HOLY SHIiTake

I LOVE MUSHROOMS

HENCE I DECIDED TO LOOK INTO THE SEM OF THE MYCELIUM THREAD OF SHIITAKE MUSHROOM!

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untitled-presentationFungal mycelium from an unidentified species of fungus, revealed underneath the bark of a rotting tree branch. The mycelium is the vegetative part of the fungus and is made up of a mass of thread-like hyphae. Peak Disrtict National Park, Derbyshire, UK. October.

 

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Stretched chewed gum across the frame formed by lollipop sticks

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Sadly, the chewing gum started to flake as I failed to remove all the sugar and the surface was too thin hence it started to tear.

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Felt that the structure was too geometric as I intended for it to have a more organic structure.

 

FINAL MODEL

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YASSSSYAYYYYYAHOOOO IT DIDN’T TEAR AND MANAGED TO RETAIN THE STRETCHED TEXTURE OMGGGGGGGGYASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Was inspired by tensile structures. I really like the taut curves formed by the planes of textile.

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Hyper-Toroidal Deep Surface Prototype | Boyan Mihaylov and Viktoriya Nicolova, ICD Stuttgart, 2011

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CHANCE CREATIONS

Headed to Sungei Road with the plan to make a pig.

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Sadly, I didn’t manage to find any suitable parts to form one. Regardless, I still managed to pick up a few interesting pieces of “junk”.

HARDWARE SHOP

Stopped by a hardware house near my house hoping to find some interesting pieces but god was not in my favour.

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Decided to pop by the Theives Market which we didn’t manage to check out previously.

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Rampaged through my dad’s tool dos and managed to pick out some of these parts.


THE KIWI

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The wheel of the chair resembled a bird’s body hence I decided to attached a coil and a nail which look pretty similar to a kiwi’s bill as the head.


THE CHAMELEON 

WHICH DIDN’T MANAGE TO SEE THE LIGHT

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Thought that it resembled a chameleon head, with the rotatory feature of the wheel and and the multi coloured base liken to the reptile’s colourful scales, but the response was pretty disappointing as many thought otherwise or couldn’t identify it upon first glance. Hence, I aborted this idea.


THE RAM

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The two coils reminded me of the ram’s horn and hence the idea.


THE OCTOPUS

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Found the light bulb in my dad’s tool box and it bulbous structure resembled an octopus’ head so I attached a telephone wire to the bottom of the bulb to imitate its tentacles.


This project was pretty fun as it taught as to look at things from a different perspective.