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well i had a bit of a creative block today. i didnt realy know what to do. it was like i had hit a brick wall. but all this was soon over come by having a chat with Matt. so after the 'chat', i started doing some more experiments. i deicovered that we had another version of the melt down plastic/rubber which was yellow and a lot firmer. after making another mould, i took another casting which actually worked a lot better than the red ones because it was a lot firmer and the design was more defined as a result. because it was yellow, i thought that it would be easier to change the colour of so that was my next mision.
after working like a mad scientist mixing different chemicals, i managed to do it (but it wasnt easy).

my first attempt was pretty bad. i decided to add some black ink to the mixture after it had been melted but this didnt work at all. the ink just mage the plastic go all lumpy and stringy which would not pour into the mould at all.

This is the ink disaster !!!

however, i finaly managed to do it and the secret ingredient was....................................................well its a secret (acrylic paint)  :0P

and here is the final result and it looks FAB!!!

what i now need to do is come up with another design. a design with plenty of curvs to complement this form.

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well i vacume formed my woodern proform today to get plenty of it so i could possibly use the plastic version as a building material for a model.

they worked great and wuold look good on a model but they are not as flexible as i wanted them to be because they cant be bent into curves.
so kate showed me a new material wich i dont remember the name to :( but it is a rubber like plastic that comes in slabs. you just heat it up in the microwave to make it melt and then pour it into your mould.
so i did another vacume form to use as a mould. but when i poured the hot liquid into it, it just collapsed and went out of shape because the heat was too much.



the mould that didnt last very long



my solution was to press the wooden preforn into some clay and then use that as my mould. and it worked!!!

it looks fantastic and its realy flexible too (maybe abit too flexible). the only thing is that it only comes in red (so iv been told)

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well a bit of a boring day today. didnt realy get much done apart from cutting and glueing. did a bit of drawing but that was about it realy. there was one creative thing that i managed to complete today which was to make a wooden preform to represent a tyre wall.

i made this by cutting a wooden dowling in half to get two long semicircles and then sliced them up into thin pieces. i then used some PVA glue to stick them down to a wooden board. this piece looks fantastic and is very visually pleasing. i can imagine it as being a wooden cladding for either inside or outside of a building. i might use this to vacume form to make duplicate coppies out of plastic.

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i spent today finishing of the mould for my glass piece. after compleating the clay positive and spoothing it all down, i then had to construct a wooden frame so surround the clayso i could cast it. the casting mix was 1 part plaster and 1 part alderite (half and half). after this set, i removed the clay to leave a plaster negative of the design i wanted. after placing a sheet of glass over the top, i left it with Jamie the technitian to put it into the kiln when it is free. so i dont know when to expect the final end result back.

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just been developing some more design ideas in the morning which was a bit boring but during the afternoon i started work on my new glass piece. i want this piece to be curved so i will have to make a plaster mould for it. so far i have almost compleated the clay positive and it looks good. it is all going to plan so far. but i still have a lot to do so i have wraped it up in some plastic so it dosent dry out and i will have to continue work on it next week.

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well i got my glass piece back today and it looks absolutely FANTASTIC! i love it.

 it realy has worked very well. i hope to do some more more of this but i will wait until Mats lesson on thursday.

 so for the rest of the day i have been developing more design ideas from some rubbings that i took from some random peoples cars in the carpark (hope they dont mind). i found a very good tecnhique wich involves a bit of 'play'. i made four cubes and arranges them accordingly to recreate a pattern in a tyre. after photoggraphing this, i then just kept rearanging the same shapes but in different orders. sometimes strategicly, and other times by just droping them and seeing how the land. for every one that i liked, i did a quick sketch and took photographs. so this worked very well.

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today we learnt some glass techinques. i chose to use the 'slumping' technique. with some heat proof fabric. i cut strips of this special fibered fabric and weaved them. (inspiration taken from a design i found on a tyre) i then placed a sheet of glass over the top. when the glass is heated in the kiln, it will soften and fall or 'slump' into shape. my piece is in currently in the kiln so i will have to wait until next week to see how it turned out.

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the advise i received today from Kate was to just PLAY! =) so that is what i did. i started of by just doodling to get some interesting shapes that could then be made into 3D shapes. i also had some images of a tyre wall. what i did with those was to cut out the tyre's and rearrange them to make an interesting 3D shape. all of the shapes that i made can be used to make a building. this has been very useful so fantastic advise Kate. Thanks!!!
 i know that i want to design a domestic building for people to live in.

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well today i met matt (the other 3D Tutor) for the first time. just cracked on with more research today. going more in detail with the tyre wall building. i now have a fair idea of how it is done. my next task is to make a 3D model of how it is done or at least how i THINK it is done. i will upload an image of this once i have done it.



UPDATE:

here is the 3D model of my interpretation of the tyre wall building.

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yay! so its the first day of 3D Design in the Pathway Stage. =)
i have chosen to look at 'Sustainable Architecture'. so i spent the day in research to find materials and building techniques that i would like to use. my research went very well because i found that there are many sustainable ways of building such as using sandbags, straw bails and even old car tyres. the technique that appealed to me the most was the car tyre building technique. so i will need to do some more research into this technique. but overall, a day well spent.

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I have come to the decision that for the Pathway stage of this course, i want to go into 3D Design. I made this decision mainly because i want to progress further and study Architecture at university.

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So from here on, all blogs will be regarding 3D, CAD/ICT, Conceptual Studies and Visual Studies.

Reflection - Vis Com

just finishing of my magazine today and it looks great so far so yeh :)

reflection - Vis Com

Yey i now have a theme to work from. i am going to look at the contrast between sefty and danger and looking particularly at terrorism. my inspiration came from reading an article about the reacent ink cartridge bomb plot. i want to question the modern image of a terrorist. so i was just starting worlk on my magazine design today. i have even made a dummy bomb to take photgraphs of and to put on my final magazine piece.

Reflection - Textiles

wow what a day! spent all day leaning over a table printing my design onto sheets of plain white cotton. this is to be my lining to go inside the hood, around the cuffs and across the hem. after printing, i died the fabrics to experiment with colour to see which would work best in my design. i decided that the green was the best so i died all my fabric that colour. but yeh i really enjoyed printing. i used the silk screen method using a screen that John (one of the technicians) had already prepped for me :)
i think my fabric came out realy well for a first timer and i am very pleased and proud of it.    :p

Reflection - Vis Com

wow i got a lot of stuff done today with newspaper. by cutting pieces out and making a collage. i then scanned it in and used photoshop to make different versions and copies. i loved how the images and text were layered on top of each other. but i still dont have a proper them in mind to work from