Didn't have nearly the clear head or time I needed to really flesh out the idea. Apparently it didn't get into the finalists pool, but based on what DID make it in, I was almost completely outside the realm of what they were looking for. A month of work for zero pay-off. It'll take me another week or two to redo it all well enough to put it in as portfolio pieces.
-Finally got around to mostly finishing the new IDSA student chapter site. Still a few bits and pieces to spice it up, but it works and if people will put up their WORK, it will finally e able to show off what our program can do. www.ncsuidsa.org
-Made a set of three coat hooks for my materials class. I'm fairly happy with how they turned out conceptually, but I need a LOT more practice with craft on the lathe. Luckily photoshop should be able to save them for the portfolio.
-Built a soap-box derby car with a group of sophmores. We made a throwback X-Wing fighter, and whomped the competition
The base of the car came from a tricycle, and I did pretty much all the metalwork on it. Learned how to MIG weld pretty well, and the rest of the team did an amazing job in framing it out, and the finishing work!
-Been working on a funded project for a company with a couple of other graduate students. Unfortunately it's all under NDA, but hopefully I will be able to talk about it before too long.
-Made a pretty sweet poster for my history of ID course, it's a poster in ode to Raymond Loewy. If you don't know who this guy is, look him up, as he is basically responsible for industrial design in the US.
-Wrote a captcha defeating utility. Complete waste of time, but I needed to prove a point. And now that it's done (took about 24hrs), I think I may release it to the public so people can make their anti-spam measures better.
-Started the mass exodus of posessions on ebay. With any luck, in a couple of months I will have consolidated all the garbage out of my life again. Sold off 11 items this week, more will come quickly.
-Planning on running a 10k this next weekend if the weather and my health hold up.
-Been working on a chair/furniture line for a competition thing due Dec 3rd. I'm having an extremely hard time with it. Probably gone through 4 designs now all the way to start fabrication before realizing they won't be strong enough to sit on. Very frustrating trying to make a stable and supporting object into something light, airy and new.
So much more, but it will have to wait for another day :)
-I entered a competition, sent in my stuff on Oct. 3rd. Didn't have nearly the clear head or time I needed to really flesh out the idea. Apparently it didn't get into the finalists pool, but based on what DID make it in, I was almost completely outside the realm of what they were looking for. A month of work for zero pay-off. It'll take me another week or two to redo it all well enough to put it in as portfolio pieces.
-Finally got around to mostly finishing the new IDSA student chapter site. Still a few bits and pieces to spice it up, but it works and if people will put up their WORK, it will finally e able to show off what our program can do. www.ncsuidsa.org
-Made a set of three coat hooks for my materials class. I'm fairly happy with how they turned out conceptually, but I need a LOT more practice with craft on the lathe. Luckily photoshop should be able to save them for the portfolio.
-Built a soap-box derby car with a group of sophmores. We made a throwback X-Wing fighter, and whomped the competition
The base of the car came from a tricycle, and I did pretty much all the metalwork on it. Learned how to MIG weld pretty well, and the rest of the team did an amazing job in framing it out, and the finishing work!
-Been working on a funded project for a company with a couple of other graduate students. Unfortunately it's all under NDA, but hopefully I will be able to talk about it before too long.
-Made a pretty sweet poster for my history of ID course, it's a poster in ode to Raymond Loewy. If you don't know who this guy is, look him up, as he is basically responsible for industrial design in the US.
-Wrote a captcha defeating utility. Complete waste of time, but I needed to prove a point. And now that it's done (took about 24hrs), I think I may release it to the public so people can make their anti-spam measures better.
-Started the mass exodus of posessions on ebay. With any luck, in a couple of months I will have consolidated all the garbage out of my life again. Sold off 11 items this week, more will come quickly.
-Planning on running a 10k this next weekend if the weather and my health hold up.
-Been working on a chair/furniture line for a competition thing due Dec 3rd. I'm having an extremely hard time with it. Probably gone through 4 designs now all the way to start fabrication before realizing they won't be strong enough to sit on. Very frustrating trying to make a stable and supporting object into something light, airy and new.
So much more, but it will have to wait for another day :)