DSDN 112 - Inspiration/ this week

http://vimeo.com/6111739

This link here is from the lecture we had this week. I features multiple objects falling from a height and creating sound. I thought this was very inspiring to me because how you could create such a master piece with such simple objects.

Now.. this week we bought items that were fun to play with and one that was very functional. I bought a kush ball for the fun side and a lynx can for functional. I chose the kush ball for the playfulness of the object with its rubbery strings which feels good in your hands. Also when you hold the kush ball you want to bounce it up and down from a string or just throw it up and down, basically just play with it because it feels good. I bought the lynx can for functional aspect because you cant just spray it, you have to twist the top to use it. I thought this was a good functional object because you need to put human input in to get something out. Also its very convenient because you get to chose when to spray it instead of it accidentally spraying everywhere.

Our group had to put them in order from functional to playfulness and here is a photo of this process.   

DSDN 112 - 5 Objects of the senses.

Here are 5 examples of the senses we have! Touch, Taste, Sound, Sight and Smell. I have bought these items into class to present and show there quality's that they hold. I especially like the kush ball because of the rubbery feel it gives and playfulness of the object. The peanuts I bought to class was for the taste sense. I thought it would be a good example because they are all peanuts but there are different types and texture to each one. I bought rubber bands because of the sound they make when you stretch them and also was inspired by those headphones we saw in the lecture. I also bought deodorant for the smell. I bought it for the unique smell it produced. And for the last sense sight, I bought an illusion which when you look at it it seems like all the circles are actually turning.

Kush ball (Touch) -
 
Mixed Peanuts (Taste) -


Rubber bands (Sound) - 

Illusions (Sight) -

Deodorant (Smell) -

DSDN 104 - Precedents

Adjective: Movement -  An act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed.

Verb: Fade - Gradually grow faint and disappear.

Noun: Feather -  something like a feather, as a tuft or fringe of hair.

I like these three words because they all have different feelings to them. I like 'feather' because of when I think of this word I see a floating feather or a very unique colored feather. Almost reminds me of the word delicacy. Movement could be a variety of different things, like for example it could be a fast movement, slow movement, flowing movement, twirling movement, you get the point. Movement could be either harsh or soft, it can go either way. I also picked fade as my verb word because it gives a sense of mystery and I thought it would be a good idea to incorporate that into my models.

I think these three key words are going to be my final words because of the quality's they hold.     

Also here is some of my sketches I've done to represent these precedents. 

Fade

Movement

Feather

DSDN 104 - Start of the TRI

Today we had a lecture that was very touching and motivating for me and assuming the whole class also. There was a clip that won an important award to do with design which really motivated/inspire me. It was about a rag doll but it comes to life along with several others. By the end of the clip one of the ragdoll's sacrificed his own life for another ragdoll which was very emotional. But the amount of work that got put into this clip was amazing. I was very inspired by making non-living objects come to life. Also there was another clip with an experiment on sound. It had serval different balls bounce of the ground which made different sounds and the composed a tune out of it. That also really inspired me to get going on this project already!!!  

DSDN 112 - New TRI, new project

Heres the start of a new tri..
I have seen and come up with some key ideas for this project, such as the blue milk testing we did and also the red liquid tester aswell. Both of the were a new experience and now it's inspired me too get going on this project and really create something that will suprise the person trying whatever I create. I have come up with some ideas like the a mirror cube, mixxed with concave and convex mirrors also making the mirrors have different texture which will make it a suprise. Also a really basic idea of a patterned spinning top with beads on it to create sound but these here are just ideas to elabrate on. So I guess it's a good base to start on. Now im looking foward to the lecture to find out more about this project. :)