Month: October 2017
Everett’s first trip to the gym. Working out exhausted him.
Everett’s first trip to the gym. Working out exhausted him.
Is there anything better than a fresh, clean Ubuntu?
Is there anything better than a fresh, clean Ubuntu?
Oh hey, have a great Art Walk everyone! #breweryartwalk
Oh hey, have a great Art Walk everyone! #breweryartwalk
Collaboration
It’s been quiet in my creative world…but not uneventful. Over the last couple of months I’ve had the pleasure of working with Cynthia Minet on her upcoming installation, “Migrations.” Cynthia is an accomplished artist and her creations are constructed from post-consumer plastics and LED lighting. Migrations depicts six Roseate Spoonbills in varying stages of flight. With this sculpture Cynthia hoped to push the lighting a little further than she had in previous work. There were two goals.
- Have greater control over the color and brightness of each LED
- Add movement to the sculpture by animating the LEDs
After some initial conversation a third goal popped up. If we’re going to be programming these LEDs could we also add some motion activated audio to immerse the viewer in the world of the spoonbill? After some testing we settled on the P9813 LED pixels. The plastic casing around the actual LED helps diffuse the light. The fact that the strands run at 5v was an added bonus. To program the lights and the motion based audio I knew we were going to use something in the Arduino family. The spoonbills do not have a ton of room inside of them so we opted for a Trinket to run the lighting and a Trinket Pro to run the audio system. Ideally everything would run off of one board but that just wasn’t feasible here. This also cut down on the cost for each sculpture. The next few posts will get into the details of the wiring, programming, testing, and installation of the lighting and audio systems. If you’re around this weekend (Oct 21 and 22) you can see the sculpture in its current state at the Brewery Art Walk. Art Walk runs from 11a-6p both days. #breweryartwalk
Friends! Art Walk is this weekend! 11a-6p both days. We won’t be open but we’ll be here wandering around. Come on by! Remember, get here
Friends! Art Walk is this weekend! 11a-6p both days. We won't be open but we'll be here wandering around. Come on by! Remember, get here early for the easiest parking or take public transportation/Lyft. Sunday looks to be a hot one, bring water.
Liked Liked Kevin Marks’s post on known.kevinmarks.com
Liked Kevin Marks’s post on known.kevinmarks.com
Liked AlphaGo movie post on www.socalgo.org
AlphaGo movie post on www.socalgo.org
It’s President Moron to you!
It's President Moron to you!