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Final Project

Working with Therese Oterholm

MORE (some clippings -- style/mood board stuff)

At this point, I'm just throwing up links of interest, and doing some free association... This probably isn't terribly useful for Therese, but it's an easy way for me to store some thoughts and links.

I love this project! If only I were half as clever as this guy.
Description (from his site):
Heat generated by halogen lights activates a propeller and thus movement in the Dancing Shades lamp. The lamp projects shadows on the wall that create the same type of relaxing and hypnotic atmosphere that reflections of moving water create.

http://www.tjep.com/things/dancing/index.html

The rest of his work is up at: http://www.tjep.com/studio.html

I like this lamp, though it's static. It'd be nice to see a dynamic version of this -- I was interested in how different cut outs can make moire patterns: http://www.scandinaviandesign.com/louispoulsen/0509/

Also this lamp: http://mocoloco.com/archives/001194.php

Is there something we extract from the 2 above images and the Antenna's cherry blossom projection onto the cylinder below? Okay, I'm obsessed with the laser cutter.

Some great work here by hehe -- it's a little overwhelming. This project in particular uses blowing/breath... Take a look at the closeup -- that's paper cup as diffuser -- inspired material choice

Looking over some stuff last week, about memories, secrets, and wishes, made me think of the last scene in "In the Mood For Love" when Tony Leung's character whispers his secret into a hole in the temple, and then covers it with dirt.

Memories, secrets, wishes: Japanese temples.... (from http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2059.html)

Ema: Shrine visitors write their wishes on these wooden plates and then leave them at the shrine in the hope that their wishes come true. Most people wish for good health, success in business, passing entrance exams, love or wealth.

Omikuji: Omikuji are fortune telling paper slips found at many shrines and temples . Randomly drawn, they contain predictions ranging from daikichi ("great good luck") to daikyo ("great bad luck"). By tying the piece of paper around a tree's branch, good fortune will come true or bad fortune can be averted.

ema (votive plaques) http://www.geocities.com/votiveema/
omikuji: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omikuji

Ingo Maurer's lamp

This lamp has love letters on it. What if instead of love letters, I could make make some networked repository/light/object where people could leave their wishes or get good forturnes. A cross between and ema or omikuji and Ingo Maurer's Zettel'z 5 lamp.

On a different note: Creepers, by Future Factories: lighting/room divider

Completely unrelated, but totally inspired:

By the way, I love that tree exhibit linked from your site. I really wish I had seen it. I like that there's a preciousness and delicateness to it, and the scale.

Some more links:

Electroland > http://electroland.net/flash.php > projects > Axial rings
These rings aren't such pretty symbolic hearts. Not crazy about all of the implementation. But I like the idea of traffic (motion, activity, sound) causing the network of hearts to pulse/beat faster.

There's also a project for the New Indianapolis airport here
NoHo Commons -- patterns triggered by traffic (on a street), same as EnterActive
The Hollywood Shadow Project (no tech) is awesome (and no tech). Great use of light and shadow.

More by the electorland people
http://dma.ucla.edu/gallery/faculty_gallery.php?ID=101
http://dma.ucla.edu/gallery/faculty_gallery.php?ID=105

She does a lot of projections. I'm not crazy about the actual images (not my style), but worth a look:
This one has a dervish tree -- marginally related (projection, tree imagery)
http://jsteinkamp.com/html/lehmannmaupin.htm
Not so crazy about this projection, but an example of a projection in a walkway/terminal
http://jsteinkamp.com/html/gwangju.htm

http://www.christian-moeller.com/display.php?project_id=6

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One of my favorite projects, not really related to this...
http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningpost.html

Ralph appelbaum: well known exhibit designers.
These two projects have some nice projections
http://www.raany.com/html/proj_03/portProj_CivilRights.html
http://www.raany.com/html/proj_03/portProj_NatlConst.html

I'm posting some images and links as food for thought. Right now, most of the stuff I have are fairly "design-y"objects, out of a folder of screenshots and magazine clippings I've saved because there was something about the work that captured my fancy. They veer more towards product than installation. This isn't my bias for the project though. I'm actually pretty keen on doing projections, etc., just because I haven't done any it before, and am interested in it. A lot of the projects below arealso lighting projects (because that was what I had been working on the past). However, there may be some sources of inspiration here There isn't that much in the way of interaction, interaction design, projected images, moving images, etc. I'll dig around for more of this. Diller & Scofido (unfortunately their site is down) and the folks at UCLA Design | Media Arts have done some interesting work, in terms of "interactive" video projections/public art installations. I'll go through the UCLA stuff to see if there are specific works that may be relevant.

Subway Art Guide

I agree with you: Samm Kunce's "Under Bryant Park" really caught my attention when I walk through there. I'd love to do something in this spirit.

(by the way, the snapshots usually link to a larger image...)

Camile Utterback: I enjoy some of her work, especially the earlier, simpler pieces like Text Rain and Luminous Flux

I love this guy's work: http://www.tordboontje.com/
He's made some beautiful, fun lights, and some quirky, modern lacy patterns. This "Shadow Light" is really run and simple.

The Bouroullec brothers -- hotshot French designers: I especially like this "interactive" lighting project. It's interactive in avery basic sense.

http://www.unicahome.com/catalog/item.asp?id=16653

Here are a bunch of clippings from the NYTimes that I've saved:

An example of installation in an airport terminal (JFK) by Yves Behar. It's not my favorite, but take a look a the write-up about it:

An example of "modern" lace pattern:

Don't be frightened by this photo. I'm not keen on these actual pieces, but like the notion of being able to laser cut these simple pieces to evoke, do a weird mix of modern/traditional. There are better examples of this out there.

Dig this interactive installation

There's something very evocative about this public installation:

Some magazine clippings:

From an article in surface magazine about the rise in lace patterns in furniture (I love these pieces):

Some screens (not projection screens), but interesting shapes. On the left is a window shade and a cut out screen, on the left, modular wood pieces that fit to make a screen:

Antenna Design's installation that I mentioned. The column in the center is projection screen in the shape of a tube. They used to projectors lined up together to get the long shape, and said that distortion ended up not being an issue. I think, as you mentioned, we can get interesting effects by being creative with the screen (shape, material, etc.). It might not need to be some crazy lasercut thing. For more details on this project, you can look at their site, under "installations".