Sep 27 2011
These are a couple photos and videos from last Sunday. My group created a four person accordion where we each had to give input in order to get a sound to come from the circuit which ran through all four accordions. This was really interesting because despite the fact that we have collectively brought a …
Sep 27 2011
Madeline from Freegan.info will be talking in class today. Here is the link to her presentation.
Sep 27 2011
Here are some pictures of our processes along with some of my sketches! Stay tuned for an awesome video!
Sep 27 2011
Parinot and WenChing At the beginning of the class, I totally had no idea how to tell the grand and power and how to trigger these physical stuff. It seems that I still stand outside and didn’t know how to give help to another team member. Thanks for Katherine again that she agreed with my new …
Sep 26 2011
Over the weekend I went to check out Occupy Wall Street, and while wandering the streets down there I came upon a dumpster that looked as though a company (perhaps a health insurance co.) had recently cleaned office or shut down. There were tons of old files and paperwork along with furniture, several dell desktop …
Sep 22 2011
Here’s a progress report of our Rube Goldberg machine First of all we warmly welcomed with our whole hearts, our addition to the group, Joe. It was good having you Joe. We then managed to set up, with the damage to one of our printers under control, a small chain of events, similar to our …
Sep 22 2011
My group had multiple scavenged devices to take apart and consider: A printer, a blender, a light, an old hot oven plate, a drum table for an x box game–that we spent much of the first week just unscrewing things and seeing what we could find. I think we were all still very generally confused …
Sep 20 2011
inspired by Jan Svankmajer’s work. The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer 1987 Cappriccio is an Italia word, means based on imagination，close to the fantasia. As you can see, We have a printer, a motor and a light from printer, and a few small stuff ( small sensors, small swifter , round rubber eraser ) So far, we …
Sep 20 2011
These are the basic areas where I am looking for salvageable stuff, havnt found much as of yet, A few power chargers and a noise machine. -Mark
