Hotel Show

For my hotel show piece, I decided to create a secret from the hotel's perspective. I created a scenario where the hotel was infested with monstrous bugs and the hotel staff were keeping it a secret.

I had this stack of fake articles about the infestation sitting on the dresser then above the dresser was a giant monster insect breaking through the corner of the ceiling and walls!

The monster was built out of paper, tape, paper mache, foam board, styrofoam balls, wooden teeth, spray paint and acrylic paint. Here is a picture of the monster before the paint and teeth were added and then in the painting process.

My hope was that the monster would startle viewers upon sight and then appear as though it were really coming out of the walls upon further inspection. 

My inspiration for the monster bug was mostly from the alien in the first Men In Black movie, Edgar. He is related to the cockroach and at the end of the movie Will Smith has an epic battle with him in which Tommy Lee Jones intentionally gets eaten by the giant insect in order to get his blaster cannon which the alien previously devoured. He then shoots the monster from inside it's own stomach and explodes nasty slime and alien guts all over the place. Here is a link to a page devoted to Edgar.

http://meninblack.wikia.com/wiki/Edgar_the_Bug

"More sugar" -Edgar, MIB

Sea Prism, The Prism of the Sea

 During research about happenings around St. Augustine I came across an article about Dr. Stanley Paris, a 76 year old man who is sailing around the world solo. He set sail from St. Augustine in November 2013. When he is finished with his journey he will have set the world records for the first person to sail around the world solo and the oldest person to sail around the world. I found this to be very remarkable and I decided I wanted to make a tribute to his voyage.

The Sea Prism is that tribute.

Here is a link to the Dr. Stanley's website:

http://stanleyparis.com/

For my tribute I wanted to create a floating object to set sail in the harbor where Dr. Stanley left from on his way around the globe. I wanted to create something based on the nice triangular shape of a sail without directly creating a sail. I decided to create a pyramid frame out of wooden dowels atop a wooden base. I then put nails along all the edges and wrapped yarn across each side. The total structure is 4'x4'x3' and sits on an inflatable tube. It has been nicknamed the Sea Prism or David Buoy.