Thursday, October 06, 2005

The Other Project


We have another side project [not to mention various papers and such] which involves an athletic shoe. We are to subject the shoe to a natural or unnatural force and track the changes in shape the shoe undergoes through time via studies of cross-sections. Imagine a time-lapse photograph showing movement through time. Now focus just on the shoe. Now immaculately draw it to scale using rulers with no tracing of photocopies or any freehand drawing. Think about this. Look at your shoe. Not exactly a bevy of straight lines are there? You have six days.
Have I started? Well I found a pair of shoes on the street the other day, but have yet to make a dent in the project thus far. Well I did cut them into sections on the Ban Saw in the shop yesterday afternoon - the overpowering stench of burning rubber, which managed to overtake most of the building, from the shoes some of my peers were cutting was almost comical.

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