Follow the Yellow Brick Road...

Final Product!

For 3D Design we have to make a pedestal that can hold (and compliment) a brick. Sounds intriguing, right? Yeah, I didn't think so either until I decided to make something that relates to The Wizard of Oz and the yellow BRICK road. I am SO clever. (Kidding. Kinda...)


Anyways...The pedestal is going to be of Emerald City since the yellow brick road lead them there. Cute, right? :)

Step 1: Make the buildings out of PVC pipe! :D

English 101

I've always been a good writer. I really don't know why, but I am. Naturally, I thought English 101 would be the easiest class for me. It's not.

I had (what I thought to be) a beautiful essay, and my instructor completely tore the introduction apart.

I thought I would be able to change the intro easily until I realized the quote I used for the introduction was the base for my entire essay.

I have English class in 45 minutes. I guess she is going to see the intro she hated so much one more time because I have writers block and cannot redo this rough draft. College, you suck.

On a side note, I just had jalapeno chips and they were delicious.

It's time to do my hair and go to the most terrible, boring, frustrating class ever. English 101.

Insomnia Cure, Anyone?

I have been suffering from the worst insomnia lately. It only seems to happen when I have to be up at 7:00 the next morning to go to Tempe for a 6 hour day of classes. I would really appreciate it if someone came up with a drug-free cure for insomnia. I'm just throwing that out there. Ok, thanks. :)

Goals for This School Year/Summer

1.) Get a 4.0 GPA

2.) Have the beginnings a beautiful Intermedia portfolio.

3.) Not get into an accident on the shuttle ride to and/or from Tempe. ;)

4.) Actually learn something from my art history classes....maybe.

5.) Survive 3D Design.

6.) Get a Summer animation internship at Universal Studios Hollywood!

Sounds good, right?

The Steps of Making a Lighting Walking/Disco Stick

Finished Product!

LAST STEP: DETAILS

(I painted the burned lightning bolt gold, put a wood finisher on, put some gems on the top, and threw my amulet on)

I will update the stages of my walking stick here:

OTHER STEPS!

Step 1: Making a Lightning Bolt Shape

(I drew it onto my 2 x 4 and then cut the shape out with a band saw)

9/21/2010

Step 2: Carve in a Realistic-Looking Lightning Bolt

(I drew it on and then burned it out with a wood burner)

I also sanded it down today.

9/23/10

Step 3: Stain it.

(I used a really dark red mahogony stain)

10/02/10

I Wanna Take a Ride on Your Disco Stick

So, for 3D design I have to make a walking stick that pertains to a journey. The journey has to go hand in hand with an amulet I created in class. My amulet, of course, is a lightning bolt. I got the idea from Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face' music video. I could make a walking stick that has to do with a storm, but what fun would that be? I am going to make my very own hand-carved disco stick. I'm pretty sure it's going to look just like one of her disco sticks, but with hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds carved into it. I'm pretty excited to get started on it. Let's hope I don't cut my fingers off with the woodworking tools.

3D Design and Intro to Digital Media, Oh My.

Hey guys, we should totally have one class senior year, causing us to act like a bum the whole year, and then sign up for a full load of college classes. That sounds so fun, right?! WRONG.

The transition from high school to college has been so shocking for me. I have gone from going to school for one hour each day, to attending 6 hours of classes twice a week, another hour of classes twice a week, and an online Art History class (That takes hours and hours of work, by the way). I'm not complaining, it's just really different.

With all of that aside, I would like to focus on my two studio classes of the semester: 3D Design and Intro to Digital Media. It was really smart of me to schedule both of these 3-hour-long classes on the same day. Only, it wasn't smart at all. Atleast it means only going to Tempe twice a week, I guess.

3D Design is seriously killing me. I was not expecting it at all. Our first project was basically an architecture project. I suck at architecture, by the way. Remind me to never become an architect. Anyways, After completing a cardboard cube, wooden skeleton, an orthographic drawing, and several sketches, I came up with these beauties.

The left one is the original skeleton, the middle one is the planar sculpture, and the right one is the volumetric sculpture. Atleast I have an eye for color, or so I've been told.

Next, we come to Intro to Digital Media. I must say, this class is pretty exciting. Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, and animation programs!? Sounds like my kind of class. We have only completed 2 raster projects so far. My first one has a theme of man vs. nature. The second one shows change over time at a lake near my home.