Interaction Design: Resin Phase Introduction (part 1)

The video clip is of my last attempt to make a resin heart-shaped bottle.

Casting a Resin Heart: The Resin Phase from pagesinclair on Vimeo.

I have attempted this phase four times in all, and none of them worked out the way they needed to. I had the same issue with every resin casting I did. The surface exposed to the air would dry perfectly and was as smooth and glossy as polished glass, and then I would release the cast from the mould and the surfaces that were touching the mould were sticky and not set properly. It was only the surface that came into contact with the mould that wasn’t set, the rest of the resin seemed solid. It’s very odd, but only because I haven’t contacted the suppliers of the products to see if they know the reason I am having this issue every time I cast, given that I have varied what I have done to the inside surface of the mould. So I can only surmise that it is either the rubber mould itself reacting with the resin, or the total occlusion of air between mould and resin that is the issue. The other problem had been a small air bubble trapped between the cast and the mould where the neck of the bottle was. I think creating a mould where the bottle neck was down at the bottom of the mould and the opening for pouring would be the base of the bottle, (so upside down (as it is at the end of video clip)), would have solved the trapped air issue.

Interaction Design: Resin Phase Introduction (part 2)

Reference:

Good Old Neon (2008). The Age of Mechanical Reproduction. On This Is the News [mp3 file]. Sourced from: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Good_Old_Neon/This_Is_the_News/good_old_neon_-_03_-_the_age_of_mechanical_reproduc

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DSDN101 Project 3: Blog Statement

How would it look if we took posting on our Facebook walls out of the digital realm and brought it into the physical world. Where would we post? Would we even post at all? I chose to explore the concept of  posting on a wall as we do on Facebook by taking it out of its usual context and placing it in a context where it would come off absurd looking. We post on our digital walls so regularly that we don’t always stop to think about how much privacy we actually have online or just how permanent that data could be, or indeed the narcissism involved in updating our status, or “checking in”. Tim Soutphommasane believes that

“the creeping influence of social media, impels us, however insidiously, to believe that nothing is validated as reality until it is either put into a status update or tweet.”  (para. 8, T. Soutphommasane, 2012)

He thinks that social media has caused us to redraw the lines between our private and public lives, so that almost everything becomes public, even if just to close friends. (T. Soutphommasane, 2012)

And in the spirit of the moment, I put on here one of my posts that didn’t really need to be posted, as well as a shot from the clip.

My stop motion clip shows the craziness of living our lives online to such an extent that we make lunch dates with others by posting to them. The clip shows two women in the city who have a conversation by “posting” messages to each other on the side of a physical “wall”, even though texts or phoning each other would be better suited to the topic of conversation, that of setting up a lunch date. As they post, members of the public walk by, some pay no attention to what is going on while others slow down slightly to read and observe as they walk by, thus illustrating that no conversation is ever truly private when broadcast via social media channels. The clip also shows how social media has redefined the idea of what a wall is used for to a certain extent, so we end up with perhaps a “new way of seeing” what a wall can be used for, although, as Rob Kelly said in his piece Urban Sprawl, “People have been posting things on other people’s walls before social media erupted and they haven’t stopped yet”. (para. 5, R. Kelly, 2012). Things such as posters, graffiti, tags and even poetry. http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherdewolf/334744642/

References:

Kelly, R. (23 April 2012). Urban Sprawl. Salient. Retrieved from http://www.salient.org.nz/arts/urban-sprawl

Soutphommasane, T. (21 May 2012). A moderate lament for the imminent passing of privacy. The Age.. Retrieved from http://theage.com.au

DSDN 101 Project 3: The Clip

DSDN101 Project 3 The Clip: Stop Motion raw footage 1 & 2

 

 

DSDN101 Project 3: Stop Motion Technique Test Sample

This was for the interim hand-in of the work “to date”. I hadn’t got very far by this stage as I still wasn’t sure how I wanted to do the clip. I’d also been spending a lot of time on other assignments as well and this project was therefore suffering from a lack of time spent on it.

DSDN101 Project 3: The Clip Development

This is a raw first cut, and I mean RAW!

There’s some things in it I am not too happy about. Photos and a proper outline around the paper would’ve been better I feel. Shows that I needed to do more prep work. I rendered this at 15fps but it seems too fast. Like I said, it is raw and needs editing, obviously.

DSDN101 Project 3: The Clip – Green Screen Test Sample

These are a couple more wee tests I did in the comfort of the indoors to see if a green screen would work for my idea, and to hopefully give some very vague idea on what I plan to do. I do not plan on using a desk, magic dots, a small green screen and smoothing the posts on with my hands. The plan is to use a wall in the city, a large green screen at home for the posting bit, larger posts, my cousin as my conversation partner and some kind of glue that can be slapped on with a paintbrush. That’s the plan anyway, but the plan could change…

 

One Word Film

Storyboard for my word EVANESCE. Still required some comments to be added at this point

Evanesce: disappear gradually. Like morning mist or vapor.

Font: Packard Antique (Steffmann, D., 2000)

and the film

Unfortunately I didn’t plan my time as well as I should have to take into account any hiccups such as storyboards needing to be reworked or redone because of mistakes and I ran out of time to add the sound to my clip.  I had planned on adding, and plan to do anyway as I would like to finish this wee movie properly, the sound of white noise to the clip as I wanted a sound that was subtle and had the  same quality about it as the visuals. I thought that white noise at a fairly quiet level was kind of like the sound of silence which is a sound I associate with morning mist when everything is very still and it’s still too early for there to be much activity around making its own sounds. Actually the sound of my computer through the amplifier I have hooked up to it would work quite nicely. I would also like to add more letters to the film as well to try and replicate what I have in the storyboard.

Reference:

Steffmann, D. (2000). Packard Antique (font). Retrieved from http://www.dafont.com.