Monday, April 26, 2010

3D Projects

This semester has been pretty tough for me. I definitely feel like I have taken a huge step backwards compared to last semester. My drive isn't there and I have spent the majority of the past few months feeling behind in almost every class. But, what can you do?

The one class that at the beginning of the semester that I thought was going to be my toughest class, 3D Design, ended up being the one class that I have had the most fun in and put forth the only projects that I am proud of.

Here are some of them:




This project was all about paper manipulation. basically bending, folding, creasing, tearing and doing whatever to paper to give it new form. The above are only a couple of a handful that we had to do. The project was more of a preparation into the next project, which was another paper manipulation but on a bigger scale.


All of these were created without use of glue or tape. All folding, all of the time. Well, I lied. There is glue holding the pieces to the board, but that's it. It seems like each project is suppose to prepare us for the next one - the egg basket.

We started with a fruit or vegetable, I choose a red pepper, and then cut it up. From there we were to draw inspiration from the shape of the pepper, inside and out, and then use that to come up with a pattern to create something that could hold an egg.

Good times.

The overall basket is to hold at least 8 eggs, the eggs couldn't be touching each other or the ground, and the basket had to be able to stand on its own and be lifted off the ground without falling apart. Again, no glue or tape could be used.





I had designed my basket to be displayed like it is in the very first picture, but as I was assembling it I noticed that the bottom of it had an unintentional design to it as well. So that's why I took so many pictures at different angles.

Go Eggs!!!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Why Cows Don't Talk

Today Collin and I had a little conversation in the car about a time when we were at Chick-fil-A and the giant cow mascot was walking around the store.

Collin: "Dad, do you remember that time when that big cow at Chick-fil-A gave (his stuffed animal) puppy a mint?"

Me: "Of course I do."

Collin: "Yeah, that was funny."

Me: "Why do you think the cow didn't say anything?"

Collin: "I don't know. Maybe he is deaf."

Monday, February 1, 2010

13 Days Until Pitchers and Catchers Report

Okay, I know its early, but i'm taking a break from school work and I had baseball on the mind.

Based on the current Royals 40 man roster, this is who I would want on the opening day 25 man roster.

Lineup:
  1. Scott Podsednik - LF
  2. David DeJesus - RF
  3. Billy Butler - 1B
  4. Jose Guillen - DH
  5. Rick Ankiel - CF
  6. Brayan Pena - C
  7. Alex Gordan - 3B
  8. Mike Aviles - 2B
  9. Yuniesky Betancourt - SS
Bench:
  1. Brian Anderson - OF
  2. Willie Bloomquist - INF/OF
  3. Josh Feilds - 3B/OF
  4. Chris Getz - INF
  5. Jason Kendell - C
Pitching Rotation:
  1. Zack Greinke
  2. Gil Meche
  3. Luke Hochevar
  4. Brian Bannister
  5. Robinson Tejeda
Relief:
  1. Joakim Soria - CL
  2. Roman Colon - R
  3. Juan Cruz - R
  4. Kyle Davies - R
  5. Kyle Farnsworth - R
  6. Dusty Hughes - L
Alberto Callaspo will be traded for a relief pitcher.

Okay, back to school work.