On this day we had to make a structure that stand up by itself made out of spaghetti and superglue with a twist,... It should be able to hold three plastic balls in it. It didn't matter how or where, all you had to do was get your structure to hold three of the coloured balls we were given.
Now before we started this task we were asked to get out our sketchpad and pencil and close our eyes and just move our pencil around the paper freely, not thinking about i just letting the pencil roam around the page. When we opened our eyes we were all confused as to why we were asked to do this and how this had anything to do with our work. Then we were asked to take a blue, red and yellow medium and find spaces to draw them into. At this point i recalled Geoff talking about aesthetic and how we want our structure to look like, how we can make it look even better.
Just before we began to make our structures we were told to make at least 5-7 sketches of what we want our structures to look like, once we had an idea we got the spaghetti and went straight into it.
It was barely 5 minutes in and already my structure was a major flop... i forgot how hot the glue gun is and that came with consequences:The glue guns were really hot so it was very hard to overcome the fact that they kept on melting the spaghetti. So it was a matter of using the right amount of glue.
Because the glue gun was so hot it was not a good idea to put a load of glue on because it will just bend and break off, spaghetti doesn't really have much texture. To tackle this we were given bamboo stick to help keep the spaghetti in place and prevent the glue from the sticking to the cardboard matt underneatch. It didn't stop it from melting but it did help a bit.
I already knew what i wanted my structure to look like, three flights os triangles to hold all three balls. After i got the base done i needed to set its hight by using spaghetti on the inner corners of my structure. And these were the results of my structue.
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