Animation of Evolution of an Image

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Evolution of an Image

For a long time I was really into drawing.  I used to draw at least every other day and often just scribble through out the day, but for a while I haven't had the chance to just sit down and draw.  On Friday I took out an old drawing that I never finished and started working on it.  I'm still not finished, but I thought I would share with you all of you my progress.  Sorry the images aren't very good quality.  I just took some quick snap shots with my digital camera and tried to brighten them up so you guys could see them.  Here is the drawing as it evolved from when I began last February:

Let me know how you think it is coming.  Hope you enjoy.  Thanks for taking the time to check it out!!

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Vimeo Festival + Awards & Makezine

Hey guys.  It's been over a week since I updated my blog... What's up with that!?!?!  Well, all I can say is I apologize... I'm sure you guys have been dying a little in the inside waiting in anticipation.  So I have lots of fun things to tell you, but I'm not ready to tell them all to you yet.  Instead I'm going to tell you guys that if you haven't already, you should check out Makezine's blog.  Not only is it inspiring, interesting, and helpful, but it's AWESOME!!!  GET ON THAT GUYS!  Sorry... didn't mean to shout.

Anyway.  I just went on it today.  They have a How To on a self venting cat box!! Holy awesomeness.  If you don't think that's cool or useful, then, well, I don't know what to tell you.  Take a look it's so cool.

I'm not ready to stop rambling, but here is an album of the Vimeo Festival + Awards.  Just posted them a couple hours ago on Fineartmagazine.com.  I was originally going to show you guys a little video preview, but it's having some issues uploading.

That's just a little preview from what I experienced at the Vimeo Festival + Awards on Saturday, October 9th 2010.

It would be so awesome if some of you commented on my blog.  Or commented on that awesome cat box.  I would love to hear your thoughts!!  Let's get some sort of conversation going on.  I mean I know I'm nuts, but it's not as fun always talking to yourself.  So talk guys and if not I still love you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to read my boring... I mean extremely interesting thought provoking posts.

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Senior Project

It's about time I give you guys a little update/taste of my senior project.  Although I haven't been doing a ton of research reading, I have been doing quite a bit of coding research and actually taking some electronics apart.

Printer I took apart to obtain any DC motors from within

Motor?

Lots of gears and screws I can use!!

Well I'm guessing you probably have no idea what I am trying to accomplish.  Last year I created a project that consisted of three recycled printer cartridges attached to a DC motor with a potentiometer.  When you turned the pot it would change the speed of the motor.  When the motor spun the force caused the ink to spit out around the room, all over the floor, chairs, and on innocent bystanders.

My Project

 

View the video above to see a demonstration of how it worked (This was after all the ink ran out).  So what am I going to do for my senior project that relates to this?  Well, instead of using a potentiometer to control the speed at which the motor spins, I will be using sound.  I hope to create a whole bunch of these motors so that I can fill a white room with them where they can splatter paint everywhere.

Splatter

What I have recently decided I may do is instead of buying a whole bunch of microphones to use on my splatter devices,  I may just take hack into things like headphones and cellphones to obtain the microphones out of them.  In this way I will be sustaining the idea of recycling and re-appropriating materials.

Motorola Cellphone

Top cover peeled back and underneath exposed

Lots of pieces

This little microphone is all I wanted it for

The next step is creating a code that will read the microphone signals, send it to the computer as data as well as send the values to the motor to determine how fast it will move.  I began working off a simple code to just get the readings of the microphone.  It was getting readings, but in some way the readings weren't actually corresponding to the microphone.  Still haven't gotten to the bottom of that.  However, in the mean time we can take a sneak peek at some of the wiring I was working on yesterday.

Wiring on breadboard and Arduino

Well for now this is what I got.  It may not seem like much, but it's definitely a start.  Can't wait to share what surprises come next!!  Thanks everyone and check back soon for more updates on my senior project as well as PTV updates and probably some Fine Art Magazine updates this weekend after the Vimeo Awards!!

P.S.  I really enjoy getting comments, so if you have any suggestions, ideas, or just general comments, please don't hesitate to leave one :)  Thanks!!!

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