Phase one

So, finished phase one for the studio project. My camera has been a lot of fun to work with, and here are a couple photos that I took with it (it's a film camera that doesn't use any sort of electricity or batteries!):

So, I had a bit of fun with that. Here are my drawings for the first phase:

The bottom left is a section that shows where your line of sight goes when you look through either of the two viewfinders (it might confuse you, so don't worry about it too much). I managed to do a nice exploded axonometric that I put in the middle of the page. Look closely on that and you can see where each piece goes based on the guide lines. Also, I showed the aperture opened a crack (the thing that looks like a ninja star that the main lens connects to).


This weekend will be first year architecture's trip to New York City, so that will be a nice break from the campus.


Also, here are a couple interesting macrophotos of what's behind the front cover:

Second semester, first year!

So, the start of the new semester here at Penn State is three days in, and already I have much to do. A project for studio (more on that later), English 15 homework, Architectural Engineering (A E) 210 homework, I already took a quiz in Energy and the Environment (EGEE 101), and the whole getting readjusted to life here.


Energy and the Environment is going pretty well; it's an online course, and the material so far is basically how and where is energy produced, focusing on electrical, geothermal, and electric. The course format allows me to go through it at my own pace, but I do intend to spend as much time on it as I would if it was a lecture class. I already finished lesson one and there was a quiz at the end, which I could retake up to 10 times, and my best score would be submitted.


A E is interesting so far, as it's the first time I'm doing math since last year. There was a simple worksheet that took me just a couple minutes to do. It was just a review of simple Pythagorean Theorem formulas (triangle formulas).


The Art History 202 class seems like it's going to be more interesting than last semester's 201 class. The professor is a bit more interesting in the way that he speaks about the material.


English is really the only class that feels like a high school one because it's required and there are only a little more than 20 kids in my class. We're going through rhetoric right now, which I find kind of interesting.


Now for studio. Yeah, we're into a project already and we're pretty engaged in it already. On the Monday that classes resumed, we took a trip to a town called Tyrone, and each student bought a cheap (less than $20) trinket, and each section had slightly different requirements on what kind of item they could get. My section was told to find some sort of device that caught our attention. I chose an old camera, called an Argus Cintar. Here are a few photos of it:


Here's the front view. The eraser under it was only to keep the camera from falling because it was on a slant.

Top view.

And side view.

Unfortunately, I can't open the front covering because some of it has fused to the rest of the body, and I can't risk cracking the plastic. I intend to get some film and see if this thing still functions.