{"id":439,"date":"2012-08-29T12:53:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T03:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2018-02-14T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T02:07:10","slug":"balsa-wood-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/balsa-wood-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Balsa Wood Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Balsa Wood Man, Balsa Wood Man, doing the things that balsa wood can&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A little figure made from balsa wood. We were asked to make a small human model demonstrating our understanding of how a figure would appear based on eight-head high proportions. (Most people are actually less than eight heads tall but this was for convenience.)<\/p>\n<p>To understand what I mean when I say &#8220;eight-heads tall&#8221;, observe how the height of the figure divides into eight equal portions, each the size of the figure&#8217;s head. Along those portions are particular landmarks, eg. the start of the torso.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my classmates used modelling clays and one even made hers out of a bread and PVA mix.<\/p>\n<p>Mine has rotating limbs!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0557.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-440\" title=\"IMG_0557\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0557-e1346642838802-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0557-e1346642838802-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0557-e1346642838802-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_0557-e1346642838802.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balsa Wood Man, Balsa Wood Man, doing the things that balsa wood can&#8230; A little figure made from balsa wood. We were asked to make a small human model demonstrating our understanding of how a figure would appear based on eight-head high proportions. (Most people are actually less than eight heads tall but this was &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/balsa-wood-man\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-439","6":"format-standard","7":"category-crafts","8":"post_tag-acsa","9":"post_tag-homework"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}