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My thrid project is just simply and sort of gernerically called “The Installation”

I created a life sized representation of a original mixed media piece. The piece itself is heavy with a political and socio-economic visual language. The main component of the piece is actualy the engagement of the “public” or DT and TD students. There is a paper nexted to the larger then life images that reads: Title this piece, which I believe forces the viewer to engage in a bit of dialogue with himself about certain things that might not other wise come up. And this work becomes a public art piece or “artifact” in a way.

Again I am using the same contraints as last time.

Goal: A chance to actually use a toy— lightsaber in a more interesting way.  Waving it around to hear that wooshing sound and impaling each other with the plastic version isn’t really all that fun.  There needs to be an evolution on this particular product even though it’s a novelty item.

Inspiration: U.S. Open, Baseball, Racquetball, Starwars, Geeks, Nerds

Approach: Use gesture recognition, accurate sounds depicted from Star Wars film, lots of lasers, computationally intense image processing, smart rangefinder scanner for the “Tron-like” court where it should be dark with electric blue guidelines and also for the ball in order it to volley/bounce back and forth, also would need to have accurate tracking systems…

Anticipated Constraints & Issues: Hardware may not be readily available nor will it be simple to configure right away. Players also need a lightsaber device. The court would have to be a stationary one where people would need to physically venture to vs playing in the comforts of their own home.

Might have to adjust the width of the laser from the lightsaber in order to properly hit the ball to a desired location, seeing as to how the tennis racket has an oblong shaped net for coverage.  Or maybe adjust the size of the tennis ball into a ping pong ball.

Or just convert this concept into a “Jedi Racquetball” all together.

my day 2 project is another song I composed last night.

The constrain: emotions.

I planed to use different medias (music or something else) to describe and demonstrate 7 different kinds of emotions.

In this project, the emotion is fear.

BUT this song sounds not horrible and scared, the inspiration is from the hurricane in New York City 3 weeks ago.

At that time, people feared hurricane, there was nobody on the street, the city was soooooooo quiet.

I took some photos of that quiet city, and made this song rely on the feeling of that time.

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Unfungames.com released a MacOs version for the Mario Pain Composer. This brings back many memories. My constraints were to compose a sound piece, and I remembered I had seen the MPC release, so I used this tool for my composition.

I felt very bluesy yesterday. It was this melancholic feeling of confusion that I’m hoping will go away during the weekend. I recorded some sounds in the class while Jonah was showing us examples.

credits: the chord progression is inspired by {Jewel : Foolish Games}

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I got reminded the other day that American children do not know their U.S. history compared to the other children from a different country.  To remedy this issue, I (developed a concept) designed a U.S. History app.  It would have a scroll bar on the side where one can navigate through years and at the same time, little red stars would appear to show important events.

With the use of pinch and spread, one can simply zoom in or out of the map also move left to right to view the preferred information after pointing at a specific star.

This is made for students from K-12.  Additional visuals would be added in the white information bar for better understanding.  The information written should be brief, precise and to the point, so it’ll be easy to retain the information.