today we made INSTALLATIONS!! we had to respond to an already existing piece and change or replace with are own. i quite enjoyed working in a group and loved the level of idea making. when one idea bounces of other peoples thoughts and evolves until it reaches a point to start creating.
the pieces we started with had this woven red cube and that was the thing i contrasted my ideas on. there was also confessions hanging around the cube. after 30mins of brain storming and thinking up ideas we came up with the idea of the red box to be realizing birds ... the birds would be peace cranes so people could make piece with there self and confessions.
with 1 hr to go we still had nothing up so the composting although we knew we wanted to incorporate the pipe above so the form wasn't quite right (for me) but for a days work it turned out pretty well and can definitely see my self following the route of installation in unit 2 and further.
Started working on the focus part of my typography project.
after several hours of resorting to my notes and the processing.pdf book i downloaded i managed to write this working code:
float x = 0.0;
float y = 0.0;
float easing = 0.05;
float easing2 = 0.04;
void setup() {
size(100,100);
smooth();
}
void draw() {
background(255);
// mX and mY
float mX =constrain(x, 30, 60);
float targetX =mouseX;
x +=(targetX-x)* easing;
float mY =constrain(y, 50, 60);
float targetY =mouseY;
y +=(targetY-y)* easing;
// mX2 and mY2
float mX2 =constrain(x, 33, 57);
float targetX2 =mouseX;
x +=(targetX2-x)* easing2;
float mY2 =constrain(y, 53, 57);
float targetY2 =mouseY;
y +=(targetY2-y)* easing2;
//the shapes
noStroke();
fill(25,222,210);
ellipseMode(CENTER);
ellipse(mX2,mY2,25,25);
fill(0,0,0,240);
ellipse(mX,mY,15,15);
//eye lid
strokeWeight(8);
strokeCap(PROJECT);
stroke(255,238,201);
noFill();
if (mousePressed == true) {
bezier(10,50,50,50,50,50,70,50);
bezier(10,50,50,50,50,50,70,55);
}
else {
bezier(10,50,50,30,55,35,70,50);
bezier(10,60,50,70,55,75,70,55);
}
}
do feel very geeky right now ! All that created an eye that constantly looks at the mouse on the screen then if u click i closes. hopefully with a little bit of tinkering i could substitute the simple shapes with imported photos creating a realistic image.
today we set up the exhibition which we named "look what we made"we all signed up to different groups and rolls i went for marketing because i enjoy making posters and advertising and could be a possible future career. there was 4 of us and the first job was getting an idea for poster. ed proposed useing the image i had taken last night because its quite funny and we are on a time limit. dew to there being 4 of us we decided to go make 4 separate posters then have them linked by the text or something. the pace was really hectic and made miss vital info of ( which i did have but when saving hid the layer doh! ) and various obstacles croped up like the classic the printer doesn't work. so we went to octerpus printing just down the road and asked for 25 to be printed so we had 100 flyers/posters in total. the communication between us and the printers was awful and so frustrating and we walked out knowing that something would go wrong. 
Started working on the focus part of my typography project.
the second day of fabric and form led to some really interesting out comes which i would of never thought of on the first day or done in the past. the idea is simple taking flow and trying to put my exploration across in the simplest way but with the simplicity i think comes beauty. By cutting the paper or canvas in one direction then manipulating the sides the strips contorted and gave the sense of air flow like i wanted to achieve. putting the figure intertwined with the canvas gave me the idea of having the flow be a perfect cast of the figure. so say it was life size u could make out the skin. if the strips where thin enough (or thick) have both the negative and positive of the cast on either side of the strip where it would touch the figure and the rest be smooth. then remove the figure and have it bending out of a perfect straight white wall ,seamlessly like its part of the wall. then the expanse of the wall would be part of the piece and there becomes a mystery of where the flow ends and begins.
I went home and got strait on my mac and downloaded “processing” a open source program to create interactive images in java. And html. Format. After several hrs of reading tuts and trying to make things I have virtually nothing to show. the image is what i manged to make from a tutorial on the processing website(and understand) when you move the mouse it draws a circle and if you click it goes black. i can control the colour, size, outline and shape of the object. its a start but getting my head around the code is proving a bit of a mountain so have to copy and past it then go through it line by line changing bits to see what happens (usually an error) To even start being creative with it is going to take some time but I’m going to stick with it and see if I can possibly apply this to my typography project.
