Digital Equinox is a confluence of events in the electronic days and nights of my mind creating a place where my imagination comes to life and basks in the glow of an eternal equinox. Yeah, it's a bit random and might not make much sense, but that's what this blog is.
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Monday, 23 November 2009 20:29 |
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This project has ended up having a rather small number of journal entries mainly because it was fairly rushed in execution and much of the design was put together based on what materials I'd managed to borrow as late as last friday. With much help from IT and the Press for borrowing laptops, setting them up, and the kiosks I needed for the project, it's all done now. In retrospect I think that it would probably be nice to put some extra information on keyboard placards to further explain where the text typed appears. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 21:07 |
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With most of the assembly complete for the project, I have only to finish the backdrop on foamboard by putting the vinyl letters. Unfortunately I've yet to hear back about where I'll be allowed to put this up. Moving back to final details, I've still got to spray paint the hanging bits white since I think it's needed to tie things together and since doll technology has imporved quite a bit since I last saw it and it might be a bit too distrubing and pull away from the clinical feel I want. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 16:38 |
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I'm still waiting on the arrival of my order to finishe what I need for the creation of the piece. If it doesn't arrive soon I will probably be forced to try a different route. In other news I've sent off the type to be cut and when that's finished I'll affix it to the foam board. Past that it's really just a matter of setting the whole thing up. Here's to hoping I can put it where I'd like to in the Art building. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Monday, 26 October 2009 15:49 |
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With the proposal approved for this project, I've started gathering the elements together. Most should be pretty simply to get access to, but I will have to wait on printing for the poster and several bits of tubing to arrive which could extend the time needed to assemble everything. I'm also hunting for a thick red plastic bag to use for one component of the piece. Due to all of the various elements and the nature of the piece, I probably won't be making a large number of posts on the progress of this project. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 19:34 |
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 Last night I finished cutting the wooden pieces and burning the edges. Since I seem to be lacking both a wood burning tool and soldering iron, and my backup plan of using the tip of a hot glue gun to burn the edges failed me, I was left with the last alternative: the stove in the kitchen. With much care to not clip my fingers on the hot burners, I got the effect I mostly wanted and finished gluing them together. I'll edit this post later to include the in progress shot of the burnt edges. In the mean time, I've used the assembled wood section to extrapolate the dimentions for the foam backing and cut that out as well. After that I took a top down photo of the pieces to use as a template to construct the digital portion of the work which I finished up the today and assembled the wood, pirnt, and backing. All that remains is to blacken the paper edges so it blends with the black foam backing. After that I'll evaluate the piece and possibly add more wooden bits to enahnce the design. |
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