Jds03 Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 So since schools almost out I got to bring home a bunch of my artwork today, and I realized that since many of you here have an obsession with Deloreans, Back to the Future or both, I thought I might share a creation of mine from sculpture class. For our wire study based off the work of Alexander Calder, I decided to make the Delorean time machine from Back to the Future, using aluminum and copper wires. It was a fun project and the result was every satisfying. It’s a tribute to the greatest movie series of all time and the best car ever…period. So here are a bunch of photos, from a variety of angles. It was card to completely capture the car on photos, since you can see through it partly and certain wires focused more than others in picture, but I tired my best to give the best overall view, because it is made of wires and space is critical to making it work as art. So here are pictures: Overview Front view. DMC!!!! Back view. Try to make out the details in the lettering on the lower left side of the car. The doors are actually functional! I used rubber bands to make them go up, and little hooks to make them stay down. Check out the interior. Complete with flux capacitor and time circuit drive. And the dashboard, drive shaft, time circuit board and speedometer. MUST GET TO 88 MPH!!!! Here’s both the doors open. More front view. When this baby hits 88 MPH, your going to see some serious s***. Here’s the cooling exhaust ports. This is the lighting rod from the first movie. I actually had to watch the ending of the first movie to get the shape of it correct. It also took me way, way to long to wrap the pole. But, you can see it leads directly to the flux capacitor, channeling the 1.21 Jigowats directly into the flux capacitor and sending you back to the future! Here’s a close-up of the lettering on the back. Delorean Motor Company. Yeah, that’s right. The wheels took me forever and didn’t turn out so great, but whatever. Here’s a top view. It’s pretty cool to see how the space works with wires and how simple it looks from one angle and how complicated and busy it is from another. Oh yeah, I got second place for 3-D artwork in my school’s art show! And just another sculpture for anyone who’s a fan of my comic strip. We had to make a pre-Columbian sculpture, AKA “Something that looked like an Aztec artifact”, so instead of making some weird thing, I decided to make Ricky into an Aztec…guy… Here’s me with Ricky. Thanks for reading!
TheStig Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 Wow, that's really awesome! Nice work, I have a wire VW beetle! However... It’s a tribute to the greatest movie series of all time and the best car ever…period. It was the worst car I have ever driven in my life.
chmilo24 Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 Dang that is way better than the wire lobsters the homeless people at the Fisherman's Wharf in S.F. make. --Chris
dino Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 Cool! It really takes talent (which I lack) to create something like that. The sculpture was pretty awesome too (especially since Ricky's the coolest character from the strip).
andyuk200523 Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 Nice piece of work there, but I am fairly certain the end of the lightning rod was circlular in the film.
netdvn Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 For a wire sculpture, that is incredible! I've seen some pretty cool wire sculptures, but this one is one of the best...
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