This creature will actually be about the size of my apartment in Brooklyn. It's a model of the pavillion we are constructing in Iceland. The man on the podium is Reykjavk's first sheriff. Addi has been up for about 5 days, I think, pulling the model out of Maya over in Reykjavik and emailing chunks of it into our hot little hands here in New York.
My whole body is very, very sore from crouching at the monitor turning all those triangles you see making up this anenome shape into flat shop drawings for the laser cutter. Hence the red balls, the geometry is subtracted from the corners to keep people's eyes from getting poked out.
When I feel more coherent I'll run through the process with you. We were supposed to start cutting the aluminum (excuuuuuusssse me, aluminium) yesterday. Umm.... yeah. We didn't. Instead, we had a team mini- meltdown, questioning the veracity of our model, specifically whether the pieces were flipping orientation coming out of Maya or when we offset the surface in Rhino. It had been about three days since Simon and I had slept more than two hours, and Addi more than that.
There was a whole lot of grim Skype conversations back and forth, and pleas to parametric modeling expert dudes we had never met before to help us find a more automated way of executing the model, since we humans just weren't working fast enough. Considering we're supposed to be done on Thursday and accounting for sleep deprivation, I think we are being pretty civil to each other.Happily, though, I got the copy of my favorite Fall album in the mail today, and a long night of sleep, like 9 hours! First time in a while. Listening to The Fall takes me back to long ago bedrooms, listening to headphones and rolling my adolescent eyes. It's one of those albums that linger in your sense memory years after you don't own it anymore.
