The challenge was to use a motor and various other materials to create a drawing machine. Victoria and I decided to use a yogurt cup at first because it is small and light weight. We attached 3 markers as feet and tried a large popsicle stick to throw off the balance and send the machine …
Makeology
There were three quotes that really spoke to me while reading Makeology. First, I felt like the most important idea is that Maker spaces give children more opportunities for explorative play. A quote from Dale Dougherty is used, “‘Think less about the products youth create and allow more time for this type of exploration, as …
Scratch Examples
I am currently working on learning to use Scratch. Here is a starter example where I am working out code and trying to see how I can incorporate my own artwork into an interactive animation. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/145669781/ My final project is an interactive digital interpretation of a self portrait. Where I use letters as a medium to …
HTML Code Poetry
I have two websites to view my HTML code poetry. I struggled a lot with being able to write code that changed font type, size and lateral location on screen. Even though that was something I found difficult I was able to find code to add my gif or a background image and animate the …
Final Animated Gif
For this project I first started to experiment with movement and images. I then tried to take my artwork and use GIF animation to highlight it's interesting qualities, you can click here, to see the first GIF attempts. For the Final project, I wanted to animate a portrait of a female in watercolor. I've always liked …
GIFS: Experiments with Photoshop
We see GIF's all the time. It's a different thing to make them! These are some images I animated by using photoshop. I'll be posting soon with a more refined version of some personal animations. These were all experiments, figuring out the program. For this project I first started to experiment with movement and images. …
Glitch Art
What's the difference between signal and noise? Signal is the way something is transmitted. The signal is always there, in modern society we try to have the most transparent signal possible, so that we don’t hear or see the signal the message is transmitted through. Noise is when the signal is interrupted and the transmission method …
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