Futurist Building- Process

As you may notice, my model basically looks like an unknown shape covered in mirrors. That's because it is. I can't say I drew a sketch first, or even had any idea of what I was going to build other than I wanted it to be about the shape of the Boomerang logo from Cartoon Network. I ended up just covering a bunch of newspaper with duct tape to form the initial shape, and then disco ball-afied it with every single small, square, mirror the Micheals I went to had. Anyway, this caused it to be only newspaper on the inside, but having to support the weight of a whole bunch of mirrors on the outside, which just might have something to do with it tipping backwards and looking like a spaceship taking off. I don't have any pictures of it when it was standing straight up, but I assure you- It was quite defiant of physics. Unfortunately, in the end, gravity won as always, but the nails I used to attach the duct tape and newspaper sculpture to the base board held up well enough to keep in verticalish.