Upcycle Update: Paper Mache Furniture
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For my upcycle project, I will be making a paper mache stool. This stool will serve as footrest for me to use when I am relaxing while also providing a unique aesthetic. The actual structure will be made of remnant wood material found in my backyard or at a local wood cutting shop (Home Depot,…
Upcycling Progress: Broken Hockey Stick Furniture
As a hockey player and sports fan, I have always loved the sports aesthetic. Whether you consider it to be sports bar-like or a man cave, I have Colorado Buffaloes, Green Bay Packers, and Wisconsin Badgers logos all over my walls. However, I do not have any sports-related furniture. How cool would it be to…
Upcycle Update: Sperry’s
The biggest struggle I have had with the Upcycle project was coming up with something to do! I woke up this morning and began to get dressed and went to put on my shoes and out of the corner of my eye I saw something; my old faithful pair of Sperry’s. They had served me…
Upcycle Project Update: Guitar Stand
For my upcycle project, I decided to utilize some extra PVC pipe laying around my house from my landlord’s garden sprinkler project. There is roughly 10 feet of PVC pipe in my laundry that my landlord has given me his blessing to use. I went straight to brainstorming of what to make and a common…
Upcycle Update: Cardboard Hat
Source: redneckbeerhats.com[1] A long time ago, I received a hat just like this one as a gift, and it quickly became one of my favorite hats. It’s simple, made out of just cardboard. I want to see if I can recreate it myself. Hopefully I will have enough cardboard in case I mess up. My…
Upcycle Update: Candles
For me, one of the most annoying things is when you have multiple candles that have such little wax that you can’t even fit your hand into the jar to light it. When this happens, I tend to just put the candles in a bin or box because I think, maybe I’ll get one of…
Upcycle Progress: Paper Clip Art
After coming up with many terrible ideas for a project, I decided to look for inspiration. I got on my phone and googled “upcycled art,” hoping to see something that would inspire me. Then, it hit me. I remembered a small motorcycle statue I purchased in Vietnam that consisted of nuts, bolts, and washers welded…
Upcycle Progress: Beer Bottles
As we continue to dive into aesthetics one fun upcycling project came to my mind. Over the past year, I have noticed that most of the recycling/waste that leaves my apartment is empty beer bottles. So for my upcycling project, I have decided that I would really like to incorporate beer bottles and make them…
07 Sketching a block, and team behavior
Went over 0,1,2 and 3 point perspective, and then how to sketch a block. Based on Steur, Roselien, and Koos Eissen. Sketching: The Basics. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers, 2011. Then we listed to an excerpt from This American Life, #370, on how bad apple behavior (slacker, jerk, depressive) can ruin a group. 07 Sketching and teams
Upcycle Project Progress: Wood-metal sculptures
After a frustrating brainstorming session over the weekend, I ended up making almost no progress. Hence, I decided to go ahead and build something out of discarded foam boards which I found in my RA resource room in my residence hall. I thought it would be sweet if I could build a whole arsenal of…
Upcycling Update
1 2 For my upcycling project I plan on doing something with skis/snowboards. I love skiing and although it was not the primary reason for my attendance at CU, it is definitely a plus. Myself and my roommates have always been talking about making a used ski/snowboard bench and I figure this is…
Upcycle Update: Ukulele in Progress
For my Upcycle Project, I have decided to design a ukulele. Given my love for music, this object was a natural fit. My original intent was to make a violin, but in evaluating the feasibility of designing a functional instrument, I found the ukulele to be slightly less complicated, which will allow me greater freedom…
Upcycling Update- Skateboard Rack
For my upcycling project, I am planning to use reclaimed lumber, cardboard, and (potentially) pvc pipe to construct a small, floor skateboard rack. Even though I only own a couple boards, finding space to put them without them seeming out of place is more trouble than it should be. I will cut two cardboard boxes…
Upcycle Project: Laundry Hamper
Upcycle Project: Progress For the first Aesthetics and Design Project: Upcycle, I brainstormed several ideas of functional things which I need. The creation of a laundry hamper was the first idea which inspired me, and I have chosen it after finding a free table thanks to craigslist. The aesthetic which the project will focus on…
Update on Aesthetics Recycle Project
I have decided that I will be making the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden out of recycled cardboard, paper, and plastic. I am not focusing that much on the colors, but more the different textures of the recycled plastics and papers. I was also thinking, my house gets an abundance of newspaper ads that we do…
Blog: Upcycle Progress – Projection Stage
I am working on a projection stage for my Upcycle project. A projection stage is generally a three-dimensional object on top of which images are projected from a video projector. Projection stages are often found on electronic dance music stages, and greatly help to define and tie in the aesthetic created by other lighting element…
Upcycle Progress: Casting Brass
For my upcycle project I will be recycling brass shell casing and melting them down to cast a new object. I have collected about 5 pounds of brass right now and plan to melt it down in a mini foundry I made last summer. In order to cast a new object I am going to…
Upcycle Update
For my upcylce project, I have decided to use Q tips and superglue to form some sort of design. I’m not 100% certain what I will construct but I thought that Q tips would be a solid base for forming a wire frame-like sculpture. I will be able to easily color the Q tips as…
Upcycle Update: Pencils, More than a Simple Writing Tool
Colored pencils can be used for art in more ways than one could imagine. After scanning google for colored pencil sculptures, I have been inspired to try and make one myself. Some of my inspiration is displayed below. These images have simply been copied directly from google images, the original artists are unknown. At my…
Upcycle Progress: Bringing Steel to Life
I have had the idea of recycling steel in my mind as soon as the assignment was given, specifically by using it to represent living, organic things. I love the idea of making something organic and alive out of something as cold and lifeless as steel. I soon landed on the idea of making trees…
Upcycle Update: Bottle Tree
For my Upcycle project I was planning on using old bottles to create a bottle tree. Personally I always have trouble choosing a drink when going to the store and it would be great to have a decoration that would be able to spin and choose a drink from. Aesthetics will be the simplicity of the…
Upcycle Progress 1: Cardboard Lamp
I have not as yet made any huge leaps and bounds in terms of project progress. Last Sunday I went to ReSource in Boulder and it’s awesome. they have a whole outdoor yard full of furniture, tubs, glass, particle board, tiles, and miscellaneous junk. I didn’t think to take any photos while I was there-lesson…
UpCycle Project: ‘I love Lamp’
I have never really liked lamps. I prefer overhead lighting in most situations, but it is a pain to get up from my bed and flip the switch that is on the other side of the room – so I have to compromise and have some lamps in my life. Because I don’t like most…
Upcylce Update
When we started the upcycle project I immediately knew that I wanted to add something to my apartment. In my bathroom I thought about how ugly the target tissue box was and I thought I can make a cover for it. So using an old Christmas gift box some paint and some old blank CDs…
Upcycle Progress: Mount of the Holy Cross
Mount of the Holy Cross is one of the fourteen 14,000 foot mountains in the Sawatch Range of Colorado. The mountain looms above ‘The Bowl of Tears’ at 14,011 feet. I’ve had the opportunity to visit this mountain two times. On my first visit my partner and I got stuck in a storm near the…
Upcycle Progress – Cardboard Guitar
For my epicycle project, I’ve decided to make a miniature acoustic guitar. I don’t play guitar (not very well at least) but I’ve always found them to be very well crafted and aesthetically pleasing. My dad plays guitar and I’ve grown up looking at his sitting around the living room. I experimented with a few…
Aesthetic Exploration: The Jersey Shore
Jersey Shore, Oceanview Boardwalk The New Jersey coastline is 130 miles long. The coast line features beautiful lighthouses, boardwalks, and oceanic life; however, when one thinks of the Jersey shore, they don’t think about the 130 miles [1] where the state meets the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, the Jersey shore has a much more urban and…
Upcycle Thoughts: Kinetic Walking Sculpture
Theo Jansen has selflessly given his “11 holy numbers” away for the public to use however they see fit (See my previous post “Aesthetic Explorations: Theo Jansen and His Strandbeest” for more information on his creations). Shown below, the 11 numbers for a linkage system for a leg to be powered by a crank. I…
06 Process and Sketching
Today we talked about the design process, ideal vs real. Also looked at some design sketch examples, especially the ideation phase, where you make LOTS of quick little sketches. 06 Process and sketching
05 Sketching and Aesthetics Tour 3
Did a progress check on the Upcycle project. Most students (60%) have some idea of direction, but many are still looking. Did a little sketch/brainstorming, then the conclusion of the Aesthetics tour, including Arts&Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco. Plus glam, Gucci and Disney princesses. Pdf: 05 Aesthetics Tour 3
Aesthetic Exploration: Minimalism
One of my personal favorite design aesthetics is minimalism. The minimalist movement begun in the 1950’s with artists such as Donald Judd and Tony Smith. Minimalist design can be identified by its simple nature. Only enough information is displayed for functionality or display of emotion, and nothing more. A classic example of minimalist art is on display currently…
Aesthetic Exploration: Apple
Aesthetic Exploration: Aesthetics of Apple Sleek, sexy, contemporary design is the cornerstone of Apple. From Macs to iphones, Apple has defined contemporary aesthetics for its products, making it the most valuable company in the world (www.finance.yahoo.com, “Can Apple Hold Its Place as World’s Most Valuable Company Again in 2017?” January 3, 2017). Once a fledgling…
Aesthetic Exploration: Holi
Holi: The Festival of Colors One of my favorite times of the year, Holi is an Indian festival that marks the beginning of Spring. You can probably tell why it’s called the festival of colors. On this day (usually in March, based on the Hindu calendar) the entire country of India is vibrant, energetic, and bathed…
Aesthetic Explorations: Muscle Cars
The design of muscle cars is as bold as it is iconic. Ever since I was a little kid I have loved the look and aesthetic of these beasts of the road. There is so much to love about them! A muscle car, with its sharp edges and low profile, turn heads as often as they turn…
Aesthetics Exploration: Tiny Homes
As someone who borders on the line of hoarder, I am mesmerized by the concept of tiny homes. Over the past decade, people have started to embrace the minimalistic lifestyle due to its low cost and environmental impact, as well as aesthetic appeal. Many tiny homes feature wood panelling and large windows giving them a seemingly open…
Aesthetic Exploration: Santiago Calatrava Architecture
Santiago Calatrava is one of the worlds most revered modern architects. He has bold iconic and polarizing designs that span the globe and draw mixed opinions from all of those who encounter these designs. When looking at the designs themselves distinct features flow through the years of Calatrava architecture. White natural flowing shapes are something…
Aesthetic Explorations: Cell Phone Design
Cell phones have become a ubiquitous part of modern life. Most people in the United States own one and they have become a crucial part of communicating and networking, as well as an important work resource. The first operational mobile telephone was produced by Motorola in 1973, though they did not start to become widely…
Aesthetic Explorations | Contemporary Archeticture
Contemporary Architecture which is also known as architecture from the 21st century, is both expressive dramatic and are modern works of art. The three architects that I am going to focus on are Santiago Calatrava, Zaha Hadid, and Frank Gehry. Santiago is probably best known for his work on the newly redesigned World Trade Center…
04 Critique and Aesthetics Tour 2
Today we talked about some posting details, and laid out the assignment for critiquing blog posts. Then on with the tour! Lecture in PDF: 04 Aesthetics Tour 2
Aesthetic Explorations: Baseball Gloves
The baseball glove is an item that has been around for hundreds of years. Gloves are a vital part of the game, and have been around almost as long as baseball itself. They have evolved, grown, and changed to fit different demands of the modern sport. The aesthetic of gloves has always been centered around…
Aesthetic Exploration: Mosaics
Aesthetic Exploration: Mosaics A mosaic is one big piece of art that is made up of a bunch of small pieces. Mosaics are used in both decorative art and interior design, and are often seen in churches and many museum’s in Europe. 1. Mosaics were first found in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC,…
Aesthetic Exploration: Robots!
Recently I watched the film Robots. While it is not a great film watching it at this point in my life I started to notice things that I never noticed when I was a kid, aesthetics. The movie was made by Fox in 2005 and while its boasts some big name actors; Amanda Bynes, Robbin…
Aesthetic Exploration: The Evolution of the Formula One Car
Formula One racing has been around since the early 1950’s and the evolution of the sport, due to the rules and regulations that the drivers and builders must adhere to, has caused the race cars design and performance to change from year to year while keeping one thing constant. That is, speed. These cars…
Aesthetic Exploration: The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda is a staple series when it comes to gaming. One of the most fascinating aspects of the games is that there is no real order to the games besides a rough timeline with no games taking place in the same time period of the Zelda universe (for the most part). The…
Aesthetics Exploration: Greek Sculptures
The is an aesthetic that comes from ancient Greece, this being Greek sculptures. The sculptures were focused around proportion, poise, and the idealized perfection of the human body. And even today, one can identify them from these distinct characteristics. This is an aesthetic for a certain era as well as a culture. Greek sculptures escaped…
Aesthetic Exploration: 4th Dimensional Objects
To create something in the 4th dimension is currently impossible. To even visualize it is incredibly difficult. But there is something very appealing to watching a 4 dimensional object rotate in 3 dimensions on our 2D screens. There are artists such as Salvador Dalí who incorporated the concept 4D objects into their art. 4D objects are not…
Aesthetic Exploration: Clean and Minimal
I recently took an ATLAS course where we were tasked to write a Design Manifesto as our final paper. At first, I thought it would be easy to pin down my aesthetic; however, it proved to be more difficult than that. So, I began with a man named Dieter Rams. Dieter Rams is famous for his…
Asthetic Exploration: Traditional House Design
I was born in Annapolis, MD, and have lived there my whole life. My move to the University of Colorado was my first time moving to a different part of the country, and there were some differences that I almost instantly noticed. One of the main differences in they way people live her is in fact…
Aesthetic Explorations: Pop-Cult Minimalism of Olly Moss
The sub-genre of pop-cult minimalism can be most easily traced to the emergence of Pop Art in the 1950s in England and America. Notable figures such as Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi pioneered pop art by taking culturally relevant imagery—often of a commercial nature such as advertisements or product designs—and putting a critical spin on…
Aesthetic Exploration: Impossible Triangle
The impossible triangle, or Penrose Triangle is a shape that cannot be made by any 3 dimensional object in ordinary Euclidean Space. This style of artwork was first started by Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvard in 1934 and was later discovered independently by a psychiatrist Lionel Penrose and mathematician son in the 1950’s who famously described it as “Impossibility…
Aesthetics Exploration – Thai Tattoo Culture
The tattoo culture and unique aesthetic have a deep-rooted, religious history in Thailand. The practice of spiritual tattooing, as practiced by monks in Thailand, is a tradition that goes back to ancient times. Thailand is actually the only country to celebrate tattooing as an annual religious celebration. Each year, thousands of tattoo enthusiasts arrive…
Aesthetics Exploration: Geometry as an Aesthetic
Patterns with distinct edges and shapes have been implemented by humans for centuries to use geometry as a form of expression. Studies of Palaeolithic cave art have revealed that even the earliest humans were fascinated by geometric patterns. Some of the earliest documented artistic examples came from the Geometric Art Period (circa 900-700 B.C.) in Ancient Greece.…
Aesthetic Explorations: Theo Jansen and His Strandbeest
Theo Jansen, a dropout physicist become artist, has created his very own aesthetic. In 1980, Jansen began with 1500 combinations of 11 linkage sizes. Using a new technology at the time, a computer was utilized to dwindle the different configurations down to just one golden combination, the “eleven holy numbers”. These numbers allowed for the…
Aesthetic Explorations: Vaporwave
I took a look at vaporwave, a musical and visual retro/90’s aesthetic that is both a reflection and criticism of consumerism. The word vaporwave stems from the word vaporware: computer software that is announced but never released. Vaporwave started as an Internet-only style arising from artists like Ariel Pink and James Ferraro. Both Macintosh Plus and Blank…
Aesthetic Exploration: Rock Climbing
Climbing has been around for hundreds of years. Maybe it wasn’t always done for entertainment and pleasure but more for necessity. Climbing rocks were first recorded in Chinese paintings around 200 BC. It became necessary for exploration through tall mountains starting in the 19th century and because a leisure sport starting in the fifties in…
Aesthetic Exploration: Aesthetics of Time
“Time and tide wait for no man” says the famous proverb. While humans have managed to find a way to tame the tides and make electricity out of it, we are still chasing behind time. Humanity has tried to manipulate time for a long time and has failed time and again. The concept of time…
Aesthetic Explorations: Fumito Ueda’s Video Games
As a video game lover, one game creator whose games I cherish is Fumito Ueda. Ueda is the Director, Lead Designer, and Lead Animator of a game studio called Team Ico which has developed games over the last 20 years. Fumito Ueda Ueda’s games revolve around a relationship between the player and a computer controlled…
Aesthetic Explorations: Retro-futurism
Although many of these visions seem almost comical now, the spirit in which they were created crystallizes the essence of how the future was described prior to the 1980s. There was a time in the past when the future was thought as a beautiful place of cooperation, peace, beauty and of course, convenience. But the…
Aesthetic Exploration: The Egyptian pyramids
As I am very interested in architecture, I thought a post about the Egyptian pyramids would be relevant as an ancient aesthetic. There are actually eight pyramids that are known in Egypt but three of them are the famous ones: Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. The reason why I chose this amazing architectural structures is because…
Aesthetic Exploration: Scandinavian Furniture
Scandinavian furniture is characterized by sleek, well-made, and minimalist design. The harsh weather conditions and large forestlands have influenced the designers to produce long lasting products that use wood as the main construction medium. The socialist political climate in Sweden has shaped a common design philosophy that everyone has the right to well designed objects…
Aesthetic Exploration: The Piano
For almost 300 years the piano has been an iconic musical instrument that is recognized by all. Today three types of pianos are commonly known: the grand, baby grand, and upright piano. When told to picture a piano, many can think of the unique harp shape that almost all grand and baby grand pianos have.…
Aesthetic Exploration: Molecular Gastronomy
Molecular gastronomy is the study and science of the physical and chemical processes that occur during cooking. It is a modern style of cooking first used publicly by Nicholas Kurti and Herve This recently in 1988. Molecular gastronomy uses modern scientific techniques to obtain a world class style and aesthetics of cooking. It was also the…
Aesthetic Exploration: The Golden Ratio
The golden ratio is a ratio of 1 to 1.618 that seems to be abundantly demonstrated in nature. This is mathematically represented by the Fibonacci series, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 – each number being the sum of the two previous numbers. The ratio of one number to the next number approaches the…
Aesthetic Explorations: Ski Photography and Filming
Photographing something that is extremely bright is hard. Adding in a moving object makes it even more challenging. Ski photography has come a long way since its start, around the time of the camera. It can be inferred that ski photography didn’t really come about until the camera had become more portable. It was around 1931…
Aesthetic Explorations: Starr Kempf’s Kinetic Wind Sculptures
In my hometown neighborhood sits a house with a peculiar front yard. Enormous metal sculptures clutter the lawn: some swaying in the breeze like a wind vanes, while some lay on their sides too gargantuan to stand up. A man named Starr Kempf designed and created the steel kinetic wind sculptures, displaying them across the…
Aesthetic Exploration: Touch of Color
The aesthetic called a “touch of color” or “dash of color” has been used in still art, photography, and film for years. The aesthetic uses backdrops or settings that are substantially desaturated or even gray-scale with a single saturated element. It forces an instant response from audience to focus on the saturated element and uses the…
Aesthetic Explorations: Baroque Composers
The aesthetic I have chosen to explore is that of Baroque musical composition, a period of European musicianship lasting from 1600 to 1750. Well known within this period are composers such as Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) among…
Aesthetic Explorations: Lava Lamps
Lava lamps have been glowing in people’s homes ever since they were invented in 1960’s in the United Kingdom. The inventor, Edward Craven Walker, took particular interest in the way two contrasting liquids behaved together inside a container and strived to learn their properties. Several years later, he released the first lava lamp known as…
Aesthetic Explorations: Juggling by Preston Marcoux
*** Note most of the videos below are long, I would advise scrolling through them briefly to get a general sense of the juggling patterns displayed in the videos ** While in class, I was amazed by the extreme differences in aesthetics of the popularized dance seen around the world, compared to the far less popular swing…
Aesthetic Exploration: The Wild West in “Westworld”
The “Wild West” includes the time period ranging from pre-Revolutionary America to the early 1900’s, but is most commonly coined between the Civil War (1865) and about 1912. In movies and shows, the setting is the American Frontier, or Southwestern United States. Today, this would be Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, and Nevada. The…
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