So far the Metaphor Machine project has been going very well! We have been making great progress and here are some pictures and videos of it so far.

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So far I have been working on part of the construction of our actual machine, including the little pathways for the marbles so they can roll through and have a purpose and on the side I am working on creating small plastic trees, out of a 3D pen.

Being from the Xinhai revolution, we are currently studying how the opium and emporers impacted China. The group works great together aswell and we have some chemistry from knowing eachother for a year, and we always have something to do. Sometimes we have to do work that’s not very fun to do, but we always make it work.

There are some very interesting metaphors in here, tieing in to the 3D pen work with trees and crops, there is going to be water flowing through them, therefore creating a effect like there was in one of China’s famines in the revolution. We also have a set of moving gears in our machine, that will get slowed/stopped by some paper poppies, because opium comes from the stem of opiate poppies, and opium was shipped from the west to china so the people and rulers could become weak and the west could take over.

This will be updated, don’t worry!

So long,

Quinn,