This week I have changed from group 1 to group 5. The new story is 'Getting Wasted'. I am working with Harry Boyd, Isaac Laughton and Sid Bardiya. This story has almost no work done on it so far so we have a reasonably clear pallet to go off.
We met during the weekend and discussed what we wanted to do. After small confusion of thinking the story was about getting drunk we decided to use the double meaning of 'waste/wasted' and use beer bottles for our waste material.
On sketch up I made 2m wide by 3m high frames. In this would hang 23 columns of 11 bottles. The amount of bottles will make a large surface for the type and the large number of bottles mean we can get a reasonably detailed letter
We started to develop ideas, looking at different aspects of both the bottles and waste material. The concept we decided to go with was using hanging bottles in a pixel style grid to make letters. We would make a bunch of panels each with its own letter to spell a word. The word we used was 'TREASURE'. It played quite nicely on the saying that 'One mans trash is another mans treasure.' The fact that we are using recycled bottles to make our structure will make people think about whether this building material is really trash or if it is treasure.
On sketch up I made 2m wide by 3m high frames. In this would hang 23 columns of 11 bottles. The amount of bottles will make a large surface for the type and the large number of bottles mean we can get a reasonably detailed letter
After building the panels, I created a small city square to show off how the panels could be arranged.
One aspect of the build we thought would give another layer of depth both to the type and the aspect of recycling is to sand blast the name of varied bars from around Wellington onto the bottles. This would both give accountability to where the bottles came from but in eyes of a new building material, the sand blasting can almost act as a form of sponsorship from the bar.
We collected 121 bottles from around wellington in which you use for our model. The majority are brown so we will use this colour as our background and green for the letter itself.
After counting the number of bottles we had, we made a new model in sketch up for the best way we could create the letter with the bottle we had, in the space we had. We managed to find a movable trolley with a cross bar to hang the bottle from.
The construction method was reasonably straight forward but time consuming. We started by cutting 12cm length of wire to wrap around the neck of each bottle. From there we used clear fishing line to wrap under and around the wire to create chains of bottles. These bottles were then attached to the top of the trolley. The last of the fishing line was used to cross brace the bottle so they hung straighter than they would hanging freely.
Once finished we tested the model with in the dark and see if we could get the colours to shine through. Possibly due to the fact it was 10pm at this point the green and brown did you show but we hope to take it outside on the day of presentation.
It was raining on the day of presentation so we could not take the model outside ut simply using light as a backdrop reveales a new side to the model and the colours to shine throught a bit better.
Harry, Sid and Issac are all leaving the group to move back to Ping Pong but from the feedback we were given I am going to stay with this story and develop it further, The feedback was the lie the bottles down to create a more detailed letter form. The smaller circles done in a pyramid style stack will not only create a sharper image, they will also build a stronger wall and hopefully project a more colourful light display in sunlight.
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