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Trapped!

April 23, 2008

This is pretty incredible footage. Nicholas White was trapped in elevator car #30 for over 40 hours but you can see his whole ordeal in just over three minutes. I cannot imagine what I would do with myself in a situation like this. I’m not at all claustrophobic but I’d rather be stranded just about anywhere than be stuck in a place with nothing to do and no communication (and eventually no hope) for that long. I go a little stir crazy when I have to wait ten minutes somewhere with nothing to do. Multiply that times 250 and I’m sure I’d literally go a little crazy.

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What can you make with one page?

April 23, 2008

For those of you who don’t know, I was an art major for a year and have 5-6 art courses on my college transcript that didn’t help me much toward my degree in youth minstry. In those classes there were some pretty creative projects that we were given, especially in my three dimensional design class. We had to use only wire (representing a single line) to create a normal three dimensional object so I made an SLR camera out of small gague wire. We had to take a normal object and change the surface to make it into something ridiculous or impractical so I made an umbrella made out of fur. One of my favorites was our final for that class. We had to make some kind of creative chair so I made a throne out of pool noodles and a few steel bars.

I love the idea behind this art show. Sometime the best art is the simplest and this sure has that. The only requirements were that the artists could only use one sheet of paper for whatever they did. There are lots if you hit the link but here are a few I especially liked.