Making little Paper Houses

Well the exhibition deadline is just a few days left, our group decided to sum up what we have done and make a conclusion what are we gonna show in the exhibition. Emma insisted doing the paper houses and tries to convince us to go along with her. I was actually thinking about doing something else such as making light up books with sensors , that's why I have been testing a lot working with the batteries and wires and LEDs.

In the end everyone has to agree with doing the paper houses , so we each have to do at least 20 paper houses, I shared some templete  on our Facebook group hoping that it'll help the others to figure out how to make a paper house, and plus there are a lot of versions of paper houses in the internet so we would prefer to do a different versions houses to make it look more variety.

I found this templete online, so I shared it on Facebook with the others

After that I start making up my own templete with the recycle paper from books I cut out from.

This is my made-up templete

Its nice to see different variety of paper house made of each of us.

The next day we are going to Ashton Court woods to do a photography shooting for out paper houses, so in total I made about 35 little houses.

Testing 6 : Switches and Light Jar

I did a testing playing with switches and lights . Using some LEDs and wires to connect the switch into place to make it work.

I have quite a few empty jars and I want to put something in it and contribute in this project, so I made a mini paper light house attached with an LED and put it into the jar. I did two versions , one is something like a city scape, one is a normal paper house.

Paper light house

City scape

I like the outcomes of it, but I think I will put the paper light house instead because it goes well with our theme.

ProPractice 5th Group meet up

After my animation deadline, the next day I went to meet up with my group and discuss about the project plus meeting with the tutor and talk about our progression  .

After that we went to Emma's place to hang out for a bit, set what each of us gonna do and how much we are gonna do, and by when we have to finish.

Emma cooked japanese curry for us again, and this time we celebrated early easter with Georgie's sister and Kim, we watch movies on and on afterwards until late at night around 9.30pm then we all gone home.

Some links we searched while discussing about the project:

http://www.pinterest.com/texasdogmom/christmas-vintage-putz-houses/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-a-Paper-House-that-lights-up-as-it-gets-dar/

I kinda like this design.

Alex's posted a link :

http://www.123inspiration.com/breathtaking-light-and-shadow-art-by-fabrizio-corneli/

Animation Hand-In

Tada !! animation screening/assessment day is over !

After all the long, long , LONG non sleep few days before the deadline, finally its over and done.

Watch all my fellow classmate's work makes me feel so impressed .
Everyone did a good job in their animation
Enjoying watching their animation

This is what i came up with

Turns out kinda like how I expected it to be, so I'm proud of what I did so far :)

ProPractice Tutorial

Meeting in uni with group to see Gary or Alex and update them about our project progression,

This time we meet up with Gary, he listens to us and he seems okay with our idea and project and what we are doing atm. but he seem to want us to point out what is our main message to bring out from the project, and what does it have to do with future canvas, we convince him by telling him we focus on the economy matters more, so we want to use design to help bring out the awareness of light pollution,
its a waste living in a beautiful city but we couldnt see the stars at night because of the street lights below.

Anyway, so Gary suggested us an idea , like making a box, and we need to peak into the box and see beautiful lights inside like a mini forest , we like the idea actually.

But then things gone a little harsh with Emma, she doesnt seem to like the idea or the opinion given by Gary. normally when we meet up with Alex , and he said he likes our idea then she's okay with it.

Well, we talk out about the idea, we are still sticking with our little paper house.

My thoughts, I wanna make something out, try making the box house , and little forest
funny fact, everytime during or after a tutorial, my brain will kept brain storming ideas and another idea will jump up.

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.