Report on University project nr.2.

Hy all! 
So finally here are my second project. Sorry for the delay . Just somehow didn't get round to posting them.
With no further ado here they are..
Well ok two words about the task :D. The module was called Representation modelling , Scale and structure. So we basically had to research these things :D , scale and structure. Draw some sketches and make some maquettes and models. 

I enjoyed this project. It was great experience to see how the work of design evolves. First I draw several sketches, some based on the sketches we were given ,I like to just put my mind on the paper so sometimes the sketches look untidy and messy , but still they show the idea and the intended look of the design . I made almost all of my sketches into maquette’s. It was hard for me to make these small quick sketchy models, because I am pretty scrupulous. So it was interesting to force myself in making something quicker. However, I must admit I didn’t succeeded in that , all 8 small maquette’s I made very already detailed and took more time that they should, and I used for them proper card paper.

Finally, I made one bigger design building. It was the one that I had thought about the most, that I had drew good enough sketch and made good enough maquette to understand how the big thing will work and look like. Next I did a research of building heights and floor heights to properly calculate the scale. I ended up making my model in scale 1:170, and then I drew a proper plan in this scale so I can make all the parts and know that everything will fit. It was interesting to research scale like this because it is really hard to understand and imagine how big something would actually look in real life. So I went to London to get the materials, but to also, look at buildings that had 10-20 floors, and imagined the sizes of my design. Sadly I didn’t include my pictures in my project folder , because I didn’t really know we needed it ,and I have never made a project folder . After seeing some of the other student folders, I realized how handy and useful they are. So I have to learn to make them to make my process of thought clear and understandable.

I again ended up spending a lot of time on my last model, but I am ok with the final look. Again I experienced a lot of difficulties and mistakes, from which biggest was the working with superglue . It is very untidy way to work. I learned that you can’t rush if you work with superglue, to work with it you have to have a lot of time and patience. Otherwise it will come out not as clean and smooth as wished. Another thing is to really calculate the amount of materials needed and make a clear list of things needed, and then buying them, not the other way around. And I guess again I slightly missed the deadline.

 
This was like my assessment-like self assessment :) . I thought I gonna put it here also ;) .
So thats it , some more pictures: coming up...
Well if you ask about the trees, i know they dont look that good. But I just didnt have the money t buy the proper tree, well actually I would have bought them , but I just didn't get to London before the submission time :( .. And those are not representations of trees!!!!!,Those are Sculptures of trees! Huge Metal or glass sculpture of walking trees...  -_-
 

Here I just played around , and try to put an environment around and on the model . you know usually the models are like put in some kind of space :D.. I didn't like my messy desk .

One day when I came back to studio I saw that my models is populated :O... there were people ( well paper people but nevertheless a human representations ) I have always liked to liven up my created worlds , and populate them.

So the next morning there were even more people in my world! :)

I just had to add this guy! He looks just so real :D and like he would really live in the model , not forced to be there . he doesnt look like he has been put there. He just came and sat on the bench to read his .. thing...

This building is based on a famous designers sketch . That was also one of the task , kinda , to
make a maquette from already drawn sketches ,to inspire from them .
So its a building , whose front looks like a human holding it from collapsing .

Ok so that's it for the big model . Here are the rest of my models and maquetts:

The small model of the big thing :) .. well it took a long time to cut those bloody circles -_-

This is ... hmm .. :D . a building presumably , like a skyscraper. I just liked the texture. didn't know the structure of the building ,though  :P

Ok so this is the initial Walking Tree concept. Imagine a park in the middle of the city , like New York , with big building and packed with action. So there is a small block of green grass, and walkways all over it , from one side to the other. People every day rush trough it busy by their work , talking on their phones . Looking to the ground. Then we put there these huge , huge , metal constructions , that look a bit like trees. We put them so that their 'legs' sometimes crosses the pathways , but dont block , them . The huge trunks are made from folded and bend metal .  So When people walk the park next day ,and finally look up , they see , between these skyscrapers a bunch of Trees taht are walking somewhere. Walking minding their own business . Captured it this one instance when they cross the park . Interfering with human life.  They are so big so clearly cant be influenced by men. So the people stop for a moment and look to the huge slightly , in the wind , moving branches. And then they move along . never looking back. But for the one moment they have stopped and remove their phone from their ear. Because the metal structures are stunning and somehow familiar, because they are walking - going somewhere -they have their destination, they want to get to. We never know where that is , but we never know where an other human person is going , right?And anybody can relate to a walker - because they are walkers themselves, and they want be big  they want to be powerfull , rich , so the dont have to care about the small people down there , when they are walking ... These trees could become their morning companions on their way to work , or the late welcome-rs, when they return home .

So that the concept behind these Walking tree.. I think its good :D... what do you think?

ok some more pics:

...:D , from the front it looked like flying birds ...

So to wrap up , here is the last picture , and its a bus stop ! 

A bus stop that's gonna take you home , from the world I created for you today . No matter how short the being there was. You clearly were in my world for the time you red my blog. Thanks for that. And have a safe journey going home ... ( I assume that's going back to your facebook pages or draugiem.lv pages , or jsut closing this page :D )


See you back here. I gonna post something soon :D

P.S. I breathed too much supergloue vapor , so the other day my insides of the nose were bleeding :( , cuz the glue burns when it gets on the skin, and when you inhale it , trhough your noise some of it vapor stays inside the walls of your nose , and burns everything there :P .
Ye so that's bad .. Lesson to learn!!! use respirators!!!!! and gloves ...

Solitude.

Hy!
 While I am editing pictures of my second big university project I gonna post these pictures, because I feel that they kinda describe the mood I am in now and then.
The other day - Saturday , I was listening to this song all day ,then after watching a  movies in the evening ,  I went outside , and I listened to this song again  , and could not stop listening , it just had grabbed me !! ...
    The weather outside was very interesting - it was cold and foggy , and very damp, but it was also emotional- ye , maybe , depressing, but nevertheless emotional , and the fog was very clearly visible because the big grass field is surrounded with lampposts , and the light from them seems to stuck in the fog  , and created these huge light clouds .... And its emotional tone was the same of this song... So I was just standing in the middle of this field ,listening to it and just feeling extreme emotions, what emotions? well, listen to the song i have posted and u will understand ...
      Then I just realized that I have to try to use these emotions and this weather... so the best way to catch these emotions in this particular moment was photography ! So I ran back to my room , grabbed my camera and went back to the foggy field. I had this vision of taking pictures of a person at the foreground of fog and those lamp light clouds ... so that only his silhouette is visible, so that's what I tried to do ... But ye back to the song  its called 9 crimes by Damian Rice , and... well I gonna post it here for everyone to see what emotions I am talking about, and actually I just think that the song sets the pictures and mood up better that any words ...But please watch it... Or BETTER just LISTEN , cuz its about the music not about the video...

Well if u watched it i think its clear what I was aiming for and what I felt, so with no further ado , here are the pictures that came out of my late night photo shoot...  :

hmm... just try to feel it :) ... and leave a comment if you have something to say about the pictures , I always appreciate comments ...

I just gonna say that the song is really beautiful , although I have to admit that I don't really get the lyrics though, but this is just one of those songs you don't really care about lyrics ,cuz the chemistry and emotions are still there and very clear!

REPORT on University project nr.1.

So , I know most of you probably have seen this but :D no matter that I gonna post them here as there could be also some people that have missed this :D , but would still like to know what the hell I am doing in my course :D... Well so , ye the first project (well it was 1 month ago...... ... .. . . .. ) was to make a wooden train, from prepared plans- so we didnt have to do any thinkking , jsut cut out the shapes and parts drawn on the paper like this:

 So ye that was kinda easy , but the project meaning was for us to understand how to read these types of drawing , and just to make , the train so it looks just like in the plan !
Well one thing the plan doesn't show is color :) , so thats what we had to decide ...  I was thinking a lot about what color scheme I want to use... sadly I was very restricted to paints and brushes and stuff , because I didnt have my hobby stuff here , YET ! ... so I had to do with one single brush and 5 color tubes :).., So I came upo with something like this... :

I had actually used this color scheme and style before so I kinda knew what I am doing , and how it will look when finished ... kinda :P ... anyway because I knew how to do it , it was easier ... Well just to be clear I did it with standard brush , not with an airbrush :( cuz with airbrush its probably easier , but I dont have airbrush :P )

So Ye I cut all the pieces ,spend a lot of time sanding them and making sure they are smooth and likeable to touch ( well that all went for nothing , cuz after applying color primer the surface became rough :( .... ye I know it makes sense, thats why the primer is applied so that the surface has a better grip to the color , d'oh !

Anyway , so I did a mistake I guess , that I actually glued all the train together before painting it ... Well not the weels , though... so that made the painting harder , but actually I knew what I was doing , because I wanted to know how it looks all together , and then paint it as a whole! . 

So ye ,here is what the final project looks like :

  Well you probably noticed ( well probably not!) but there are some extra details on the train :) , all the yellow parts are my additions to the initial train :)... I did a lot of research of how to make the rod thing work ,and it was kinda complicated , cuz I had to be very precise about the holes and axis  and all , cuz the slightest offset meant that it wount work :( .. Luckily in the end it worked ,and all turned out pretty perfect :) , well we all know that nothings perfect , though :D... had I more time , I would have worked more on the paint job to make it more smooth :)  ... Anyway I am lucky how it turned out.., It works so that is the most important part , and it looks impressive :)

So here are some videos to show HOW it works ! :D the yellow rods and cylinder . 

This is actually my youtube video , its a time lapse of me painting the train... and ye I guess its a bit too fast :P ... :D

Ok and here is like the second part of the project we had to do , to pass this module ...

Its something like an obelisk from blue foam , thats on the top , and just cut out different wooden shapes on the band-saw and use just the workshops machinery -thats under the blue thing :P  .. it had to look like this... and that is how it looks like....

 Ok , so here you go :) , some information to read and see !

I gonna be back really soon with my report on the second project , cuz ye well its actually done , so all I have to do is take picture of it ... :)

Again if you have any questions or comments , please , please , feel free to post them, cuz comments always encourages me to write more, cuz they kinda approve that somebody actually spends their time reading this :D ... And I appreciate that ... So thanks for reading / watching :D 

Pictures :)

 This was some weeks ago , when it was still sunny :( , anyway this was very interesting phenomenon  :D , i have never seen this in Latvia , but here one day when I went over the field i suddenly noticed that the grass looks like it is floating , I leaned down , and from one particular angle i could see that the WHOLE grass was covered in , I guess , spider webs . how cool is that ? :D

This is a picture from the same day ... and the colors say it all :) .... wonderful autumn ... well I know the picture is out of focus , sorry , but still you can get the idea :P

hmm and here are some more autumn pictures :)  and just pictures I have taken around Hatfield :)  , my new temporary hometown . :

I love these complicated house decorations!

I have never seen any gardeners here ... I wonder how do they keep the hedges so .. square-ish :D ...
maybe they have garden  gnomes ?

Hatfield House farm ...

and as a farm it needs animals :)

and it has!
its like  a farm, but open for visitors, they can buy food , adn feed the animals n stuff... its a huge farm ...

:D .... I found it extremely funny.... although, it IS possible :P

how cool is that?

Well , this isn't :(

... I have grown to really like this place, it is beautiful in its way! .. What do you think? Is it a beautiful place to study and spend the off learning time? :)