Visual Culture Submission + Testing 5: Glow in the Dark Props

Finally ! spending a tough few days reading and doing research for my essay , its finally finished a day before the submission, so relief, i read alot of articles and watch a whole bunch of TEDxTalks and videos on youtube to get a clearer idea and clearer clue on what the topic I am talking about . i end up writing a 2700+ words of essay, I hope its not too much.

Testing 5
After Uni i went to the craft shop and bought some little mini glass bottles so i thought of playing with it with some lights and some glow in the dark paint.
I fill up one bottle with some left over bits from the laser cutting workshop, i kept the bits, and then put it into the glass bottle and added some glow in the dark paint and some vegetable oil to make it look like a glowing lava bottle

I also filled an empty bottle with the glow in the dark paint and see how it turns out.

I dont quite like the way it turned out actually, but its just another idea I had in mind.

Testing 4: Light Box

I have been ordering this snacking boxes from the graze box company, and they usually mail a box of snacks like that:

It is made out of recycle cardboard/paper, everytime i finish eating it I feel like its a waste to throw the box away, so i figure why not make something out of it.

I added some led lights and cut some holes on the box and it became like this :

*put light box pic

I think it turned out kinda nice, but yet a little strange, I posted it up on facebook and my group members said it looks good with different colors LED. I would definitely refine this touch to make it better looking.

Comic Drawing Workshop

I joined the comic drawing workshop organized by the comic book society I joined , with guest comic artist Dan Lee came to Frenchay to give us a small talk of how his comic career started.

Dan Lee was an Illustration student as well back about 5 years ago when he was still under his degree course, and he siad he didnt quite have the chance to really go ,so later on he decided to move on and work as a freelancer and draw his own comic strips.

 I drew some pictures of character

I love this workshop, because I love character design, and I learned quite alot from Dan Lee as well, reminds me of the old me, the me that use to draw like crazy back then, non-stop drawing and drawing.

ProPractice 4th Group meet up

Due to our occasionally discussion on Facebook, we came up an idea about putting the paper houses in the forest and take some photographs/vidoe , so we decided to meet up for our 4th meeting and go for a location scouting
We choose the nearest forest we can find which is the forest above Ashton Court. THe place was beautiful, we even saw deers.

We like the area, and we can already imagine the picture of putting up little houses in the forest  :)

Some research we posted on Facebook when we got home:

Emma posted:

\\http://littleetee.tumblr.com/post/79156070336/ohmyasian-travelingcolors-lu-xinjian

http://www.incrediblethings.com/home/awesome-octopus-chandelier/

Georgie posted:

I posted some video tutorials I found on Youtube about KipKay, so that everyone could try it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLU6E0PDDzY&list=UUzNAswnSN0rZy79clU-DRPg

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMMoJLLOxWs

We were imagining our little houses to be something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvZUEDEZQBI

Hope things turns out good for all of us !

Testing 3: Glow in the Dark

So I watched some tutorial videos on youtube from/by kipkay DIY, there's one video talking about lights and glow and the dark, so i wanted to try out, that's why I use the house i made yesterday and color it with glow in the dark paint and see how it goes

After that I took an empty jar and fill it up with glow in the dark paint and it turns out like this:

I made some noted about glow in the dark:

Both of my testing worked out okay, but still not that obvious. I noted down some facts, maybe I can try to do glow in the dark for our pro practice project, since glow in the dark its still a kind of light , and it actually helps to save energy.