Ok. So this first project back was a group project, with a brief to create a kinetic sculpture inspired by Fischll & Weiss’ “The Way Things Go”. We were all quite underwhelmed with how Fischll & Weiss’ work just petered out, so we wanted to try and create a grande finale to ours.

Ultimately, we settled on triggering a reservoir to empty into a container. Originally, this contain was to be vacuum formed around stylised lettering, but there were not enough sheets of clear plastic available. We adpated, and created a container out of perspex & acrylic (some of which was left over from projects last term). Unsurprisingly, the end container was not water-tight. So extreme measures were resorted to (I duct-taped a significant part of the container, and on advice of a friend used a glue-gun to help seal any other holes). It still leaked a bit, but not torrentially.

And that was only one section of the whole design.

A big shout-out to the group, who were awesome: Niamh, Jack, Ollie, Elizabeth, Georgina, Nathaniel, Ruby.

Once I’ve figured out the best photomontage, I’ll upload a shot of the final marble run/sculpture.