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For my etching project I chose two vectors from the noun project, the scale one was created by Sherrinford and the wave was created by artworkbean. I was immediately drawn to the scale outline and wanted to keep an ocean theme so I found a wave. Both icons easily went into illustrator because they were already vectors.The scales for the copper I imagined to look similar to shiny fish scales. I turned the one wave into multiple by copying and pasting the waves into three rows and then I connected them by grouping the singular waves together. I decided to do more than one etch, the scales bolted to copper on top and the waves on the tin's inner bottom. When stickers were printed the vinyl cutter cut them twice implying that I probably had more than one vector for the icons even though it wasn't visible in the outline. Thankfully this did not hamper my plan because I was still able to take out the lining of the scales and waves without pieces of the vinyl sticker separating. Next the waves were pressed onto the contact paper and then modified to fit the tin. I used left over contact paper to cover the sides so those parts wouldn't be etched. Using a battery and connecting one wire to the tin and the other I used to etch with a wet sponge attached. Following I quickly dried off the tin, took off the sticker and smudged beeswax onto the etch then heated it and sealed the etch using a paper towel to prevent rust.The scales took a long time to transfer onto the contact paper because each piece was separate and as I peeled the sticker I had to pick each individual part and connect it to the contact paper. Next I placed the sticker evenly on the copper and connected one wire to the plate and etched with the other onto the copper. After removing the sticker I loved the way the outline of the scales turned out on the copper! Now, my next steps are to bolt the copper plate onto the top of the tin, using the drill press and rivet tool.
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Video REACTION It was fascinating how in Shih Chieh Huang’s childhood, he grew up around hardware stores and loved the night market, especially the lights. He loved to take apart toys and make invent fun environments. It was so clever how he tricked a light sensor into thinking it was night time by focusing on his eye and when his pupil reached the sensor, the light would turn on. He also made a complex hat machine which captured multiple people’s eyes. He advanced on that one idea and made multiple interesting sculptures. Like one, which turned around based on the eyes movement in the tv. Because of his interest in biology he did a research fellowship where he observed bioluminescent organisms in the ocean. Their use of light inspired many of his sculptures, which mimicked movement like an organism with different patterns of light. I found his innovations exciting! For my pop-up card I began with brainstorming different ideas for the pop-up. I found a video of a pop-up flower card which I liked and thought I could use as my main idea. I took a piece of scrap paper with fire-like colors as the pattern on the outside of the card. Sticking with a fire theme, I used orange paper to cut out the multiple flowers and purposefully made them with pointy edges to enhance the theme. Next I colored the inside of each with a red marker, to give the flowers some color. I wanted my card to look clean so I chose plain white paper for the inside. I struggled with connecting the flowers in a certain way where they would open up connected in the center. The glue I was using was not strong enough leading to the individual flowers separating a lot. But in the end I was successful in making the flowers open up the right way. For the circuit I wanted the lights to shine through the flowers so I made a circuit on the fire patterned scrap paper and then cut out holes in the white paper for the lights to go through. My first attempt was unsuccessful because I realized that the lights cannot connect to the copper tape from under, leading the the lights not turning on. Therefore I remade the parallel circuit (with four lights) on the outside paper, with a switch on the left and a battery in the right corner. I also put the battery on a flap because I did not want the outside card to fold over. It was easy to resolve for I put the negative and positive copper tapes on the square piece and folded that over the battery. For the switch I taped a copper piece on the backside where when it is pushed it creates a circuit for the other 2 lights. And in the last step I connected the flower pop-up with the circuit card using glue. Overall, through my challenges I came up with a card similar to my idea but if I had more time I would've loved to add more to the design. |
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