3D

Chameleon

Made this little guy out of paper, was inspired by some crazy 3D origami.

I painted it, and this is how it turned out!

Boat

This is the boat I made at summer camp with my team. It has a plastic bag around the bottom for water proofing, and triangles on the inside for stability. Sadly none of these nice features could save it from sinking in the pool, when 2 people tried to board it. R.I.P.

Eggs…

During finals week, I found a strange project to keep my hands busy .

I made eggs.

Now I know what your thinking: “good on you Lillian, you learned how to cook.” I am sorry to tell you that you are mistaken. The eggs I made were not small and edible, they were wearable cardboard monstrosities.

Let me back up and explain. My neighbors and very good friends, Max and Sierra, are very involved with the theater program at my school. This year, they were putting on a production of “Something Rotten” a very silly show with a memorable dance number. 6 eggs come onstage, and tap dance, during the song “make an omlette.” My friend Max, had found a design of a cardboard egg costume online.

There were only a few problems:

  1. the eggs are child size
  2. each egg is 339 pieces of cardboard
  3. how do you hold these pieces together such that the egg is sturdy enough to be tap danced in?

To fix the “child size” problem, we expanded the design, and then printed it. I cut out the cardboard, then scored it to create the curved shape.

Pieces from the bottom rim
pieces from the middle and top

I assembled my egg, first making each ring. I would tape it together, then hot glue it. Once I had my rings assembled, I put them all together. Taping the rings so that they would stay while I hot glued. Ta-da! Finished egg!

middle and bottom rings
Max and Sierra inspect
egg completely assembled, not hot glued
After the first egg, made three more

Much to my parent’s dismay, the eggs kept multiplying in our garage. I spent over three hours on each egg.

We paper mache’d the eggs for added durability. To make the eggs tap-danceable, we installed hula hoops into the widest part. these hoops helped the eggs retain their shape, and also were handles for the dancers.

Here are the eggs performing in “Something Rotten”. Of the six eggs used in the play, I made four, and cut the pieces for 1.

ACE

During senior year I did this lil’ program called ACE (Arquitecture, Construction and Engineering). It’s for students interested in those fields. You basically get talked at by a bunch of professional architects and engineers, and then you work on projects. I feel like 90% of the students there wanted to be architects….

anyways, our group project was called the hub, and I made