DIagram-O-Rama!

Rinse off, Rosa Parks!

The way we, the 4's, decided to fulfill some of the needs is through a shower bus. It has 6 stalls and a storage room that houses the generator, the 2 tankless water heaters and shelving for storing the towels and toiletries the bus will distribute. Lauren Shepulski and I had a great time designing this bus. We learned alot about the science of bathing, like without water saving shower heads one could use 7-10 gallons per minute during a shower but with the water saing devices usage is cut down to 2-4 gallons per minute. That is a huge difference even in a 5 minute shower. We researched how we could transport and/or store water. P.S. Water is heavy! So we fixed that problem by bringing a tanker along with our bus because there would be no way for our bus to haul adequate amounts of water to keep it in working order.

Jenny Paige! Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

Dear Jenny! I was really excited by your talk last theory hour! I was absolutely impressed with the success of the recycling program at UNCG. It's impressive to know the actual numbers of how much we save, recycle, and help out the community by the efforts you have helped implement. Since I lived in the dorms last year and had the recycling bag on the door, I have really made it a habit of mine to start recycling more! It's exciting to know that our university is making a big impact on our city.

AH Ha! Hush that Fuss! Everybody move to the back of the bus!!

The bus! Route 25, 9:05 PM. Let me tell you! My public transportation experience was two fold! It was somewhat exciting as well! Heading to the bus stop I was a little weary. I hurried out of work in time the catch the GTA in front of Four Seasons Mall. I was the only sole at the bus stop. The us drove by at first ad came back around to pick me up like 15 minutes later. I stepped on the bus and it was packed. It was dark outside and in the bus. The aroma wasn't very pleasant either and it seemed to get stronger as more people get on. I decided to stand instead of sitting plus there was no where for me to sit between the passengers and their shopping bags! Standing at the front of the bus, I was able to take in the full experience of the bus. This old crotchety lady and I were the only white people on the bus! It was a little shocking, I expected more diversity but practically all the passengers were black! When the older white woman yelled at me for standing at the front, I decided to get off. Walking to meet my ride back to my car, I thought about the reading and how blacks worked so hard to get equality with whites and now from the public transportation system it seems like they are still as just as segregated. The feeling on the bus was that of remorse. It seemed like the people didn't even want to be riding the bus at all. The public transportation I believe would be a great way to get around if the bad connotations were removed.

The first week!?

This word sums up my first week. Not only did I go to class 15 hours but I worked 22. Soooo.. I was going eighteen different ways at once, trying to get everything done was like trying to tie a knot in a fart truthfully. It was a miracle I made it through that week and am still functioning today. I am excited though about studio and all the 'fun' stuff we are going to get into. Hopefully the rest of the semester will pan out.

P.s. The graphic came from a rock band on MySpace, I liked the graphic, didn't really listen to their music!

Dear Tommy!

My first postcard to Tommy! I was really excited last theory hour about all the hardwork and effort that is going into the fabrication lab!

Some can do it anywhere!

If you are like me, you too can fall asleep anywhere if you're tired enough. These are some outrageous unconventional sleeping quarters I found courtesy of weburbanist.com. They have some outrageous stuff on their site. You should give it a look.

Bottle Cap Cars... and Trucks!

It can also be used as a rattle!

This is the more refined and better crafted 'jeep.'

There's our truck.

The beginnings of the truck, flipped on its back.

The Resin Bowl... Ew...

The resin is in and now we wait.

Stir that resin! But don't breathe.

Making the outside mold.

We placed the caps around our inside mold to assist in the creation of the outside mold.

Baths of Diocletian

Depleting the wastestreams.

When first given this project, we were at a complete loss. Stumped. Then epiphany. We could make a bowl. Dogs wouldn’t mind drinking from a bowl made of bottle caps. They can chew on it and/or play with it as well as eat or drink from it. So we created a base first by hot gluing the caps together and then attempted sides, too rudimentary (the orange and blue model). We needed to find a way to actually achieve a curved bowl. The second attempt (black and white model) is closer to the desired shape still rudimentary and bonded with hot glue, but this
one is more dynamic. We added straws to it help achieve a more flared shape and add decoration. The final stage of the bowl was and is to make a mold and inject resin into it to create a more sturdy and dynamic structure. Overall the first stages of the bowl took about 25 minutes to create. While the resin bowl took 5 hours minimum.
In the process of creating the bowl, we played around with some of the caps and they nested quite nicely into each other. So we decided to take on another project as well as the bowl. We went about creating children’s play toys with the nestling caps, mainly cars/trucks. The first attempt is a truck. Not as streamline but a cool concept and sweet little toy, if you ask me. Next which s my favorite is the rattle jeep. Truthfully I think the car/truck idea is the most marketable and economically savvy. They took about an hour and a half to create from start to finish. A couple screws, glue, a bottle, dowels, and some caps and you have an exciting little toy car.
Both products can be used and reused. We still feel a toy car would get more use than a bowl, more sentimental value can be placed in a hand my down old toy car. Everything in the car can be salvaged and used to keep items from adding to the landfill.

Do you feel a draft?