January 2008
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“We are all at a table together, deciding which rules to adopt, free from any...”
– Jonathan Wallace
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More progress.
Making good progress now. The base portion has an extra layer of steel sheet attached to it - to set off the main sculptural form visually, and to allow for easy replacement in the event of damage. I drilled all the holes in the 3d model so their locations will be built right in to the cut sheet metal, plus it makes for easier documentation for the fabricators. (You can’t really make out the...
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas A. Edison
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Getting there...
I’m finally getting the virtual model of the Water & Power project squared away. Pictured above are the structural steel components that will hopefully hold the sculpture upright in the Colorado wind.
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Current Mood: Wack.
I am slowly, inexorably being driven insane. How can something as simple as a truncated, oblong pyramid be so damn hard to model? Oh, sure, it could be the .001 tolerance I’m dealing with or the fact that everything is -just- a few degrees off the cartesian planes - or even the fact that I’m just too goddamn picky - but how many days are acceptably wasted in the interest of just...
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Control Freak, Let Go!
Making art is a very personal process that oftentimes borders on mental masturbation. Maybe that’s why I like it so much >grin Creativity can be seen as a dialog you are having with yourself, with the dialectic centering around finding balance between your own skills and the qualia of the medium your dealing with. For me, there is a fine line between craftsmanship and fussiness -...
