Grad Show Setup

Assess Wk2 - Assessment Setup

Assess Wk1 - Another 13.5 hours on the Plinths...

I went to Bunnings and got some more braces for the front of the plinths, also some strips to cover the exposed particle board and the screw holes on the top.

After 13.5 hours... a total of 28.5 hours here are my plinths:

Completed plinths in approx. arrangement for assessment.

Assess Wk1 - 15 hours = blisters, swelling, bruising.

Basic plinth structure.

I've successfully built my plinths.  I think they still need one more brace on the front so I'll go to Bunnings again this morning to get those extra bits.

Bruised, swollen and callused.

I was working on them from 1:30pm - 4:30am.  My right hand is very swolen, I have a couple blisters on that hand and it's really bruised.  I likely need medical attention for it.

Worst part of the process, other than the hand... realising after puting together frame 5 that the last four had been constructed with the left and right side panels on the wrong side... thus requiring deconstruction... Melamine particle board chips very easily when being unscrewed.  They don't look near as neat as they did.  :(  Oh well.

Assess Wk1 - Plinth = Milk crate of the art world

Now that my assessment for Video is done and the majority of non-major tasks are behind me, I decided today to chase up plinths again...

Today I went from Build My Own to covered Milk Crates to Build My Own... this is what I've decided to do.

On the milk crate idea... I had considered these previously but I was concerned about stability.  I went to Music School Cafe who said I could borrow the 23 crates I'd need from their stash... Unfortunately, they'd been recently collected and had none... I called Capital Chilled Foods who collect them and they stated categorically that they do not lend them out... that I should try Scholle, the company they purchase them from... I checked their website... it became too hard so I went to Bunnings instead.



So, design-wise...

Plinth design sketches/calculations

1)
Four sides plus a top at about 1200 high, 30-40cm wide...  I found the following at Bunnings:

Dressed Pine: 1200 x 290 x 19 = $13.18
((6 x 4) + 2) x $13.18 = $342.68

Melamine White: 1200 x 295 x 16 = $7.30
((6 x 4) + 2) x $7.30 = $189.90

2)
New Design... 3 sides, one top...
Melamine White: 1200 x 295 x 16 = $7.30

((6 x 3) + 2) x $7.30 = $160.60

Worried about stability, being weighted wrong...

3)

Only two sides but a top and bottom with brackets for bracing...

((6 x 2) + 4) x $7.30 = $116.80

Decided design

Now, that's only for the panels, not screws and brackets... But it's looking much more affordable.

Just want to run the design past a few others before I start construction... hopefully tomorrow.

Wk12 - Proof Catalogue & Plinth -> a big No!

I went to the gallery today to proof my catalogue picture.  It looked good but I changed the label a bit.

While I was there, I asked about plinths, and why no one had replied to my e-mail request (which I sent on 20th)... Apparently, they've been sick and even so, they'd wouldn't be keen to lend plinths and without even looking, decided that they were all different heights and would likely be useless.  Annoying.

I think it's a bit odd that plinth availability at an art school is limited and that gallery staff are unwilling to reply to e-mail or help in any way...  Why do I pay art school fees when I use no equipment an that $240 could have gone toward plinths for me... ridiculous.

Wk11 - Monitor/Plinth Placement

This is how I envisage the plinths being placed:

Still deciding on whether it will be on a cut-out table or 5 plinths.