Haven't posted on here in a while. Here is this semester's project so far.

[klymr]

This semester I'm in a Type, Image, and Visual Continuity class. In the past the professor has had the students design snowboards and produce them in Ai. Once everyone was done with those they would produce a catalog using everyone's designs. He got bored with those since it seems like everyone designs snowboards these days. Instead, he has taken an entirely new approach and decided to have us build "retro punk robots" similar to those made by Gordon Bennett seen on http://bennettrobotworks.com/robots.php The first 3 weeks of school so far have been spent building our robots. They are now being photographed by a grad student and we will be using everyone's robot photos and bio's to produce a 40 page catalog. Here is the pictures from my robot (sorry, iPhone camera is not the greatest):

http://twitpic.com/17fwj
http://twitpic.com/17fvr
http://twitpic.com/17fwd
http://twitpic.com/17fym

This is the bio for the robot:

Brainchild of a pair of military scientists heading the R&D department of U.S. Army Sector 17, FR-35 Radium (Ray) was to be the save-all robot for the battlefields of 2042. Inspired by their childhood heroes from the late twentieth century, the Teletubbies, Bell and Howell created this belly communicator for all forms of visual interaction. As a byproduct of the economic downturn and multiple government bailouts beginning in 2008, funding was cut at Sector 17, forcing Bell and Howell to resort to squirreled away parts to construct their creation. Coupled with the information screen are the data transfer cables on Ray’s right arm. His left arm is a totally atypical approach; it incorporates a pair of jumper cables for that extra spark. In late 2044, project FR-35 Radium was decommissioned and abandoned for a much more sophisticated android, leaving Ray lost in an isolated government warehouse. There the seemingly lifeless robot remained until recently discovered with nothing more than a faint tick of hope in his head.

So, what do y'all think? I'm not totally set on the bio, but it may be too late.