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partial model, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

This is how I'm dealing with curver's remorse…at least in 3D.

I'm slowly but surely pumping out my final production models for my second semester core class. The GSD has a lot of resources (CNC routers, multiple robot arms that no one knows how to use, plotters everywhere, 3D printers, and frickin' laser cutters), but when it comes to crunch time, everything is always taken. So you have to be crafty and slip in and get things done in the cracks and be ready to jump off of whatever it is you're doing and run down to get pieces of your model laser cut. It's insane and not conducive to sleep. But if all goes well we should all have very nice projects. Still being alive at the end would be a huge bonus too.

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This is curver's remorse. How am I going to make/ draw this?, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

I have to figure out a way to make this badboy out of materials that are by nature flat. This may hurt.

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Butcher Block, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

I made this board out of 1" x 2" maple strips and I'm planning on routing out a site plan in 1"=64' scale on the cnc cutter. Crossing my fingers that I get a CNC time slot, and that the file works, and that the board doesn't split, and that it's worth my time. It's deceptively heavy.

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Sketchup, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

Going through stuff for my portfolio I ran across this little badboy from the first "Build Your Campus in 3D" competition that our Stanford team won last year. And it looks like there's a new one going on now too.

E&E

P1010102, originally uploaded by Stanford Architecture.

I came across this photo in the Stanford Architecture photostream of what I presume to be the new Architecture studio in the brand new E&E building in the up and coming SEQ II. Somehow, two of my models (from the same project) made it over from Terman to the new space. Pretty sweeth.

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string operations, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

I've been working with string for the latest project which is fun, but may also prove to be my demise. This is part of my study "instrument" where I test the operations I've set apart: Pinch, spread, and bridge. We'll see what develops.

MoMA

rhinoWall, originally uploaded by neutralSurface.

So the GSD took us to MoMA in NYC for a day and a day only. They took us to see "Design for the Elastic Mind" or something like that. Overall the exhibit was underwhelming. All the projects seemed to be undercooked and I guess I just expected more. Anyway, while the trip was fun, it definitely put us all behind our already tight schedule.