Week 5 Tuesday/Wednesday - Maps

For the past two days we've been making abstract geographical representations from maps of where we live.  We started out with small print-outs of selections of our neighborhood from mapquest. Then we played around with bigger abstractions of those images. And after that, we made huge abstractions of the abstractions!

Click here to check out our projects: Maps

In the morning we all enjoyed the view from inside the house:

Open-House! Thursday July 8 + Monday Week 5

Blue Sky 2010's Open House was a success! It was great to see everybody's projects in progress.

We got a lot of work done on Thursday scrambling for open house. We finished the frame, walls, and roof for one of our half-scale (5x5 ft) houses. Then we hung it up in one of our studios and projected silent video up onto the walls while we had our compositions playing on loop in the background. I hope the crazy voices didn't scare anyone away. We threw it all together really quickly, but we got a lot of great feedback and comments for our project idea!

Thursday's question of the day: What is your favorite word?

We were unfortunately so busy on Thursday that I forgot to get pictures of our display... maybe we'll come across some later!

Today we went to Yellowsprings and visited Michael's studio! It was magical and held a lot of dangerous tools that could cut through cold steel in less than a second. We also moved around a whole bunch of wood to and from several places, and we ate lunch at Ha Ha's Pizza. It was delicious, thanks Michael! :)

Today's question of the day (Monday July 12): What is your zodiac sign?

The Age of Aquarius is almost upon us....

Your favorite Aquarian,
Kristen <3

Wednesday Week 4

Today we got a LOT of stuff done!
In the morning we shot the question videos:

Question of the Day: How many kids?

Then we spent the rest of the morning watching Victoria's videos of her neighborhood and house, and a couple interviews with her dad.

After lunch, we all worked on a lot of stuff in teams. We got so much done this way!

Building the Armory model
Andrew, Lesley, and Meriel worked on building the wooden boards for the ceiling of our small scale model of the Armory.
 

Building the model of the first house (half-scale 5 x 5 ft)
We left it to Ashia to start the small-scale model of the first house, which we started building today.

Making the projection screens

Kristen and Victoria started making the walls of the house, which will be projection screens made out of sheets of wax paper 61.5 x 43 inches. Since we had to iron together sheets of wax paper, it was difficult to keep our measurements exact. It took a few tries to get it exactly right...

Making the frame of the house

Michael, Nate, Alex, and Tim started making the frame of the house using electrical conduit. They had to bend it and measure it and connect it all together. We survived today with only one injury (Tim accidentally cut himself).

Tuesday Week 4

Today's Question of the day was: Is life more about the destination or the ride?

The Ride had a overwhelming lead over Destination with only one vote. I'll leave it up to the viewers to guess who that one vote was. If any of our viewers can guess right we will give them a prize fit for kings... let the game begin. Next we watched the amazing life of Nate through his video depiction of his world in which he his king. We talked about some important point and feelings towards our final project and after lunch we finished and shared our soundscapes then started production on our first prototypes of our memory boxes.
~Nate

Check out some (a very small bit) of our audio equipment:

  

And the material we will be using for our projections: a bunch of wax paper ironed together. Here's what it looks like with a black and white video of a pen drawing ink (Ann Hamilton) projected onto it with the lights off and on:

Monday Week 4

Nathaniel S. Crum here updating for our plethora of viewers on what UPACIPIABSDO has been up to the past two days.

Monday our Question of the day was: Sony or Nintendo? The answers were fairly even.

Afterwards we watched Kristen's account of the many places she lives and what made her, her. We broke for lunch early since the campus was closed so we had to go off campus to eat. After lunch we broke off into our groups to work on our soundscapes. Here are the finished products, which took about 3 days to complete.

Michael, Nate, Meriel, Victoria, and Ashia: Medical Office

Kristen, Tim, Alex, Lesley, and Andrew: Psychedelic

~Nate

P.S. Kristen says Happy Summer Days :)

Thursday Week 3

On Wednesday and Thursday we started setting up all the audio equipment: mixers, midi keyboard, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, electric violin, a few different microphones (shotgun mic, SHURE-58, two USB mics), drum sticks, mbox, cymbals, and a humongous bunch of cables for various things...
We set up the really old surveillance cameras. As it turns out, they are extremely sensitive to light... they must have been used for night time surveillance. Those will be great for the ceiling, where we're going to be installing all of the houses. We split into two groups and started making recordings of soundscapes, one of a waiting room and one under the elusive and broad genre of psychedelic. We'll post those when we're done! Recording is a long and picky process...

So since we have to collect a lot of video and audio materials, we are starting a daily activity where we film our one-word responses to various questions...

Thursday Question of the Day: Elvis or The Beatles?

La Jetée

Tuesday we watched a very powerful film from 1964 called La Jetée, the story of a post-apoctalyptic time traveler. It uses still photography and a complex soundtrack and narrative to tell the story.

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