September 2011 archive

7/7, the last project ,is…………….the emotion of NATURE.

Finally, I finished the 7th project. For this last project in 7 in 7, I focused on the emotion of Nature. So I used some samples from nature sounds(including the birds’ sound and the water’s sound etc.) to describe and imagine, try to feel the nature’s emotion, flow and movement. Try to imagine the feeling …

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6/7: emotion—”MISS”

The 6th emotion and feeling to describe is ”I miss you”. I used guitar to describe this kinda feeling. The constrain is also that the time spending on making this song would not over 1 hour. “I Miss You”  

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5/7: emotion—Get High !

The fifth emotion and feeling to describe is ”Hiiiiigh ” The constrain is : To make a music to describe the ”high” feeling in a club. The music must includes some voice samples, and the time spend on making music must not over 1 hour. Let’s Get High        

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4/7: emotion—”Easily relaxed,like a cork”

The 4th project, the emotion and feeling to describe is ‘’the easily relaxed, like a cork‘’, just like in a beautiful village, sitting outside and enjoy the beautiful sunshine and some awesome Chinese tea. I give myself this constrain: make a music to describe this emotion and feeling, and the time spend on making it …

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7/7 7:Portable Light Show Device (and my homage to robots and all the artifice that we depend on)

Project 7: How To Create A Light Show On The Go For my last piece, I wanted to sum up the underlying concept for all of my 7×7 projects and  to pay homage to “robots” and all the useless artifice that we depend on so much. This video is a celebration of all that man …

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7/7 easy chocolate&lemon crunch frozen yoghurt

I love froyo!!! It’s one of the ‘new’ things I learnt to like in ny, I didn’t have any back home….. then during bootcamp, I made friends with a bunch of people from hawaii/cali and from them converted to a froyo addict lol Anyway I realised I was spending way too much money on pinkberry, …

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6/7 ribbon brooches

      Made some simple decorative ribbon brooches for winter! I recently bought a bunch of cheap wool cardigans in preparation for cold, but they were all really plain and in boring colours (i.e. dark brown, navy, black…. why do so many people wear black in winter?!?!?!) Anyway the lack of bright (over)saturated colours …

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7 in 7: Day 7: Robot Face Tracker

My constraints for this piece was to use processing and the face tracker. I only gave myself 2 hours to do this piece as well.  

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DAY 7 7in7

For my last project I wrote a processing sketch that basically oscillates back and forth between pre loaded video footage and live captured footage. This sketch toggles the two video files based on frames per second, which can be modified to fit many different scenarios. this actually serves as the base for a larger project …

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7 in 7 Project #7: The Hush Box

Goal: The new space on 16th street, 12th floor is quite noisy during lecture hours, due to the fact that the old school ad agency concept for the space back fired… The Hush Box would control the amount of noise so no instructor should have to keep going outside and hushing everyone every 30 minutes.  …

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