CCTV Live from the Box

CCTV Live from the Box
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 ...

Interior Support for Bottomless Pit

Interior Support for Bottomless Pit
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 ...

Cardboard Dresser Facade

Cardboard Dresser Facade
I’m testing out an idea to that might help give the bears some context and make the piece slightly more accessible.

Desk Crit with Scott Pobiner + Nitin Sawhney

Desk Crit with Scott Pobiner + Nitin Sawhney

Bottomless Pit – Attempts 4, 5, 6

Bottomless Pit – Attempts 4, 5, 6
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 ...

Desk Crit with Melanie Crean

Desk Crit with Melanie Crean
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 ...

Live Web Feed of My Stuff

Live Web Feed of My Stuff
  via earthcam.com (my page: http://www.mycampage.com/meanwhile)

Bottomless Pit – 3rd Attempt

Bottomless Pit – 3rd Attempt
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 ...

Bottomless Pit Prototyping

Bottomless Pit Prototyping
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:

Nanny Cams in Processing

Nanny Cams in Processing
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

Desk Crit with Kyle Li

Desk Crit with Kyle Li
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 ...

Nanny Cam Cam

Nanny Cam Cam
(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.  

inventori.tv

inventori.tv
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 ...

Project Proposal

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 ...

Prototype: Object as Symbol

Prototype: Object as Symbol
        Reflection     Thesis Prototype: Cassette Projection from Jennifer Kaye on Vimeo.