Posts Tagged ‘sculpture’
Acton High Heads
1st July, 2009
Over 2 days, two Year 10 groups worked hard to build large head sculptures. They designed and planned, constructed and clad bamboo cane and wire structures, and brought them to life in a darkened room, by projecting weird and wonderful animated facial features and sounds… Everyone worked with real talent.
A cow moos - a skull ignites - barbie girl sings - growling - yawning - crying - slurping - an eye explodes - a geek looks geeky - and she says blah, blah, blah! (we still can’t get it out of our heads).
In amongst all of this, a few pupils found a spare 5 minutes to make this odd little animation too!
We had a good time working in London. Thanks to all of you who were involved, you were fun to work with, - we think you should all be really proud of the results.
What really inspired us was how different everyone’s finished pieces came out - the Easter Island face really fitted the structure perfectly, the same goes for the geek, such detail. The robot/stand/mega-structure a masterpeice of engineering! The exploding skull was a shock, there was an audible gasp from everyone when it blew up. There was real attention to the details too - the tear falling, nostrils flaring, incredible mustache. The cow chewing and mooing gave us all a laugh. Sand animation mixed with photographs and a hand made mouth, put together for a strange and wonderful effect. The beautiful blah blah woman batting her eyelids…
Thanks to you too Mr Fullwood - it was great to work with you too, after so long talking about it!
Over 2 days, two Year 10 groups worked hard to build large head sculptures. They designed and planned, constructed and clad bamboo cane and wire structures, and brought them to life in a darkened room, by projecting weird and wonderful animated facial features and sounds… Everyone worked with real talent.
A cow moos - a skull ignites - barbie girl sings - growling - yawning - crying - slurping - an eye explodes - a geek looks geeky - and she says blah, blah, blah! (we still can’t get it out of our heads).
In amongst all of this, a few pupils found a spare 5 minutes to make this odd little animation too!
We had a good time working in London. Thanks to all of you who were involved, you were fun to work with, - we think you should all be really proud of the results.
What really inspired us was how different everyone’s finished pieces came out - the Easter Island face really fitted the structure perfectly, the same goes for the geek, such detail. The robot/stand/mega-structure a masterpeice of engineering! The exploding skull was a shock, there was an audible gasp from everyone when it blew up. There was real attention to the details too - the tear falling, nostrils flaring, incredible mustache. The cow chewing and mooing gave us all a laugh. Sand animation mixed with photographs and a hand made mouth, put together for a strange and wonderful effect. The beautiful blah blah woman batting her eyelids…
Thanks to you too Mr Fullwood - it was great to work with you too, after so long talking about it!
Sound Sculpture
3rd October, 2008
A long while ago, we went to Rutland House’s Christmas party, where we were asked to work with pupils and their families to create an interactive sound making sculpture!
We built a frame, and had help from pupils, staff, mums, dads, brothers and sisters, to do the rest.
Hose pipe trumpets were coiled around the frame, with pumps that could be stood on or wheeled over to make loud noises. Pieces of copper were dangled from the roof to bash and tinkle, jingling bells on strings and otehr dangling noise makers were also tied, twisted and attached.
Instruments were made using scented seeds, tins, and recycled stuff that could be bashed, shaken or rattled to add to the cacophony of wonderful sounds.
Rutland House is a SCOPE School for young people with multiple physical and learning disabilities including cerebral palsy.
A long while ago, we went to Rutland House’s Christmas party, where we were asked to work with pupils and their families to create an interactive sound making sculpture!
We built a frame, and had help from pupils, staff, mums, dads, brothers and sisters, to do the rest.
Hose pipe trumpets were coiled around the frame, with pumps that could be stood on or wheeled over to make loud noises. Pieces of copper were dangled from the roof to bash and tinkle, jingling bells on strings and otehr dangling noise makers were also tied, twisted and attached.
Instruments were made using scented seeds, tins, and recycled stuff that could be bashed, shaken or rattled to add to the cacophony of wonderful sounds.
Rutland House is a SCOPE School for young people with multiple physical and learning disabilities including cerebral palsy.
Dens
16th April, 2008
A magical time! We spent 6 days (over as many weeks) with pupils at Newtons Walk school building personal dens: Drawing plans and making models; building with bamboo, willow and cloth.
We set up a small village in the school hall, and projected drawings and animations that the children had made to match the shape of thier structures onto the sheer cloth walls. They could live inside their pictures!
After we’d played inside them, slept, invited our friends over for tea, rigged up a telephone network with tin cans and string and generally had a rum old time; amazingly everyone wanted to take their creations home! Greg the headteacher strapped them to a van and drove around derby installing the dens in gardens and bedrooms.
Quad funded and organised the sessions.
A magical time! We spent 6 days (over as many weeks) with pupils at Newtons Walk school building personal dens: Drawing plans and making models; building with bamboo, willow and cloth.
We set up a small village in the school hall, and projected drawings and animations that the children had made to match the shape of thier structures onto the sheer cloth walls. They could live inside their pictures!
After we’d played inside them, slept, invited our friends over for tea, rigged up a telephone network with tin cans and string and generally had a rum old time; amazingly everyone wanted to take their creations home! Greg the headteacher strapped them to a van and drove around derby installing the dens in gardens and bedrooms.
Quad funded and organised the sessions.
