The whole idea here is that you can write and draw on the side of a building or wall with a laser. What you write or draw with the laser is picked up by a camera and is run through a computer program then is projected by a projecter onto the surface. It was done by Graffiti Lab check out their project page.
Archive for February, 2007
The Science of Sleep is a movie about a man who can not decipher is dreams from reality. It was quite well done but at the same time is not action packed. The story was a wonderful one and was shot beautifully.
Consumerism is a problem today in this world. People are consuming mass produced items from “super” stores. These stores do not pay their employees well and the mass production manufactures use cheap labor in foreign countries. We then go buy and support all this. Back
in the day people used to make what they needed and they turned out just fine, happily living their lives. Why don’t you make some things for yourself and not just run out to the store to pick up the item?
You could knit a hat instead of buying one. You could grow potatoes in your garden and make potato chips. And maybe someday it will be legal to share music online and have no digital right management system in place.
My source artist for this piece was Kate Bingaman. She draws one thing that she buys each day and publishes them online and in her zine entitled Obsessive Consumption. The theme was “consumerism”.
I would like to leave you with this quote from William Ralph Inge.
“The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.”
I have decided to move the blog to www.blog.ethanbodnar.com
The feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/EthanBodnar
EthanBodnar.com will become a gateway to all my other sites and places on the internet. I choose to do that so that I may have more creative control over the website. I haven’t figured out how the search engines will index it. Any suggestions/
Christian Long over at Think:Lab is going to be talking to Daniel Pink, author of “A Whole New Mind” about School Design. Christian has asked his readers for question suggestions. I might be late on coming up with my questions, but lets hope note. Here is Christian’s post. So here are my questions.
What physical form and function to you see a school having in the future when today people (who aren’t students) can work from anywhere? And as this trend of being able to work from anywhere continues in the future, how should we educate today’s students on still having people skills and being able to communicate just not through the internet?
How can we design a school to be a place where people are open to the world through the internet but still learn by talking to the people around them?
How can we design high schools and colleges so that students can learn through playing and being creative. (Play, being one of the senses in your book) And seeing that today older students don’t play and create as much as younger students did.
How can the design of our future education system tell a story to the students? A story that contains facts that our just taught to us today in their raw format?
How can the design of a school balance the teaching of facts and the teaching of skills we are taught for right brain thinking?
More on these questions to come soon.
There is something you should know. Blueberry pancakes are my favorite food. And today is National Pancake Day! Now, go eat some pancakes.
A week ago, lighting designer extradoinaire Bryan Rosengrant taught me how to design the lighting for my school’s theater. I have been doing lights for the past year and half. We had about 15 lights, so there wasn’t much “designing”. The exciting thing is that we just got about 40 new lights and 3 moving lights and huge grid on the ceiling to hang them from. So here is the basics of what I learned.
-Design in areas on the stage.
-Front light should be neutral colors.
-Back light comes from lights hanging over the stage and is on the back of the actors and actresses.
-For backlights you use 3 PAR cans on each area with different colors.
-Side lights add dramatic effect and are pointed at the stage from the side.
-”Specials” are for “special” areas, things, places that need to be lit.
And then I learned a bunch of other stuff that was more technical and detailed, I didn’t feel like typing it all out.
Here is my first draft of a lighting plot for Aladdin, the middle school musical.
Frank Gehry is one of the best architects of this generation. I just watched his documentary entitled “Sketches of Frank Gehry” which was directed by Sydney Pollack. The film was quite good and gave a great insight on to how he creates his buildings and what he his all about.
Barack Obama has announced is canidacy for President in the 2008 Election. He is drawing quite alot of attention from the media and is getting large crowds when he speaks. My dad just read his book entitled “Audicity of Hope” and enjoyed it. He also has set up a social network for is canidacy. Guess, we will just have to wait and see what happens. Will he get the democratic nomination?
Yes, I turned seventeen on Thursday. I have been living on this planet for seventeen years now and have had a pretty good time so far. Cant wait to see whats in store for me.
“Master Class” is a play that take place in an Opera classroom. As you might have guessed, it is about a opera master class. We are producing this drama at our school and am looking for an image of a opera house from the stage. Here’s what I have found.
“An Inconvenient Truth” is Al Gore’s documentary about global warming, as I am sure many of you know. The film was good and presented the issue quite well. The film shows us that Global Warming is a big issue that needs to be addressed.
However, there were some problems that my friends and I found with it. First, the graphs were not labeled to specifically. Which I suppose is all right, you still are able to understand them. Second, intertwined in the documentary were clips of his life where he would share past stories that were not really related to global warming. This was some what unnecessary, but it probably worked better for people who just don’t care about the facts and want to hear his stories and see that he is a real person.
Overall, I think it was a success and I am glad to see that global warming is being talked about.
Today we had The Reverend Frederick J. Streets come talk to us at school. He spoke about many different things including politics, religion, society, and what you use your life for. He was able to relate his message to current events and pop culture and used rhetoric to get this message across. Some interesting points he made….
-Science and Religion complement each other.
-Being curious and discovering new technology and ideas is important.
-Have a positive impact on the world and people you meet everyday, not just during a big moment in your life/career.
-People of different and cultures are connected more then ever over the internet and it is important for them to understand and learn from each other.
“The Reverend Frederick J. Streets was appointed Chaplain of Yale University and Senior Pastor of The University Church in Yale in 1992. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Jerry (the nickname he prefers to be called) is the first African American and Baptist to hold this position. He is also a member of the faculty at the Yale Divinity School and of the clinical social work faculty at the Yale Child Study Center. His research, publication, teaching and lecture interests are in pastoral theology, institutional leadership and development, and religion and social welfare. He holds the Master of Divinity degree from Yale University and masters and doctoral degrees from Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, New York. “ -Yale University Website
