week 14 (week of 21 Nov)

Nov 22
This being Thanksgiving week, we only had one day this week.
I am still working on which ones I will do.

I have the previous mentioned Dark and Handsome (Magritte) plus I have other ideas:

METAMORPHOSIS by Vladimir Kush

• So an elephant with a tuba (Kush)
• apple with mask - magritte
• shoes with feet - magritte
• man with bird cage head - magritte
• man with light bulb head
• owl leafs
• Magritte's lovers
• umbrella bird
• cat violin

week 13 (week of 14 Nov)

Nov 15
I thought about my plans for what I wanted to create. We also saw some examples of previous students in order to spur our creativity. I am leaning toward animal puns or phrases:

• catfishing
• croc-odial
• horse in my throat
• N-vest a Gator
• Card Shark
• Judge a book by its cover
• 2birds with one stone
• heart of the matter
• brain storm
• etc.

Not completely happy with the idea but will work on it more.

Nov 17
Talked with Thomas and we're throwing out the whole pun creations (though I may create them at some other time). I think I'll do something surrealistic based. Perhaps inspired by Rene Magritte.

This for example is a piece by Magritte I found in a book titled Dark and Handsome.

I have a few other ideas but will work on this weekend.

week 12 (week of 7 Nov)

11/8
We did our artist presentations today. I got to present last. I was prepared near the begining but I think I struggled with the philosophical aspect of the artist's work. I was less prepared for that portion, but fortunately I had decided to jump from the powerpoint to the artist's actual website so we could jump to all the images he posted for various exhibits.

I think we spent the most time on my artist with all the videos we chose to talk about. It was a nice discussion and I linked it to our previous discussion of Star Trek vision of the future.

We actually ended with mine since it took so much time but the other artists had equally interesting discussions.

11/10
We finished up the discussions today. I really enjoyed one of the last few ones because I got to draw upon my art history knowledge to mention Charles and Ray Eames and their chairs (among other designs which were similar to one of the 3D artists another student presented).

Presentation Link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_160mOQBUA5b3QyWng2ZzkxRFU/view?usp=sharing

week 11 (week of 31 Oct)

11/1

Today in class we started working with the program Meshmixer which we used to combine different pre-created shapes/creatures into a singular body. I myself made a mutated bunny.

Thomas also mentioned a free phone app which allows you to take pictures that are then combined to create 3d shapes. It is a little tricky but pretty cool. 

week 10 (week of 24 Oct)

10/25
Most people worked on their shapes and fixing them to be printed. Apparently there had been some difficulties with the print during the weekend. As I lucked out and printed before all the chaos I stayed just long enough to research the artist I am going to be talking about.

I am presenting on the 3d artist known as Michael Gankke I found a video of him painting which was very fasinating. This was my other research links:

• https://www.instagram.com/micahganske/
• http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/mircosoft-surface-pro-4-device-micah-graphic-digital-artwork
• https://vimeo.com/144629559
• ***https://re3d.org/made-in-america-artist-micah-ganske/

I'll find more later.

10/27

Today in class we talked about our shapes. Thomas was surprised with how precise the edges of mine turned out with our printer so I think it turned out pretty well. Also I realized it could be used as a monocle 

week 09 (week of 17 Oct)

10/18
We critiqued the pieces today in class. I was pretty happy with my shape and video. I had done a poster but as I had simply thrown it together without even a thought of design (I was just happy to simply print it out) I was not surprised my class mates said it was a boring layout. I need to redesign that and I need to play with the settings I have in place when I export images from my model.

10/20
Today Thomas was out of town, but I went to class anyway and created a 3D spiral shape. With some assitance I set up the 3D printer and printed it out.

It took 1 hour and 10 minutes to print. I was actually surprised because it had said more like 2 or 2 1/2, so it seems less stressful than I thought it would be.

I don't know if this is exactly what Thomas was wanting but I got to play with the 3D printer and there were no foreseeable issues, so I happy. I actually can't wait to see what I do next because that was easy and I know what [not] to do next do.