While we are waiting for the graphic to load, a few words about the origin and rationale behind the lab cover artwork you are about to view. The lab work done here at Polytechnic School (Pasadena, California) is not easy. The write-ups can take a confused student anywhere from three to six hours to do, give or take, and even then things don't always work out the way the kids would like. In short, if there is one part of my class that can reduce a senior to an exasperated rage, it's lab write-ups. Having said all of that, it was during my first year at Poly that I experienced a singularly peculiar situation. Students who would have happily burned their lab manual while doing a particular nasty write-up were willing to spend additional time (a number of hours in some instances) creating clever, amusing, sometimes spectacularly good artwork on the cover sheet that was to accompany each lab cover (that sheet was originally intended to includes the lab's title, the student's name, the date, etc.--extra artwork was/is worth absolutely nothing--students who decorate their lab covers do it strictly for the amusement of it). I was so taken by all of the creativity that I decided to begin collecting, posting and keeping for posterity particularly artful efforts. A wee small part of that collection is shown here.
The following lab cover was created by Shahin Chandrasoma. The lab was titled "Collision and Impulse," and the cover does a nice job of depict both (especially the collision part--notice the blood spurt?). Shahin graduated from Poly in 1995.
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