Ground Control

Trekked it into the Glue Studio today to have a chat with James Dive! It was really interesting getting information from a practicing creator outside of uni. And I spent more time talking about my project with one stranger, than the combined time spent with both tutors over the last 5 weeks (giant class sizes are to blame). I now know what it feels like being a tween-girl watching twilight....What a dork. Next stage is compressing the ridiculously long brief cofa assigned and busting out some more research. 

Dive mentioned Storm Glasses that "detected"...storms. There were sealed containers with distilled water and chemicals. (This was thought of due to the narrowed down idea of "creating atmospheres to demonstrate energy usage" and responsive objects/installations).

And now some new designs:

Storm Glass, Craig Borum, 2011

Tempo Drop, Perrocaliente

Scientists still don't understand exactly the way it works, however theories include temperature changes, electromagnetic changes and particles quantum tunnelling through the glass. They're a great example of objects that react to the environment which is kinda cool. 

Nasa releases time lapse videos every now and then and proves just how insignificant we all are. It brings into sharp contrast our inflated opinions of the human race (just because we have opposable thumbs). That and atmosphere. 

And then the slow-mo guys uploaded a video of paint exploding at 15000fps! Once paused the images give the same impression. Now imagine that as an object! A bit off track but scale it up a bit and have the lights pulse BOOM!

atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere

Update

Hi. Its been a somewhat big week. Which is why I havent posted anything in four days. Meh. Had a presentation due for a theory class, which was not a big deal aside from the fact the theory we had to apply to a thing was a linguistic nightmare. The actual class presentation for this project however was cake. After staying up for a considerable time finishing this abnoxious Brief and other assignments, it was finally due in on tuesday. Then presentation on thursday. The brief is a big ass file. I am not posting it. No. 

BIG NEWS! Lucky enough to land a mentor: James Dive from The Glue Society. If you don't know of him you've been living under a rock...a rock under the sea....even the little mermaid knows of him. He's part of a creative collective which can be seen here: thegluesociety. They do crazy stuff like this:

And this:

And this:

Why do they do such things? GO WATCH THE VIDEO!

Did I mention you can find them here: THEGLUESOCIETY

I stumbled across these guys years ago researching for something related to something of which I can't remember. They're quirky, funny, clever etc. Essentially that is why I like their work. I am a little design-struck. Is that a thing? Being impressed by people who design? Is there a name for that? I'll just leave it as Star-struck.

Anyway. Back to the presentation. Despite time restrains, no air-con, flickering "sensor" lights and a bad case of no-one turning up at the right time, it ran on time. It was my intention to write a bit of a speech in the break before class, but it ended as dot-points - I didn't really use them. At all. Once I got a few pages from my brief on the projector, and a video up, I came up some pretty impressive inprov. Basically judging from the "criteria" we got in our outlines I talked about Concept, Mentor, Precedents, Solutions and Next Step. Not mind blowing stuff, but my winning personality made up for it. That and stepping away from the damn computer. But seriously: thegluesociety

Its almost midnight. Im not really sure of what else I should add. And this strange contemporary-hillbilly music is playing so Im going to leave it for tonight. Or today. Perhaps another day. Or two. 

Its Easter. Go eat until you're left rolling around on soft furnishings like a walrus or sea lion. HAPPY EASTER. Is that the right salutation? Maybe. Here's another: happy easter

....Bet you knew that was coming.