3-D class

So this week the lecture was just an advising meeting so I decided to write on my 3-D class. As of now 3-D is my favorite class because its new and I have never done sculpture work before. I like the freedom to make pretty much anything and just really explore sculpture. My most recent project is a treat to work on. It is made of 2X4's and cardboard and is as tall as me, 6'5", and has multiple moving parts. The lecture last week reminded me a lot of my sculpture, art and engineering fused into one, granted my piece isn't as advanced as Brad Litwin's but the underlying idea is similar. A reason I really like this project is because I was and still am a tinkerer, I enjoy taking apart and putting back together things that are too complex for me to understand. My favorite thing to dismantle are remote controlled cars and from that I got a rudimentary idea of how you can get linear and circular motion from one rotating source.My sculpture is basically a stick figure with moving arms and a spinning head that are all powered from one crank near the base. So far my creation is coming along and should be finished by crit time but is nowhere near finished, when it is I'll have another post about the finished piece and how the crit went and i'll include a few pictures.