some lathe stuff

Just started working with it. The teacher is actually from a school on a hill, but he said the only students he really sees are the Pr0duct and Tr@ns ones (which, quite frankly, I think are the two best programmes they have because they do so much process and building). I keep hearing the complaint that a lot of the young 'designers' don't know how to build anything, and they use only shape and render everything out. This, of course, leads to a lot of resentment and frustration when people actually have build anything from it (whether it be in animation rigging to make the paper scratch someone drew actually have a walk cycle, or in live action). It's interesting. One of the biggest frustrations a lot of design teachers (esp entertainment design) have with students is that they will want to treat everything as one material. But there is def a difference in tolerances and materiality of glass, wood, metal, cloth, etc. Even within each material eg wood, there is a difference in grain depending on what type, whether it is freshly cut, how old it is, how rough the grain is, the knots and general character. It's a living thing, which is wonderful. And then there is metal. I've been working with steel carbide, and that too has its own materiality. It bends and flexes, just like wood does, too, when it is cut or heated, cools and expands, etc.
Anyways, this was fun and I hope to get better. Think of it as the beginnings of the base of a lamp (where I would run an electrical cord through, or a post a decorative couch or staircase, etc.