Another students balancing objects

First balancing image

This is an upload that another group of students built as a sculpture for balancing. This is what they made as their first sculpture using a heavy, sturdy metal that would support a few sticks up. The sticks are the reason why the light bulb was able to balance on top because the metal holding it up was really narrow and the head of the bulb was big enough to be held up. Also, it made a really good effect from the see through yellow acetate which would be seen as part of light from the light bulb.

During the day it was really hot so the majority of the students went outside to try out some balancing using the natural environment. Both students Sarah and Laurelle went out to collect some twigs which they managed to put inside holes in the bricks, which when all the twigs were in, they were able to balance on their own. This sculpture was more of an improvement from their first sculpture by using the same colours but using a completely different technique. The twigs were well inside the bricks so they were able to hold up the bulb with scrunched up yellow acetate. This was one of my favourite balancing sculptures by other students because they managed to improve their work and used a completely different balancing technique than everyone else.

Balancing objects

It was our first day at Working Mens College and at the beginning of the day we got split into groups of two and as a team we collected several objects and tried to find multiple ways to balance different things in different ways.This image shows a wide range of objects I found to create a balancing piece. It is a mixture of using glue to help the objects stay still and objects that I managed to balance on their own. At first, I was messing around to see what the objects can and cant do and placed them in different places until I was pleased with it. As you can see, there are a few dents in the cardboard from where I have been moving things around. Nothing was planned to create this because not everything would balance the way I wanted them to. Due to the weight of the Elephant and where I placed it, the object underneath was able to stand up with its curved bottom.

The image on the right is another one that we made using toothpicks. I glue gunned down the two toothpicks around the rim of the tin and was able to balance another one on top, it was able to balance from the two earrings on either side of the toothpick to put on equal weight.

Overall I thought that the first image with the Elephant was successful because I used different types of equipment such as connecting metal with wood to make both balance on each other. Although the metal had more weight, I was able  keep them up straight from the length of the wood. With the blue background and the colour of the cardboard it gives the effect that the location of the Elephant is in a hot country. Similarly, there is also a success with the other sculpture. As you know birds fly, and the earrings that are helping balance the toothpick are left hanging which looked like they were moving swiftly in the air.