This week is finals week for design/architecture schools in NYC, apparently.
Yesterday, I was on the Pratt jury for their ID finals.
Tomorrow and Friday are FIT thesis projects. I’ve been asked to jury those too.
Monday is the CCNY 3rd year architecture finals. I’ve been asked to jury those, too.
Fortunately, I’d seen half the projects I helped [...]
Finals week is exhausting, and I’m not even in school.
Furniture Project part 8: The finish and the finish.
I know this has been a very long time in coming. In truth, the cabinet was finished before Gothmas, but until recently it had things sitting on top of it, preventing me from getting good photos of it conveniently as a finished product. Then when I finally did get photos, I was also working on [...]
Eggsperimental.
Where have I been?
No, I don’t want to talk about that.
What happened to the cabinet?
Finished. Been finished since before Gothmas, but don’t have photos yet because there’e still Gothmas decorations sitting on it (I need another box.)
What else has happened?
My cats (specifically Rupert and Rerun, but mostly Rupert) destroyed my original, not reproduction, not [...]
Furniture project part 7: The pursuit of perfection.
So here’s the thing.
I finished the top of the case a couple weeks ago. The only thing I have to do now is the finishing part and putting it all back together. I haven’t yet because I need a tack rag (which I know yes, I can make myself..) and I need a [...]
Furniture project part 6.4- top’s done.
4th verse, same as the first.
Mosaics are done, purple polka dots filled in.
Same thing, different angle.
First coat of black goes on around the spots.
Same thing, different angle.
Again, same thing, different angle.
Top, finished. There’s a lack of light here, so the black looks a little more solid and uniform than it is.
Same thing, different angle.
Same [...]
Oh well that explains that.
“due to a large volume of high-quality entries the jury has yet to make its final decision.
results are now expected to be announced between august 10 – 15, 2008″
I had been wondering what had happened to the Crystal Vision contest results. I know they got over 4,000 entries (I think it was 4072) so realistically, [...]
Furniture project part 6.3: Drawer front.
Drawer front is done, as is the front and rear of the case. Only thing left is the top.
I’ll dust the thing off after it’s dry.
Furniture project part 6.2: the second side of the case.
Long time, no progress. Unfortunately, some rather serious real-world things have kept me away from continuing on this project as fast as I’d like. However I just finished the second side of the case so I figured I’d post a photo.
You can check out either of the previous tutorials on how to accomplish this. [...]
furniture project part 6.1: The small doors.
I told you guys, this wasn’t a weekend project. After finishing the first side of the case, I turned my attention to the small doors, because the oil based stain takes forever to dry and I didn’t want to flip the case over while that side was still wet.
Basically it’s the same process- seal [...]
Furniture project part 6: the pain of stain.
I thought I was going to be glad I had finally finished the mosaics and could move on to staining. I was wrong.
Until yesterday, I’d never used a water based stain before. Now I know why. Normally, for bright colors I prefer to use aniline dye, using alcohol as the [...]
