It's been a while

So, the past week has been full of movie nights, studio, wood shop, and studying. That didn't leave much time for anything else. Here's a little something that I worked on in wood shop:
The edges are square, I just tried to crop out the background because the picture was a little crooked. Anyway, I made the frame and box myself here. The depth of the bottom is 2", and the depth of the top is 10". The assignment for studio is to design a room for a collector, and we were allowed to choose our client. Mine is a collector of measuring instruments. I decided to focus more on distance and length instruments. This box represents how measuring distance is relative, meaning that distance depends on how each person perceives it. I didn't have enough time to finish this yet, but hopefully it will come together some time in the future. What I like about the box is that it actually looks like the X's go back into the distance.

My professor calls perspective drawings "lies" because really it's just a flat, 2 dimensional piece of paper that slanted lines are drawn on. Here's a collage of some cool sidewalk art pieces that fool the eye into thinking that there's actually depth on a flat surface:

The trick to these is that you have to be looking at them at just the right spot, or else the art will appear horribly distorted. Here's a comparison between looking at a piece from the right and wrong angles: