Ready with my mock-up

I feel really bad for not working on my FYP throughout my holidays - I have been sick. I almost scared myself when I puked out many mouthfuls of 'blood' (digested blood plum made it look that way), I kept sneezing so I had to sleep for at least 16 hours with intervals each day.

Anyways, I will be working on my mock-up for the next few days. And hopefully I'll get something out of it. As I'm short of cash, this mock-up is going to be made of newspapers. Since I will be constructing a book for my final project, as of now I intend to learn the skills of making a basic book block. The reason why I'm using newspapers is because it's 'free', and I like being environmentally friendly. Besides I think the existing text and pictures would make it a really interesting textural/graphic piece to work with. Oh yeah... stacking it makes a thick book block too!

What I did:
1. Cut sheets of newspaper into A4 sized sheets - took me a damn long time.
2. Made folios out of 10 sheets of newspaper - nice thickness to work with.
3. Poked holes into folios for binding.
4. Read instructions for 'coptic binding'.
5. Started threading and sewing. But I screwed up for the first 4 folios and had to start from scratch again.
6. Got the hang of sewing the folios together to form a book block. Voila!











Now that I'm done with the book block, I'll be making changes to the pages either by cutting, scoring or messing it up. Just so I could use it to represent the system of my life symbolically through its structure.

But before I make any gashes or slices, I think it'll be better if I drew out my systems, using the information that I have gathered thus far. I don't want to make a new book block anytime soon.. It's hard work!