Welcome back to the blog you tried to avoid. This blog is true punishment, and yet you read it anyway. It’s not always bad, right? It’s like they say: a good pun is it’s own reword. 
In Flight this year, we’ve all been working really hard on our latest and greatest project; The Metaphor Machine. At the moment, we’re about halfway through and I’ll walk you through what we’ve done so far. If you read through my other posts that I’ve recently posted here, you’ll see that I’ve posted a bit about Crane Brinton, Steampunk, and the industrial revolution. All of these are involved in this project. For this project, we had to first make a timeline with all the events of the assigned revolution. Our group chose to do the russian revolution. The timeline also had to include metaphors we wrote that connected to the events in the revolution and how it relates to Crane Brinton’s Theory . In the machine, we had to give it “Steampunk Aesthetic” to give it more life. We do this by bringing in steampunked decor and by painting parts of our machine in copper, silver, and black.
This project also needed to include a circuit of some kind, and it was very convenient that we’ve been studying electricity in science. Once the timeline was approved, we drew a blueprint of our machine on paper. We used the timeline as our guide to building the machine. Before we started building, we needed to sort out who was bringing what. Some of the materials took longer to get, and that made finishing the first draft of the machine by the due date challenging. We probably could’ve been more productive in the first few classes but that was pretty hard because not many of our materials were in order. But as time progressed, so did we. We drew on the wood where we wanted to have the parts and we ended up eliminating an idea that wouldn’t have been all that easy to do. 
We began building and painting parts of the machine. The hardest part of putting together this machine was realizing that some of our ideas won’t work. An example of this was when we wanted to make a scale but instead of using those plates on the scale, we’d replace them with top hats. The idea was creative but the top hats we made were fragile and didn’t work the way we had originally wanted them to. Our machine is sequential, so we’ve been building everything in logical order.
We made a 2 minute video that goes over the process we went through when we made the project. To help the video, we were given a storyboard that will be the outline of the video. What I think will make our video special and unique is the fact that we decided to make it with the same style as the show “How it’s Made”. We’ve been documenting a lot of the process of this project. We always try to have one person in our group filming or taking pictures of what we’re working on. This project has been really fun and I’ll have a part 2 to this blog post up soon!