WASH: day 1. Newspaper Towers!

I was pretty excited to find out that we were already jumping into projects the first day. The assignment; to make something out of newspaper and glue that would get a cinderblock as high off the ground as possible. When making the "tower", I knew that rolling newspaper into tubes would be the strongest option. Although you cant tell in the picture, the big tubes are actually filled with smaller tubes. When done this way, newspaper can actually be quite strong. Especially when reinforced with LOTS of glue. Like, a whole lot. Like 2 bottles worth. It held the cinderblock well, and measured 23 inches. In hindsight, I wish I would have had time to make it more visually appealing. It's a pretty utilitarian structure, just two tiers of newspaper tubes stacked on top of each other, with a few ads glue haphazardly in between. I did learn that with one project, there are about a million ways you can approach it. There were people weaving, crumpling, hanging and stacking their newspaper in different ways. I was really surprised at all of the different ways you could compile newspaper.