Electrosmog: Flashmob

We have come up with the concept to run a flash mob in auckland city using a wide variety of people who are connected and contacted through the internet.

tomorow we are going to run a practise with some of the students from the bct.

Actions to do:

Freeze frame: Frozen on the spot with no movement whatso ever, then disperse.

Freeze frame action: Frozen into a position determined at a pre existing time.

Flashmob vid on youtube*

The relation to immobility must be present so a freeze frame is an understandable action. frozen in a position predefined to relate to the people around them or, in some way a form of communication…

ElectroSmog

Currently we are looking at the electro smog festival which looks at ’sustainable immobility’.

Using the theme of ubiquity meaning being everywhere at once i have decided to present to the class a presentation on an idea which will ulatise the means on immobility by cancelling out the need for people to travel to a plcae of work but instead take that place of work to them.

Year 2

Year 2

Urban Screen:

Project 4:

Urban Screen

The Dichotomy of Choice

Taylor Abernethy-Newman

Chris Trengrove

Jason Sabbage

Design brief:

To produce a work for presentation on a public screen

Design proposal:

Using the space located in and around the doors of an elevator a moving image will be displayed to depict a rich and cultural insight into the connotations of everyday life.

Presentation:

If human beings are contained by the volume of architectural urban space then…. like an arterial flow, people are pumped through the anatomy of the city, as plasma would enter and exit the chambers of the heart.

If the journey and content of the blood functions to serve transport of essential nutrients to all of the body, then the heart – as vessel – is instrumentally an influential hub of animate source and substance.

Moreover, the mind is inextricable from the body, so whatever the heart exudes the mind will absorb. Yet it remains true that the body can function without it.

We could therefore argue that some ‘quality of life’ is a variable determined by presence of activity in the brain (qualified by descriptors fed to it in the blood).

How do we then, choose to render ourselves optimal carriers of nutritional value – to avoid potential ‘vegetative’ states of human function, individually or collectively?

And imperative to our decision is the unequivocal question of time.

The heart symbolizes – and is key concept – to the aesthetic experience of the body as volumetric space; itself contained in the recurrent human expanse of urban society.

The Dichotomy of Choice

Conformity:                                                                   Free thought:

Neutrality

‘Have you got time to chose’

Free thought and Conformity as represented by the opposing sides of the heart.

Project 2: Urban Screen

Today we received a new brief for the last project of the semester, and the year for that fact.

The Topic is Urban Screen

which more or less means urban screens found in our everyday life..

our brief is to Produce a work for presentation on a public Screen.

Above is an example of an Urban Screen being used at a gathering of the Social Sphere bywhich people are gathered around a focul point (Screen).

Data Structures:

Recently we began a new topic: data structures which is another programming project using a different program called net beans. it is the same as processing in some ways but the main difference is that net beans is a java platform.

the shedule we were to follow was to cramp a years course into a 2 week cram session, which at first i found hard to accept. the workload which we were taking on was huge with so much information intake i found it hard to retain alot of the information given.

It did however become esier once i started to understnad the basic principle of java processing.

Self Interview

Friday 21st Aug, 12:09pm

FBI Case file: The incident of the Whammy Box

Interview number#: 0944955

Interviewee: Taylor Abernethy-Newman

(Note: Interview conducted in isolation room WT032, wellesly st precinct.)

1. Mr Abernethy, it has come to our attention that you may or may not be participating in the act of smuggling illegal substances into the country, how you you respond to that?

No, no, no this is all a misunderstanding, how was i supposed to know the boat was secretly a columbian drug smuggling vessel. I was simply transporting the materials for my latest project. It was a mistake trying to avoid paying tax at customs but i never meant to get caught up in this mess!

2. So what your saying is that the so called ‘materials’ are for your latest ‘project’… what is this supposed to mean?

I…I am simply a humble instrument builder. The materials which you seized were to be used in creating a new instrument which i have been drafting up for months. I have made a prototype of this instrument but the wood i chose to use did not resonate properly, so i went in search of the legendary chimbakwa wood found near and around columbia which dates back to the ancient incas who used the wood for their instruments.

3. So you just decided to up and go, where do you get that kind of money from?

That i can explain. Five years ago i completed a bachelor of creative technoliges at the Auckland University of Technology. since then i have been travelling the world, following where my work takes me. i have been working in places such as Vodaphone Australia as their general advertising executive. I have worked for Sony in Beijing as their creative design manager… and from that work i have gathered i tidy sum of money. i am currently working for the well known music company, Forlongo, which specialises in building guitars and other stringed instrument… the reason for the instrument was my own little project on the side.

4. That still doesn’t explain why you went half way across the world to find a piece of wood…

I cant tell anyone about this project, i fear that there is a mole inside of the company leaking designs to our main competitor so i took it on as my own personal project.

5. OK Mr Abernethy, i will have some agents look into weater or not you are telling the truth. In the mean time im going to need all the details on this instrument so i can understand why you needed that wood, because frankly im at a loss.

OK, where do i start. I call it the Whammy box. It is a two stringed instrument that is played in a way that it can make a ‘wow wow’ sound, like the whamy bar on a guitar. But the difference between a guitar and my whammy box is that the box is designed as a bass instrument, but also has a different control mechanism, which makes it esier to manipulate and control. The strings are housed inside of a box which acts as a resonator. This means that when the strings vibrate is moves the airspace inside of the box and bounces of the walls. This amplifies and then produces sound.

i designed it as a new and innovative way to add a new sound frequency into the traditional band. With this sound i believe that music such as Drum and bass and Dub step will be able to be played live by instruments and not always electronically conducted.There are some pictures in my briefcase, i will show you.

Item of Significance

My object holds personal significance in my life because of the circumstances I received it under. Most of my young life has been dedicated to sport, mainly to hocky. I have strived for many years to get into top grades and play at a high level of performance. Last year I studied advanced anatomy and physiology and sport studies in order to help improve my sporting career.

My object has a great personal significance because it is a representation of how hard I have worked to achieve my goals of playing national level.

It also comes with many memories of friendships that have formed and life-changing experiences that occurred on the road to success, it is also a reminder of how hard I need to keep working in order to keep rising.

20 Questions:

Iphone

1: What are you: An Iphone

2.How often are you used: All the time

3: What are you mainly used for: I am mainly used for txting, but because of my technological capabilities i am used for many other things two, for example an ipod. this is the reason i was brought for… to be better than the rest.

4: Do you feel your owner takes good care of you: some of the time, for example i have this protective sleeve that i wear, but smetimes i feel neglected when im dropped or my screen is scratched.

5:Tell me about the sleeve: its comfortable for me, absorbs most heat so i dont overheat and also absorbs the shock of being bumped around in a pocket. but there is always things that get caught in the back, and never cleaned out.

6: So by having a sleeve wouldnt that mean that your owner is worried about his personal ability to take care of you: I guess yes, it is fairly evident, but im glad he took the precautions… must mean that he doesnt want me to brake.

7: Very true, so a little more about you. your 16 gb is that correct: Yes

8: do you enjoy having all that space: Well actually there isn’t much space left, because of my use as an ipod and camera and web browser and what not i find myself frquently being uploaded with new music and videos.

9: you’ve got a rather large scratch on the screen, does this make you feel ugly and or intrusive because it is on such an important and focal part of you body: it does in the sense that i feel my owner doesnt care about it but i dont because it is only the protective screen across my face.

10: Again another protect screen, does this reinforce the feeling that your owner doesnt seem to be able to look after you without using exterior protection… or that they feel safer and more comfortable having you around knowing your all the more protected: umm…difficult question, i think the second one, i know that sometimes he doesnt take care of me but then again i am an everyday item… but i still feel as if my owner is worried about me.

11: What do you men by that: well because of my value, both financially and personally i feel that my owner takes care of me in his subconcious, by this i mean that he is always aware of wear i am and if im in danger of being damaged or hurt they remove me from the situation. but on a general day to day basis my owner does not alway pay me attention therefore things sometimes happen when they doesnt realise what they are doing.

12: Could you give an example of this: Sometimes when my owner gets on the bus and im in the back pocket i get sat on. Of course they realise once they feel me being squashed, but by then its too late, its already happened. The just other general things like being bumped against the inside of there pocket all the time.

13: Ok i see, so linking back to some of the first questions i asked do you feel under appreciated: thinking about it id say yes. when i was new i was cherished and treated like gold, but now that i have become a general day to day item i fear that i am just becoming another necessity in my owners busy life.

14: I can see how that’s possible, i myself has a phone that has been dropped a few times, but i still really like having it around, i guess what i have made from this interview is that you feel like you are a valuable part of your owners life but you wish that you were treated a little better: Yeah i agree with that, i feel a bit neglected but if i was treated a little better and kept in a higher condition life would be better for both me and my owner.

15: for your owner?: well everytime im treated badly sometime i crash unexpectedly or have system errors, which is no fault on my part!

Maya

Today we begun another one day exercise incorporating the world of Maya. Maya is a highly powerful program used for animation and 3-d rendered design.

beginning the day by creating a grid of 1200mm x 1200mm, we then created a 6×6 grid and placing three solid shapes randomly around the grid created others in between by morphing them.

this was an interesting and testing exercise as it became more and more difficult to produce new shapes that worked in conjunction with the others.

once we had worked out the 36 shapes in the grid we then incorporate 1 into maya.

i would be interested in further interested in using maya, especially for some animation design…just to show the complexity of the work space i will post a screen shot of maya…