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.