sculps

a toilet made out of doodie

My dreams are crazy. I cant wait until summer when i am going to work all the time. I am going to make my comic book but most of all i am going to paint and i am going to seperate myself from dead ends.

Cinema 4d

i wish i had more time to work on stuff since we cant save on demo versions, so these things are unfinished i would of wanted to make them cooler but i guess it doesnt matter. Im having a difficult time making a shoe and getting it to be smooth, so i decided to just make what i wanted. Its a man trying to row up a river the opposite way.

Cinema 4d

i wish i had more time to work on stuff since we cant save on demo versions, so these things are unfinished i would of wanted to make them cooler but i guess it doesnt matter. Im having a difficult time making a shoe and getting it to be smooth, so i decided to just make what i wanted. Its a man trying to row up a river the opposite way.

Cinema 4d

We started working with cinema 4d which we messed around with last semester but im glad we're getting more in to it because im starting to like it. I think cinema 4d is awesome because you can take a painting or drawing you did and see how it would look in a 3d state, which is really cool. EVeryone in our class is making some really cool stuff and especially that one guy who made that really realistic shoe, that was amazing and it would be great to be able to do that eventually. I made some beekers but i printed them out i dont have them on the comp. When i first started out using the program it took me a shitload of time to do simple stuff because i didnt realize the shortcuts which make things easier now. I prefer making scenes rather than seperate independent objects so i messed around and did that for a while. this is what i made.

Paper clayhayhay

My paper clay shoe is a sea monkey. I grew some sea monkeys at the beginning of the semester and they lasted a long time. Then i cleaned the ones that didnt make it out, and then they all just kicked the bucket. But anyway i decided to make it out of card board. I experimented on how to bend the board until i got a shape that resembled a shoe but not completely which didnt matter. THe basic structure was made out of cardboard and then the other details i decided to use duct tape all bunched up, for example the volume of the lips and eyes. For the head and those rod things that come out i crumpled up news pape and then put tape around it until it was really strong. Then i paper mached the thing and did a bunch of layers i tried to make it really smooth. Then i put 3 layers of paper clay on it, and added texture and other little details that gave it a personality. I would recommend growing sea monkeys to pretty much anyone.

Grinch shooooeee

The next shoe was the plaster shoe which i liked making. I decided to cut out the base of the shoe from styrofoam and then use a wire armature, i like making armatures out of wire a whole lot. so what i did was map out the basic frame of the shoe and i cut various pieces of wire and spent time attaching them to each other. The frame was made of simple half circles and straight wire lines. After that i cut out 3 semi circles from styrofoam that decreased in size and width and mimicked the base of the shoe, this gave it shape and made the frame more sturdy once i attached it to the semi circles. Theeennnn i cut out sheets of that brown pape and plastered it. The fun part was making it textured with paper towels and plaster. then i painted it. It reminds me of the grinch's shoe, and i think its funny.

elf shoe

Working with paper was fun times but at the same time it was frustrating that something so flexible and thin is hard to make curves with. Sometimes the paper just wouldnt do what you were trying to make it do, and it would crease and fold in weird ways. Im sure if we worked with paper more or were origami masters this probably wouldnt of been a problem. For my next paper shoe i decided i wanted to make an elf shoe. I first made the base, and then drew a smaller version inside of that leaving about 1 cm perimeter. Then i tore it around the perimeter at areas where it needed to bend and folded it upwards. I then a curved plane to the perimeter for the back of the shoe and then the rest i overlapped and futzed around with until it worked. Then to get the curl i crumpled up the pape and shaped it. I Made the buckle by folding a bunch of pape together and then cutting out the center. Then i added the fluff part with a lot of shredded pape, also at the end of the curl. Im gonna post pics once i get a hold of a camera because i dropped mine off of a 200ft cliff when my pal pretended to push me off. yeah that sucked.

Clown times

MY FIRST SHOE
My first shoe was a clown shoe that i made out of paper bags and comics. I used the "funny pages" since it was intended for a clown. I made the shoe in a Guess and Check sort of style, without really measuring or making precise accurate parts. Instead I eyed the parts and worked on the shoe as an entire object instead of seperate pieces. My favorite part about making things is getting to the point where you can add in unique details, like making actual laces out of paper and shoe gromets and then deciding to use a whole puncher and glue on the punchies to make the shoe poka dotted. I like this shoe but i can say that it is not completely accurate, which a lot of the times is not my concern when a material requires manipulation through precise measuring, im more concerned with the personality of the object.

sparkly glitter times

I am really glad that i took sculpture this semester. I really enjoyed the realness of our entire class and seeing how a project can be interpreted in so many different ways. I hope a lot of the people from our class continue to take sculpture. I liked our class because it was real, sometimes it would be just like hanging out with each other and sharing ideas and thinking about the world and what it says to us, and thats what i like to do. I think the best way to teach something is through freedom, enlightening people and then having their mind do the rest, and i really think that the success of our class was based on what happened to us outside of class, after class, and how much we were each effected by the things we talked about This semester was insane for me, I feel like my head and person just expanded in so many ways and i think its funny how you can never really understand or see things clearly until they are over. I think the entire concept of college is kind of weird. I never thought i would be here and sometimes i wonder if i should be or if i should be off joining the circus. Sometimes i wonder, whats going to happen to us all? But why am i worrying about that stuff. We all have something in our lives that we love to do, and momments where we are just so alive and real and happy and we should just really be thankful for everything no matter how bad we may feel sometimes. Thats why i feel life is more about doing what you love then doing other stupid mindless bullshit. I guess sometimes i am just overwhelmed by the very idea of existing, how amazingly good and evil everything can be. I guess what im trying to say is everyone is as equally good as they are bad. Any good or evil that you encounter in the world is based on whats inside of you, not the thing that is inflicting it upon you. It doesnt matter what is going to happen, the good or bad things you do, it matters how much you love the little things that life can give you, and if you see them or choose to ignore them. If you replay them in your mind, and let them spill in to every other thing you do. Our existence is temporary. We will not be young forever. And right now is beautiful, its magically awesome and it makes me want to just explode because i love it so much, and i hope everyone can just take some time and realize that, because some things are just so rare, keep them always in your mind, and then you will really understand why we are here in the first place.
to conclude that.... all you kids in sculpture, in life are great, it doesnt matter what you make how you make it it matters the feelings that you felt and how you connected with what you made, what it did inside of you and if you love it like you love those rare magical times that make being here worthwhile.

cameras

The last critique we had i thought everyone made some seriously cool stuff, and even if everyone wasnt completely satisfied with what they did, the most important part of everyones sculpture was the whole idea behind the project and what it made us think about. This project was about media space. Brining in to reality something that is hyperreal in virtual reality. I thought the most interesting project was the video camera project. The fact that the actual project is the response to the project is brilliant and the fact that at one time, the project was actual and then it is past is really cool. once you replay it, it is a captured memory that is different each time you view it. The cool concept behinid it is the project is always changing, because the project is the response. Everytime it is viewed, other responses occur and the original response that makes the project is skewed and transformed much like the whole idea of actuality, and you can NEVER relive something in the actual way it occured, all you have is a memory that stays in your mind. And where is that memory, those images and feelings, where are they kept? What is a tv? when you watch a tv, it is like you are watching a mind, but a universal mind, tv hypnotizes you in the way that it is mimicking every single thing your brain does, since we live life as spectators of other people, since we can never understand how we are to others. We can only get a sense of who we are through THE RESPONSE of other people since we can never truly see ourselves. What is recorded on that camera is what life is. What makes things what they are and what makes things exist, is the response to them.Something cannot exist if there is nothing to document the existence. The coolest part about that project is it is the most simple idea that the response makes the project exist. That project makes me think about so many things...how can you take NOTHING and make it exist? Make the nothing create a response. But if there is nothing there, then, how can someone or something respond to it. I think that is one of those crazy ideas when you start to think, nothing is something. Because there is no nothing in the entire world, but then again, existence is only something because there are other things to respond to whatever exists. I guess what the project makes me think about tv, the internet, and all that shit, is it really is nothing. There is only something there because we can see and respond to it when in reality it is a completly falsely generated thing. If we make sculptures on the computer, what makes them any different than if we make them in real life? I guess im more about response through actual interaction, but who is to say that actual interaction is more real than interaction on a computer. When i think about it...maybe sculptures on the computer are more real and more closely tied to ourselves because maybe things are the most real when we see them in our head because then they are ours...and when we see it in our head that is the first original time, free from response from others. How we see things in our mind, is how they appear on a computer or a tv, in a flat virtual world. anytime we make art, we are making it from things that are happening in our head, a collaboration of things we saw inside of there, seperate from the actual world, but contained in thought. When you think about it, the only things that REALLY exist, are the things that exist inside YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL HEAD because no one will ever be able to see the images and thoughts and memories contained inside your head, they can only respond to them once you create them as secondary objects, generalizations of what you originally saw in your mind, then transformed in reality. The video camera project lets us watch our reponse, and then respond to that response. Instead of continuing to talk and go crazy i am just going to say that surrealism and philosophy are so important in understanding the world and i just want to take all of that stuff in so i can realize more things about myself and view the world the way it really is, not the way we falsely make it to be

Doodieman, i love him

Doodie man reads a doodie book
on a doodie toilet...
on a doodie day...
...in a doodie world
he thinks doodie thoughts
of doodie things
like doodie dreams
of doodie kings
doodie is the only song he sings.
he has doodie hands
and doodie toes
doodie friends
and doodie foes..
doodie is the only thing he knows!