this is a rant
this is my first day alone in for-ever.
i've got lots to think about.
apparently tomorrow is results day - so i'll have to go in.. find out what grade i've gotten, then either comiserate or celebrate with my respective friends, depending on what they recieved. i'm not really looking forward to it.
and i feel arrogant or something that i couldn't care less what i've gotten. but everyone gets so worked up.
ugh.
i'm just so happy what's happened to me in the last few years.. i feel really happy i've moved here, studied here, found matthew, etc.
i thought results day was next friday.. but we ran into some friends in oxford who told us it was actually tomorrow.
huh.
i've been thinking alot about my show, though.
i had three pieces in the show.. and, mm all three of them were malfunctioning..
mainly i've been thinking about the wall piece:
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/hatch/wall.jpg
its just.. i was working on it up till the very last minute.. and now there's lots of stuff i want to change, ..only, its too late. i'll have to dismantle it. the sooner the better i guess, so i stop thinking about it.
my main beef with it is..
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/hatch/toy.jpg
you're supposed to see this toy underneath.. and, not only did the toy stop working the first evening of the show - i think the motor running nonstop melted the plastic of the toy - but nobody looked for it cause the damn paper cone/arm is in the way..
initially i was trying to construct the cone to go up and over.. ah, its hard to explain, but anyway, you'd have room to look under to see the toy.
and the arm never worked anyway.
i think i should have left this previous arm - i did many versions of the paper arm - kept tearing them down and starting again.. but this one i did, was really messy looking, but did the job, was strong and high..
i think maybe i would have preferred functional with some aesthetic problems than.. well, both aestetic and functional dysfunction.
anyway, the other pieces..
i'm always happy with the guitar piece, but, it, too.. malfunctioned. the guitar has to freely lean on the guitar strings, but kids and people kept touching it, shoving it in its hole, and then it didn't hit the strings.
grrrrr.
i wasn't there to fix the pieces each time they messed up, but its probably for the best, i would have gone mad.
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/hatch/guitarwheel.jpg
and the shower piece, it kept breaking..
this was due, i think, to my lack of instructions, but, i didn't want to be telling people what to do. i wanted people just to come and discover. as cheesy as that sounds.
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/hatch/shower.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/hatch/myself.jpg
but they faucett handles apparently kinda came unthreaded or something.. haven't had a look yet, but i thought the electronic switches at the back of each tap was going to snap.. so perhaps that happened.
i don't know.. i think i'm just not that impressed with what i ended up with in the show.. hmm but what's put in the show is just the best of where you're at at the moment.. and i didn't feel like i was at the end, making the best thing ever... i just made the next few things. and if i get some more space, i expect the next few things i make will be better yet.
gol-durn it... i just went through all the trouble of uploading pics to angelfire and stuff.. and it won't let me put them on.. it does this:
grrr
i've got lots to think about.
apparently tomorrow is results day - so i'll have to go in.. find out what grade i've gotten, then either comiserate or celebrate with my respective friends, depending on what they recieved. i'm not really looking forward to it.
and i feel arrogant or something that i couldn't care less what i've gotten. but everyone gets so worked up.
ugh.
i'm just so happy what's happened to me in the last few years.. i feel really happy i've moved here, studied here, found matthew, etc.
i thought results day was next friday.. but we ran into some friends in oxford who told us it was actually tomorrow.
huh.
i've been thinking alot about my show, though.
i had three pieces in the show.. and, mm all three of them were malfunctioning..
mainly i've been thinking about the wall piece:
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/hatch/wall.jpg
its just.. i was working on it up till the very last minute.. and now there's lots of stuff i want to change, ..only, its too late. i'll have to dismantle it. the sooner the better i guess, so i stop thinking about it.
my main beef with it is..
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/hatch/toy.jpg
you're supposed to see this toy underneath.. and, not only did the toy stop working the first evening of the show - i think the motor running nonstop melted the plastic of the toy - but nobody looked for it cause the damn paper cone/arm is in the way..
initially i was trying to construct the cone to go up and over.. ah, its hard to explain, but anyway, you'd have room to look under to see the toy.
and the arm never worked anyway.
i think i should have left this previous arm - i did many versions of the paper arm - kept tearing them down and starting again.. but this one i did, was really messy looking, but did the job, was strong and high..
i think maybe i would have preferred functional with some aesthetic problems than.. well, both aestetic and functional dysfunction.
anyway, the other pieces..
i'm always happy with the guitar piece, but, it, too.. malfunctioned. the guitar has to freely lean on the guitar strings, but kids and people kept touching it, shoving it in its hole, and then it didn't hit the strings.
grrrrr.
i wasn't there to fix the pieces each time they messed up, but its probably for the best, i would have gone mad.
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/hatch/guitarwheel.jpg
and the shower piece, it kept breaking..
this was due, i think, to my lack of instructions, but, i didn't want to be telling people what to do. i wanted people just to come and discover. as cheesy as that sounds.
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/hatch/shower.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/hatch/myself.jpg
but they faucett handles apparently kinda came unthreaded or something.. haven't had a look yet, but i thought the electronic switches at the back of each tap was going to snap.. so perhaps that happened.
i don't know.. i think i'm just not that impressed with what i ended up with in the show.. hmm but what's put in the show is just the best of where you're at at the moment.. and i didn't feel like i was at the end, making the best thing ever... i just made the next few things. and if i get some more space, i expect the next few things i make will be better yet.
gol-durn it... i just went through all the trouble of uploading pics to angelfire and stuff.. and it won't let me put them on.. it does this:
grrr