I haven’t blogged in a little while because my offline life sometimes conspires to remove my online presence from the web. Last week it was work being busy, various meetings about where I might want to go once I’ve graduated and having Friday off to help Elly with her final year architecture project.
Fri, Sat and Sun were all spent helping with aforementioned project (with time off in between to go earn money tutoring maths and then working as a doorman), building a little village worth of tiny 1:500 scale models of houses, outbuildings and shops. They didn’t have to be hugely detailed, just showing what was in the area surrounding the main site, to give El’s design a bit of context. So they fell to me.
Here are a couple of pics:
I have learnt a few things this weekend:
— scalpels are often sharper than you expect, even when blunt
— my hands are too big for tiny tiny models
— thick cardboard is a bastard to cut
— RSI makes your hands shake
The combination of these means my hands are sore, there are blood specks on some of the buildings, but there is a little carboard village in existence because of me.
Now I am off to sleep, as tomorrow I have to get to London and then to Geneva. Public transport all the way, baby.
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May 16th, 2004 at 10:16 PM
Those architecture projects are great fun. Living with two of them (architects, that is, not projects), both somewhat on the lazy side, I often get roped in to do that sort of thing.
It’s really quite enjoyable, making little models, and doing engineering drawings. I sometimes wonder why I gave up architecture for comp sci… but not for very long.
May 16th, 2004 at 10:27 PM
Blunt scalpels are evil, because you end up having to apply more force with them which in turn means you’re more likely to slip and embed them deep within your finger. I speak from experience.
May 20th, 2004 at 5:33 PM
They are quite fun, but I don’t like seeing all of the architects so stressed and deadline crazy, particularly when one of them is Elly. At least my model-making skills are improving so I can be of some help.
And yes, Si, blunt scalpels are horrible and evil!! I managed to avoid embedding any in my fingers, but broke a fair number of the blades whilst cutting things… I have too much strength and not enough patience.