Tuesday, April 19, 2011

THR3E Exhibition

In case you missed the show here is the Evo Series.

E-01
E-02
E-03
Light shining through acrylic strips in E-03

Finishing table E-03

Polyurethane on table top


Material for bowl insert in table top


Routed top

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Animation Showing.

As you know, I have spent these past couple weeks furiously trying to finish my animation called "To Be Another" With some adjustments and alot of all nighters, my animation will be showing at the Michigan Theater at 5pm. Here is the YouTube video of my animation for the people who will be unable to come to showing today.

To Be Another Animation

-My story comes from an old historical masks call Tal' Chum masks. They were made in Korea during the 12th century and during the Koryo Dynasty. They were originally made in a town call Ha-hoe village, where legends say that they were created by a man who was ordered by the gods to make.

-These masks were used to create the first plays during those times. Being in a state of corruption rule and poor economy, these masks were often used to create plays with music about their life or about the society issues.

-The word Tal means to free oneself. and with this idea, they often played rolls of characters that they were not in society and relieved their stress through the play by playing fun at the government or making fun of a certain type of person.

12 masks in total

2 masks will be presented with a preview of the third.

this will be just the start of the animation style i would like to pursue.


My inspiration from another artist named Charles

http://choojr.blogspot.com/ - this is the artist that has inspired me to use these masks to portray a status in the crime world.

The aristocrat will portray the mafia boss.

The fool will portray as the street gangster trying to make a living.


Hope you enjoy it. it took me a full month of no sleep to finish this because I lost myself in the beginning of this semester and regained the confidence by the help of professors and gsi's who pushed me to really end strong.

Thank you.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

E-03

Last week I went to John Hailing's Urban Timber to select wood for design 3 ( E-03).

I selected a walnut slab roughly 110" x 48" x 4".


Due to it's thickness, I wanted to cut the slab in half, in order to get two slabs around 1.5" thick.
John Hailing reducing the slab's width to 43" to fit through the horizontal saw.

Together we cut the slab in two.

Here are the results:


E-03 features concentric rings cut from one slab and 2 sheets of 1" acrylic. The rings layer up to create a table base with a subtle striped effect.

Here are some images form slab 1's cut:




During the cut we discovered a nail embedded in the wood, which broke part of a bit. In order to run the second slab on the router, I had to locate a metal detector to ensure there were no more nails like this one.


Finished rings

After locating a metal detector, pulling out the other half of the nail found in slab 1, and scheduling another router appointment, slab 2 was ready to go.

Slab 2 becomes the table top, aligning on top of the acrylic and wood rings to cap off the table. Since the table deals with very dense materials, I decided to remove excess material from the underside of the top. Here is what the underside looks like:


This is one of the acrylic rings


E-03 coming soon!

late nights lead to->

What to do when your IP Project isnt going according to plan? Hack it to do something silly... like play StarWars theme music-


Monday, April 11, 2011

DreamCruise

My book DreamCruise which features all of my photographs is shipping today and hopefully will be in by Friday!
Here is a little preview:

Sunday, April 10, 2011

SHEI FASHION SHOW

Today I exhibited 5 looks on the runway on live mannequins/standing models. The collection was the opening exhibit for the show and my work will be featured on the Shei Website. Here are a few pictures of the rehearsal. To see more, come to our offsite exhibition reception THR3E on April 16th, 7:00pm.