In my original post, I described a lot about how I want to build my project, but my inspiration for this comes back to Tolkien’s books I read over break. As I was reading The Hobbit, and the Fellowship of the Ring I was amazed with the detail of his descriptions of his characters and the novelty of their exploits. When I heard about this upcycling project, I was also thinking about at the time building something out of all the scraps in the DIDL. But I took a week or so to think about what I actually wanted to do and I realized I would love to make a sculpture of something I find cool and exciting, an opportunity I would never normally have being an engineering student. Looking back at the books I previously read, me making a scuplture of Gandalf or Thorin I believe would be so cool as well as an interesting blend of artistic styles which I covered in my previous post. The first picture is one I took myself of all the material I have collected already for the project, all of it comes from bike scraps and spare parts from the DIDL. The second picture is of a Gandalf figurine that is from Weta Workshop who sells this figurine. The third picture is of a Thorin figurine from amazon which is made by Asmus.
Upcycling Project Inspiration/Update
This Year’s Students
- Abigail Angwin
- Adlai White
- Alexis Cisneros
- Alex Fitzgerald
- Alex Gebben
- Alex Reynolds
- Aj Terio
- Andres Serrano
- Aryan
- Ari Matrajt Frid
- Arjun Mody
- Barrett Lister
- Ben Clairday
- Benjamin Hyde
- Blake Wilson
- Lavender Giebner
- Brandon Phillips
- Cannon Leitz
- Chris Wachuta
- Colton Huff
- Collin Kendall
- Cole Metcalf
- Collin Ruprecht
- David Li
- Duncan Laird
- Dylan Breglio
- Efrosini Krokos
- Emilee Novak
- Ethan Polacsek
- Ethan Sanchez
- Ethan Silverman
- Fin McKemey
- Garrett Miller
- Grreshan Ramesh
- Hailey Usher
- Helen Do
- Ian Farrar
- Ian O'neill
- Jason Allshouse
- Jace Aschbrenner
- Jarod Ocampo
- Jadin Zaccagnino
- Jess Corbitt
- Josh Beijer
- John Bileschi
- Jon Ezell
- Jonathon Gruener
- Josh Gregory
- Josh Sweeney
- Juliette Goubeaud
- Katie Schutt
- Kevin Kim
- Kelso Norden
- Kyra Anderson
- Kyle Hashiro
- Kyle Pohle
- Luke Nicol
- Luke Prins
- Max Lantz
- Maddox Mitchell
- Matthew Osborn
- Max Palish
- Michael Becerra
- Michael Gray
- Nicholas Gotlib
- Nick Olguin
- Noah Howell
- Oliver White
- Peter Arnold
- Riley Menke
- Sam Biehle
- Sammie Duran
- Sam Gluskoter
- Sarah Pepper
- Sean Riddle
- Sierra Greeley
- Sophie Berry
- Sophia Montie
- Tim Hellweg
- Tiana Vitry
- Trent Bjorkman
- Travis Mulford
- Tyler Brown
- Venkata Sanyasi Krishna Vidhan Rallapalli
- Vincent Tang
- Yuting Wang
- Aryan Gandhi
- Jean Hertzberg
- Shrey Naresh Solanki
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