Done and Done...kinda....

The art 106 advance group has finally finished with the Red Cross wearable art project. Due to a family event I was unable to attend the fashion show itself, which I regret. Although we did not win it is difficult to comprehend that we made it to the finals with the little time we had to prepare for such an event. I am ecstatic to have been apart of something this memorable and great. When working on this project (building the cross backpack) it seem like an eternity, but in reality it went by in a split second. Here are some of the pictures of the outfits at the fashion show:
our plans for this project: from what I heard I believe that we are still going to continue working on this project to improve the outlook on the outfits, making them look polish, fix a few electrical problems, and perhaps even improve the cross backpack as a whole.

Recap of what has been done:

Towards the end of April we had the model Philip come and have a fitting of the cross. It took awhile for him to get to us because he had ran into some trouble and it was difficult for Jon and I to find him due to the fact that we do not know what he looked like. But when we did find him and put the cross on him the process was fairly quick. The model had no trouble putting on the cross and in my perspective it looked to fit well on him. We tried to schedule another fitting, but I do not think that it fell through since I did not hear anything else afterwords.

The following weeks after the fitting, team backpack went ahead and started painting the cross. It took us a couple of sessions in the spray booth to get to the quality that we wanted it to be.

The week of the fashion show we all scrambled to get things done we reinstalled the Alice pack to the cross and drilled the holes into the panels for the speakers and installed the marquee scroll LED board onto the cross with acrylic brackets