HS 7: Paper Models and Music

This week we will continue to work on the paper models started last week. This has been a challenge for a variety of reasons including having never done this before, junky instructions, and patience in reading thoroughly the junky instructions!

All of this is in preparation for the moving family portrait. Just as a reminder, each student will construct a piece of kinetic art whose theme will be "family," which does not mean blood relatives, although it may be that family.

This weeks blog assignment is to make the normal weekly blog, combine the two "Mechanisms" pages, and then create a new one that will contain this information:

1. A list of five songs that represent your chosen "family"
2. A brief but thorough description of why you chose that song
3. A link to an audio or video file that lives on the line
4. This "Parental Advisory" label by any music that is not school appropriate.

As you combine your mechanisms page consider how the mechanisms move and what they accomplish in the world. Does this have any relevance to the movements in your machine? Can  you even see the movements in your machine? Start to consider what you want to happen in your piece. For example, in "The Pier" I wanted my "mother" to catch fish, so I had to figure out how get the fishing pole to move. What action is going to take place in your piece. You don't have to be too specific, but you certainly can be!