In my home business, I frequently need boxes to hold 2x2" 35mm slides. When I look up such items on the Internet, I am annoyed to only find relatively expensive products for storing slides. So, being kind of handy with paper, I decided to create my own template that I can cut from the numerous boxes I get from Amazon. Here is that template. With some used cardboard, a utility knife, a dull butter knife for scoring the edges, and a hot glue gun, you can come up with a useful box for slides. Click to see template full size so you can read the dimensions.
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Today I rode my bike over to the Center to see what was going on. Although still not ready, the contractors have made a lot of progress. Since I will be away next week, this will be my last sneak peek at construction progress before the Center opens on July 6th.
Below are a set of pictures I took as I walked around the building with Clerk of the Works, Don Johnson. Stopped by the ALMOST FINISHED Lexington Community Center this afternoon for my weekly look-see. Major progress, still some distance to go... Here are the photos I took by looking at the outside and looking into a couple of windows... [Slide your mouse over the photos to see captions. Click to see a larger view] Exterior In the back of the Center, many nice flowers have been growing for a long time.
The good news is that the flowers have been preserved! I was asked to produce 3 photos of the process of building a model. Well, I couldn't do it in less than 7. Selecting which 3 of the 7 should be used is the work for an editor :-). Here is a sequence of steps from photos of the original house, to the computer modeling of the house, then a series of tests to see what looks good, and finally, the next to last view of the model still in progress. To see see captions, hover mouse over thumbnail. Click to see a larger image.
In late March I received an invitation from my friend Henry Houh at Einstein's Workshop to bring my family over to his studio and have true 3D photographs that can be turned into 3D printed figurines. Henry is planning on offering a service for taking such portraits and producing these very personal models. Here are electronic versions of our models.
Book, Art, Craft, Modeling and Building friends,
Several times in the last year I have stumbled on instances of the "Little Free Library" movement -- a combination of a love of books, sharing, and recycling along with a love of arts, crafts, and building things -- whose immediate result is the construction and deployment of little mailbox-like structures distributed in front of individual houses in an area which are used to hold books that you no longer have use for but which you think someone else might like. Last Tuesday afternoon, (April 14th) I went as a member of the ad hoc Community Center Advisory Committee on a tour of the new Lexington Community Center. The former Scottish Right Regional Headquarters at 39 Marrett Rd is being renovated to become the new Community Center for Lexington.
For an upcoming exhibit at the Lexington Historical Society, I am building a model of a house in Lexington that was built as part of the mid-Century Modern style.
This page records my thoughts as I created this model. I started thinking about this project in November 2014 when Rick Beyer and Elaine Doran approached me and asked if I was interested in creating a model for an exhibit to be staged by the Lexington Historical Society in May of 2015. They asked me based on my prior efforts in creating paper models of historic houses in Lexington. But, they wanted the model to be much larger than I had ever done in paper, and I decided to somehow use foamcore so that the sides would be stiffer. The exhibit got postponed until June (good thing). Here are some milestones:
What follows are notes of my thoughts and changes in plans as I worked on this model. Lot's of things changed as I went through the process of exploration, design, experimentation (anybody need a lot of unneeded coffee stirrers?), iteration, test builds, and finally building the actual model. I have learned a lot, which for me is the reward of doing this. In all of the photo galleries below, move your pointer over a thumbnail to see a caption, click on the thumbnail to see a larger size of the picture. |
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