October 30, 2003
3 1/2 weeks left, panic?
I officially have a space over at Boundary hall. I went to go see it today. Right now, you have to travel through a maze of storage to get to it. I plan to go over and rearrange some things this weekend to make the space workable. It must be at least 14x14'. They have some nice rolling partitions over there that I'll use to border my area off from all of the junk back there. The hula piece will go over there. I also got introduced to the new woodshop supervisor for that building. I think his name is Ken. He seemed like someone I could get along with very well. He made some really stupid joke about being born "a broad" as opposed to being born "abroad". I don't remember the set up.
Now that I have the woodshop at my disposal, I'm reexamining what I have going. I might want to go back and start over on my leaning platform piece. Then I would probably put the palm shooter on hold. I can't seem to gauge how much I can get done by the end of the quarter. I'm getting nervous about the end coming up so quickly. I want three done.
I really hope to catch the UPS guy tomorrow when he brings my canvas from Dharma for a last attempt. There are about four things left to do on the wall. I need to install the canvas hangings. I need to figure out where the light switch is for the fluorescent light. I need to resolve the pedal and I need to screen print instructions on it. Here's what I've settled on:
1. You are safe. Keep your arms down at your sides.
2. Place your right foot on the pedal .
3. Press the pedal with some weight.
4. You are safe. Keep your arms down at your sides.
5. Push to reset. Repeat if desired.
After talking with Ms. Susan Quinn and getting an in-progress crit from my class, I plan on making some changes to the palm shooter whenever I decide to work on it again. First I plan on extending the divider to at least cover all of the possible areas to which someone could stretch from the chair. That was a good point brought up by Susan, that a normal person would want to just peek around the side of the divider since it is so easy to do. In crit, Brian brought up that I should enclose the place where the arm rests. This would prevent people from getting curious and just reaching around away from where their hand is supposed to go for the ball to hit it. I also plan on enclosing the back of it with some netting that is easy to see through but still able to catch the balls. I like the idea of them scattering, but I think it'll be better when they are concentrated inside a certain area. This might also help to draw people in. I would hope to have a day's supply on the balls loaded into the shooter so you would only have to reload every night. I've still got to figure out how I want to paint it. I need to get my window fixed.
