Being the engineering type, I have a tendency to want to do something with my hands whenever someone is talking or reading. I remember several days during robots when a mentor was giving a lecture and everyone sitting at the table was fumbling with an object. One of the times I had a sticky note (I ended up making a paper airplane out of it), the guy across from me had a box of fabric pins, and the guy next to me was standing coins on their sides (all random junk that was on the table because we had somehow needed it for robotics). Today, I present to you the result of my listening to my sister read out loud.
My sister and I both enjoy the LOTR series, so she will occasionally pick up one of the books and start reading. This time I had a box of LEGO bricks sitting next to me, and I started putting the bricks together. The result isn't brilliant- nor is it very complicated or artistic- but I feel that it somehow expresses my innermost character. My thoughts were almost completely on my sister's reading, and this assembly of bricks was the results of no planning, choosing bricks based on whichever one I felt like pulling out of the box next, and snapping them together without letting my thoughts leave LOTR. It is a simple creation that a 4 year old could have made, but one that includes my thoughts.
After my sister finished reading, I observed the different aspects of this random assembly. It is symmetrical, and uses only he basic four colours of LEGO (green, blue, red, and yellow). I did not purposely build it to resemble anything, and it appears that it still doesn't. The miniature tower starts large at the bottom and slowly declines in shape until it is only one stud in each direction. Then, if you will, it flowers at the top and reminds you of the rarer green colour that you had only seen twice before. The assembly starts in a 3D shape, but quickly switches to 2D.
So there it is, the result of my wandering brain.
Oh yeah, I also wanted to try out the "use white paper as a background" method for this creation. This is the first time I've used this method, so any tips would be appreciated. Thanks for listening.
