After 24 hours the PVA glue has dried leaving only the glitter. Me and Izi hot glued dyed mesh to the top representing coral, and tied a strong rope to the metal anchor which we hot glued as well. it began to look quite pretty already.
Izi testing the helmet again whilst deciding coral placements.
The 3D models of our class finally printed. I actually turned out great.
Setting up our instillation and projection mapping sofware.
The inside is amazing.
FEEDBACK
Rae-bae
Ryan
Hannah
L
EVERYONE ELSES HEAD COULD FIT IN BESIDES MINE!
Here's everything set up. The model by itself looks really dumb, but with the projection mapping and sounds it looks like a glowing orb of life in the dark abyss that I wouldn't mind seeing before I die. It suprised me that it actually glowed!
The purpose of this helmet instilation is to recreate what our underwater city would feel like with the senses, experiencing our fictional world from the inside. Of course this cannot be fully accurate because there a limit to what we can simulate as a group - sight, sound, smell. We wondered if adding salt to the inside would recreate taste but that would be so gross and sting everything; or just force people to eat salt. The 'coral' material on the top could add to touch though.
SIGHT : The most impactful part of this instilation is the visuals, we tried different colors but the bright sunset colors moving in a wave motion is the best, and perfectly reflects our other model; how the light from my sunset lamp would travel through the water, illuminating the city from above; even the colors are exact as well.
SOUND: When you're inside the dome, external sound becomes muffled as if you were actually underwater which is mainly why Izi chose this object for this exact purpose. But we also wanted some ambience in thhe background too, we considered meditative music, ocean waves, soundbowls, even Jhene Aiko songs, but L thought about adding bineural beat frequencies instead and it fit perfectly.
SMELL: Though everything else was nice, the inside was stincky due to the PVA glue so Izi had the perfect Idea about getting some salt spray from Primark to get rid of the stink and add to the ocean senses.
More successfull than anticipated.
Stuck the lamp, ready for water.
I WOULD END HERE BUT TODAY IS DEFENITELY THE MOST PRODUCTIVE DAY THROUGHOUT THIS PROJECT.
Lara called us all to to front to discuss the deadline and other details on the assessment, and the prospect of having a bit over a week left took a toll on a lot of people, Izi and I included. We had no complete presentation, no script, no finished project, yet for some reason I was aslo full of detirmination and couldnt keept still thinking about the amazing body of work we could end up with. L left and Izi felt more overwhelmed, so I tried to infect her with my motivation.
We remebered lessons from our early thought lab, about changing your mindset and visualising ones own thought process, then put that into practice to turn this stressful situation around. To reassure the both of us but, we sat down and discussed steps.
Like we did last lesson we recorded ourselves just talking casually about everything we did from the start, our journey throughout this project, ideas we had, choices we made, links to objects and themes across our labs. We talked about philosophy, politics, science and fantasy. We talked about what we can do with narrative, linking back to our digital and thought labs, what roles we can assign to get the work done. After talking for half an hour non stop everything fell into place, and we genuinely found our clarity of purpose for the whole project, all documented on these audio recordings.
Once we finished recording we knew exactty what to do. Izi took on the vital role of organizing the presentation and spent days in the library after class writing up a script for our presentation based on these audio recordings. Which is something that I possibly could not have done the way she has, because we waffled and said so much in random order. As she did that my focus was to bring in the narrative into our fantasy project using my understanding of digital sofwares and anthropology, which is crutial for bringing in our Digital Lab. I would spend days and nights doing what I can, character illustration and concept art, digital drawing, 3D modelling, video editing, architectural drawings, AI generated images, moodboards, research, story making and things that I genuinely enjoyed.
Despite their absences Catherine and L contributed by adding to the presentation and script, their ideas and research. L provided whatever videos of photos the had and Catherine researched more in depth about Architecture and made character designs as well.