Burningman 2006:
Intelligent Design
Progress
Plodding toward the goal. The images are roughly in time order. You'll notice that I'm jumping from one to the next critter as I go.
Home |
How Its Done |
First Steps |
Side Trips |
Tape Casting workshop |
Casting Paully 1 |
Casting Paully 2 |
Casting Paully 3 |
Casting Paully 4 |
Casting Paully 5 |
Stickers |
Progress |
ID toons1 |
ID toons2 |
Progress 2 |
Progress 3 |
Progress 4 |
Ramp |
4th of July |
Final Push
On-Playa
Arrival 1 |
Arrival 2 |
Early Burn |
ID Setup |
Arrival 3 |
Playa Art 1 |
Playa Art 2 |
Intelligent Design Shots |
Body Paint |
Snake Mother |
The Man Burns |
Belgian Burn
Pixs from other folks
Other ID Photos |
Other ID Photos 2 |
Other Meat Photos 2
I got a couple of kinks in Paully's leg and used balloons to force it out into shape.
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Inflating balloons to the right size was a pain, so I re-invented the catheter (used in many heart operations) using a plastic tube with a balloon on the end. Push it into the right area and blow on the far end to reinflated kinked regions.
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Getting ready to fill Paully's legs with plaster. I attached supports to keep the legs from splaying out when I add a whole bunch of weight.
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The dog gets a new coat of bondo.
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Balloons are useful in pushing outward.
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The dogs feet get coated with bondo.
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Back to Paully and several pours of plaster later. I filled the legs up a bit beyond the knees and used plaster soaked terry cloth towels to support the butt and hips.
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A patch to the leg where it kinked a little.
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First coats of bondo to the outside surface of his legs.
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Building the tree for the Orang to sit on.
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Texturing the branch. This is a good place to spread batches of bondo that are curing WAY too fast. When they start going off, I spread the mix quickly and keep using the brush to give texture until it sets enough to stop flowing smoothly.
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Since I want Paully to be a self supporting tripod, I built an armature from the waist to the arm of wood and re-slit the arm to insert it. I hope to tie it into the legs though I haven't figured that part out yet...
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About to add more expanding foam to the torso.
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Inserting a couple empty but well capped 2 litre Dr. Pepper bottles to take up some volume.
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What a gooey mess this stuff is!
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Looking into the torso after a couple cans of expanding foam have been added to fill the strong arm. head and some of the chest.
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More rain??? Why is it raining in California in late April??
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A balloon keeping the neck circular while I cover it with bondo between rain showers.
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The Orang gets to sit on his tree for the first bondo coats.
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The dog get a head.
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I'm kinda afraid that some idiot will try to ride the dog, so he's getting extra strength with some fiberglass cloth.
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Rains done (?) and the tarps finally come down.
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Time to start building the Ramp!! Since the ground here isn't a flat and level as the playa, I started by leveling up a work 'bench'.
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Makin' it up as I go. What looks right?
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Completed ramp in two 8' sections. (Figured out later that I'll need to build another 2' section or so. The critters are just a little bigger than I estimated.)
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Some local residents start to occupy their new home.
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When I put foam into the head, I didn't leave enough expansion room or air space. 2 weeks later, much of the liquid still hadn't hardened. (not enough air.) Poking a few holes in his head helped relieve the pressure.
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Another too hot batch of bondo to add to the textured tree trunk.
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The Orang off his tree and with at least one coat of bondo overall.
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To toughen up the tree, I added a layer of plaster coated towels inside.
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The base of the tree and the wooden plug I hope to use to secure it to the ramp.
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I added some clay to make make the face a bit more orang-like.