Paper Camera

Hello everyone! I am very close to wrapping up the second work week and oh boy it couldn't end any sooner. This week has opened my eyes to what the rest of this semester holds for us industrial design students. Seeing as how I only have five different classes total you would think I have a lot of free time, but every class is over two and a half hours long. This gives us lots of time to get work done in class, however, seeing as this is an intense program we still end up with mounds of work to do outside of class. Last night I spent two hours at the screen printing studio just to start my project. Before that however was the most interesting part of my day. For my principles of form class my professor asked us to bring in a hand held tool. Of course I had to try to look good so I brought in my brand new Nikon d5000 camera. So there I was thinking I had this awesome tool and I had everyone beat. But as soon as the professor walked in and told us why we needed to bring them in I was stunned. He wanted us to build a paper replica of our tools, which meant that I had to build a paper model of one of the most complex looking cameras you can imagine. After working on it all class I didn't even put a dent in the amount of work that needed to be done. When I left, he took me aside and said that I can just do the lens instead if I really didn't want to spend my entire weekend working on one thing. I still have the paper camera, but I am done with it and am moving on to the lens instead. the moral behind all of this is that I realized that this year was going to get much more advanced and there will be much less time for other things in my day.