The chair that worked the best was the cardboard, even though I didn’t finish it, it was the most fun, and I had the most flexibility with them. For Neil, he has this big spacesuit that would get in the way sometimes depending on the chair, plus he flies around in space with zero gravity, so he would need a system to hold him down. The description also said something about him needing to drink his Tang, so he needed some way to kick back and relax with a nice cool tang or a warm tang, I don’t know what Tang is.
Recently, in the design studio we each had to choose a character from the Simpsons, either Bart, Homer, Marge, Lisa, or Neil Armstrong, I chose to do Neil Armstrong. The way it worked was, we all came ups choose who we wanted and there was a description of their characteristics and how they would need the chair to be constructed. We then had to sketch out a chair on construction paper, then we moved to cardboard, which was the easiest, then popsicle sticks which failed miserably, then clay, which I didn’t even have time for, then pipe cleaners which was also a miserable failure.
When I chose Neil, I had a few ideas in mind but one stuck out the most was one of those floating egg chairs with a few modifications. although I didn’t get around to finishing it, or even creating the chair part of the chair, I completed the frame and ran out of time.
In a nutshell, it was a colossal failure, which is a good thing, because failures are learning experiences, and I have learned that I need either more time or a well thought out plan, with the materials right at my disposal, already prepped. I had neither of those.
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