My Blog List

Monday, August 30, 2010

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Cardboard nature project

Observations
  • Sharp ends
  • Hard/stiff not easily broken
  • ranges from dark gray/brown to a light brown in color
  • looks like weathered wood- meaning it has:
    • indents
    • holes
    • branches
    • knots
    • ridges...





  





Cardboard                                       
  • brown
  • bendable
  • has three layers








  To create this object out of cardboard...I'm planning on starting from the base an building up in layers, slowly adding more details

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Friday 8/27/2010 Lecture Summary

Composition is the organization of ideas, principles, and elements that make up something. Compositions can be found in:
  • Writing, Music, Nature,Visual, Dance, and Theater
Elements
  • Point, Line, Shape/form, Color (hue), Texture, Space, and Value (shade)
Principles-
  • Rhythm, Harmony, Dissonance/discord

Gestalt- "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
Form- sum total of an objects physical characteristics.

The Amazing Newspaper Tower!

Our first project was to build a tower out of newspapers and tape!
I began by building the base of my tower. I rolled up newspapers then taped them all together...kind of like a firecracker. I tested the base out and it worked!! Now I just had to gain some height...



















 So now I began to build the top half. After I finished the top portion of my tower I wanted to test it out to see if it could support the weight of the cinder block before taping it to the base, and I succeeded! 


Now for the finished tower, both the base and the top were taped together. 


The last step was to test the strength of my tower with a cinder block...Failed... the tower couldn't support the weight of the block, because the tower kept collapsing from where the top and the base were connected.