Create the Present by Rin Brooker
February 11th, 2009 4:46 PMthe mechanism
to make a clock first I needed working parts. I managed to get them through my art teacher... for a price.
Modification
I wasn't about to have a 4 inch tall clock though. So, I modified the hands to be longer using tape, copper sheets, and some tricky scissors work.
paint
then i gave them a few layers of black paint.
face
Next I needed the clock face so I took more sheets of copper and cut them out and glued them together. To make it strong I attached the CD I used for measurement to the back.
Clean surface
After a few layers of white paint it was ready to decorate.
The moon
I drilled a hole in it for the mechanism. then I painted layers of black fading into white on the clock face and then covered the black and gray with a layer of clear blue. I left the white sickle to look like the moon. Just as a little personal touch I replaced 4 with "Tea time".
the stand
It's meant to be a wall clock but just in case I can't pound nails into the walls at college next year I made a stand to sit it on. It took a few tries to get it right and not break the delicate design while I was cutting it.
taadaa!
The clock is put together
hanger
this is the wall hanger that took me so much time and frustration. it turns out loopy designs are not my forte. Finally I managedto get this bent right
the stand
This was just as difficult between cutting it and being so blond I forgot to account for the mechanism in back and making it to narrow the first time so I had to do it over AGAIN. but it's well worth it.
Looks awesome
The wall clock
Now, after 5 years I have a wall clock in my room. This is well worth the effort!
The book
Next I bought another mechanism and made a second clock as a gift to my boyfriend. I'll be giving it to him next time I see him in March. I chose one in a language he can't read so he won't get mad at me for getting rid of the first part.
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I removed the cover and drilled a hole in the front for the mechanism.
3 and a half hours of my life.
I spent a long time cutting out squares page by page with and exacto knife until the hole was deep enough for my clock piece to fit into.
the cover
the cover is duct tape and paper
poke
I cut a hole in it so the clock face is on the outside.
art
I decided that a normal 12,3,6,9 numbering would be boring. So I added random numbers of varying sizes. note this took a trip to Walmart for the silver sharpie.
the spine
I added some loopy cloud like designs on the spine.
Last but not least
Bleeding green triangles adorn the back.
The end
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I like the design, it is a neat clock, but as a task this to me is a pretty good definition of a two-point praxis. It is more than the bare minimum definitional completion of the terms of the task, which survives being flagged. It also includes some story and documentation of interesting fiddly-bits of the process, so it is voteworthy at a 1 point level. Then the result itself required non-negligible craft and artistic effort, which I like to see in creative tasks. But as clock-making goes, Rin skipped the tough chrononautic steps entirely, and didn't build a clock itself in the spirit of the Exxon.
Still though, a nice clock, and a worthwhile contribution to the community.
I would have taken it apart to see how it worked but I needed a special screwdriver no one has and I wasn't sure it would go back together right if I improvised
Yeah, you are right. A wall clock is always a missing thing for me too. I had never had it until I moved to California. Here I hired a designer to decorate my flat, so he bought a decent clock. He actually decorated it too. With silver shiny dots and lines. It looked a bit too futuristic, but actually I liked it very much.
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This is a solid, creative completion of th task which did well @ leveraging th materials @ hand.
Bonus points have been awarded by authority of th Old Rubric:
+2 pts for difficulty
+1 pt for creativity
+1 pt wild card