After a long while of waiting my colored gel plastic sheets finally came on Friday. This did not give me much time to mess around with them but did show me some of the issues that I had. Chiefly if you color a white piece of paper with a red mark and put the red…

This week I focused on making the hot air balloons, trying to get the design/colors on the paper to appear, while still letting light shine through. I first began by using my small globes and a paper towel roll to make the shape of the balloon. I then decided to first try with the origami…

The hardest part of my project was making an animated lantern. I started off with the following concept of having a spherical lantern that would have a spinning component within it. I started off trying to emulate a traditional spinning lantern. This involved a rotating drum with images that would spin around a pin in…

This past Friday the paper for my project came in. I don’t know how it happened, but I seemed to have ordered the wrong size. The paper is much smaller than I originally intended. I could have returned the paper in exchange for a larger size but I wanted to get started on the folding…

My primary source of failure throughout this process has been entirely my own doing. Failure through indecision. I am someone who struggles with making decisions relating to nearly anything, so deciding on a path or set of paths to take in relation to this project is not immune. This indecision comes from being non-comital when…

I started off the week by cutting two medium sized triangles and soldering them together. Then I took a bright flash light and shined it through the glass pieces, the results were very underwhelming. The triangular shape was not giving me the shadow patters that I was imagining in my head. Shadows underwater are always…

Proof of Concept: I tested out extending the LED by soldering the LED to some electrical wiring. This video shows that this was a pretty simple task. The solder connection was not as strong as I would like so I taped the wire to the LED as well. I will try to get a better…

For this project I wanted to use an optical illusion to affect how people would view the art. After doing a decent bit of research I landed on the this concept. Below is a piece that is a place holder of how the colors worked with what I wanted to do. It is going to…

After much internal debate and reading through my classmates comments on my concept proposals, I’ve decided to continue with the Live, Light, Tree idea. My maquette consists of a scaled down aluminum foil tree sculpture to test how it looks with EL Wire, and how the light is reflected off the shiny foil surfaces. I…

In my last post I outlined my main project idea being to put some sort of spin on the Infinity Cube concept. Since then I’ve narrowed the directions down on where I can take the idea considering both some of the feedback I got as well as cost constraints I encountered in my selection of…

So for my project it was a bit difficult to make a maquette or a proof of concept without going all out so instead I started this week by looking into what colors would reflect the best with the LED lights I had. After some testing with some doodles on my whiteboard I decided to…

For my project I have decided to do a light box made out of stained glass, the theme of my project is water. I am going to cut the glass into triangles that are different sizes. The color of the glass is clear and different shades of transparent blue. For a watery look I found…