Btech extract

Below is a write up about my Thesis design. I really enjoyed my Btech project because it was a project so close to my heart. 

Third Year Projects

Below is an example of a third year project. I used coral draw and 3d Autocad. I printed this project and rendered over it. Combining computer and hand rendering. 

Photography - Port Elizabeth - Textures

Every now and then I get camera happy, my favourite thing to take photos of is texture. Below are a few photos that I took when walking around the streets of Port Elizabeth.

Second year work - Luminaire

Another second year project using coral draw and hand sketches. This was for the Eskom luminaire competition, I made it to the quarter finals.

Second year work - Hi -Tech store

Below is an example of one of my second year projects. The brief was to create a hi-tech store. I chose to design a music merchandising store. I remember really enjoying this project as I could use the theme of music as my primary inspirational reference. 

This project is an example of work done in Sketchup. As is signature with most of my work, I chose to render over my prints to add the final detail by hand. 

Lifelines that get me by

It is getting very close to the end of the year. We dont seem to know whether we are coming or going. But with just 5 weeks to go, morale is surprizingly high. I have finally stopped procrastinating over my 3ds and finally feel like i am working hard. It seems to have taken all year to come to a point where we can see our designs come into fruition. It is actually a really exciting time. The class comeraderie is high, with everyone sticking together and offering constant words of advise and encouragement.

Below are a few examples of what helps to keeps me sane throughout there year.

This is Jen and she is amazing. My ultimate lifeline for 2013

Here we pose while Matthew is our photographer

Its always fun when boys are the chaufers, but with Warren and Brendon at the front of the buckie and Jen and I holding on for dear life at the back - not so chivalrous

Food. Food ALWAYS helps. Especially when it looks pretty.

My dad is the ULTIMATE braai master :) Family braais make me happy.

Family is everything right now.

Music and Lyrics. 

Lying in the sun with my animals.

On my mind

Last night, I saw my best friend who is home from Cape Town, where she is currently learning how to become a chef and cook up a wide variety of tantalizing meals . Sometime within the conversation the topic of concious eating came up. And we both discussed how it was a shame that while being taught how to cook, they were not taught much beyond the particular subject at hand. Should we not pause to consider the fact that two quails were sacrificed for one meal, or a rabbit, only enough meat to feed two? Is it really necessary for us to be eating so much meat? Can we honestly justify our mass consumption of animals? And, if we are to cook and consume meat, should it not be a fundamental notion that we are to be educated on where the meat is coming from, and what kind of life that animal had? 

In Tokyo, one of the worlds  highly acclaimed sophisticated societies, cows are fed on nothing but grass and beer. This is said to produced the most delicious beef on the globe. It sounds pretty delicious, but at second thought (ashamedly not the first) I question, "is this right?" Is it okay that fundamentally we are disrupting the food chain for our own pleasure? 

In a world where our cows are fed corn, our chicken, fed by-products of processed beef and our fish fed ground-up chicken bones and feathers, the food chain has become disturbingly distorted. It poses the question; "should we really be surprised that cancer is rapidly growing in incidence?" In our current state of existence it is said that one in 5 persons are at risk of developing one or more strains of cancer.

At 4 Am in the morning, this is still a topic that irks me. What are we eating? And where has our respect for earth and nature gone? If it is said that a societys' sense of humanity is based according to how their animals are treated, can we call ourselves humane? What can we say about our society? Or perhaps we don't really care to give it a second thought. Because, I'm starting to wonder who cares anyway right?!  Perhaps, if only a sense of conciousness can be planted, and from a seed of thought, conciousness can only grow.