Salutations once more, people. This week has been quite draining on my mental health. However, I shall persevere. For the most part, this whole week has been mostly computer work. I found a new piece of metal art to work on. As I mentioned in my last post, it is a Fallout insignia, denoting a building as being a nuclear shelter. First, I took the image and put it on Inkscape, traced a bitmap, then saved it as a .dxf file. Next, I set the image in AutoCAD and cleaned it up. This was easy as cutting a cake. Lastly, I scaled it down to my desired dimensions, then saved it again as a .dxf file. Now it is ready to cut, as I hoped to do this period. I would have been able to do this on Wednesday or Thursday, but I had a family emergency those two days.
As I said, this week was rather draining and I am quite happy that next week is spring break.
There is no essential question for this week.
Anyway, peace fools. Kill!
This week has been slightly monotonous if I do say so myself. I have once again been pulled into the realm of self-doubt and no idea on what to do as a project. My hopes of making a fire pit ring with the them of Five Nights at Freddy's don't seem like they will be realised. The face that I was trying to use simply has too much fall out for it to work as a project. However, this has not deterred me in the slightest. The idea of fall out made me think of making some art based on, well, the Fallout game series.
I've been a fan of Fallout for quite sometime, ever since I played the second game as a kid. Mind you, I wasn't that good at it. But I loved it. Since I've mastered New Vegas and got some play time on Fallout 3. As such, I'll be making some art pieces of that for my bedroom door or other decorations. I'm quite excited now that I have a little bit of purpose.
The essential question of the week is what is the social contract? The social contract is a binding contract that states people of a particular society give up certain freedoms (my teacher used the humourous analogy of streaking) for political and social stability. In essence, you give a little to get a beneficial place for everyone. Despite being a contract, you don't sign it. One is automatically bound by it the moment they are born. Failure to comply can result in imprisonment, injury, or death.
This week has been a lift up a hill. Or a climb, rather. I finally got a new project to work on. I am going to make a fire pit ring based of the popular indie game, Five Nights at Freddy's. I've got interested in the game early when I saw it on Steam. Since I love scary games, I bought it. I've been a fan from the start to the finish. I've also met some great friends along the way. Also, since I am an admin on Fazbear Entertainment on Facebook, I thought I'd take that opportunity of advertisement to sell my project. I don't know if anyone has responded yet, as I just posted it last night.
My worries about the project is that the cut out of Freddy Fazbear's head will have too much fall out to work correctly. If so, I may have to improvise. Best of luck, on this Friday the 13th.
This week's essential question was to bring evidence of a project to performance evaluations. As such, there is no question to answer.
This week has been hard for me. I've been in quite a funk, or an artist's block if you will. As such, I have been doing little more than research on Thingiverse. I've had complications finding inspiration for projects I might want to take on. I'm not, admittedly, one for taking things slow. I run before I walk, so to speak. It is a poor habit, and one that gets me into undesirable situations, such as the one I am in now. Oh well. Hopefully next week I'll be in a more exuberant. I will try to get more ideas of the weekend.
The essential question of the week is less practical than it is philosophy. The question is: "How do you know there is a hammer before you right now"? First, I can tell there is a hammer in front of me because I can see it, touch it, hear it hit other objects, and taste it if I wish. After one of my senses caught the object, then the nerve endings (or optic nerve) send the information to the brain, which processes the information. It takes from language to find a name for the object. However, all this information the brain processes comes from prior experience with the object.
