ending it with a bomb

And that is the end of my string of assignment! I feel so light I can fly. Today, I'm showing off my groups final assignment. We have to design and build a sculpture and install it in a public area. We took about a day for planning and 24 hours for building.

We call it, The Rock. I think. We designed it to spice up the Bali Courtyard in our college. Yes, the courtyard has a Bali theme. It is like a Bali temple in the middle of nowhere. The Rock was inspired by the stone elements that are often present in Bali Temples.

The Rock looks different at different angles.

Our main constraint during the building stage was to connect the random planes (surfaces) together. Because the planes are so random, it was tough shit to estimate and to calculate the size of the planes in order to build the model.

The emphasis and main focus point is on the glass shards. We used Heineken beer bottles :D

the glass shards are placed on the crumpled aluminum foil for a better result in capturing the sunlight. and it works beautifully i tell ya

the group!

from left. Tony, Eng Wei, Melvin. Jireh, Debbie and Danial

Behind the scenes:

Day 1

cleaning the beer bottles and dirty cans/

oh gawd i will never touch those again

cutting the tins open to do our weaving

breaking the glass

calculating the size for each planes

level A, 90%

Day 2

9.00 am

weaving like them ol' ladies in tibet =.=

12 pm:

starting level b

2pm:

lunch break at Simply Nyonya, Taipan

its their signature drink-longkang water

a mixture of sour plum drink and cincau

desert:

shaved ice from 100 yen.

my fav :D

and i got them to like it too!

8pm:

still weaving

12 pm:

problem discovered!

stress stress stress

the weaving aluminium cans we realize, we will never get to finish in time.

3 am:

problem solved

substitute weaving texture with aluminum foils

4 am:

Danial taking advantage of us.

(He had a nose bleed =.=)

5 am:

6 am:

How strange it must have been for the 7/11 cashier to find 3 "drunken" customers to go into the store at 6 in the morning to get a roll of aluminium foil and 2 red bulls.

7 am:

Danial down.

hah! we're even

8 am:

finishing touches!

9 am:

structure and skin completed!

cleaning up

10 am:

Place glass shards on the surface

Build base to maket the sculpture float on water.

Failed.

Broke down.

Pulled self together

Back to initial plan.

Put sculpture on ground.

Secure sculpture.

11 am:

Done.

Glad,

Debbay