Sep 19
Using Microsoft Visual Studio, the apparatus can take picture every 5 seconds. That is me! The right one is camera and left is screen. The box behind is an interactive toy. If you blow on the top of the box, the picture of flower will change. They are both delicate. This is an …
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Sep 19
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 19
1) Vertical Theory (Vertical Gardening) by Karen Mackay – Why was this interesting: It’s a wonderful interaction between us and our environment. This also presented a solution to a problem with over population, rapid urbanization, lack of space to grow things and food getting unhealthy pesticides in order to keep up with demand. – How …
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Sep 19
The 3 interesting ‘interface’ I found in Maker Faire are as belows. The first is a software that could capture and process video streams from Kinect, Webcams, Firewire, IP Cams, and even mobile phones. This software has many kinds of effect to choose, when click different icons on the bottom of the screen, it …
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Sep 19
Goal: Turning an ordinary paintball gun into an artistic brush rather than just something you use to impale people with balls of paint. This gun would now have a dual purpose, one artistic and one recreational sport. This would have to be sponsored by or partnered up with Pantone and Kuller, in order to paint a …
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Sep 18
So the first interface that I thought interesting at Maker Faire, was a apartment mailbox unit: It looked something like this and had a sign over it that said something to the effect of: you look drained, charge your phone here. So basically each mailbox had a key in it and inside the box was …
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Sep 18
Reading “Why We Need Things” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was fascinating. Though this was something I’ve already known in my own subconscious and observations, it was nice to read through something that was well articulated. I’ve always wondered about the evolution of things and products that surrounded our lives. Especially living in Los Angeles, where there …
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Sep 18
Day 5: Lines of Emotion Since I did not have a commute to map today, I decided to focus on the majority of my day, which consisted of shopping. I tried to think of what was most prominent during this experience, and I realized it was probably the mix of emotions I had throughout the …
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Sep 18
For today’s 7in7 I decided to continue with yesterday’s project and actually modify and add visuals to the sound installation. From there I played around with some imagrey and created a piece titled: Somewhere in the future “The Dominate Gaze” envisions the Last Martin Luther King Day. This idea for the title as well and …
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