IR box complete

Finished Emerging Technology class final awhile back. Basically theirs an IR receiver connected to an Arduino inside the box. It can receive pulses from a remote control. I have an maxm rgb light able to read 10 different signals and change color sequences.

two ink drawings

Two new ink drawings of comic characters Predator and venom. Used copic fine top pens sizes .03 .o5 and .o8. Venom is about 75% complete the other is complete

brick box

Finished several layers of spackle on box project. Began to paint box, soon be adding watered down spackle and acrylic down top of box.

Letterpress final complete

Letterpress final project is finally complete. 40 hours spent on the making of five copies of a book titled "Your down is my up". My book plays on the idea of self help books taking advantage of people and offering false hope in media-ish generated things. Book looks big on outside but soon the user finds a hole inside the pages with 11 cards housed in. The cards directly match table of contents. Great class and I look forward to retaking it next term.

ET project design

Emerging tech class new design and idea for final project. Stilling using an IR sensor but after looking into reprogramming of television remotes with arduino I got excited. So I bought this blink maxm rgb led and will use a television remote to control it. The two parts will be housed in a brick box and the RGB unit will be displayed in a cube. The cube will have 6 transparency photoshoped images of iconic television figures. The cube will look has if it's melting over the brick structure. Above images show process of the brick box design.

Emerging Tech project proposal

Create illusion of ripple/wave effect on silk. Original idea was to put a series of pressure sensors on a piece of art. I couldn't figure out how to tell the user where to push in a visually appealing manner so I changed a few things up. The fans will now be activated by one of four IR sensors. The infrared led will be attached to a bottle made from foam and paper mache. Once the led touches one of the IR sensors it will trigger to fans to operate for however the long. The project should be fairly cheap and require no class materials, but I do need to order the parts.

One infrared led http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9349

Four IR sensors http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8545

Four fans http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9648

Working on two, finished one

Finished Eiffel Tower drawing, now I just have to make the mat and frame. Maybe now the syringe tree is 75% done after 5 or 6 hours added since last post. Randomly decided to draw the Mona Lisa, I'm thinkin I'll draw no face on her.

Hacking and Arduino resource

Found a great site about hacking and moding (www.hacknmod.com). Anything from Arduino mods, to taking apart something normal to get something expensive.

Two late night drawings

Anytime I randomly doodle with no regards to theme or subject I draw eyes. I was still eager so I decide to burn certain areas with my bic lighter. The other I am still working on of the Eiffel tower. After it's finished I'll be making a spackle frame.

Letterpress micro fiction assignment

First assignment for letter press class finished up this week. The assignment was to create a micro fiction(50 words or less) and an image to put on a trading card. Mine story was "I measured to radius of my cornea to find the circumference of reality." We had to create 20 cards to be passed out in class. The image here is my collection of the classes.

Letterpress in action

Here's a short video of the letterpress in action. The assignment was to make a trading card, to save time and paper we print four times per page. Two on front and two on the opposite sides on the back. This video was shot around midnight.

Working with a letter press

I've been very busy in the letterpress lab this week. Having to place each word, letter and space forces me to love my computer even more. Altough the results from the press look much cleaner. This is proving to require more patience than I thought I had.

Inch worm mod with Arduino

Emerging Technology small assignment, mod solar panel inch worm. I hooked a PING sensor to an Arduino in order to control when the motor gets voltage. Basically if anything is 8 inches or less away from it, shut off, otherwise keep going. Reference can be found here... http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Ping

Comparing results

Started to razor away spackle from each strip on the right shelf brace. Still have to sand the right brace with low grit paper. Comparing them side by side shows where the time went.

75% complete drawing

Working on a drawing the last week or so. I haven't done a drawing with tedious repetion of shape for awhile so i decided to start one. Their are only two shape images drawn, syringe needles and pills.

DIY stop-motion green screen

Setting up a green screen stage area for advanced effects class. First thing to do was get a camera above a stage with no tripod. I decided to tape masking tape down on the camera next glued cardboard to the tape. Than just glued the cardboard to a shoe box filled with weights. Placed the box on a shelf right above the stage. To make the stage area I wrapped a tapestry of yellow around a shipping box. I couldn't find green or blue but shouldn't effect the editing process to much.

Paint layers added

Many layers of paint have been added, up to mid tones just have to add darker drips. I had to clear the area for a night of stop-motion images for a video editing class. Should just be one more session of darker layers, than a quick brush session. Happy with the results, starting a new project with same theme now.

Third phase of project

So I decided to not glue paper and try something I've never done before. I mixed, cut and soaked some lined note paper. It was odd/logical that all the blue line ink came off the paper and turned the water blue. I figured they would use better ink, perhaps slightly waterproof but that's really besides the point. I added interior latex paint to the slush and with my hand started to drip it down the elevated canvas. It's making an awesome drip effect which only looks better as different tones are added each time. I'm going in a earth tone direction with the colors. Starting from green to brown.

Album cover

My friend Pat Reyhle asked me to design an album cover for his first album. He wanted a specific spot out towards Spencer's butte. I took multiple pictures, made a panorama and condensed it to exact cover size. The sky was a bit tricky because we had both decided on a picture taken 30 mins after the chosen panorama images.

Late night drawing

Random way late night drawing of a toucan. Used a .5 copic pen than flicked watered down acrylic with my fingers.

Spackle layer

Added medium and small size strips of board to previous project. Once secured with masking tape and gesso I added three spackle layers. I think my next step will be to gesso small strips of paper moving upwards on the canvas.

Inch worm and Arduino

Started to mod Robotikits attacking inch worm today. I took off the solar panel, set up a breadboard and added a ping sensor to it. I'm hoping to control the speed by distance readings.

Looking into artists

http://tomgerhardt.com/ - Tom Gerhardt's work focuses on physical world interacting with the computing world.

Blog Site

Emerging Technology class blog site model. Basically each students gets there own slot showing there latest blog postings as squares. Every 10 new posts the colored square gets darker. Scroll up and down color postings with gray boxes. Circles by subjects narrows the search.

Processing and Histograms

I've been looking for away to incorporate processing with my own digital work. The main reason is that processing language can look at an image anyway you tell it to. So with this is mind I started playing with the histogram function. Here I have it look at the hue value of the picture on the left. Once analyzed I have a fixed number of lines I could use. On the right is the result of the hue value. Of course I manipulated the coding to be more appealing by setting the start points of the lines at random.

The color value of the lines are set to be a random gradient value. I'm hoping to take this much idea much farther in the immediate future.

Point of reference(http://processing.org/learning/topics/histogram.html).

Carboard and adhesivies

Adhesives and many paper types are what I've been working on lately. I started making some shelfs by cutting out foam board into a nice design. Than weaving several strips of heavy pressed cardboard around it. Giving a feeling of roots growing naturally up my design. Soon I'll Spackle each weaving, sand it, paint it than give it a glaze over. The second picture involves the same process. Except I'll be putting tears of paper over the stripes with gesso. Hoping to achieve a popping/bursting out of the canvas motion.