LUMINAIRES

Our project now (due at the end of November) is to make a luminaire based on our light phenomenon from the earlier project. This is the picture I'll be basing my luminaire off of. 

I looked around on Google for light fixture ideas and I found some of Vicente Garcia Jimenez's work.

I'm thinking about using the layering of strips technique he uses and making a table lamp. I want to leave gaps so that you can still get a peek of the light (like you can still see the sun through the blinds) but I don't want to leave too much space so its blinding either. We'll see what comes of this...

LIGHT: the natural agent that makes things visible...a source of illumination (Webster)

Using flashlights and torches to create amazing "Lightmarks" Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke bring a new definition to light photography. They create these "Lightmarks" in different places in nature, almost contributing to the landscape itself. I know that they experiment with different apertures and camera settings (details are hard to find...on their website they only include a picture of a camera and its settings under the "making of" tab) but what I find to be the most fascinating and intriguing part of their works is the simplistic beauty that they create. The "Lightmarks" don't take away from the beauty of their environments, they only enhance them and add a new element to them. The pairs work can be compared to that of Taylor Pemberton, Lapp Pro, Toby Keller, and even Pablo Picasso. 

website: www.lightmark.de

Pemberton

Pro

Keller

Picasso

WHAT TO DO WITH A 2x4?

The next part of our final project was to familiarize ourselves with the wood shop. We were given a 18 inch long 2x4 piece of wood and were told to cut it at least 5 times in the shop and then reattach the pieces without glue or nails. This caused us to think about joinery and how we'd connect our pieces. After finishing this project, I feel like I could build something way more important. Watch out world, Anna Hambly knows how to use a table saw.

This was my first attempt...a puzzle-like, linear system. The pieces could be rearranged in different ways to make the piece look different.

The different heights and lengths were really interesting to me.

I liked the fact that one could rearrange the entire piece...but it was my first attempt and I really wanted to get the craft right. 

So I made the wood thinner and cleaner-looking. 

The new piece can be tilted in different directions but the pieces aren't able to be rearranged like the first one...mostly due to the different widths that resulted from cutting. I kind of like it better that way, though. Different widths contribute to the different sizes, heights, and arrangements of all the pieces and they really come together to make up one big piece.

Originally I arranged the piece to look this way but I liked the fact that it was able to stand up on its own as well. It's more attention-grabbing that way. I think I plan to put it on a wall somewhere...

SOLAR PHENOMENON

For project 3 we were told to observe and capture a solar phenomenon. This could be anything from the sun shining through trees to light reflected off of a puddle. I took lots of options and on my way to plug my camera into the charger I came across the sunset peeking through mini blinds. I thought it was interesting and knew my camera was pretty good at capturing the whole moment...the sun, the blinds, the dust, the detail of the strings...etc. The picture turned out pretty well.











Then we had to do a drawing of the moment as well as a diagrammatic model of it. I drew a simplified graphite version of the blinds and used color pencil to show how the sunlight took them over. I also researched finding the placement of the sun at a certain date, time, and place. Measuring the two different angles (azimuth and altitude) one can find exactly where the sun was at a certain time. I included this on my board. For my model I made my own mini blinds using reflective paper and string and i found a small one-watt bulb to poke through the board to make my own sun.

If I had the chance to do it again, I'd make the picture and the model the main focuses. The blinds would be longer and the picture would be bigger, commanding more attention. I wouldn't have a title-the picture speaks for itself. The diagram and the drawing would be placed elsewhere...The whole composition would just look better. However I'm not upset with how it turned out.

PICTORIAL DRAWINGS

This is just a taste of what we've been doing in our design visualization class...

First, we practiced working with the different types of pictorial drawings...This is an isometric view.

This is a plan oblique.

This is an elevation oblique. Overall on the pictorial drawings the only real problem I ran into was my line weight accuracy. Other than that I think I did pretty well on them.

Then we had to pick an object from our apartment/dorm/house and bring it in and draw three orthographic views of it. I don't think it looks perfect but I think it looks pretty good.

Finally, we had the option to take our object or use the "SB Seating System" and draw it in the three pictorials. My curves were a little off and my line weight wasn't perfect but I think I did an alright job.