Things are relatively close. All the electronics work together and the different videos are edited to work with their respective screens and with the picture. I still need to nail down a couple more technical problems, such as the video window closing and reopening when the video replays and needing to individually start the videos…
Month: October 2020
Final Documentation- Wave Lamp
The concept for my project was to create a lamp, or a light box out of stained glass that created shadows that resembles the shadows and light patterns that the sun creates when it shines though water. Whenever I make an art piece I am highly influenced by nature and especially the ocean. I showed…
Everything (not) Working
Wow, this was a disaster. I had planned to be nearly done for this assignment, with all the lights wired up to the sculpture; a mostly finished project. However, the nightmare that was creating a stable skeleton completely derailed my plans. With a basic wireframe made of doubled-up wire, duct tape, hot glue, and wood,…
Polish and Present
It’s finally complete after countless glue gun burns, constant crinkling of tin foil, and a lot of AA batteries. For this week, I constructed a wooden base for the tree to sit on, with a hole drilled through to route the controller wires out the back. This allowed me to take really clean photos without…
Polish and Present – the Skateboard Light
This past week was eventful to say the least. I had to make a few new parts to accommodate for the changes I had to make to the project but I like how it turned out. First, I decided to make a new front panel because it would have been easier than trying to properly…
Polish and Present
For my final project, I created an 8″ square hand cut-paper light-box that consists of layers of paper each cut to portray a different aspect of the final image. In order to present this piece, I put the box in an extremely dark environment and shone an industrial-style light directly behind it. This is the…
Polish & Present
This week I was able to finish stringing my balloons to the box and my background drawing. I used fishing line to attach the balloons at different heights and added the background to a piece of cardboard offset from the back of the box using glue. I am pretty much all set with everything for…
Polish & Present – Minh-Chau
I was able to put final touches on all the lanterns, combine the motor and LED sequence, as well as arrange and hide the wires as best as possible. However, I am now running into some roadblocks in terms taking photos and videos of the artwork in an aesthetically pleasing manner. This is because the…
Polish & Present
Last week I dumped a lot of time into finishing the majority of the project for last class as I knew this week (and next) I’d be swamped with work for other classes. So luckily, I didn’t have much work to do to finish up this week. All I really needed to do was some…
Polish & Present
I ended up finishing my whole project this week! I grinded all of the glass pieces, soldered the sheets, and soldered each sheet together in the rectangular orientation of the lamp. The solder is silver, but I have a solution that you put on it that turns it black which I think looks a lot…
Polish & Present
It was really this past week where I did the majority of the work on the project because I just finalized my design about six days ago. Looking back, I wish I had approached this smarter so I wouldn’t have to make so many origami balls (I only used 400) or order so many lights….
Polish & Present
surprisingly I made a major redesign durning the last week. after realizing it would be very difficult to attach the wire long the outline of the dogs I decided to make use of the optical effects of acrylic and attach the wire to the outer edge of each sheet instead. This has its pros and…
Everything Working (kinda)
I currently have all of my parts and they’re just about ready to go. All the is left now is to create the animations/videos to go on the screens and mount. This step though is one that I think will be easier said than done, but one that I’m ready for. This past week I…
Everything Working – Minh-Chau Doan
My goal for this week was to finish the stepping stone lanterns. Making the lanterns ended up taking a lot longer and was more complicated than I originally thought. The process of making lanterns included bending bamboo cutting bamboo to arrange into a “star” base creating lantern form using hot glue and dixie cups cutting…