This week, at long last, the project came to a close. It was a long week, with numerous steps of production. Earlier this week, I finished up the various modeling needed for the prints, and began the process of printing the parts. I modified some of the models to have larger tolerances than my original…

Despite previous setbacks, I think there is a glimmer of hope I will be able to get this done to the degree I want it accomplished. There were some setbacks, primarily in regards to the prototyping I had been working on. The main one, while good for idea testing, was too high of a scale…

While there is still a ways to go, much progress was made this week! For starters, I fully modeled bases for all the interior pieces for the box. There will likely be some size alterations, and I need to put in the grooves for the El Wire now that I have tested it on the…

To start with the obvious, the main issue I ran into was merely not being as productive as I had planned. It was a very hectic week for various reasons, so I ended up thinking about the project more than anything. This had some clear upsides and downsides, downsides being I’m a bit behind now,…

Well, the Maquette was certainly… interesting to put together. My original goal for it was to have a functioning mirror box, and have my back transparent mirror to begin testing how that would work. Unfortunately, putting together the mirror box proved to be quite difficult, so purely from time constraints I was forced to simply…

For my presentation I decided to do artist Jim Campbell. Campbell started as a videographer, but eventually transitioned to digital art, eventually narrowing down his medium to working with LEDs (SFMOMA). His works tend to have a goal of showing mental disabilities, in particular his earlier works, that tried to demonstrate hallucination, or what it…