Chair complete

So last night I spent around 7-8 hours stuck in the art and design building completing my final chair. 2 things I've learned. 1. Staring at the cardboard in defeat will not summon it to your will, and 2. I would rather rip my eyeballs out with forks than build another chair out of cardboard. I probably seem dramatic, but at least now we can go to something I'm good at. Drawing, bliss! Here are pictures...

how to build a chair 101

So last tuesday we had an essay due in BDS (design) that was on duality. Basically, about your relationship with another person. I wrote an entire paper on my dad, explaining about how he is my rock, my support system, and my closest friend. I used words in my essay like Perfect, flawless, supportive, and my professor explained to us that we had to build our chair based off of the the words you used in your essay about your relationship. So I just started modeling a base to give my chair a little extra support. Though its not the best model I made, its a start to finding ideas for my final project due THIS TUESDAY! pictures below...

Below are Coconut cupcakes with Green Tea frosting. I saw these at Succotash, my absolute favorite breakfast diner in the world, and about died. They are amazing, if you haven't been to Succotash in Downtown Kansas City yet you have got to go. I guarantee you will never want to leave, the atmosphere is so rad.

Happy Thursday!

xoxo

three cheers for v-day

What a fun holiday. Though I celebrated on Saturday since this coming week was going to be packed with papers, tests, and volleyball practices, I still love to watch people receive flowers, and gifts from loved ones. Today instead of working on our chair in design we were asked to experiment with our use of color while creating valentines. I found this a bit fun and crafty, and got really into making some valentines. take a peek!

Happy Valentines Day!

xoxo

lets make the impossible happen

So my next design project, build a chair. The guild lines? must use a 4x4 foot piece of cardboard. Can't cut, staple, or tape, and must fold back out to be a 4x4 cardboard square again. This I found EXTREMELY difficult. I just finished making my model except its having a little trouble staying up but other than that it actually looks like a chair. Take a look!

ahh don't mind my messy room!

Hello winter? are you there?

aww I love rain! It makes the KU campus so pretty. The downside, with me liking to walk to class, I'm getting wet, but at least it gives me a chance to finally wear my rain boots (total white girl problem). Well yesterday I turned in my Design project, and I actually got some pretty good feed back on it. Gnerally people really liked it (or so they made it seem). But with the end of a project comes the start of a new one. This time I have to make a chair, pretty cool huh? but here's the catch, I have to make it completely out of a 4x4 foot piece of cardboard, without cutting only bending, and slitting. OH! and we have to make it fold back into a 4x4 piece of cardboard.... ummm how? i have until wednesday to figure that one out but until then...

I've decided the word needs to come out about this place. It's called succotash. The BEST breakfast I have ever had, also a big plus for me was the awesome interior. With me being an interior design major I totally take things like this into consideration when ever I'm eating somewhere. It was indie to the max! OBSESSED! I mean look at it? pretty cool huh? If you live around the Kansas City area, this is a must for you to try out,and I promise you won't be disappointed! 

Happy Friday, 

xoxo Emma

Look who's back.. uh oh

I'm back! Sorry for the 2 month gap of no new post. With the end of the semester school projects, and finals it was really hard to find time to write a GOOD post. Well to update you on whats been going on, it's my second semester of college, and so far I'm loving it. We just finished our first project in design. We had to find a location, or use a model to photograph and make a photo collage of it. I highly enjoyed this. It got to bring out the little bit of photographer in me. I had 4 test collages and 1 huge 100 picture collage that I am very proud of. Take a look...

and for the final collage... Bam!

Reflection on photography essay

Photographic document are central to our culture and we all have a sense of what they look like and what they do. A great deal of our information about our world comes from these images and all manner of specialist professions employ photographic document in their work. Photography slotted neatly into the new vision of objective observation. Throughout history the camera has repeatedly been seen as an objective machine that captures information without interference from the artist. Photography has the power to fix a particular interpretation of the events, objects or people depicted. Another way photography is used in the service of professional authority is drawn from the encounter between western colonizers and the colonized peoples. The photographic document was one means through which the colonized powers envisaged their difference from their colonized subjects.

            This article relates to our projects because we have to take pictures to document our progress just like you would in a business setting. We also had to take pictures of our word on site so we can visually document our site and show others, and to give reasoning as to why we picked that location as our word site.

Reflections of different parts of the project

With this project I learn how to not only build a 3 foot tall word, I learned how to build it while at the same time make it in a way that the viewer can also see the definition. I learn how to make a word portray its actual meaning through the creativity of discussing what the word means, when we use it, and the most common place we actually “ Obtain” something. With the word obtain we first saw this as difficult to find a way to portray the definition in a location that we most likely obtain something.

Written Reflection of team Dynamics

            At first we had the idea of cutting out our words from cardboard like everyone else. Instead of trying to make a 3-D shape out of it we wanted to try filling the empty space with paper wads and insulation foam. At first this idea seemed very creative and worth trying. While in the process we found that this was instead very messy. The foam was bulging out of the edge of the letters give it not a very clean look. After this we decided we needed to start over. We thought it would be easier to connect the letters together instead of actually cutting out each one. This idea lead to us wanting our word to be made into a box. We cut out our letters in two long cardboard sheets. Making the holds inside with tape and being precise on how to make sure this stands up and doesn’t fall apart. We then had the idea of placing the cut out letters inside the box giving the actual meaning of obtain by making look like the box is obtaining the word.

            When discussing color we came across the struggle of how we were going to give our word color without having the paint warp our box. So this lead to us discussing locations. We decided we wanted it to be outside with the leaves and so instead of painting our letters we glued leaves on them which I found to be more attractive than actually painting them, and it also didn’t leave our letters warped.

Written reflection on how your word construction, placement, photos contribute to the meaning of the word.

            The construction of our word contributed to the meaning of obtain because we made a box cut out of the word. Instead of throwing away the extra letters we cut out, we placed them inside coming to the conclusion that it went with the definition because it looked like the box was obtaining the letters. We spray glued leaves on the inside cutouts of the letters because we were putting our word out by the leaves with a rake being placed on it to give the illusion of raking leaves. This shows obtain because when you rake leaves you actually obtain them. We took pictures by many different trees around campus. We needed the tree’s because under them were pile of leaves we needed to show the meaning of obtaining leaves.