Mishaps

Initially the vinyl cutting was working, not with the hand drawn one, but the poem however the lettering was just too small and many figures got lost. This was incredibly frustrating, I furthermore chopped up the drawn one a little so as to shrink the area that would be printed however the lines were still just too thin. As shown above, while the vinyl cutter was working, all the pieces I needed to be stuck down had come away from the image, leaving the negative I didn't need. Even figures from the last remaining design weren't intact, I therefore had to improvise and take letters from the poem design and replace lost letters on the image with the notches. 

As a result you can see all the letters vary in size, angle and so forth. I originally tried to maintain the angles in keeping with the previous warp design however it was hard to align them perfectly so I chose a purposely messier layout style and put purposely varied letter sizes alongside each other at different angles. I feel the outcome adds to the 'drunken state' effect. 

I then took this bottle to go sandblast it, only to find that I could've only have done so if I'd used specialist sand-blast proof vinyl. This was incredibly frustrating as I'd only been told I would need vinyl and had queued for 3 hours alone to get that printed. The technician suggested I shouldn't unless I don't mind the risk of the letters being blasted off, which would have ruined the whole design. Due to time constraints I thought it would be best to choose a different path. 

An earlier idea came back to mind of a photo series or video of some kind. This way I could utilise the bottle I'd made and use it more as a prop than a final outcome, the video and audio editing which I'd like to think is one of my strengths will therefore utilise my skills better, rather than sandblasting which I'd never done before, I want to try do that properly when I have more time because at least now I know the requirements and when I have more time I can execute it properly.