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Laser Cut Armor, Part 1
There's one more thing I've wanted to try while I still have a little sabbatical breathing room. The laser cutter in the Duderstadt can...
Christianne Myers
Jun 14, 20192 min read
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Researching The Grapes of Wrath
For those of you following along...This is our last week in the Duderstadt Design Lab. It's been a great home base and I've appreciated...
Christianne Myers
Jun 7, 20192 min read
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My Faaaaace!
As part of my grande tour of digital fabrication, I 3D printed my face. The first step was to "scan" my face using photo telemetry. In...
Christianne Myers
May 31, 20192 min read
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A Big Hit!
Turns out the scarves are big hit! The BioArtography director previewed them at a sale at the Botanical Garden last week, and now we're...
Christianne Myers
May 24, 20191 min read
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Sketch Day 13
I've gone back to art school by watching the most excellent videos on Lynda.com- Drawing Foundation: Figure taught by Amy Wynne. Other...
Christianne Myers
May 20, 20191 min read
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Research Crunching
Another side project during my sabbatical time has been to figure out a way to organize all the various on-line resources I've collected...
Christianne Myers
May 17, 20194 min read
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All the things!
Just because the academic term is over doesn't mean all my projects are done. I've described this time as feeling like it's a three day...
Christianne Myers
May 9, 20191 min read
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Sketch Day 12
A week off from textiles as we tech and dress The Beauty Queen of Leenane. The first sketch is of a coat rack on the set that was cut...
Christianne Myers
May 3, 20191 min read
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The Great Wash Out
Back in Michigan, my final pieces got their initial rinse and then all the pieces cooked a bit in our dye vat to set the colors....
Christianne Myers
Apr 26, 20191 min read
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Sketch Day 11
I set out this term to draw something for 10 minutes every day. I had to soften my rules a bit as it was adding stress to my life! I...
Christianne Myers
Apr 23, 20191 min read
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Fabric Printing, Day 5
What a week! Overall, I printed 15 yards of fabric in five days. It was helpful to have the BioArt as a source of inspiration to anchor...
Christianne Myers
Apr 20, 20193 min read
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Fabric Printing, Day 4
After not finishing anything to rinse out on Wednesday, Thursday I was a printing maniac, completing six or seven pieces to rinse and dry...
Christianne Myers
Apr 19, 20193 min read
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Fabric Printing, Day 3
Days Three & Four wiped.me.out! I had a nice dinner with new friends last night, so a bit of catch up writing today. On Wednesday...
Christianne Myers
Apr 18, 20193 min read
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Fabric Printing, Day 2
Today I used one 1/2 yard as a catch all place to experiment with different techniques- more rolling from below, but this time using the...
Christianne Myers
Apr 16, 20192 min read
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Fabric Printing, Day 1
I just wrapped up my first day at a week long fabric printing workshop at ProChem in Fall River, MA (home of Lizzie Borden). Fabric...
Christianne Myers
Apr 15, 20192 min read
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More Vectors (Hail to the Vectors, Go Blue!)
I'm gaining comfort with creating and manipulating vector files. Today I carved another lino block and fully documented the process so I...
Christianne Myers
Apr 12, 20194 min read
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Sketch Day 10
Hands and feet are always a challenge for me to draw. I have moved on from inventing pockets to hide hands in, but I still need to look...
Christianne Myers
Apr 5, 20191 min read
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The Trios
After staring at various black and white images throughout these past weeks, I've honed in on repeated patterns found growing from the...
Christianne Myers
Mar 29, 20191 min read
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Christianne Myers
Mar 25, 20190 min read
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Time for Carvey!
This week, in addition to finessing the vector files for laser cutting (more on that later), I bought a linoleum block to digitally carve...
Christianne Myers
Mar 22, 20192 min read
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