Week 7

As I mentioned before, this week my biggest priority was making our stalks have a beautiful sculptural quality. At this point the team was pretty set on using conduit tubing for the stalks because of its hardiness and its low cost. In my opinion conduit is ugly as sin but I liked the challenge of taking an ugly material and completely transforming it.
Brian and I brainstormed several different ideas for how we could manipulate the conduit and diffuse the LED light including spraying the inside of the conduit with gloss, drilling small holes in the top, sandblasting and glossing the vinyl covering the top, using acrylic rods at the top, and a combination of all of these effects. I documented our process on my camera. Below are the three we liked the best.

Sandblasted Vinyl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7fOSE3wME&feature=player_embedded 

Acrylic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2BfnEgk6Js&feature=player_embedded

Drilled Holes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SodFbldi65o&feature=youtube