Thesis

Sashimi Report: Final Installation

I’ve Finally installed it! It took several hours to get it to work with the projector that the art gallery provided, it turned out my primary hd port blew so I had to reconfigure my pc to route to a different port, luckily I had more than one HD connection. I mounted the wooden plank […]

Progress Yet Again, Sashimi Report

My first order of business was to get my box finished. I decided that the sides were too tall, so I wanted to put them from the 12 inch dimension down to eight inches. to do this I had to remove the brackets and drill some new holes, and do some shopping. Aside from that, […]

Possible Installation Considerations

So in the previous post, I talked about my biggest problem at the moment being the installation of my final product. Again, I don’t have a solid idea just yet, but I’m considering a variety of options and will consult people that have worked with bizarre mount systems before.   So here’s some highlights of […]

After My Presentation

Presented my thesis in the Starz theatre today,  basically received three comments/questions overall.   The first was from Bryan DeLevie, who said he got three things from my thesis, including Aversion, Diversion, and Spectacle. Considering I believe my thesis concentrates on changing or diverting aversion to technology into fascination I feel that makes sense, and […]

Thesis Proposal Paper, Technophobia

The following contains my Essay on the problem that I want to tackle with my thesis. I want to take on the problem of technophobia, and see if I can use design to start trying to help ease it off of the people that are afflicted by it. My annotated bibliography follows my paper, citing […]

Crazy Random Change of Plans!

I realize that at this point this means I’m going to have to write up an entire annotated bibliography and a cohesive, logical proposal paper in the span of about twelve hours, but I’ve found inspiration in this new idea that I’ve been lacking with the Fire Safety thing.The last couple of days, maybe even […]

First Idea: Fire Safety.

EDIT: The following post is no longer my intention, but it IS where I started off. After my interview with the design group I Shot Him, which can be found here,I decided I wanted to try to make a fire-safety installation piece. I would like to create a semi interactive story that explains the safest […]