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…

StudioOne

Side view of door, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

Posted some photos of last semester's work. Unfortunately (or really, fortunately actually) I have much more work to do to prepare stuff for studio works. I'll post those once they're done.

homeboy

I remember this was one of the "experimental" videos that they showed us at SFAI for a class back in 2001 before it blew up on YouTube (before YouTube in fact). Back then it was a rare possession. Not so much anymore. Still hilarious though! This may be the only thing I took away from the class and at least it's pretty sweeth.

Water

Water Tower, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

For our energy class final we had to design something that had something from a shipping shipping container…or something. We were placed into small groups and then assigned a location (with some kind of extreme condition associate with it) somewhere in the world for our containers to live. I was assigned to New Orleans and so I got to work on a container that would deliver fresh water and living quarters. I came up with this little deal that opens up to make a water tower that supports a passive solar water heater array and create a shady sleeping porch-like space inside. Maybe not the most exciting, but it's done, and in the end isn't that what it's all about?

Plexi

Plywood and Plexi, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

One of five materials projects I made for a class. This one I made by putting a square piece of plexiglas on a bean can in the oven on low and then taking a nap. Probably not the best idea in the world, but it worked.

320GB

Guts, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

It's been too long since I updated, so I figured that this was an appropriate time to do it. I just completed an internal hard drive upgrade to my 2.33GHz core 2 duo MacBook Pro. Firstly I upped my 2GB of RAM to max of 3GB (the extra GB outweighed the benefits of dual channeling). And just today I replaced my stock 160GB hard drive with the new Western Digital 320GB Scorpio 2.5" Drive. I then restored everything with Time Machine and everything is back where it was pre-upgrade (except my wallpaper was reset to the default for some reason). The actual procedure involved quite a few screws, but aside from keeping track of those (a piece of tape made it easy), it was a fast (20min) process which resulted in going from a cramped 5 free GB to ~150 free GB. So far so good.

It's interesting to note (at least to me) that I now have a total of 1.23 terrabytes worth of storage sitting on my desk (actual formatted space brings the number down a bit though). I know this number sounds ample to me now, but I'm sure a few years down the line it will seem puny and inconsequential…until then…