The past two weeks have been multiple failures and iterations of this project for me. My first failure was that I didn’t post the post for last week.
Last week I had two failures that set me back. The first one was that the broken gems did not have the same effect as the whole ones when shining light through them. This left me to find another thing to shine light through to get the effect I wanted. After searching online for a while, I was able to find smaller plastic gems that I could use. (The search term that got me to the product I needed was “wedding confetti” and I have no idea why.) My second failure of last week was with the shipment of the small gems as it got sent back the first time and did not get here until last Wednesday, making it hard to have a set up ready in time.
This week I made changes based on feedback. I made a test stand for the dish to be placed on so the light can shine up through it and sorted through all the gems to get different color mixes to play around with the mood they set. (I learned that it needs to be dark out to take pictures in my room cause there is too much light during the day.)
Temp stand with light
All dark pink gems
Various color mixes
I had a major failure this week that taught me to check the shipping location when ordering from amazon as the new light and bigger gems that I ordered shipped to my house instead of the school. I luckily will be able to get them this weekend but it does set my plan back a bit.
The next step I plan to do is create a stand that sets the dish at an angle so the gems move when rotated. I have not decided if it will shine the light up through the gems or down and off of a mirror.
If I have time, I would like to play around with having patterns over the light coming from the gems to see what effects it creates.