proposal
[half-way mark.]
ideas on final projects:
chandelier of change
a bit fascinated with lighting; using alternative materials and mechanisms to create a chandelier with a twist. inspired as well by the evans exhibit up at the lvac. the mix of the antiqated style + digital capabilities.
inspiration: the intricate, gorgeous chandeliers at harvard's dudley house dining hall. they seem so capable of magical things.
plan: set up LEDs as the pinpoints of light, like the array of candles. put pressure sensors to detect air speed, so the user could put out whichever candles they wanted by definitively blowing them out. to light them, you could hold a lit candle to an unlit one, and the light would be transferred over as with a flame. you could also light one by itself by closing your hand [squeezing?] over it and then uncovering the light. the hand holds a bit of mystery.
the intensity of the light would be manipulated by either blowing softly [a progressive dimming] or cupping your hand around it as to protect the flame [a progressive brightening].
other than the manual lighting interface, the lights could throb in time with a user's heartrate - connection via pulse reader. could also assign each light to a specific star, and twinkle them with varying intensity on the light with real-time cosmological data. perhaps i could hook this up with an email correspondance database, with the lights forming an ambient device that notifies which people you've had good response rate with, and which rapports are dying away [light fading].
want to infuse a bit of unpredictability, surprise.
materials: programmed microcontroller, sensors, LEDs (3-way, hopefully), data input devices, construction of acrylic, aluminum, and plastic
the dancer
i like the idea of using mixed media, a la degas with his dancer. the 3d printers take forever and you have a tradeoff between color and strength. however, could do more with creating more organic pieces by printing in ABS and fusing bits of fabric, texture, fur, found objects, onto and around it.
ideas on final projects:
chandelier of change
a bit fascinated with lighting; using alternative materials and mechanisms to create a chandelier with a twist. inspired as well by the evans exhibit up at the lvac. the mix of the antiqated style + digital capabilities.
inspiration: the intricate, gorgeous chandeliers at harvard's dudley house dining hall. they seem so capable of magical things.
plan: set up LEDs as the pinpoints of light, like the array of candles. put pressure sensors to detect air speed, so the user could put out whichever candles they wanted by definitively blowing them out. to light them, you could hold a lit candle to an unlit one, and the light would be transferred over as with a flame. you could also light one by itself by closing your hand [squeezing?] over it and then uncovering the light. the hand holds a bit of mystery.
the intensity of the light would be manipulated by either blowing softly [a progressive dimming] or cupping your hand around it as to protect the flame [a progressive brightening].
other than the manual lighting interface, the lights could throb in time with a user's heartrate - connection via pulse reader. could also assign each light to a specific star, and twinkle them with varying intensity on the light with real-time cosmological data. perhaps i could hook this up with an email correspondance database, with the lights forming an ambient device that notifies which people you've had good response rate with, and which rapports are dying away [light fading].
want to infuse a bit of unpredictability, surprise.
materials: programmed microcontroller, sensors, LEDs (3-way, hopefully), data input devices, construction of acrylic, aluminum, and plastic
the dancer
i like the idea of using mixed media, a la degas with his dancer. the 3d printers take forever and you have a tradeoff between color and strength. however, could do more with creating more organic pieces by printing in ABS and fusing bits of fabric, texture, fur, found objects, onto and around it.
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