One-a-Week Five: The Challenge

I want to get this up even though I’m not finished documenting week four, in part because it involves getting something over the weekend.

Last week’s challenged was picked in a bit of a rush, so I headed back over to imdb to brush up on the PR challenges and try to find something different from what we’ve done so far. It seems to me that the challenges fall into a few different categories:

1. limited choice of materials (grocery store, flower shop, Hershey’s store, Levi’s)
2. random source of inspiration (photo walk, museum challenge)
3. theme inspiration (envy, fashion icon, out of date trends)
4. situational (swim wear into evening wear, jet-setter, red carpet)
5. group challenges (lots of examples)
6. for a specific client (model/bride, Sarah Hudson, my-scene Barbie, prom, WWE divas)

So we’ve done the first three types. The group challenges, I’m not sure how we could do those, but I’d love it if anyone had any ideas. So that leaves situational, which has me a bit stumped for now, and specific client. Since we don’t all have access to a person who can give us feedback, it has to be some sort of public or fictional person. So here goes…

• go to this weeks NYTimes, either online or in print (You might need to register online, but it’s free)
• pick a person which is specifically photographed or mentioned by name
• make a piece of jewelry with that person in mind.

That’s it! Remember, the person can be fictional (don’t forget the book review section). The person does not have to be both photographed and named, just one or the other.

Beginning of the week I’ll post a few ideas of people that jumped out at me, which will be up for grabs if anyone wants to use them.

One-a-Week Four: 4:11 the hang test

One-a-Week Four: 4:11 the hang test, originally uploaded by kaitschott.

I was definitely worried about the wear-ability and structural integrity of my modular system. But at 3pm, I had something which would at least make it down the runway and back, (i.e. I walked from one end of my apartment to the other with no upset).

So rather than trying to come up with a more stable system in two hours, (which would’ve meant giving up the variability of the ways of wearing the pieces,) I decided to play around with different configurations and some add-on motifs.

Here’s the longest configuration, which uses all thirteen O-magnets that I had.

More play-by-play photos to follow at Flickr. More possible necklace configurations and on-the-model photos tomorrow. Wrap-up to follow back here.

See here for this weeks challenge.

For more on the challenge, see individual photos in this weeks photoset
or all the One-a-Week Four posts.

One-a-Week Four: grey rush hour friday

One-a-Week Four: grey rush hour friday, originally uploaded by kaitschott.

Since I really have no idea if my ideas about how to create structural stability are going to work or not, this may be the last post before 5pm. There are more notes over at Flickr that you could catch up on in the meantime.

Since I’m still recovering from this upper respiratory thing, I will stop at 5. So I’ll at least post an image of where things are at then. Thank goodness I can’t actually get kicked off for not finishing. No disappointed looks from Tim or frowns from Nina, Michael, and Heidi. I have high hopes that I’m far enough along, but you never know….

I have already composed Week Five’s challenge, so that too will be posted at 5pm at the latest.

Annie’s back in and Alisa has started a blog. Because of my late posting of the challenge last week and Annie having a sale this weekend, they might be going with a monday to monday week. Stop over to their blogs and see….

Stay tuned….

See here for this weeks challenge.

For more on the challenge, see individual photos in this weeks photoset
or all the One-a-Week Four posts.

One-a-Week Four: the strategy

One-a-Week Four: card motifs, originally uploaded by kaitschott.

When playing with the cards, I began by breaking the design down into basic motifs.

I’d hoped that the system could be totally modular, enabling infinite possibilities of combinations.

But the magnetic sheeting doesn’t have that strong of an attraction to itself, especially when weighted down by a layer of card.

So I will have to connect larger pieces with adhesive, use the larger, stronger 0-magnets and/or somehow use the grommets.

So I experimented with some compound motifs which will give me me bigger, more stable pieces to work with.

See here for this weeks challenge.

For more on the challenge, see individual photos in this weeks photoset
or all the One-a-Week Four posts.