Wooden Animals

Here are the photos of the wooden animal abstractions. Since finishing these pieces I decided to continue evolving the Blue Heron and will post pictures of the newer ideation shortly.

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3D

My 3D class is taking a break from the bristol board animal studies and are now focusing on wood construction. I began the project with three abstract models constructed with scavenged wood. The original forms, joints and materials I used for these sculptures were then applied back to more animal abstraction. Here are the first three sculptures (I clearly need to get in the habit of using a nice camera for these photos):

Halloween

Halloween couldn't have come quicker, this year seems to be flying by at an almost alarming rate, as I was finishing a number of midterms and deadlines these past couple of weeks. I hope to upload some of my more recent work this weekend as well as some photos of the costume I put together for this year's festivities.

Seeing as October is the month of honoring the dead, I'd like to honor the lives of two amazing musicians who died this past October:

The reggae legend Gregory Isaacs died on October 25, 2010 at age 59, after battling lung cancer for a number of years. Although his discography contains a number of classic reggae hits, my all time favorite song is Night Nurse (click for the YouTube link).

The much younger and lesser known Micheal Larson, known as Eyedea of the underground Hip Hop duo Eyedea and Abilities died on October 16, 2010 at age 28. The cause of his death is still unknown, but comes as a great loss in a time when creative and original Hip Hop is getting harder and harder to find. Here is a link to the groups song Act Right.

Product Design Update

Here are some of my most recent sketches for the Hot/Cold design problem. As you can see these drawings were highly influenced by some of the concepts I sketched earlier when I was more focused on winter shelters.  I call it the Pure Melt water purification system!

SolidWorks Practice

One of my classes this year is all about learning how to use the 3D CAD program SolidWorks, one of the essential tools of the modern-day designer. Here are a couple screenshots from a recent homework assignment that had me building tables and using of of SolidWorks more unique features that allows for multiple "configurations" of one model. The two tables are actually the same file, simply configured so one is a dinner table and one a bed-side.