RESEARCH AND INSPIRATIONS:
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You’ve been sharing a lot about yourself to us lately. One of the projects you discussed wanting to develop in your own practice is a solar-powered LED field. Between you and me, they need that here. I can’t imagine life without knowing what a field of fireflies (lightning bugs) looks like …and people who have always lived here will never know.
CO2LED
In this stunning public-art installation, five-hundred twenty-two solar-powered LEDs on rods, each topped with a reused plastic bottle, light up the Rosslyn, VA traffic island between North Lynn Street and Ft. Myer Drive in Arlington County – looking a bit like luminescent reeds. This temporary environmental public artwork, aptly named CO2LED by artists Jack Sanders, Robert Gay and Butch Anthony, was designed with Arlington’s environmental initiative FreshAIRE(Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions) in mind.
PROGRESS AND PROCESS:
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SCAN #1
SCAN #2
SCAN #3
COMPOSITE MODEL (stock + supports for monitor)
REFLECTION:
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Of all the weeks, I’ve never accomplished so much whilst getting absolutely nowhere. Discouraged. Super bummed. Since my last blog entry, we set up the monitor in our in-class work session. It now plays loop video. I imagined that was the part of the project that was NOT going to get completed but because I had your help, it did. Since then I’ve ordered the 6″ HDMI cable (arrives next week) and purchased the foam supports for the back of the screen. Monday I went to tech check, checked out a DSLR, macro lens, and Structure scanner (upon the recommendation of Scott). I spent two days (at least) taking pictures with the DSLR, rendering models that looked like trash. (see above). I started to panic, imagining this would not work and then decided to switch to a stock model of a vintage tv to see if I could at least get a facade or front of the TV on which to attach the monitor. I cut off the front of a stock Vintage TV from CG Trader and distorted the proportions of the model to match the 7″ screen. I also began to build supports in order to construct some braces to hold the monitor and shore up the cracks that occur around the edges of the monitor opening. However, I keep getting error messages when trying to clean the model for printing. This is where I really start to get stressed. NEXT STEPS: I’m going to try Scott’s recommendation of the structure scanner as the last resort. If I am not able to get a viable model from the structure scanner I may need to abandon this effort. I’m so sad. At the beginning of this project, I just declared, “I’m going to digitally fabricate the tv” all casual-like as if it was going to be the easy part. Never imagining it would be such a slow go. Or imagined I wouldn’t get it completed in time for critique. I see progress from where I started early in the week to where I am at the end. However, progress moves slow, slower than I like.