Monday, January 24, 2011

Brick of Despair

Your challenge if you choose to accept it, elevate a cinderblock off the ground as high as possible using newspaper and glue.

With no reference to making a ground-up structure I set off to suspend the mini-block. My first though was to make a loop, but that would involve me hogging the brick all day and having to glue and hold the already suspended brick. The second design was a section of paper folded long ways into a 1 inch strip, sandwiched between two sections folded shortways into 3 inch-ish rectangles. I cut a small rectangle hole in each end and folded the whole thing in half. I made a "pin" to thread through the holes by tightly rolling a few sheets together and folding it in half. Upon testing it turned out the paper wasn't long enough to allow me to hang the block and still get the pin in. Sooo...I slid the 3 inch parts further down so the whole thing resembled nunchucks but when i tested again, the "chain" part pulled away from the others under the weight. A quick fix to the design, I threw out the 3 individual parts, kept the pin and just used one long 2 1/2 inch wide band with the holes.


Sucess!

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