Janehak’s Weblog

I have decided to keep my blog up and running because I have found it a good tool in documenting what I have been doing this year and also because it gives my family and some friends the opportunity to see what I am up to.So I will fill you in on what I have been doing since my last post.

Yesterday was hand in ..yay…and so we all assembled at 9.30 in the studio minus Winnie and Summer who is in China I think.  The presentations were pretty straight forward, there was a bit of excitement in the air due to it being the last day.

I was mostly happy with my results, I did think about taking another week but I think I felt  a need for closure on the day and I have to say the idea of being able to go home at night and NOT think about school is surreal. Things I learnt from this project are:

I think I am getting better at the time management side of things.I set myself a schedule for building etc and mostly kept to it.It was a good idea factoring in ‘things going to hell time’ as of course they did.(especially when Lulu started spewing the day I had planned to go into the workshop, that was 2 days tubed) Vaccuum forming was very educational and I learnt alot about what works and what doesn’t.I still have a shitload of Vivac so I might go into school next week and make a whole lot of moulds for casting.I am sure they will come in handy at some stage

Keep practising drawing – I did not draw enough and I need to concentrate on the technical drawings as I think they were crap and need work.

I was annoyed with myself at not thinking of obvious things like the presentation board. I took photos and got them printed and then was half way through sticking them on some card when I remebered that we had done graphic displays for the handle project and surely I should be doing that.Anyway it was too late by then and I was not sure that the copy centre did A2 and I was worried about being able to get there early enough what with droppping kids at school etc etc  I was a bit pissed off with myself but. This has happened before where I hav’nt thought of the obvious so I need to come up with a system . I will work on this over the holidays.

Other than this I was mostly happy with the result

 Ta DA

 (I will put the rest of the photos on flickr soon)

After the presentation Nick shouted us a beer at Carringtons this was very generous of him and also was a great way to finish the year .We will miss you Nick you are a scholar and a gentleman and a nice guy as well.Managed to get a class photo which is always such a hassle but always a great thing to have. Got to go now but will put the group photo and what happened next in my next post.