Tag: hometasking

This assignment tasked us to create or do the most extraordinary thing with a pair of trousers. For my idea, I chose to create something that’s not necessarily the most “extraordinary”, but extremely practical and useful for us amidst this global crisis: a face mask. I grabbed some thin, cotton pants from my closet and made a new face mask following instructions posted on the CDC website. I hope you find this helpful, especially since it feels like it’s nearly impossible to get a mask these days.

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A video of the finished product — and I promise it works!

(here is a link if the embedded video doesn’t work: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CyXnpcXAGbfvLFOyCiVRY1sx6T07sDwE)

The CDC’s instructional picture that I used –

I put trousers on my head (that’s right Giovanni, trousers).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-61LCL4X93dj48vHfWb1dGrcvyDjxP5_/view?usp=sharing

When thinking about how to do something spectacular with a pair of trousers, nothing that sounded especially spectacular popped into my mind. But then I had another thought: What if the spectacular aspect is making the trousers appear in their normal setting, but through a different medium? I walked around my apartment, searching for ways to portray my trousers, when I came across my brother’s crutches. I put the crutches into the legs of the pants, added a white blouse, a tie, and a jacket, and topped it off with a cap and sunglasses. Although it’s apparent there isn’t a physical human inside the pants, they still look seemingly normal-and that’s the spectacular part! I created a new normal. I added some build-up music from the Rocky Balboa theme song to create dramatic effect. Here, you can watch my spectacular creation!

Using tupperware as a goals, I decided to turn my kitchen into a soccer/tennis arena. I used a tennis racket to hit some of my dog’s balls into my makeshift goals… and I actually scored a few! I’ll need to work on my aim and maybe finding some sturdier goals, but I am definitely making strides to becomes the player I’ve always hoped to be! Here you can watch my video. Enjoy!

Here’s to Silent Hill 2. Don’t kill your wife, or you will be haunted.

As I took my pants and threw it around, the monsters from Silent Hill 2 came to my mind. I tried to make the video look scary, but the actual scary part was me filming myself. After all, I had to assemble a six-feet tall structure to place my mini pad onto, while I’m a lot shorter than that. The random noise was a result of me probing around iMovie.

For my extraordinary idea of what to do with trousers, I decided to see how many I could fit on myself before cutting off the blood circulation to my feet. I used the plethora of pants at my disposal: I started with shorts, then skinny jeans, then regular jeans, then khakis (buttons stopped working at this point), then absurdly large dress pants that could never fit me, then some very stretchable sweatpants. How did these six pants look on my skinny legs? Observe with the pictures below.

P.S. The hardest part was getting those pants off! I almost overheated in them.

In order to make my kitchen into a sporting arena, I took my dad’s golf driver (decidedly not a putter, as I couldn’t find it) and a golf ball. I decided to also use a cup in place of a regular hole because I don’t have a putting set – I’ve only played golf (real golf, not minigolf) once or twice in my life. The setup worked out pretty well except for the fact that the ball kept rolling out of the cup after I got it in. I got it in a couple times, but alas, I couldn’t make it stay – ’twas the nature of the cup. Here’s the result: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ABmphxAvcTL2BejPuPdIJrqoxjrw1kDm/view?usp=sharing

When I saw the prompt for this task I had flashbacks to a Jenna Marbles video where she tried to make a chair out of blue jeans based off of a 5-minute crafts guide. Instead of sewing, stuffing, and ruining 4 pairs of jeans, I just stuffed them with pillows, blankets, and random bits of clothing. Originally I was going to set up the pants in a corner to imitate the source material but I found out that was NOT going to happen without any sewing happening. And thus, the Jouch was born. It can serve as a regular chair, a couch to lay on, or even a big spoon for when quarantine gets the best of you (just pull the sleeves over you and hug ‘em).

In my backyard, my family has an old and rusty tree house. Attached to the tree house is a ladder swing and for this task, I tied a pair of trousers to the tree house to create a rope swing. These trousers were sturdy enough to swing on and film this hometask, but it would probably be wiser to buy an actual rope swing to get me to go outside and keep me busy during quarantine.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H4kPSa-MqANORqwmHQa9P1RKpm0jt2Cv/view?usp=sharing

This hometasking was very difficult for me. I could not think of any creative idea. Therefore, instead of being creative, I tried to show something that you can do to help stay healthy during self-quarantine. Let’s jump rope together. I recommend tying two pairs of trousers since only a pair of trousers was too short for me.