Sit Circle People

 

Hi

 At a presentation I made a few weeks ago, I used the "sit Circle Game" or "Lap Circle Game" as an example of a reciprocal frame and was happy to leave it like that for a few days. But then I got curious, and wanted to express myself, or do something about the sitting circle, so came up with a few 3d printed parts that "do" a lap circle even if the parts don't look a lot like people. You can print these and play with them to your heart's content. Happy Christmas! 

Here are the videos: inspiration , forwards falling and backwards falling .

 

Here is the link to the Thingiverse models https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7248534

To start with I made a "person" which happened to fall forwards, which wasn't the intention. However, I was quite amused by it and decided to leave it like that. It took a few goes at it but eventually settled on a backwards falling person which has lost all resemblence to an actual person - the forwards falling person at least has legs. The backwards falling person design just throws any resemblance to a person out the window but concentrates on being fairly stable, easy to print and doesn't get tangled with itself when it falls over.

 I might have been influenced in this by Robert Klippel ,  whose exhibition I saw at Tarrawarra and also by Sol De Witt - I saw the video in the link at The Bridges Maths and Arts Exhibition in July in Eindhoven. Also I thought about the Conferencebike by Eric Staller - an exercise in cooperation we could all do with!

Regards Steve Nurse

 

World leaders on conference bike courtesy https://ericstaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ASCI-FeatureMember-Aug2016_EricStaller-8.pdf 

 

 

Coleraine Photos

 Hi

Last weekend was a "Cup Day Long Weekend" (Tuesday holiday, lots of people take the Monday off) in Melbourne and a friend and I headed to Coleraine. My late Mum had lived there, and long after she'd left, my Grandmother Maggie and aunt Lornie lived there. As kids we visited quite often and caught up with various aunts, uncles and cousins on my Mum's side.  

Part of our interest was the rail trail between Coleraine and Hamilton. We both ride bikes!  The trail was quite rugged and muddy after rain. That and the 3k hill on the way out of Coleraine meant the furthest we got was about 5k out of town. However the bikes were ideal pootlers and good for exploring Coleraine, which is a quiet town. There are fewer banks, shops, butchers, pubs and bakeries than there used to be. However there are green shoots with the ever popular chocolate factory a must see. 

Anyway, without really intending to, we visited Lornie and Gran's old farm, Austral Park. Some very nice ladies in the very nice second hand book shop  knew them and Lornie's husband Alan, and not only gave us directions but also rang up Greg who works there, telling him to expect us. We wnt there late on the Monday in the middle of rain showers. 

So lots of photos here, these are mainly for my Cornish cousins. I am now (woohoo) part of their whatsap group.

PS The Coleraine and Dunkeld shps were very accommodating, for example the ops shop opened when some staff were dropping in for a visit, not during official hours at all. We thought we'd missed the op shop but didn't! 

 

 

 

This is a painting I have at home, the house looks different now!