Junk from the garage

Regarding the title, that's not junk in the Ke\$ha sense. I think it was on Tuesday 23rd April that the contents of my garage in Trowbridge was moved to Bath by Me & My Van. The tenants had moved in the previous day, and so the removal of the contents of the garage was somewhat overdue. This is the stack of stuff that I have to deal with. It's completely blocking access to the downstairs loo. It's right against a radiator, so I can't have the heating on.

Junk 1

I seem to remember that it was in the 4th year at Dauntsey's that I made this contraption. The design brief was to make a self powered vehicle that would drive to the edge of a table top, and then stop before it went over the edge. This was my effort; the wheeled probe dropped off the edge of the table and blocked the driving wheels. I remember that I put rubber bands around the driving wheels to get more traction for starting and mainly for stopping.

Junk 2

A better view of the stopping mechanism. At school we were in an old building while a brand new CDT facility was being built.

Vehicle

I think this was made in the 3rd year, at St. Laurence School. It was designed for a competition between schools. The crocodile / dragon monster was propelled by rubber bands, and the jaws went up and down in a chomping motion as it went along. There were smoke bombs in the nostrils. Unfortunately the teacher messed up the times and when we arrived my category of the competition was over!

Monster

Monster 2

Monster Eyeball

Fast forward to my job at Open World. I think this was drawn by Miranda, I put it up by my desk.

Portrait

This is the extract of Great Expectations that I read out at my mum's funeral.

Reading

Here's a ridiculous picture of me at Open World.

Open World

Jottings on the now-defunct website The-Elected.

The Elected

As a child / teenager I used to be really into typography. I didn't know it was called that though :-)

Typography

Typography 2

Called 'List Of Possible Albums'. From time at Dauntsey's. Perhaps a list of albums to buy? I think more likely a choice of album to do an alternative cover for.

Possible Albums

Sketching out the sheets for the CDT project to design and make a device to help people pick things up.

CDT

Random sketches. I think I was designing some shutter for my room. Also I like the building at the bottom!

House

Drawing of a plant. I'd read that Charles Rennie Mackintosh did a lot of drawings of plants and that fed through into his work, so I copied that idea.

Rose

Design as a teenager:

Good Design

Something for my aunt who was thinking of starting a company.

Kozdon

A design for a chair.

Chair

Another plant.

Plant

Another design for my aunt I think.

Colour Studio

Survey questions for the picking-up-things device.

Survey

I heard about someone who drew barbed wire really well.

Barbed Wire

A nascent poster for a church event.

Poster

Pages from my 1988 diary.

Diary

Diary 2

Diary 3

Diary 4

Maths homework?

Maths Homework

Probability

My brother and I and Robert Frith entered the Race Against Time.

Race Against Time

Bike

Another CDT project was to design a light.

Lamp

Another design for a desk lamp.

Lamp 2

Calligraphy

I was really into doing drawings for human biology. This was traced!

Lungs

French vocab from Dauntsey's.

French

Human biology test.

Test

More human biology homework.

Test 2

Sketch of poster for Superbowl XXIII.

Super Bowl

Sketch of poster of album cover, probably chosen from list seen previously :-)

Springsteen

Specification for desk lamp.

CDT

Some maths.

Maths

Maths 2

Designs for the desk lamp project.

Desk Lamp

Traced random stuff.

Car and Rocket

Car

Sketches

This is close to the final design that I went for.

Desk Lamp

Desk Lamp 2

CDT Sketches

CDT Sheet

This is the top view of the final design.

Desk Lamp 3

Desk Lamp 4

Alternative desk lamp design.

CDT Drawing

Desk Lamp 5

Desk Lamp 6

This one was like an eyeball, filled with gel.

Desk Lamp 7

Desk Lamp 8

Desk Lamp 9

Desk Lamp 10

No idea what this is.

Letters

Sketches

Desk Lamp 11

A revision card for something or other.

Revision Card

Desk Lamp 12

Desk Lamp 13

Desk Lamp 14

Desk Lamp 15

Desk Lamp 16

CDT Sketch

CDT Sketch

This is from the project for picking things up.

CDT Grab

CDT Grab 2

The lamp was part of my CDT GCSE exam. It used a halogen bulb, which had a temporary plastic cover. Unfortunately I left the temporary cover on, and the teacher didn't notice to take it off when the examiner came to look at it, so the examiner didn't get to see the lamp working properly.

Desk Lamp 17

A chemistry mind map.

Chemistry Mind Map

Someone I worked with at Open World left and set up their own company.

Click 4

I used to have this on my door.

Andy

Poster

A level maths revision.

A-level Maths

Revision

Trigonometry

Data Errors

Revision

Revision

Writing