I did not see another post from our group, so I wasn’t sure if we were supposed to individually upload something for the final or as a group. My group consisted of Lola, Phil, Joe (awesome last addition), and myself… I do not have many of my own photos, but I do have a video of …
December 2011 archive
Dec 22 2011
The Videola
I graduated last year with a bachelor’s degree in what is called “Film Studies,” because a majority of the movies we watched and wrote about were shot on film. I also grew up in what will be the last generation to have seen a major motion picture premiere that was originally shot and edited on …
Dec 21 2011
Final Synopsis
The first project was the goldburg machine. I actually did not participate in the first project since I started to semester a little late, and had trouble meeting with the assigned group. I did like the final outcome, all of the machines worked together. The second project was the lost tech I converted a laser …
Dec 20 2011
3rd Project….I am obsessed with cassette tapes
After mulling over it for a few weeks, I am still obsessed w/cassette tapes. Here is fun link on cassette tape culture. It isn’t really related to something I want to do for this project, but I thought it was kind of cool. So I finally decided on combining my obsession with cassette tapes with …
Dec 20 2011
Dead Tech. Second Attempt After the Untimely Passing of my Apple Remote
So in my last post for this project, I left off with the intentions of turning one of my old retro controllers into an Apple remote. UPDATE. Terese’s Apple Remote Found Slain By Roommate in Reckless Movement of Furniture and Outright Clumsiness. Now that my poor remote is no more, and it is not within …
Dec 20 2011
Lost & Found Tech. Analog Tape Playing Guitar (project 3) Final Documentation
For my third project, I also worked alone. In this project was inspired by the genius of Nam June Paik and (then later) the Signal to Noise installation. In my rendition, as I continued with my cassette tape obsession, I tried to create an Analog Tape Playing Guitar. For my materials, I had (again) cassette …
Dec 20 2011
Dead Tech (project 2). Final Documentation
For the second project, Dead Tech, I worked alone. After going through various phases with this assignment, this is my final result, and where my obsession with cassette tapes began. From destroyed Apple remote, (now) seemingly useless retro controllers, and budget constraints, I restarted back to the radio that I was so in love with I …
Dec 20 2011
Dead Tech. Finds: Mini Stereo (Boom) & Retro Controllers
So for the second project (dead tech), I found a few cool items: an old radio and two retro controllers. I am not sure how these different items would function together, and since I am not electronically savvy this became a real concern for me. Through internet research I was able to find …
Dec 20 2011
Final Documentation
Anti-GPS 1 Anti-GPS 2 Above are images from my final project concerning lost and found tech. It is an Anti-GPS designed to get you lost. In an environment where we rely upon technology to get us to where we are going as quickly as possible we often are not aware of our surroundings and lose …
Dec 19 2011
[Lost&FoundTech] Cee Dhe Music Box
The project was started from the notion about souvenir and how it is hard to purchase the real New York souvenir. But I found that creating such an emotional object is not easy. However, I found that almost all of the souvenirs have patterns of mimicking the landmark/ the experience into small objects. So after …