Saturday, July 10, 2010

Mortar and Pestles

Today we are given a task to think of the usage f mortar and pestles besides pounding and grinning stuff. We are given a few category to explore on and I selected a few category. It's a very interesting activity to do so as we get to go out of this world and think of whatever we like and the best part is knowing that with just a little imagination, miracles and impossibility happens.
This is a top made out of mortar and pestles. The mortar is placed on top of the pestle with its base on the pestle. Like other tops, it will require a string to spin it and due to the weight itself, therefore, it can spun longer? Who knows. ^^
This is a picture of a pair of glasses made of mortar and pestles. A pair of mortar are made into the frame of the lens connected with a pestle in the middle and the end part is tied onto a strap of rubber. Well, although it looks like a goggle, however, it was a pair of glasses. Heavy though.
This is a picture of a mortar being used as an armor in the battlefield. It can be used as a bullet vest too. The shoulder pad and the breast protector is made of mortar with pestles connected to protect the ribs. Mortars hardness will protect the user from bullets or swords. However, it's very heavy though.
This is a usage of mortar and pestle in the category of shoes in fashion. The shoe is attached to four mortars connected with two pestles and the based of the shoe is connected to the pestles. A roller blade shoe this heavy is much more safer than normal ones as they are not so easily moved and well balanced.
This is a picture of the mortar and pestle used as a music instrument. The mortars are filled with different volumes of water to create different tones of sound and some are flip over to become the high head of the drum set. The base drum is made of a big mortar cover with thick ox skin to produce base sound. I would like to see would sound it really would make actually.
This is a picture of the weapon category which mortar and pestle can be made into besides it's traditional usage. First of all, we start of with the left one which is a mace. The pestle made up the handle while all the mortars made the mace head. Due to mortars original weight and hardness, it's a very strong weapon. The one on the right is a flail. The mortar is connected to the pestle with a chain whereby the user may swing it as a flail. Imagine the weight and hardness of mortar landed on your head. OUCH!

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