Found some dots

Here's a bunch of pictures of dots I found walkin around

Dots and more dots

 Here are the final 3 dots my table team chose out of the 15. They got the basic ideas for these 3 but a lot of my patterns didn't come off as the principle that I had designed them for. The designs I made for continuance were all among the ones my team liked even though they didn't think they all represented continuance.
The habits that I showed in my designs were that I centered most of my patterns and I used even numbers of dots more often. I also had more structured designs, so I tried to make more organic feeling ones. 2 of the final 3 chosen were patterns that I made after trying to break those habits.

 

Here are the designs I  made based on the contour maps and magnetic field patterns. I overlayed the patterns and backlit them. I like the way they came out, they look pretty interesting.

Life Drawing - drawings from 1st day of class

My object for the larger than life cardboard study, is a starfish. So making that a part of me the first couple thoughts I had about it was that its a scavenger, so basically it lives to eat. But at the same time people generally see them as beautiful. So I went both ways but wasn't able to really combine the two.

Cardboard spheres

Making spheres out of cardboard boxes is kinda interesting. Taking something flat to make something round is pretty hard. My first attempt i tried to go with the cardboard's good qualities and i cut out pentagons and hexagons and went with a soccerball pattern. It took a lot of measuring to get the shapes precise enough that they would fit together into a sphere. The second sphere I made I again went with flat pieces of cardboard. this was my no glue one. I cut out 2 sets of consentric circles and placed them with in each other. The last one I tried bending the cardboard and that worked to some degree. Each of the spheres took a lot of planning and I spent a few hours on each. I think I wound up learning a few things about the properties of cardboard.

The critique of all the cardboard spheres gave me a lot of ideas. People came up with a lot of different ways to build their spheres that I hadn't thought about at all.

Newspaper Fashion

The Project on the first day of class was pretty interesting, basically it was a newspaper fashion show, complete with a runway. The overall concept was making an aspect of either a nightmare or a fantasy out of newspaper, that would be able to describe what you were totally by the visual appearance. I wound up going the direction of a gladiator, making armor for my left arm, and I completed the ensemble with the obligatory gladiator skirt, which i guess could've thrown off the gender aspect of my piece. A slight wardrobe malfunction caused someone to suggest I was a stripper, which could've worked as well i guess.
It was really interesting seeing the ideas that everyone else came up with. There was very little repetition in the ideas people had which was nice to see. And for the most part I thought that the ideas were really good. I was particularly impressed by those few who acted out a scene. I hadn't thought of doing anything of the sort, and it really made their work pop, and made it memorable. Nick blowing his confetti brains out was particularly interesting and i think that was my favorite of the group.