Dern Close

I would love to say that I'm completely done with my chair, but I'm not. The good news is it's all welded! Here are some pictures I took throughout the day:

This is the first set of rods I did. This is how it looked at the end of last night.



Here it is, mid-weld with all the pieces on and ready.



And here it is, waiting for its final weld.



Now all that is left to do is manually sand down some weld points, clean it off with a Scotch-Brite pad, and I am set. And none to soon. At ten in the morning tomorrow, our chairs go out to the place that powder coats it. I'm going to head in at 7 so that I can spend a few hours making sure everything is ready.

It has been a very long day. I got into shop around 7 and left about 10:30. I did have lunch, but I skipped dinner so that I could get my rods completed. Tomorrow should be a bit more relaxing, other than the three hour sand-a-thon. And I have a test at 1:30. But it should be no biggie. After the last two weeks I had, a test is going to be relaxing.

I'm starting to plan out the rest of my stay here in Copenhagen. Even after the test and finishing the chair, we still have other DIS-related things to do: Watching everybody's critiques on their chairs as well and have my own. Redraw my drawings, which got utterly mauled in the shop. Go to the exhibit of our chairs, which also includes projects from the other disciplines here (architecture and glass blowing). Clean the shop.

But other than that, I'm going to be doing as much touristy stuff as I can fit in. A group of us are going to the Tivoli on Friday, not only to ride some awesome roller coasters, but to see The Flaming Lips concert! Then next week, from Thursday to Saturday, I have no DIS-related obligations, so I'm going to live it up in the city. I pass by the Carlsberg Brewery every morning on my way into class, so I was thinking of taking a tour while I'm here. I don't know. Maybe I'll head by the Tourist Info shop and get some other ideas.

More pictures of the chair when it's nice and pretty. We get it back Friday, all powder-coated up, so I may have some pictures then if I go to the campus. And I'll be sure to take photos of other peoples' chairs. There are definitely some really interesting ones.