A couple of weeks ago I made a biplane from recycled wood: http://jp.bloguru.com/otto/194997/one-mans-trash-15
Well, I had some wood leftover (のこり), so I made a second one.
Do you know the famous WW1 pilot `The Red Baron`? This plane looks like his, but it`s different. His was a triplane* but mine is a biplane.
*`bi-` means 2, & `tri-` means 3, so a triplane has 3 wings, a triathlon has 3 events, a Triceratops dinosaur has 3 horns, etc.
Near my house, there is a new house being built. The other day I walked past it with my son.
Me: Look - they`re building a new house.
My son: It`s big, isn`t it?
Me: Yeh. Oh, look - they threw away (すてた?) some wood. Shall we get some & make something?
Son: Yeh! Let`s make an aeroplane!
When we got home, we looked at World War 1 biplanes* on the internet and he chose one that he liked. I tried to copy it.
* Did you know "bi-" = 2, so a biplane has 2 wings, a bicycle has 2 wheels, a biped is an animal with 2 legs etc.
Happy New Year! This is my New Year`s postcard design for 2014, Year of the Horse.
Thankyou to everyone who looked at my blog last year. Please continue to look, and I`ll do my best to post interesting items.
My kids have a lot of toy cars, so I made this display case for them. Unfortunately my kids prefer taking cars out of the case to putting them in, so it`s usually empty.
I made it from recycled beach wood & my kids helped me paint it.
I talked to a student about my trip to Shikoku, & she mentioned Dogo Onsen. I didn`t go there this trip, but I saw it in 2007 when I visited my wife`s relatives who live in Matsuyama. We stayed at their house, so as a `thankyou` present, I painted this picture of Dogo Onsen & gave it to them.
It`s pen & watercolour on a Japanese `shikishi`-style 24 x 27cm board.
* click on picture to enlarge
This wooden butterfly I made is based on a black swallowtail butterfly, which is pretty common in Japan. They are in Australia too, but I don`t know if it`s the same as the kind in Japan. I was quite surprised to find on internet that there are lots of kinds of black swallowtail butterfly!
I`ve put this in my Gifu classroom. If you go there, please look for it!
I bought an indoor plant for my classroom, but I didn`t have a good place to put it, so I made this plant stand from recycled wood. The height is about one metre. The wood for the legs came from an old thread [井と] spool [スプール] frame in my father-in-law`s factory. The spools rotated [まわす] between the white things.
I was going to put shelves in it, but actually I think I like it as it is [as it is = このまま].
I made these butterflies from recycled wood. They are 12 x 8cm, & I based the design on a butterfly called the `Common Grass Yellow`. You can see this butterfly in Ichinomiya, but the ones I saw in Okinawa recently were a much stronger shade of yellow. I was surprised by the difference.
Anyway, I plan to stick these butterflies on the wall in my Gifu classroom. I hope they help make the room - & students! - feel more cheerful.
Before we went to Ishigaki Island I bought some magnets at the 100yen ($1) store. We glued them onto the back of shells which we collected on the beach. Then we painted them. We also stuck eyes on a couple (I bought them at the 100yen store too). I will use these magnets on the refrigerator at home & on my whiteboard at school. I hope they don`t break easily.
My father-in-law has lots of old machine spare parts. I saw some plastic wheels in a bucket & thought they would be good as toy car wheels. Of course I used recycled wood for the bodies. So far I`ve made 3 cars, & I hope to make more in the future. It was interesting to research & design the shapes.
The designs are based on the following:
- 1950s F1 Ferrari
- 1970s/80s New York taxi
- 1960s Landrover
Which one do you like the most? What do you think I should make next?
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