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In the beginning there
was cardboard. And it was good. This chapter details the secret
origins of the Cardboard Man and all the various projects that led up
to his conception. CLICK ON THUMBNAILS FOR LARGER PICTURES IN A NEW WINDOW! |
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The Cardboard Monkey
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PHOTO CBMonkey.jpeg
Unfortunately, this picture is the only documentation of the Cardboard Monkey. I think the concept was simple though. He basically worked on MUPPET technology. I hand slot in the back for operating the mouth and head and then two dowels that could be used to operate the arms of the monkey. The monkey was MOSTLY cardboard, but I think I used cloth to get the interior of the mouth and I used wooden dowels for the arm-rods. |
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James Cameron
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This was definitely NOT a pure cardboard project. If I remember correctly, I ran pieces of coat hangers through the pillow to hold the cardboard into place. In this, the only surviving photo of James Cameron, he is seen wearing my flanel shirt and a hat. In a maddened rage one day I ripped James off the wall dragged him out to the hallway and beat the ever-loving shit out of him with my lightsaber. I didn't stop until all of his cardboard appendages were severly damaged. I still have the head somewhere... Most of my hatred for James Cameron stems from the fact that his crappy movie "Titanic" bumped "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" from the #1 slot of highest grossing films of all time. This is one of the ways I delt with that. |
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Social Night
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This is where it all started: THE FEET. I took very careful measurements of my feet so that the they are the right size. There is also a lot of internal framework which makes the feet sturdy. In CHAPTER 7 you can see the drawing I did to help me build these. |
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PHOTO SNlegs.jpeg
The Legs were pretty straight forward. The knee joint is a simple Rod and Tube system (sort of how a toilet paper roll works). It provides the legs with up-down mobility. There are support "beams" every few inches to make sure that the legs are extra sturdy. It doesn't seem like much work, but this is as far as I got during my Sophomore year. I had completed a lot of the drawings (see CHAPTER 7) for further steps, but this was as much as I had built. |
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THEA 222
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Unfortunately I do not have a photo from the BACK of this project. But basically it was just a MASK. There was a flat plane in the back, just behind the ears in which it terminated. Inside the mask was covered with black paper and the eyes were translucent so that they could be seen from the inside as well. Later on that year Frunch and Gabe had a "Social Night Revival" at their new room. In typical QUAD style, I brought along this mask and converted it to work with the Cardboard Man project. I gutted the inside elements, replaced the eyes with cardboard ones and built out the rest of the head and neck. If memory serves, I did not have enough HOT GLUE that night, so I could not cover the new back of his head with "hair" (ripped up brown paper bags). |
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