Evens are Odds: October 2015

This is the Class We Need...

*"Dealing w/ Life After Architecture School 601"* "Alright. Today's lesson is about what to call unfamiliar people in professional environments you're not maybe used to. Now I now ARCHITECTURE has ruined you because everything we do is on a FIRST NAME BASIS, but that's not always the case."

Or if it's not the class we need right now, it's at least the class we deserve...

Jack-o-melon

Turns out they're significantly more watery than pumpkins though, oddly enough...

Might have noticed that 3rd jack-o-lantern in that last comic was a bit off-colour (pun entirely intended)...

Not sure how a Firefly class spaceship would've gotten into the How to Train Your Dragon universe, but I'm pretty sure the Doctor's mentioned the TARDIS has a garage, so I'm not ruling anything out...

Fright

*Ghost floating through wall* "BOOOOOOO! YOU DARE TOOOOOO..." ALLISON: "Gah!" TEDDY: "Holy crap! A ghost!" ~ TEDDY: "Quick, do you still have those sensors set up from lunch?" ALLISON: "I'll grab them! See if you can establish sentience!" ~ TEDDY: "Do you think of yourself as having a conscious?" ALLISON: "Ooh! Wait! Does you culture have a concept of multiverse theory?" GHOST *to other ghosts outside room* "Shit, they're SCIENTISTS! Run away! RUN AWAY!"

"I think they went into the basement--Oh good, you got the probe!"

Palace

TEDDY: "Shoot! There were 4 things I needed, but what was the 4th?.." ALLISON: "I told you to write them down." ~ *walking down LEGO aisle* TEDDY: "Ah, here we go! This was it!" ~ *Walks down CANDY aisle* "Oh, here we go!" *Sees BEER section* "Right, sorry. This was it. I didn't even know Target sold beer, but it was DEFINITELY this." "Of course! This clearance SMOKE MACHINE! That's what it was!"

It was actually duct tape. Not sure how I almost forgot that...

Slip

So far this semester kinda makes me feel like sticking my head in a blender full of ice water and pushing puree...

Calculated

TEDDY: "What the heck! My power adapter just died!" ALLISON: "It should still be under warrenty, yeah? We only got that computer at Christmas, so that's under a year..." TEDDY: "Good point! I should check on that..." ~ TEDDY: "Ok, who's even heard of a 37.5 week warrenty?"

Architect

ALLISON: "Uh-Oh. What's this project now?" TEDDY: *arranging desk cut-outs in a room* "Not a project really, This is...LESSON PLANNING..."

Welp, looks like y'all are gonna be in for a bunch of TA comics this year...

Now if I could just figure out how to arrange the massive desks in my tiny classroom to make a bloody circle...

Pallet Dry Bar

So this one was also part of the wedding, but figured it deserved it's own entry: To be fair, my sister had been cooking up the idea of a bottle cap bar top for years, but then we kinda decided since a lot of the friends who'd been helping her stock up on caps were going to be guests at this thing, it'd make a good show to try to pull it together for the reception seeing as we needed something for drinks anyways. Which was all well and good, except for the little hiccup that this was about a week before I had to go back up to school...

All this basically to say, I may not have been so quickly inspired to suggest the idea of building it out of pallets if it hadn't been the expedient option, but again I'd say it was definitely one of those happy accidents that really worked out for the best. It was still a bit of a mad dash working it around all the other projects I was trying finish before I had to leave my shop behind, but at least the beauty of that reclaimed aesthetic means you don't have to be quite as careful swinging the hammer on the finishing nails, and I somehow managed to get it ready to pass off to the happy couple in time for them to tackle laying all the caps.
Even then, we were still checking the tackiness of the resin the morning of...

Wedding Tent

(and a couple of other inevitable bits of landscaping and decorative touches...)

So apparently I do weddings now?

IDK... Basically in the earlier stages of my sister's planning for her wedding she off-handed complained within my earshot about how much it was going to cost her to rent a tent, and I, having my brain, immediately started do some math and pricing 2x4's... I've yet to confirm whether or not this was intentional on her part, but I think we all agree the result ended up with much more to offer on the aesthetic front than something more generic, and we got to have it erected for setting up more than just the day of, at a much more palatable price point!.. And I even managed to have a bit of fun with it to boot! ;)

Final tent came in at about 212 m², or 120 people + dance floor. Was a bit worried using the 6 mil poly to skin it might skew a bit "Breaking Bad," but when you see the irl oil-painting-photoshop-filter it gave the background, it definitely stole the show!
Of course, we put it all on in the padres backyard, so I hand my hand in most of the other projects, lighting, and errant furniture you'll see around the place, but those were largely more spontaneous than the title number...