{"207011":{"#nid":"207011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Evereman","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis project came about because of a friendship that I\u0027ve been developing with an anonymous street artist named Evereman.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/evereman.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/evereman.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I\u0027m not sure how much background on Evereman you\u0027ll want to give, but that\u0027s his website, and this is his about \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/evereman.com\/about\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/evereman.com\/about\/\u003C\/a\u003E It talks about the premise behind the Evereman project, and how it has evolved.\u0026nbsp; Also here\u0027s a link to his TedxPeachtree talk which is also a very good 3 min video about what he does. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2KSmcJ-XLVI?autoplay=0\u0026amp;\u0026amp;KeepThis=true\u0026amp;TB_iframe=true\u0026amp;height=505\u0026amp;width=853?autoplay=0\u0026amp;\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2KSmcJ-XLVI?autoplay=0\u0026amp;\u0026amp;KeepThis=true\u0026amp;TB_iframe=true\u0026amp;height=505\u0026amp;width=853?autoplay=0\u0026amp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Around November I had the idea that It\u0027d be fun to get Evereman involved with the students who worked in the Digital Fabrication Lab.\u0026nbsp; In addition to being a street artists Evereman has worked as a furniture maker for almost 30 years, so he has a lot of skills and abilities with traditional tools, but not with any of the big modern ones that we employ at the DFL. \u0026nbsp; Knowing that there\u0027s normally a gap between the end of finals and when most grad students actually go home, I asked him if he\u0027d be interested in doing a short project with a group of Masters students just before Christmas.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Evereman has always been interested in large objects, and how the public interacts with them, so the possibilities caught his interest. \u0026nbsp; We met and talked about what we could do, and how we could do it.\u0026nbsp; He wanted something big, and I wanted the students to be fully involved in the design and fabrication of the piece.\u0026nbsp; I asked students that had worked at the lab to participate.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The only ground rules that we set where \u003Cbr \/\u003E 1. We wanted to students to work with Evereman and design something\u003Cbr \/\u003E 2. We wanted them to build it in 2 days\u003Cbr \/\u003E 3. To keep us sane we set the max size of the project at 8\u0027x8\u0027x8\u0027\u003Cbr \/\u003E 4. It had to be weatherproof since it would be outside\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E We wanted to put whatever we made in a public location where drivers going by would get enjoyment from the object, but that people up close would get a completely different experience.\u0026nbsp; After searching around Atlanta we obtained permission from the Midtown West Group to locate the project in the triangle of land where Howell Mill and Marietta split.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E We met Monday the 17th of December, and as an intro to the project and an introduction to Evereman\u0027s art we had a making party, where we made 200 4\u0022x4\u0022 Everemen to be dropped around the city, and the world.\u0026nbsp; Many of the students traveled home over the holidays, so Everemen went to Seattle, Chattanooga, Austin, etc\u0026nbsp; to be distributed there.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; After the making party we had lunch and had a design charette about what to make.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Our final design was akin to a children\u0027s playground tic tac toe game.\u0026nbsp; The whole piece has 3 faces, which given the triangular shape of the piece of land that it would be sitting on gave every approach of the piece a different view.\u0026nbsp; Rather than have a 3x3 puzzle though we liked the idea of a 8x8 puzzle, which fit our max height and width limits, and coincidentally 8 is also the number of letter in Evereman. \u0026nbsp; Each prism can move independently of the rest of its column due to 3 low friction washers between each prism.\u0026nbsp; The idea would be that participants or the wind would rotate the pieces, and then other participants could choose to modify the organization or even \u0022solve\u0022 the puzzle if they choose.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E That afternoon we built some prototypes of the project, and drew out plans to be ready for the next days of building.\u0026nbsp; Over the 2 days we fabricated 64-1\u0027 prisms out of plywood, painted each one, and fabricated the large steel frame to hold the entire project.\u0026nbsp; After 2 days of making and painting, we carried our project down the street to octane and installed the piece in less than an hour.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The project was in front of Octane Coffee west between Dec 18-Jan4.\u0026nbsp; The public response was\u0026nbsp; very positive, and Evereman intends to take the puzzle to other cities in the future.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Right now we\u0027re looking at entering the piece into the techarts festival(april11-13) to show off the piece on campus, and give the campus the ability to play with it.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The participants were:\u003Cbr \/\u003E Evereman\u003Cbr \/\u003E Jake Tompkins (MID 2009, Manager DFL)\u003Cbr \/\u003E Keyon\u0026nbsp; Rahimzadeh(MArch 2013),\u003Cbr \/\u003E Jessica Marquardt (March 2013)\u003Cbr \/\u003E Dylan Bussey(March 2013)\u003Cbr \/\u003E Mike Carpenter (MID 2014)\u003Cbr \/\u003E Stephen Audy (MID 2013)\u003Cbr \/\u003E Madison Berger(MID 2012)\u003Cbr \/\u003E Juliann Tompkins (Arch 2007)\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E I have 150ish photos, in a drop box folder. which I\u0027ll send you an invite to share.\u0026nbsp; I figure It might help to see the process as I\u0027ve described it in photos, and then choose ones that tell the story best.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27202","created_gmt":"2013-04-16 13:59:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:04","author":"David Morton","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}