Yesterday, while trudging through the snow, I decided I was going to make a dragon. So I called up my friend, told him I'd be making it outside his dorm, and he joined in. It looks pretty cool even after its head fell off...
So status quo is maintained, school is still in a state of disarray and hanging by a thread due to my won stupidity. Thankfully I know exactly what went wrong this semester, and I can fix it easily next semester. However the continuing, every day irritation that comes with know exactly how and why you f--ked up has become an almost constant backdrop to all my activities. This, combined with Steamcon, and planning for next year, has led to an interesting change in my everyday machinations. I've been playing with my tablet more and more recently, and leaning heavilly towards right-brained activities in my free time, instead of simply seeking mindless, instant gratification. I haven't completed any drawings to decent completion, but I've been exploring inking, coloring and especially shading techniques using color. At some point I'd really like to start drawing regularly, but we'll see how that goes.
School has no changes as of current. The classes I've been worried about are still a concern, and I'm going to study face until I bleed during this next week so I can be totally prepared for the finals.
The ASME is trudging along, but I'll admit that it's another source of stress for me. We currently have no budget. Everything we've gotten so far has been out of our own pockets, and while I believe this is money well spent, I cannot help but feel agitated that the REASON we have no funding is because everybody simply forgot to go to the funding meeting... I'm doing incredibly cool things, but I'm afraid that we're wasting our time a money by not having the cash to actually finish this thing, and that we're leading the cart before the horse. When I joined late last year, the bike had already been designed and we in the process of being built. We're still building that same bike, mainly making up for setbacks that came when we were ejected from our previous workspace and moved into a temporary space (we lost some key bike parts, as well as the molds for making said bike parts). The material we're using is simply amazing. It's incredibly strong and practically rubber (you can bend it a great deal before it deforms predominantly, let alone breaks), and exploring this stuff's capabilities is half the fun. However, I learned this year, that our bike is fundamentally flawed, in that sitting on it causes the wheels to bend. They can hold our weight easily, they just bend in half when they do. Furthermore, I've found out that our bike design was based off an arbitrary concept bike that looked cool, and not on any actual engineering concepts. We should have done our material testing before building the bike, but I wasn't a part of that. Right now I can only fix whatever problems come up and plan for next year, but doing that on my own budget is more than a little worrisome...
So status quo is maintained, school is still in a state of disarray and hanging by a thread due to my won stupidity. Thankfully I know exactly what went wrong this semester, and I can fix it easily next semester. However the continuing, every day irritation that comes with know exactly how and why you f--ked up has become an almost constant backdrop to all my activities. This, combined with Steamcon, and planning for next year, has led to an interesting change in my everyday machinations. I've been playing with my tablet more and more recently, and leaning heavilly towards right-brained activities in my free time, instead of simply seeking mindless, instant gratification. I haven't completed any drawings to decent completion, but I've been exploring inking, coloring and especially shading techniques using color. At some point I'd really like to start drawing regularly, but we'll see how that goes.
School has no changes as of current. The classes I've been worried about are still a concern, and I'm going to study face until I bleed during this next week so I can be totally prepared for the finals.
The ASME is trudging along, but I'll admit that it's another source of stress for me. We currently have no budget. Everything we've gotten so far has been out of our own pockets, and while I believe this is money well spent, I cannot help but feel agitated that the REASON we have no funding is because everybody simply forgot to go to the funding meeting... I'm doing incredibly cool things, but I'm afraid that we're wasting our time a money by not having the cash to actually finish this thing, and that we're leading the cart before the horse. When I joined late last year, the bike had already been designed and we in the process of being built. We're still building that same bike, mainly making up for setbacks that came when we were ejected from our previous workspace and moved into a temporary space (we lost some key bike parts, as well as the molds for making said bike parts). The material we're using is simply amazing. It's incredibly strong and practically rubber (you can bend it a great deal before it deforms predominantly, let alone breaks), and exploring this stuff's capabilities is half the fun. However, I learned this year, that our bike is fundamentally flawed, in that sitting on it causes the wheels to bend. They can hold our weight easily, they just bend in half when they do. Furthermore, I've found out that our bike design was based off an arbitrary concept bike that looked cool, and not on any actual engineering concepts. We should have done our material testing before building the bike, but I wasn't a part of that. Right now I can only fix whatever problems come up and plan for next year, but doing that on my own budget is more than a little worrisome...
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