20 + 18 points
Ariadne Unemployed by Jain Sycamore, Wetdryvac
April 7th, 2015 3:14 AM
Aside to start: I seem to have included a partner when submitting for team. Um. My error. I did this one myself (wetdryvac) and just buggered stuff up on submission.
I've been wanting to do this for ages. A corn maze, a building... and I ended up getting really lucky and having a trade commission that worked out such that I got to make one myself. That looked sorta like this...
Trade commission: A 41.4"x33.2 inch
Labyrinth, with paths on the half inch, drafted in pencil, painted in red watercolor paint mixed with black silk screen ink, and finished with coffee. I can’t begin to guess at how long it took to finish - I fell down with a headache after the initial blackwork - but it was a pretty long time.
The drafting component, I needed something that I could get perfect(ish) circles from and string and a thumbtack just wasn't cutting it. Ended up using a door lintel strip (cheap metal, easily drilled and filed smooth) which I wish I'd thought to do symbolically, but it just happened to be the first easily drillable piece of long straight thin-enough metal I found in the basement.
Thumbtack through the first drilled hole, and then roundabout on the half inch repeatedly until I fit the space I wanted.
Draft in each turn on the half inch, mirror north and south, starting north south, and 1/2 inch of turn-space, clockwise.
Clear the gap for the turns by erasing.
Paint like an idiot, all strokes counter-clockwise, until completely insane and in so much pain a nap is necessary.
Finish the characters and nature around the edges, try not to go more insane.
Probably about 20 hours all told.
I've been wanting to do this for ages. A corn maze, a building... and I ended up getting really lucky and having a trade commission that worked out such that I got to make one myself. That looked sorta like this...
Trade commission: A 41.4"x33.2 inch
Labyrinth, with paths on the half inch, drafted in pencil, painted in red watercolor paint mixed with black silk screen ink, and finished with coffee. I can’t begin to guess at how long it took to finish - I fell down with a headache after the initial blackwork - but it was a pretty long time.
The drafting component, I needed something that I could get perfect(ish) circles from and string and a thumbtack just wasn't cutting it. Ended up using a door lintel strip (cheap metal, easily drilled and filed smooth) which I wish I'd thought to do symbolically, but it just happened to be the first easily drillable piece of long straight thin-enough metal I found in the basement.
Thumbtack through the first drilled hole, and then roundabout on the half inch repeatedly until I fit the space I wanted.
Draft in each turn on the half inch, mirror north and south, starting north south, and 1/2 inch of turn-space, clockwise.
Clear the gap for the turns by erasing.
Paint like an idiot, all strokes counter-clockwise, until completely insane and in so much pain a nap is necessary.
Finish the characters and nature around the edges, try not to go more insane.
Probably about 20 hours all told.
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posted by Wetdryvac on April 7th, 2015 7:25 PM
I think a vote is a vote, and if more than one person is in the, "Did this thing..." They get points. I'm cool with this - I just don't know how I messed it up, unless I'd included them back when we were planning to walk a corn maze.
*shrugs*
Either way, no worries.
posted by Bex. on July 24th, 2016 4:13 PM
I demand photos of the process and/or materials used to make it!
posted by Wetdryvac on July 24th, 2016 4:45 PM
...as I use the tools fairly regularly, I've updated with pictures.
Beautiful.
but I voted on the wrong player? how does that work? I think it is all the same. if not I will right it. And on behalf of whoever didn't do it, I thank you. Feel free to accidentally include me in any of your praxis!