*FINISH* Collection Project Update: 5/21/2010

Alright, I am now officially done. The entire "firearm" is temporary and is disassemble without fault; i.e., utilizing the ability to be on or off the actual paintball marker (gun) and maintaining a clean look. If that makes sense. Anyway, here are some pictures of the finished product. Remember, it was all temporary. So any small details and or imperfections were ignored. However and again, still maintaining a clean look. Also since the goal was to create a "firearm" using a fake gun, i.e., a paintball marker. I had to make something that resembled a "firearm" using day to day materials, e.g., PVC, plastic, wood, etc. Being as that anything can be considered a weapon, that's what I went for and here's the end result:



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Collection Project Update: 5/16/2010

Wow, quite an undertaking I'm well...taking in the...under of, doing? Stating that alone was much more difficult than this project. No. In all honesty, I'm running a little...extremely late on this project. Though I will have it done by end of day Tuesday (Presentation/Critique day), I am definitely going to have some troubles. Upon realizing this, I've decided that I won't exactly be copying the exact "firearm" that I intended to make. However, they will be similar in many ways but just will lack some minor detailing and contouring. After numerous attempts at different types of materials and many upon many tries I've finally settled on making the piece with fillers, plastic, PVC and wood. Then coating it with a textured black coating, i.e., flat, matte, etc. I honestly think that this will turn out well, in addition to turning out really wrong. This is just a mini update for what's to come. I am hoping to get as much done this weekend as I possibly can. Hopefully it will look as I imagined.

Update: Trophy Mid-Term 4/14/2010 *Finish*

Update: 4/22/2010 *FINISH*

Alright, here's my 3rd attempt at the Trophy project -- 2 of which were of the same material and failed horribly due to either the size or complexity of the design used. The pictures below are and is the refined version of the trophy. The intended design was off of the notorious F-117 Stealth Nighthawk. Made of clear plastic with chrome backing (plastic glass) with simple clear tape and a wooden base. Theme was, again, stealth.



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Okay, so after completing this last week. I took my project on a road trip to Michaels (the notorious art store) to get some things recommended for it from a "knowledgeable" representative. With the rain that day, I should of figured that water and paper don't mix. Well how bad could it be if it's in my car right? Wrong. With my windshield already cracked down the middle (horizontally) it happened to bust that day. Ask me why. Hale if I know. My luck has been bad ever since I started these projects so what did I expect. Anyhow, so with my windshield breaking halfway in and ruining me and my project. I inevitably had to start all over. This time with a new idea. If I didn't already state this above, the first attempt was making a bust of a shadow person with paper. Like the shadow art trash that can be found on google images. Any how, I coated the paper figure with mod-podge. A lot of good that did. With that out of the way. Onto my finished product. Basically all it is a paintball that indirectly casts a shadow of a person (a paintballer), ergo the meaning of "stealth". Something that's there, but it's not really what you'd expect it to be or it being not really there. In this case, it's there but not as what you'd think it to be. It might be confusing to look at until I explain what it is in person. All I used was a wooden base, a wooden slab, a wooden plate, a wooden rod/dowel and of course paint/paintball. That and hot glue + clear coat. The main material was wood of course and the idea was on stealth, as it were, as well as paintball. Which is what I'm apparently good at on par with being stealthy. Ex. flanking the opposition from behind without being noticed from them nor my own team. Sad. Any who, if you don't believe me. Here are some picture documentation:









-Jarred

Update: The Figure - 4/11/2010 *Finished*

Alright, so after the "crushing" incident. My brother agreed to rebuild my project. With some of my help; which most of the time for me, was outside sparring with my bokken. Interestingly enough, he did a bang up job in putting everything back together. I guess that perfectionist trait does that to people. Looking at the wreckage of a mess for the first time instantaneously made you think, "there ain't no way in hale that I'm going to be able to put that back together...[F] that..." In any case, the puzzle pieces that were originally on, came off. So I had to melt the hot glue off and sand down, repaint and do some minor adjustments/tweaking. It came out pretty well. Now today, starting at 10:00AM and roughly 4 hours, 3 hot glue sticks, and 476 puzzle pieces later. I finished, finally. The moment of satisfaction immediately filled the vicinity and plagued the neighboring area, namely my other family members. Hehe :) Anyway, it was done fast due to time constraints and the puzzle pieces do not depict anything so don't try and confuse yourself attempting to see what you can see! Here are some pictures:






Onto the next project. The trophy...

-Jarred

The Figure - 3/15/2010

Alright, so my camera's been acting rather stupidly lately and not doing what I want it to do. So that being said, I have not been able to get the most up-to-date pictures regarding the various projects that we've been undergoing. I managed to finish this project up nicely with the puzzle pieces attached. However, before I could take any pictures the most absolutely worst thing happened. My brother apparently destroyed my work piece. I have no idea how but it happened and he's the culprit. That's all there is to it. Completely unrepairable. It's like comparing Godzilla to New York city. How are you going to repair a car that he just stepped on? Yeah I didn't think so -- so basically that's what happened and now I cannot prove it without any pictures. The only pictures I have up are the ones I took gosh knows when. Regarding the actual project "itself", the figure is representing a male's upper torso attempting to rise out of something; more or less the ground or some sort of restraint it you will. There are quite a few ideas and or expressions of "tension", which include: emotionally, physically and the materials used.

-First off, emotionally refers to the person's stress. Ex. from daily/repeatedly rising up and down from life; more specifically learning, problem solving, triumphing, earning and various others such as emotionally detached, depression, and failure.
-Secondly, physically refers to the person's actual figure rising from whatever is holding them down. The tension is from the soft bodily tissues and what have you from pressuring against a hard surface.
-Thirdly, the materials used also provide a form of tension. Ex. semi-flexible hot glue with metal/aluminum rods.

Though they're rather weak explanations, it's the best that I could do at this current time...here are the lame pictures:







-Jarred

Music

I do apologize but I cannot seem to find a way to put music on blogs using any coding(s) or generators. I've tried uploading, copying, linking and embedding...with no luck. Blogs are so much more different than say myspace. I have no idea why...but at any rate, I seem to have gotten one for to work. But that route does not play automatically and has to load and be pressed "play" to start streaming. Which is completely renders the whole idea of "background" music, useless. The way I put music on my page was through "music shake" which is a site that lets people make music, thus giving the creator various links and codes that are compatible with blogs. If you don't make the music on there, then you cannot possibly host any other songs (from other artists) on. If that makes sense...now I will continue looking for ways to achieve this. Especially with the amount of requests from the class..

Until then,

-Jarred

*Update* Collecting Assignment 2/24/2010

Okay so I have a couple of weeks of unposted photos taken of my collection progress. For some reason my digital cam's memory SD card wouldn't sync with my computer; I only just got it working literally on Monday night. Thank goodness. Now it's not the first time this has happened when I needed to upload items onto my computer. It's sad I know -- but it's working now. So hopefully it will stay that way for a long time..

Update with a ton more of parts. Too many to list but definitely at or near a grand ($1000) worth of parts, that's for sure:


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-Jarred