Prop Studios Internship

These are a few photos taken at the Installation at the Royal Academy. The Table layout was incredible. Everything went smoothly apart from one egg that me and a friend were positioning fell, bounced off my head and smashed the glass on the table. Other than that it was perfect. I learnt a lot in my few weeks at Props and have gained a better understanding of the fields I would like to go into in the future.

Prop Studios Internship

In June I undertook 3 weeks work experience at Prop Studios based in Burgess Hill. I wasn't too sure what I would be doing, I thought I might be making teas and doing administration tasks, but when I arrived on the Thursday I jumped straight in. I started on helping out with the Debenhams project for the new seasonal installation making little toy boats for the children's section, as well as the props for Ted Baker.

The next week was a new task, the start of a project for the summer ball black tie event at the Royal Academy of Arts. It was sponsored by Faberge and was a huge project. Our task was to make 70 eggs and 70 Cakes and involved a lot of trial and error to start off with. Here is the process we went through:

Step1: Paper mache polystyrene models of the cakes

Step2: Plaster the cakes with colours blue, green and pink

Step3: After drying, we sanded down the plaster to make the shape smooth and consistent

Step4: We then went over the plaster with a coat of paint

Step5: Decoration of the eggs and cakes with diamonds and beads giving them the faberge look.

Portfolio

I decided to push the boat out and make my own portfolio for my final project. Linking in with my previous 2A project, I kept the theme consistent by integrating a metal grid system on wooden frames. It took a day in the workshop to build, I then varnished it a dark colour which linked in materiality wise with my machines in my torture bathroom.

masked.

Jon Hopkins

Oh Hay

Atmospheric

Went into the photographic studio yesterday and took pictures of my final model. I have adjusted it several times, playing around with heigh levels and how people interact within the space. Instead of using any lighting in the studios I used my iphone camera light to shine around the model on a 10 second exposure. There were some really nice ones with the grating creating a nice shadow effect. These three are my favourites.

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Torture Bathroom

After my tutorial last week I felt a lot better about where I was going with my project. I decided to split my bathroom into stages. Washing hands, Toilet, Shower, Drying. The necessities of a bathroom. The model isn't quite finished I still need to evaluate height levels and work out the spatial aspects in more detail. The shower was inspired by a form of Chinese Water torture, where water is slowly dripped onto a persons forehead allegedly driving the victim insane. For the Drying area I looked at abattoirs, how meat was hung and relating this to the human body. The hand washing mechanism (top photos) were to be honest straight out of my head. Your hands are pinned down and when you move the scrubber cleans your hands (in theory) The model took a long time to make, and a lot of was trial and error. To link in with my previous projects, I liked the idea of incorporating the metal grating at London Wall, and climbing up to different levels where hopefully my toilet will be situated. All of the models are unfinished and will need adjusting over the next few weeks! Scale 1:20.

Sera RaDesert

http://brunotautmesomething.tumblr.com/

Her work is amazing.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Embrace your inner pretentious twat.

Sticky Tape Installation

On Tuesday, I ventured (for the first ever time) to the Design Museum. For one evening there was a sculptural installation of tape structures. There was ALOT of tape. The inspiration came from a set design for a dance performance, in which the form evolves from the movement of dancers between pillars. It wasn't what I expected but was a really interesting concept.

CAD Drawings

Some AutoCAD drawings of our House. Plans, Front and Side Elevations.

2B. Semi Detached Housing Space

We have recently been set our 2B project, which will be our final one of year 2. After spending 5 months on our last project I was extremlely happy with the thought of not doing a project that had anything to do with teeth cleaning meat sculpting or the likes of. But, little did I know, this project was another continuation of 2A. Our task was in a group of five, to build a house (the choice of either a semi detached or a Georgian Terrace), and within the building design a space or 'zone' that linked in with out last project. Myself and two other group members spent 4 days in the workshop using mdf wood to create a 1:20 scale model of a semi detached. (Above-excuse the poor quality photo).

We then discussed as a group what room would suit our HomeKit devices the best. Mine being cleaning, the bathroom was best suited. I then created several sketchup drawings of our house so I could gain a better understanding of how my space could be used most effectively.

My Barbie

Meat & Greet to Gums of Steel

A few pages from my portfolio for 2A.

The puns with help from Miss Bolton. Fountain of all knowledge.