Totally Tuesday

Well it turns out our brief is actually on Thursday, but I did have my H+C intro (Historical and Critical Studies) and my first of several studio inductions.

I love studio inductions. They may consist of boring, dry safety information that I have heard a dozen times before, but you get to check out all the equipment and I always get all excited to try it out.

I didn’t bring my camera (not to self for tomorrow) but we have a laser-cutter, a 3D printer, lots of foam-carving equipment, LOTS of mold-making materials, and the best part is; after we pay our studio fee (minimal for us one-termers), we can use everything, even materials, for free! AND, just so long as we ask, we can use it all for personal projects too I’m excited. 

Tomorrow, I shall bring my camera and show you my studio It is pretty similar to Emily Carr’s ID studio, but bigger and with more stuff in it. I guess that’s what studio fees and better government funding get you.

Oh hey! A new strap!

 

Today I also made some modifications to the backpack, and worked on a feasible way to get my laptop to and from school.

Problems:

1) I don’t want to just carry the thing by the handles, even though this is the simplest and easiest thing to do. Too droppable. Too snatchable.

2) Wearing it over my head and shoulder, as I would normally do, really isn’t that comfortable for walking, even without any other objects getting in the way. Add my backpack, full of school supplies and lunch, which gets in the way of where a laptop should lie on the body, and I find myself leaving it at home even when I need it because it is such a pain to get to school.

Enter my favorite solution: Duct Tape.

 

 

Note the buckle: it's adjustable for when I wear more layers.

 

OK, so I haven’t worked out how to make it easy to get on and off. But that will improve when I get some better materials: my clasps currently consist of a couple strappy-type devices and one belt buckle I found in the street walking home the other day. But it works. I look like I’m about to either blow up or jump out of a plane, but it works. The weight of both backpack and laptop os now distributed between my shoulders and my hips, rather than a combination of shoulders and neck. Necks are made for carrying things on top of them, not looped around them. In fact, my neck is happiest when it only has to carry one thing: my head.

Anyhoo, here are some photos of me looking like a complete dork.

But I’m a comfortable, neck-strain-free dork.

Why yes, I am ready to go parachuting, thank you.

 

Strapped on and ready to go, sans back injury.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It will improve, I promise.

Interestingly enough, the laptop is still perfectly accessible from this strapped-on position. Also, despite appearances to the contrary, zipper function is not impaired.