Through our peer conversations in class, the two finalists that were voted on for further refinement were the Pistol Plane and the Bed Buzz saw. I was personally very fond of both of them, but the bed ultimately won out due to it having a more solid theme and more potential for a satisfying final image. Here's some snapshots of it in TinkerCAD:
During multiple discussions, the main suggestion for improvement boiled down to making the saw blade appear more integrated, as if the bed was designed to include it. Some suggested showing messy cut lines in the mattress, and even feathers flying out of the pillow, to show the power of the activated saw. I toyed with this idea for a while, but ultimately decided to exclude it from the final execution, as I felt that messier, more aggressive cutting would make the saw seem separate from the bed itself.
I decided to add a ridge in the middle to make the buzz saw fit in more neatly rather than clipping into the bed model, but I also took this one step further by dividing almost the whole bed in half. This gives it the appearance that it can reach further than just the head area, and that it has been used multiple times. I believe this feeling of surgical precision adds to the unsettling factor we discussed during the exercise. I flipped the bed model in the middle and pulled up the sheets a bit to make it feel even more neat and precise. I also included an extrusion from the pillow to hold the saw in place, which helps to unify it more while also making it creepy. Finally, I put on a power button for activating the saw
to make it feel even more integrated as well as adding on to the theming of the object.
Here's some snapshots of the refined version for comparison:
This particular combination plays with a few forms of contrast. The most obvious would be the juxtaposition of comfort and discomfort; having something as dangerous as a sawblade in a space with the sole purpose of comforting us is deeply off-putting. Another dichotomy posed by it is an very industrial object fused with a very personal piece of furniture. The mashup of these two items implies a sort of destruction or manufacturing of societal norms that I find very intriguing.
During multiple discussions, the main suggestion for improvement boiled down to making the saw blade appear more integrated, as if the bed was designed to include it. Some suggested showing messy cut lines in the mattress, and even feathers flying out of the pillow, to show the power of the activated saw. I toyed with this idea for a while, but ultimately decided to exclude it from the final execution, as I felt that messier, more aggressive cutting would make the saw seem separate from the bed itself.
This particular combination plays with a few forms of contrast. The most obvious would be the juxtaposition of comfort and discomfort; having something as dangerous as a sawblade in a space with the sole purpose of comforting us is deeply off-putting. Another dichotomy posed by it is an very industrial object fused with a very personal piece of furniture. The mashup of these two items implies a sort of destruction or manufacturing of societal norms that I find very intriguing. 
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