Cube Knots

Fiddling around in the machine, wondering, is this contraption something I can use? Can anybody else?

(I took it from the cover of this single by This Will Destroy You, who I still can’t decide if they rock or if I’m just deeply jealous that these amateurs are touring while I’m retired. But mostly this shape reminds me of Escher, who will always rock your nerdy amateur pants off. Boy.)

Gentle damage

This isn’t what I’ve been doing all summer, but I never really do anything with my Youtube account, and I wanted to show to myself that some experiments actually work. Even though their purpose and usefulness will remain under dispute.

I don’t want to be drawn into the endless toil and drudgery of animation, but I still want to. So, I’m fiddling around with gravity experiments in Sketchup. And there’s something calming about toy buildings destroying themselves.

Also, silly ghost music.

Wreckage Because I can’t figure out how to make time for the things I really want to do, I often end up playing around with less than focused technical tests. Still, it’s exercise (mostly spent waiting for the computer to finish rendering). This became sort of a cross between something Realist and something reduced, simplified, cooked-dry. Which fits the idea surprisingly well. I maintain that the Mad Max movies are a grand poetic contribution to modern legend and storytelling, even though that might be more thanks to luck than vision, considering the stories George Miller went on to write and direct. There is still something in this tale of vehicular anger and sorrow that remains promisingly untold. And it must be pointed out once again, how incredibly sad it is that fame turned Mel Gibson into a mad, horrible asshole. The car here is a bent and broken combination of a Pursuit Special model created by Marco F., with parts from another model by RJReese. Sign sloppily extracted from movie screenshot. Rendered in SU Podium and thoroughly recolored in Fotochop.
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Wreckage

Because I can’t figure out how to make time for the things I really want to do, I often end up playing around with less than focused technical tests. Still, it’s exercise (mostly spent waiting for the computer to finish rendering). This became sort of a cross between something Realist and something reduced, simplified, cooked-dry. Which fits the idea surprisingly well.

I maintain that the Mad Max movies are a grand poetic contribution to modern legend and storytelling, even though that might be more thanks to luck than vision, considering the stories George Miller went on to write and direct. There is still something in this tale of vehicular anger and sorrow that remains promisingly untold.

And it must be pointed out once again, how incredibly sad it is that fame turned Mel Gibson into a mad, horrible asshole.

The car here is a bent and broken combination of a Pursuit Special model created by Marco F., with parts from another model by RJReese. Sign sloppily extracted from movie screenshot. Rendered in SU Podium and thoroughly recolored in Fotochop.

More measure-mining Keeping all those measurements in line takes many cups of coffee. I help a friend construct models, drawings and blueprints for a sort of outdoors hot tub. So far it’s going well (except for my teeth-chilling headache yesterday). Manufacturer has found my CAD files viable, too. But I’m still wary of Sketchup. I use it, it’s fun, I have no money or inclination to get into AutoCAD. But Sketchup slips occasionally, if ever so slightly. Once in a while, Sketchup’s snap-to-point feature creates vectors on its own. You can never be fully sure a horizontal line actually is. On a subatomic level (oh well, that’s true of all things). So it works, but don’t bet people’s lives on it. Now for cutting sheet metal, it’s great, of course. Maybe I’ll go back to my old career of large metal sculpture some day.
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More measure-mining

Keeping all those measurements in line takes many cups of coffee.

I help a friend construct models, drawings and blueprints for a sort of outdoors hot tub. So far it’s going well (except for my teeth-chilling headache yesterday). Manufacturer has found my CAD files viable, too.

But I’m still wary of Sketchup. I use it, it’s fun, I have no money or inclination to get into AutoCAD. But Sketchup slips occasionally, if ever so slightly. Once in a while, Sketchup’s snap-to-point feature creates vectors on its own. You can never be fully sure a horizontal line actually is. On a subatomic level (oh well, that’s true of all things). So it works, but don’t bet people’s lives on it.

Now for cutting sheet metal, it’s great, of course. Maybe I’ll go back to my old career of large metal sculpture some day.