Experimenting with having the box of stuff right next to the TV that has the live stream of its contents. This was born out of necessity since I needed both Raspberry Pis to be on the same LAN, but I kind of like that it makes the project even more obsessive. Debating whether to have ...
My plan for the Bottomless Pit piece was to have the screen/box combo sit on top of another cardboard box. Problem is, the weight of the screen would likely cause the box beneath it to cave in. I decided to buy a table to act as the interior support. I’ll cover the table with the ...
I tried placing the screen inside of a box and then building a second, tapered box that would fit inside and cover the rim. That failed miserably. I tried sticking individual cardboard tabs onto the screen, but couldn’t get them to fit seamlessly together. After a few more attempts with the tapered box idea, I ...
Should people be allowed to touch the bears? Everyone wants/tries to… Melanie: Bear piece feels a little hollow CCTV piece needs more of a narrative or pattern, as does the box piece Box: maybe it starts out innocuous and then progressively shows more curious, weird objects? Like what TSA confiscates? From banal > uncanny If ...
This time I cut the sides of the box down so that it could lay flat. This way, I could photograph things on the bottom of the box without getting the sides in the viewfinder. I then cut a hole out of the bottom of the box to match the size of my iPad screen. I ...
First attempt: Cut bottom out of old box, took photos with iPad camera against plain background. Second attempt: Photographed objects inside box, loaded photos onto iPad, placed iPad inside box. Items:
After banging my head against the wall for a few hours, I finally got two web cams to feed simultaneously into one Processing sketch: Download my code if you need it! working2up_webcams_20130224
Feedback from guest critic Kyle Li, as well as Louisa Campbell and my other classmates: Where are the bears sitting? In a clean gallery space, or in my room? Could the bears be having some type of online chat between them? Where is the viewer situated? Are they a participant? Should the cameras inside of ...
(working title) The idea: 2 teddy bear nanny cams, watching each other. Live feed of the footage streaming online. Humans watching objects through objects, objects watching objects.
Up until now, I have presented my thesis project “inventori” as an earnest attempt and creating a useful tool. I thought of it as a coping mechanism for those of us that are too sentimental about our things to give them away. I’ve been planning to make a website that can be a database for ...
Thesis argument: Objects are symbols of human history. This history can get lost as they physically erode, rust, break, and disappear. Additionally, the nature of objects is changing: physical objects are being translated into immaterial software that is housed in high-tech hardware. Immaterial software and high-tech objects cannot be vessels of sentiment/nostalgia in the same ...