find your stride, set your pace
ID summer studio presentations were today. Most of the projects I had witnessed several times through their design cycles, per se, but some I saw for the first time only this afternoon. There are a few students in my class that truly have an intuitive eye for a wonderful look or simple form. I wish my camera was working (and here) so that I could have taken snapshots of the results. Dang.
The only items I hadn’t yet presented were my lamps and stool. The stool is in preliminary machining due to my repeated conflicts with lampshade design and assembly. Some mediocre lampshades were placed on the lamps for the presentation, but they hardly exhibit the effect I am pursuing. Bill said my lamp bases were “excellent” and that their synchronicity was “beautiful”. He told me to keep working on the shades and also allow for a firmer connection to the base than what I had planned for. His last point was dead-on and something I had contended with consistently throughout the lampshade development - I had only two connecting pins for the shade, which caused rocking and created several difficulties in steadying the thing. Anyways. The lamps should be done by the first week of the next semester.
The one-piece stump-stool is going to be a Super Fall Semester 2006! project and I will regularly update him on my carving and lathing results. And, as you can tell, the fall semester has received its official title.
The Second Summer Session 2006! isn’t over yet. My heat&mass transfer final is Saturday morning and the intermediate time is filled with RA jazz (maybe some salsa, as well).
My iCal is filling up, my Mail receives dozens of emails per day, more and more people appear in my Buddy List - the new school year is on the horizon.