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Thursday 14 December 2017
The Empty Bowls Project
Sunday 10 December 2017
Leo's Slab Project
Leo's Slab Project
What was your thought process?
Sunday 12 November 2017
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Welcome to Leo's Ceramics Blog!
So what was the project?
- Wedging the clay. Once I wedged the clay into a good starting piece, I centered it the best I could but pushing and basically hitting it into the bat on the wheel. However, this is only the first step of centering, and in order to properly complete the centering procedure, I had to push it into the bat with the purpose of making it as flat as possible. Once I did that, I then continued to push up the walls of the clay until I had my centered spherical cup on my bat.
- As we can see here, this step is the aftermath of pushing the clay walls up to create a cylinder. To test if it was centered, you can see me holding two fingers to the mug to see if they move or not.
- Once I was happy with my centered cylinder, I started to push my two thumbs into the center to create the hollow part of my mug where the liquid one is trying to drink is stored.
- As you can see, after I had increased my cups depth to a satisfactory point, I measured the distance from the base of the mug to the top of bottom part of my mug using a needle tool.
- After I was happy with the basic layout of my mug, I needed to increase the height of my mug by putting two fingers, one on the inside, one on the outside of the mug, which forced the mugs walls to move upwards to create a taller mug. This step also decreased the distance thickness of the walls of my mug.
- After getting my walls to a point in which the cup would be able to hold enough liquid to satisfy one in one sitting, I smoothed out the rim of my mug with my thumb to create an even and smooth rim.
- At this point in the creation of my mug, I felt that it was good enough to take off the bat and leave it to dry into the leather hard stage of clay. This first step in getting my mug off the bat was scrapping any excess clay of the bottom of the mug using the needle tool.
- Once my mug had a clean bottom, I needed to remove it from the bat using the wire tool. I used this tool to help in the removal process by slowly rotating the wheel while moving the wire through the clay.
- Once my to be mug was off the bat and my wheel was cleaned up, I put my mug into a plastic covered tray to make sure that while the mug dried, it wouldn't dry to the point of the bone dry stage.
THE SLAB PROJECT
What was your thought process?
When I first started thinking about creating a slab with additional clay that had been imprinted or scored onto it, I thought it would be a fairly quick and simple process. However, I had no idea what I wanted to base my project on, and so I went for a simplistic idea of creating a turtle shell, however I soon realized that that would be too easy, and so I went for creating a 3-dimensional project and created a cylinder. However that didn't work out, so I contemplated my options and decided to go with a basket. I liked the 3-D idea, but I couldn't create a cylinder, so I created a rectangular prism. One I had a good basket styled starting point, I thought about what to add to it, and thus I came up with the idea of drawing the product moment correlation coefficient equation onto the side of the basket and a bunch of 1s and 0s in a binary styled format to symbolize these things being thrown away. While this project might seem a bit 'different' than typical projects, I had come up with a project that symbolized my attitude to some things I had learnt while studying in the UK, binary and statistics. Since these ideas were been 'put' into the 'waste' basket, it symbolized me forgetting these concepts as they don't help me and I don't need them anymore.
Monday 9 June 2014
Untitled
Today for our roller coaster project we finally presented. It was scary at first but not a lot of people came to our roller coaster that understood physics so we just ran a lot for the little kids. I say the best part about today was destroying the project. That was some 18+ stuff we did back there. I'm sure the boxes will be okay.
Sunday 1 June 2014
Roller coaster project blog Leo
Today we have finished the loop and tied all our boxes and support structures down. We are still working on the end but we have come up with an idea to end the project and the theme.
Wednesday 28 May 2014
Roller coaster blog
Science project
Today we got the curve finally and now we are waiting for next class to do the loop. We have all stated our ideas for the end of our project and our theme, but we still need to have a loop and curve it round more.