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We've been all over Michigan and we've seen all different types of artists, but now we're
going to literally watch artists who turn trash into treasure. Come with us as we go
to Lansing's Old Town for Scrapfest.
I'm Olivia Courant, and this is Fun in 5. I'm standing outside the Friedland Industries
Scrapyard in Lansing with a question. What do you do with all of this junk?
You make art, of course.
Here in Lansing, the Old Town Commercial Association hosts Scrapfest, an event where teams of artists
get one hour to collect up to 500 pounds of scrap metal fro the Friedland scrapyard. The
artists then have two weeks to take what they collected and turn it into a sculpture.
Today we'll look at how last year's sculptures were made and then we'll take a tour of some
of this year's amazing and useful sculptures at Festival of the Moon in Old Town.
We do have a plan. We thumbnailed it out. We got an idea and a couple of ways to do
it depending on what we found. So we kind of planned it out. It's just finding the metal
that matches our plans, though. I think they're doing okay so far. It's a little bit hard
to be the one watching and not out there, but. I think they're doing okay!
I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm just going to take the collection that I've accumulated
and make an assessment over the next couple of days and see what happens. [laughs]
It's coming out so much like the drawings it's kind of scary because when we went to
the junk yard, we seen everything there and it was just... there was nothing exactly we
could put together in mind. But once we got back here, started putting all of our minds
together, we got a great model we can go with. And everything's coming together really well.
The team's getting along great. It's been a really fun experience.
Still needs some eyes. What I do is I put the different shapes, like first the tangle
iron for the face and the head. And you can see it more clearly on the gentleman here.
You can see the angle and another piece of metal. You just bend around and weld and form
and heat and bend and twist and *** with a hammer and we end up with the shapes we
want.
So at the Scrapfest, people get to vote for their favorite sculptures and it seems like
it might be kind of hard to choose this year.
You could put cold drinks here, wine glasses here, candles and other accessories up on
the table.
This sculpture is one of my favorites because it's a bike and it actually works.
I'm Olivia Courant and this has been Fun in five, four, three, two, one.