A blog entry for my spatial design class:
structural acting

Stanislavski’s most significant gift to acting was action, or intention. The idea that a character’s behavior could be most simply expressed as a series of desires which an actor could then perform. […] If we extrapolate Plasticity of Motion to the design of structures and objects, two lessons become clear. One, that there can be a kernel of truth, an action or desire from which the structure must grow (and inversely, that a structure will ultimately convey that action or desire). And two, stripping away habitual forms and motions will allow that essential desire to be fully expressed.

Here’s some updates on what i’ve been up to this week:

Physical Computing: A simple alternating switch. I spent my friday night at the lab doing setting up my breadboard and ultimately proggramming the PIC18f542 so that if the button is pressed, one LED lights up; if it is released, the other lights up.

Spatial Design:

our exercise was to build a model that explored light and color, and document it with a 2min video. I used theatrical lighting gels, reflective colored cardboard, foamcore and a flash light to construct this:

ICM (intro to computational media:

Here are links to my week two processing projects, which were an experiment in parallel programming, an extreme programming technique where two people sit and code at the same computer. My partner Lisa and I came up with these two numbers:

[xtreme photos!!]
[xtreme drawing!!]