card

FGG Card Front, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

This came a few weeks ago but I haven't gotten around to documenting it until now. I made some oil paintings for the architecture office (FGG) I worked for two summers ago. The last two paintings were done at a job site just west of Palo Alto which sat in an amazing valley with incredible views. Anyway, I recently got a pack of a few of these newly printed cards and they look great!

Wishlist

Wishlist, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

I have a major technology weakness. Just take a look at my desk and you can see all the random electronic gadgets I acquire. I have so many already, and yet I could still use more. This is totally unreasonable, but it would be incredibly nice. Yes, it's the price of a pretty nice new car, but can't I wish?

squared

Site Squares glued, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

I've been working on building a 1/32 inch scale topo out of chipboard. My genius idea was to make it with tiny (~3") squares. So after sitting down in the basement cutting the topo with the laser for around eight hours, I was stuck with popping out, keeping track of, and gluing thousands of small to tiny pieces of cardboard. But as I'm getting closer to finishing, I'm glad I did it this way…I think.

tranCISION

Escondido Freeway page, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

The book that I was part of, "Division & TranCISION," was published recently by McCall Design. The book turned out great and is a perfect finish to a great summer internship. I kind of want to revisit some of the ideas we explored during our research.

rebuilt

Door new, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

After much toil I have finally managed to reconstruct my first semester door project. I replaced much o what was wood with plexiglas. The plexi allowed me to be much more flexible and accurate with the wire and pullies. And actually I like the new version better than the first. Maybe it was good that the original broke…

Laser

laser hands, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

Last night I was supposed to be finishing up a map/model which is made of plexiglas etched on the laser cutter. Down in the basement there are three laser cutters (Ebony, Brunette, and Redhead), but two of them were broken to start with. Ebony for some reason only had AutoCAD 2004 installed without the plot driver for the printer, Brunette would not turn on if you paid it, and at the time I went down, there were some random Koreans cutting out plexi name tags and crosses out. Not wanting to cause a fuss I signed up for a later time, got some food, and came back later. When I got back I had to kick some dude off the laser and I set up for an easy and quick cut. However, when I tried to focus the laser I discovered that the bed would not move up or down and instead emitted a horrible grinding noise. So what did I do? I stuffed other pieces of material and a sketchbook under the bed to prop it to a more acceptable height. My first attempt was botched and while one corner was in focus, the other parts were not, and the laser burned but did not cut. Finally, the thirty minute job took around three hours. When I went to make my final two cuts to finish my broken door model, the laser wouldn't even move into position to focus. So I packed it up and went home, leaving the 0/3 lasers working. Why is everything broken?

bob's

bob's round 02, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

On my trip to San Francisco last month I made a pilgrimage to Bob's Donuts on Polk street. As usual it was delicious. So delicious in fact that I ended up eating around 10 over the course of 24 hours.

studioWorks

door02, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

Finally sat down (for like twenty-four hours) and put out some renderings for studio works. Unlike my botched model, these turned out okay.  This image is from my door project (see previous post)

(As always you can click the image and be taken to my flickr stream)

Broken

Pile, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

So in preparing my door model for studioworks I got a little overzealous with the drill press and the whole thing imploded. I think it had a lot to do with not having nearly enough sleep while operating heavy machinery, but whatever. Anyway, all is not lost and I plan to rebuild over the weekend. Yay for more work…