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Jont - n. - possibly derived from ‘joint’
an all encompassing pronoun. can be used in place of any place or thing, sometimes even people.
Ex.- ‘Hand me that jont right there.’

Jack - n.
A cigarette

Moe - pers. pron. -
Used to refer to anyone, generally when speaking to them.
Ex. - ‘Hey moe, let me hit that jack.’

Joe - see ‘Moe’

Woot, woot, woot - ?
Used in place of insignificant dialogue. Similar to ‘yada, yada, yada’ or ‘blah, blah, blah’, but slightly more positively biased.
Ex. - ‘I was talking to this girl and i was like woot, woot, woot.’

Yeah -
Similar to ‘woot, woot, woot’ but used more in place of states of being rather than dialogue.
Ex. - ‘I was talking to this girl and i was like woot, woot, woot, and she was yeah.’

Whomp - int. - thought to derive from comic books or cartoons
Used to negate anything the user of ‘WHOMP!’ doesn’t agree with. Note: must be delivered with force. Ideal usage begins before the opposing side has finished their sentence.
Ex. - Me - ‘Tyrone, can you help….?’
Tyrone - ‘WHOMP!’

Yooooooooooo - int. - derivation unknown
Strikingly similar to WHOMP! Same usage rules.
Ex. - Me - ‘Tyrone, those are the ugliest pants I’ve….’
Tyrone - ‘YOOOOOOO! I look like a rockstar in these jonts!’

what do you think of this tattoo?

recently i’ve been thinking a lot about personal fabrication. this comes from watching these TED talks by neil gershenfeld and saul griffith (if you’ve never seen any of the TED talks, please watch some). how can we design things that can be made almost instantaneously and fairly easily? are there methods of making that lend themselves to small runs of things where every single piece is different, but the tenth off the line is just as easy to design and assemble as the first? i’m beginning to think about how generative computer design can be utilized for this, but first i have to do some experiments on how the physical object can actually happen, and then figure out the coding behind it (sort of the nature of the beast at this point, i’d rather have it the other way around (design the theory first, then figure out how to make it), but i’m not writing a thesis here, i’m trying to make some cool stuff). i feel like this post may be losing a lot of my audience, so why don’t i just show you guys some fun pictures, huh?

the first experiment i did was using folding. this is an icosahedron made from duralar using tab and slot connections.

what i realized from this model is that in order to make any sort of decent sized object, the surface area is going to be fairly large. meaning that a)i can only make small objects or b)i need a larger laser engraver. both of these options don’t appeal to me, so i tried to see the potential of making each polygon a discrete element. and i got this.

here’s the same object split into two ‘bowls’.

and here’s the ‘ball’ with a light inside.

a good start. and more to come later.