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Galina Rybatsky
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Sep 26
Reading Week 4
The Grey Album Producer Danger Mouse Explains How He Did It Brian Burton’s ingenious idea to mash-up Beatles’ White Album and Jay–Z’s Black Album fell flat, in my opinion. If the definition of a music mash-up is a “composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one …
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Sep 21
Reading Week 3
Why We Need Things, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi This was a very poignant essay about why our society is so materialistic and what drives our desire to acquire things. Csikszentmihalyi’s main point is that humans need objects to stabilize and “transform the precariousness of consciousness into the solidity of things.” He believes objects give us stability at …
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Sep 21
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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Sep 20
7×7 6: Portable Night Light
Project 6: How To Not Be Afraid of The Dark Another strange, useless artifice, a portable night light. The idea for this object is to be towed behind someone as they are walking down a dark hallway in the middle of the night. In the video you will notice that there is a strange jump, …
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Sep 20
7×7 5: Kitchen Mixing Utensil
Project 5: How To Mix Your Ravioli This project proved to be very difficult, and in my opinion, failed. This needless object was supposed to rotate around the circumference of the pot. The spoon in the middle was meant to mix the pasta in the boiling water. First mistake was attaching the spoon to the …
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Sep 19
Maker Faire 2011
My three favorite projects at Maker Faire: #1: Untitled This was my favorite piece at the fair. The artist told me that he doesn’t not have a name for his creation but he will think of one. What he did is record audio from random radio shows. He removed the tape from the encasement and …
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Sep 19
7×7 4: Xylospoon
Project 4: How To Play the Spoons: Creating My Own Musical Instrument I steered away a little from the “useless” artifice theme with this project. I was thinking about how I have absolutely no musical talent. When I was in elementary school in Belarus, teachers in my music classes always made me play the triangle …
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Sep 17
7×7 3: How to Paint Using a Push Cart
Project 3: Creating My Own Painting Tool This is the third object I built in continuation with my unnecessary artifice theme. It was very interesting to see what kind of patterns the paint brushes and the wheels of the structure created. I had very minimal artistic control over the final painting. The artifice in this …
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Sep 15
7×7: 2: How To Put Sauce On Your Pasta With A Manually Operated Mechanical Arm
Incorporating an artifice into a mundane daily task #2 Introduction: We have been reading a lot about technology “taking over” and about the “artificial” increasingly blending with our definition of the “natural.” I wanted to play on the idea of how our every day, mundane tasks can be taken over by a machine or some …
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Sep 14
7×7: 1: How To Make Tea Using a Pulley
Incorporating an artifice into a mundane daily task. Introduction: We have been reading a lot about technology “taking over” and about the “artificial” increasingly blending with our definition of the “natural.” I wanted to play on the idea of how our every day, mundane tasks can be taken over by a machine or some kind …
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