Here are my first round of samples. I made them over the weekend. Unfortunately, i let the clay dry that I was using as a mold, but i did not seal it and as an end result, the paper stuck to the clay. They are failures as samples. More to come!
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Project Number 3 Samples
Here are my first round of samples. I made them over the weekend. Unfortunately, i let the clay dry that I was using as a mold, but i did not seal it and as an end result, the paper stuck to the clay. They are failures as samples. More to come!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Blood Diamonds: Progress
Last weekend and this week were all about cleaning everything up and getting it ready to turn in tomorrow morning at 11! We had some setbacks with getting wood to lasercut our board but that has all been fixed and Kelsey and I are meeting back up tonight at 8 in the studio to knock out the rest of our project. Here is an image of the pieces mostly cleaned up. Hopefully we can get a few good shots of the final project before we hand it over to April tomorrow. If not, there is always afterwards.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Easter Weekend: walk down memory lane.
I went and gathered some images of the house i am creating my project around over easter weekend. I took quite a lot of images. I will post some on here. I had trouble getting shots of different things that I wanted. I suppose the house from my memory is about 17 years older now and it shows in some ways.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
NY Times: Three Cups of Tea
Personally, I read and loved this book. I would like to think that everything written was the truth, it makes the story more powerful and uplifting. Of course, as is the way of the world, nothing is what it seems. Here is an article about the validity of the entire story of Three Cups of Tea. I take it with a grain of salt.
‘Three Cups of Tea’ Author Defends Book
By JULIE BOSMAN and STEPHANIE STROM
Published: April 17, 2011
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While the publishing industry waited to see whether it faced the embarrassment of yet another partly fabricated memoir, Greg Mortenson, the co-author of the best-selling “Three Cups of Tea,” a book popular with the Pentagon for its inspirational lessons on Afghanistan and Pakistan, forcefully countered a CBS News report on Sunday that questioned the facts of his book and the management of his charitable organization.
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The report could puncture a hole in the uplifting narrative of “Three Cups of Tea,” which has fed a charity run by Mr. Mortenson, the Central Asia Institute. The institute has built schools, mostly for girls, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The report has also revived a chronic concern in the publishing industry over the accuracy of nonfiction memoirs, which are typically only lightly fact-checked by publishers, if at all.
Viking, the imprint of Penguin Group USA that published “Three Cups of Tea,” declined to comment on the book or answer questions about how it was vetted.
The CBS News report questioned, in particular, a central anecdote of the book that was as dramatic as it was inspirational: in 1993, Mr. Mortenson was retreating after failing to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest mountain, when, lost and dehydrated, he stumbled across the small village of Korphe in northeast Pakistan. After the villagers there nursed him back to health, he vowed to return and build a school.
The CBS report, broadcast on “60 Minutes” Sunday night and citing sources, said that Mr. Mortenson had actually visited Korphe nearly one year after his K2 attempt. Mr. Mortenson said on Sunday that he did reach Korphe after his climb in 1993, and that he visited again in 1994.
But he added a disclaimer in an interview with The Bozeman Daily Chronicle, saying that while he stood by the information in the book, “the time about our final days on K2 and ongoing journey to Korphe village and Skardu is a compressed version of events that took place in the fall of 1993.”
Viking has maintained near silence since the report trickled out on Friday, saying on Saturday that it relied on its authors “to tell the truth, and they are contractually obligated to do so.”
For the publisher, the situation with Mr. Mortenson was not as clear cut as it was with another of its authors, Margaret Seltzer, who wrote “Love and Consequences,” a memoir discovered to be fraudulent only days after it was published in 2008. Riverhead Books, the unit of Penguin that published “Love and Consequences,” immediately recalled all 19,000 copies, offered refunds to readers who had bought it and canceled Ms. Seltzer’s book tour.
“Three Cups of Tea” had a modest start when it was released in hardcover in 2006 but took off after it was published in paperback.
Set in the remote mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, it would be a difficult exercise in fact-checking for any publisher.
“It really is the responsibility of the author to write the truth,” said David Black, a literary agent. “If a publisher were to establish a fact-checking department the way a magazine fact checks, given the length of the works and the number of books they are dealing with, it would become very difficult to publish a lot of nonfiction.”
William Zinsser, who is the author of “Writing About Your Life: A Journey Into the Past,” said on Sunday that publishers have had a “slippery” standard for accuracy in memoirs.
“I don’t think they much care whether it’s true or not,” Mr. Zinsser said. “To me, the essence of memoir writing is absolute truth because I think everybody gains that way.”
Mr. Mortenson declined requests for an interview on Sunday, but he released a memo to several news outlets detailing responses to the “60 Minutes” report. He also forwarded a cheerful e-mail to his staff, sent early Sunday morning, telling them that after suffering from “low oxygen” for 18 months, he had recently been found to have a heart ailment and would be undergoing a surgical procedure on Thursday to correct it.
“Don’t let NYC sensational TV mess with Montana, or the tens of thousands of girls and boys we empower through education, our supporters will rally!” he wrote.
‘Three Cups of Tea’ Author Defends Book
By JULIE BOSMAN and STEPHANIE STROM
Published: April 17, 2011
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While the publishing industry waited to see whether it faced the embarrassment of yet another partly fabricated memoir, Greg Mortenson, the co-author of the best-selling “Three Cups of Tea,” a book popular with the Pentagon for its inspirational lessons on Afghanistan and Pakistan, forcefully countered a CBS News report on Sunday that questioned the facts of his book and the management of his charitable organization.
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The report could puncture a hole in the uplifting narrative of “Three Cups of Tea,” which has fed a charity run by Mr. Mortenson, the Central Asia Institute. The institute has built schools, mostly for girls, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The report has also revived a chronic concern in the publishing industry over the accuracy of nonfiction memoirs, which are typically only lightly fact-checked by publishers, if at all.
Viking, the imprint of Penguin Group USA that published “Three Cups of Tea,” declined to comment on the book or answer questions about how it was vetted.
The CBS News report questioned, in particular, a central anecdote of the book that was as dramatic as it was inspirational: in 1993, Mr. Mortenson was retreating after failing to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest mountain, when, lost and dehydrated, he stumbled across the small village of Korphe in northeast Pakistan. After the villagers there nursed him back to health, he vowed to return and build a school.
The CBS report, broadcast on “60 Minutes” Sunday night and citing sources, said that Mr. Mortenson had actually visited Korphe nearly one year after his K2 attempt. Mr. Mortenson said on Sunday that he did reach Korphe after his climb in 1993, and that he visited again in 1994.
But he added a disclaimer in an interview with The Bozeman Daily Chronicle, saying that while he stood by the information in the book, “the time about our final days on K2 and ongoing journey to Korphe village and Skardu is a compressed version of events that took place in the fall of 1993.”
Viking has maintained near silence since the report trickled out on Friday, saying on Saturday that it relied on its authors “to tell the truth, and they are contractually obligated to do so.”
For the publisher, the situation with Mr. Mortenson was not as clear cut as it was with another of its authors, Margaret Seltzer, who wrote “Love and Consequences,” a memoir discovered to be fraudulent only days after it was published in 2008. Riverhead Books, the unit of Penguin that published “Love and Consequences,” immediately recalled all 19,000 copies, offered refunds to readers who had bought it and canceled Ms. Seltzer’s book tour.
“Three Cups of Tea” had a modest start when it was released in hardcover in 2006 but took off after it was published in paperback.
Set in the remote mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, it would be a difficult exercise in fact-checking for any publisher.
“It really is the responsibility of the author to write the truth,” said David Black, a literary agent. “If a publisher were to establish a fact-checking department the way a magazine fact checks, given the length of the works and the number of books they are dealing with, it would become very difficult to publish a lot of nonfiction.”
William Zinsser, who is the author of “Writing About Your Life: A Journey Into the Past,” said on Sunday that publishers have had a “slippery” standard for accuracy in memoirs.
“I don’t think they much care whether it’s true or not,” Mr. Zinsser said. “To me, the essence of memoir writing is absolute truth because I think everybody gains that way.”
Mr. Mortenson declined requests for an interview on Sunday, but he released a memo to several news outlets detailing responses to the “60 Minutes” report. He also forwarded a cheerful e-mail to his staff, sent early Sunday morning, telling them that after suffering from “low oxygen” for 18 months, he had recently been found to have a heart ailment and would be undergoing a surgical procedure on Thursday to correct it.
“Don’t let NYC sensational TV mess with Montana, or the tens of thousands of girls and boys we empower through education, our supporters will rally!” he wrote.
Project Number 3
So it is now time to start our 3rd and final project of the semester. This project is a materials project based off of some short stories. Upon first reading the stories, i was at a loss. It took some dissecting and i believe i found the root of each story. They are about nostalgia, impermanence, and what defines what is rare versus common. The story about the impermanence of half of a city struck me as relating very much to the city of Detroit. The Infrastructure (what you would think would be more permanent) actually up and left leaving the people behind. And here is where I have gotten my idea. More details to come!
Progress: Blood Diamonds
So in the past week Kelsey and I have come a long way on our project. Last weekend, we started most of our waxes, by Tuesday the 12th, we had finished them all, sprued them all, and invested them all! We put in some solid work time and really made a dent in the thing. Wednesday night, we cast! Although there were some issues, for example running out of gas!, we made it through and everything cast sucessfully! Thursday, we cut all of our sprues. This past weekend, I put in a few hours each day and have done most of the cleanup on our pieces. All that is left is printing our board and the instruction book! I am excited to see the finished product. Pictures will be coming soon!
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Creative Caffeine! Looking at materials
Here are some images I took while looking around my apartment. The materials I was most interested in were the plant like, as you can see I took quite a few pictures of the different plants we have. I also started looking at some of the beauty materials. The eyeshadow, face powder, lipstick, nail polish, and hair gel. Other than that there are some shells, paint, ceramic pieces we have around, and and interesting basket.
Blood Diamonds: Progress
Today I made lots of progress! I Wish I had made even more but I have been working for the last 10 hours straight and I think I need to take a break. My goal for today was to get as many waxes done for blood diamonds as possible. I did a good bit as well as cleanup on some and spruing for some others. Here are the pictures.
First I made the other two tools that we need for the game pieces. The shovel, and a mallet. The pictures do not show the mallet, it still needs to be cleaned up.
These are two simple x's that I made. The will be used as markers during the game. They are now cleaned up and sprued!
Next I made the 2 dice we need. They still need to be engraved on each side, but other than that they are already all cleaned and ready to be sprued. The picture is pretty bad, sorry.
Lastly, I sprued the gold bars that we made a few weeks ago, along with the x's and the pickaxe. Here are a few images. All in all, I would say it was a pretty successful day. Still a ton of work to go, but we are that much closer.
First I made the other two tools that we need for the game pieces. The shovel, and a mallet. The pictures do not show the mallet, it still needs to be cleaned up.
These are two simple x's that I made. The will be used as markers during the game. They are now cleaned up and sprued!
Next I made the 2 dice we need. They still need to be engraved on each side, but other than that they are already all cleaned and ready to be sprued. The picture is pretty bad, sorry.
Lastly, I sprued the gold bars that we made a few weeks ago, along with the x's and the pickaxe. Here are a few images. All in all, I would say it was a pretty successful day. Still a ton of work to go, but we are that much closer.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Blood Diamonds: Building a collection of Resin Men
After many failed attempts at trying to create little resin people for the game, we have finally found something that works. I usually pour resin into the mold before I go to bed so that it can harden overnight. At this point I have about 30. Only 10 more to go!
Skeleton To Skin: Cleaned up!
Here are four of my pieces all cleaned up and ready to have a patina put on them! I love the shinyness of the bronze. However, I am going to use a liver of sulfur on them. Hope it looks good!
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