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15 05 2013
Project Description: “Fall” is a 3 channel video installation based on the transition from the fall season to winter in New England. It explores the beauty of nature while representing the human structural relationship within the world. The 3 channels of video play on holographic film screens made of plexiglass that are suspended [...]
17 04 2013
The Built Through taping out the size of the viewing structure I think 1/3 scale works well. There will be a few cheats in the sizing to allow for people to actually sit in the structure. Something to think about as I finalize the size is the dimensional meaning in traditional Feng Shui. My main [...]
3 04 2013
The Big Bang is almost done. The code is being tweaked and it all works wirelessly! Very relieved that it will be finished tomorrow! Complete documentation coming soon! “Big Bang working and almost finished” Pcom_Journal3 pcom journel 2: NYC parking meter evaluation ToneOutputMOV In the Tone output lab I used a speaker that [...]
3 04 2013
Screen Recording Center of Galaxy Galaxy Scratch Galaxy Documentation Another Galaxy Documentation Screen Recording 10 Final Project For my final project I will take information captured by a camera and use it to create a sketch. This will be an addition to my Physical Computing final. In Physical Computing I am working on an [...]
13 03 2013
I decided to interpret a Japanese Tokonoma (alcove) in the “Seasons” installation. Tokonoma has been very influential in architecture around the world. In the west it has been used in the sense of a “Hearth Room” (Frank Lloyd Wright). It is appropriate for “Season’s” because it combines a modular and structurally independent space into [...]
6 03 2013
Should I play a more active role in pointing the viewer to certain elements in the landscape of the video? I really liked what Pawel Wojtasik did with blocking his frames and channelling them in “at the still point” and it got me thinking about wether I should have a more visible hand in some [...]
6 03 2013
I still have some decisions to make about the direction “Seasons” is taking. I am not sure if I should go with the installation design I currently favor (one or 2 screens in a v or 1 screen in a half moon shape) or stay with the four walled concept. If I go with the [...]