Challenge #5 Entry - Keegan Moser

I've always been fairly interested in history, genealogy and related subjects, so this weeks challenge was quickly used to once again partnered with and draw attention to our community historical society. Basically, we began by posting signs around Moser River announcing that one afternoon we would be having a barbecue and prize draws at the local museum and genealogy center. Then, once people were aware, we moved over to the museum for one afternoon and fired up the barbecue. We saw many people over the course of the afternoon, some of whom even brought old photographs and documents to contribute to the museum. I've scanned some of them, they'll be attached below.

Some of the older community members were particularly excited , and were happy to have a chance to discuss people, places and artifacts.

Some of the community youth were more drawn by the promise of a barbecued lunch, but once they actually came in to the museum, some of them were just as enthused as any of the adults.

And some of the donated pictures (these are only a few, there are many more):

In the end, I feel that we were quite successful in drawing more attention and interest to the Moser River and Area Historical Society.

Check It Out

So, one day a few weeks ago when our site was not particularly busy, I decided to play with Sketchup some more. This time the focus of my efforts were on the building in which our C@P site resides. I didn't try to make it look fancy or anything, just used a general shape for the building and applied photo textures.

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f62ef5920309b6a0e141c0701f10d930&ct=3dbl&hl=en

Here's a link to it in the 3D warehouse, if you want a closer look, or if you want to view it in Google Earth. Or if you want to just go to its location in Google Earth/Maps, turn on the 3D buildings layer and go to:

44°58'20.87"N

62°15'24.12"W

Challenge #2 Entry - Keegan Moser

This was interesting. I did quite a bit of tinkering trying to make the bottle curved before I got it to work out. I had to create a rectangular plane at an angle to the top face of the cylinder I began with, and use the Follow Me tool to extend the face around 360 degrees. I did this several times with different angles until I had the curved effect I was looking for.

I made labels for the bottle with Microsoft Paint, and used Adobe Photoshop to save them as a .png file that would give me an image without the white box surrounding it that a .jpg would inevitably have produced. Then I imported them into SketchUp as textures.

For the plate, I started with the basic shape, and used the offset tool many times to create a series of congruent shapes around it, then pushed them up to increasing heights.

The fries are just simple rectangular prisms. Some of them I sliced triangular segments away from the ends of , and used the move tool on single edges to make them look slightly more fry-like.

Huzzah for Ketchup.

I just used the upload image button to add the image to my post, if it won't enlarge, I'll upload it to Picasa or Panoramio, and add a link.