BLOGAHOMA

A few posts ago I took out a bunch of vintage matchbooks and brought them to “show and tell” on my blog. I didn’t want to set the world unfire I just wanted to spark some imagination. This time it playing cards. I loved the swapping card thing when I was kid I did own anything as frivolous as playing cards, not when you needed milk money, so I had to be content to look on as other girls gathered their favorites like kittens or horses or flowers. I ran across a few I had bought somewhere on a whim, just a handful really but I’d thought I’d share with my small audience. I like the Pueblo Indian designs and wonder if they may have been sold at Harvey Restaurants in the New Mexico.

The clock I chose to render in 3D is the Nelson Wall Clock designed by
George Nelson in 1948. George Nelson was a signature mid century designer. And this clock clock which produced in wood and metal both painted and unpainted symbolizes that post WWII era (the atomic age).

A full Nelson is a wrestling hold executed from the backside and so the the metaphor. Holding back time, grappling with time, wrestling with time. Interesting to note that it is not a “finishing” action and you cannot pin you opponent “time” down.

Not that either of these came to mind when executing this 3D. I liked the clock and thought “easy” to recreate in 3D.

So what’s next in my 3D brain buffer? Perhaps something by Heywood Wakefield. Mid-centure Moderne so much easier than Victorian.

Created in Cheetah 3D on a 13″ MacBook.

From my original sculpted piece of the same name dreamt up after a night of insomnia.
Image and Animation by Muriel Fahrion on a MacBook with Cheetah 3D. Sound from SoundSnap.

The progress so far on Little Britches. It has been slow and not so steady. Hands are the HARDEST in any media but in 3D it’s close to impossible. I use Cheetah 3D because it is affordable and capable and I can figure out enough of it to do this.