I made a thing

[sabotabby]

Hey internets! I made a thing!



I made it in school. The only problem is that it is a thing too large and heavy for my mom to put up on the fridge. Also it looks like a fucking bomb to the uninitiated.

What should I do with this thing?

Comments

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

What is it?

[sabotabby]

It's a cross-section of a wall showing plumbing and electricity. The black plumbing is for waste, the copper plumbing is for water, the round white things are lightbulb holders, and then there are two kinds of switches and an outlet. It actually works if you hook in a power cord and lightbulbs.

[thebigbadbutch.livejournal.com]

What is this thing supposed to do? Turn it into a bong.

[sabotabby]

It would be a very expensive bong.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

*squints*

That's a lightswitch. That's a power outlet. That's a pipe. Several pipes, even. Those are... round white things... that make me think of lightbulbs for some unknown reason... and mysterious electric-looking boxes...

I give up. What the fuck is this? XD

[sabotabby]

Cross-section of a wall. You are correct about the lightbulbs. If you plug in a power cord and lightbulbs, they will turn on. The pipes are plumbing pipes and they also work, though I'd prefer people not poo in my Thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, superb. Clearly it is a work of art: a surrealist imagination-device, to be exhibited in the nearest gallery.

[sabotabby]

It's the spiritual sequel to Duchamp's Fountain.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Clearly, it is the start of a grand steampunk contrivance. With some arm straps, and a spinning whirlagig on top, it could be a personal autogiro.

[sabotabby]

Only if you like pain. Thing is fucking heavy.

[slit.livejournal.com]

This absolutely belongs in your classroom. I don't care what you teach.

[sabotabby]

There's already one in the school, but I suppose there could be two.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

It is, very definitely, a thing. It looks like a heavy thing. Hm... framing (are those 2x6s? They look a bit thick for 2x4s, but I'm used to (at least interior) walls being done with 2x4s. A switch box, a junction box, an outlet, and 3 light fixtures. Now... if they'd made you wire the lights up for 2 switches (like at top & bottom of a stairway), that would have been more fun. Hm... and plumbing, with a u-trap. Oh, since when do walls have handles?

[sabotabby]

They are 2x6s. And it's wired for 2 switches; you just can't see one of them.

Handles make it easier to lug walls around! Trufax.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

It calls for a power supply and light bulbs - in various colours.

Water supply is optional.

In needs a name like British Columbia.

[sabotabby]

It does not explode when you put water in it.

[cannibal-x.livejournal.com]

Not to be a negative nellie, but I'd say just throw it out once you get sick of seeing it. I'm all for holding onto interesting relics, but this one is way too big and, well, ugly :)

[sabotabby]

It can be scavenged for parts if nothing else. But I'm liking people's suggestions.

[northbard.livejournal.com]

That's a cross-section of a wall yah?

Put a large frame on it, wire it in, put coloured liquid in the pipe with a small pump attached (and transparent piping to close the loop at both ends), black-light bulbs, and swap out the light-switch for a ginormous knife-switch, then sell it as an awesome installation for e-tard steampunks.

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

You are brilliant, sir.

[northbard.livejournal.com]

also, tell me what class you took so I can go take it.

[sabotabby]

Construction AQ. You need to be a teacher to take it.

[loolica.livejournal.com]

Save it to practice on when you learn to drywall.

[sabotabby]

Someone in class actually did drywall his.

[torontoteacher.livejournal.com]

Definitely needs to go in your classroom... maybe as a fancy frame holder for your newly laminated AQ certificate. ;)

But as a semi-serious question - do you display your degree in your classroom? I'm considering whether this is a good idea and might help parents take me more seriously.

[sabotabby]

I don't, given the concrete walls and bulletin-board space being at a premium. Also, I mean, everyone parents interact with has a B.Ed., and B.Des is just not that impressive.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it's not a bomb? 'Cause you just blew my mind. ;)

[sabotabby]

Electricity doesn't make it blow up. I tried.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

needs more dildos

[sabotabby]

There were enough plumbing jokes as it was!

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

It's a picture frame. I'm just not sure what the picture is

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

s-traps to the waste line are code there?

[sabotabby]

Could be a sink line. I think it's too narrow for waste.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

casemod

[dendritejungle.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that the first thing I thought is "Ooo, I wanna roll marbles in it!"?

I...don't know quite how that would work with this either. Sorry...

[snarkitysnarks.livejournal.com]

This is oddly pretty.

I would suggest making it into an ant farm, but I'd be paranoid about it breaking and releasing an infestation of ants into your abode.

I like the idea of selling it to a museum as the Unfinished Unsonata. Maybe make it into an ant farm first and sell it to a museum, although I think another contemporary artist might've gotten to the ant farm art first. No, I'm serious.

[sabotabby]

OH GOD WE HAVE ENOUGH INSECT ISSUES.

[laughingimp.livejournal.com]

Hang it up on a random street corner in Boston, and wait for people to assume it's a bomb and freak the hell out.

[laughingimp.livejournal.com]

Also, congratulations on successfully building your Thing.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

mount it on the wall! plug one end of the plumbing pie and use it as a vase for flowers, but also plug in some stuff to the outlets, and put colored bulbs in the light bulb holders!

[metalana.livejournal.com]

Paint it artistically. Use latex wall paints, so you can say that it is a piece of house wall, just missing the gympsum board.

[ironed_orchid]

Blow shit up

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but I'm looking at this thing and thinking you should build me a still.