Yellow Stripe

What my paint job will look like.

What Matt's paint job will look like.

Matt and I are still planning out what we are going to make our lures out of and what they will look. Our plan is to have a swivel part way through the lures body to make it look like an injured fish trying to get to the bottom of the lake/river. I think we will use Manuka wood because it is strong and heavy so it is easy to cast. There will be two hooks so it has more chance of it hooking a fish. 
We think we  are going to paint it black and gold. Matt will make his stripes go up and down. Matt has called his Bumble Bee. I will make my stripes go side ways and mine will be called Yellow Stripe. We still have a bit of research to do around how fish see colours and what makes them strike a lure.

Passion time

Did you know that fish bite the lure because they are curious or annoyed by it!!  Matt and I chose to make lures like Rapala but with our own twist. We will make them out of wood and plastic. We are going to add a bib to make them go deeper. There is going to be a swivel part way through the lures body to make it look like an injured fish.

Passion time

For passion time Matt and I are going to make fishing lures that will catch brown trout. My aim is to at least make one lure and catch some trout with it. We will be making tobys. For the first toby we will be painting it with glow in the dark paint and for the second toby we will paint it with metallic.  This passion project should last about 8 weeks (minimum).

Patterns

Today we went on a field trip around Queens Park, to see how many patterns we could find in our surroundings. There are five catagories that patterns fit into. A pattern of strength, beauty, random, survivability and order. Patterns are everywhere. When we were to the band rotunder Geoff said "do you know why there are ten beams holding up the roof" I reckon that it is because the Romans had 10 months in a year and if you count every tile there will be as many as the days in the year.

Chess Art

Rook

You are probably wondering what in the world is chess art. Well it is simply sketching a chess piece of your choice. I chose a rook thinking it would be the easiest but I didn't relize how hard 3 D art actualy is especially with chess pieces. But mine turned out to be really good even though I am not good at art most the time.  Do you think it's 3D?Please rate it 1-10. If you are going to draw things in 3D it is important to remember that 3 dimensions need 3 directions.

Caine's Arcade

Caine is a kid from LA who made an arcade out of cardboard boxes! It is really cool because he has become famous because of it. Now his arcade is as popular as a normal arcade. It is real cool to see how creative he is with just a cardboard box. So now people all over the world make their own games out of cardboard.
Here is the first video http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/faIFNkdq96U
Here is the secound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul9c-4dX4Hk
Do you think Caine is a gifted kid?  Leave me a comment...

Fractals

Fractals are a thing that when you pull off bits of it becomes a miniature version of the oringnal. For example broccoli. You pull a branch of broccoli off and it becomes a smaller version on the main head. It continues past one of the seeds. So Darryn made us draw some fractals  of triangles. It looks realy cool. Since Darryn has been torturing us with them he decided to make his own one and he  figured out how hard it is to do them. We made the second highest one, but modified it a bit. It involves a lot of measuring.