Have I started the course in the right away? Am I wasting time by aiming to high? Should I just consider other options to create the same effects? I don’t really know, however, it feels right to have some time to think about all this, and to try at least to make ther right moves.
My work needs to move, needs to talk, needs to make sounds, or projections or something interactive. There is not doubt about it at this point. The questions is with what? I haven’t a clue about electronics and all the explanations in books seems to me like jibberish, a very conceptual way of jibberish. However, I’m going to approach the whole thing with a straighforward attitude. A “feel the fear and just do it” type of action.
The thing is that I have been suggested this (i.e. to add movement) by some people and I can also feel that some kind of interaction is needed. My work seems lifeless, they are like sleeping objects waiting to be waken up. Like the cardboard and modroc cocodrile, sleeping waiting to bite when it is touched, like when someone is been munching his/her brain away with insecurities, frustrations, doubts or fears and suddently burst into a moment of rage. Unexpected, noisy at first and quiet after. The void of feeling like the smallest person in the world.
Phew… that was intense…
Arduino, apart from having a interesting name, seems a lot of fun too! I will be ordering a a starter kit in the next few days, I have downloaded the program online and I have bought myself a soldering kit, that had a lot of stuff for a very good price. It might ended up in Gummtree but I really hope that I’m going to be persistent with this challenge and learn something from it.
Another plan a is to buy old motors toys from car boot sales (1st one this Sunday) and then use the motors and sounds and any bits and adapt them to my own work. I think this is very straightforward and it will fill my studio with some vibrant colours and I will have a lot of interesting bits and pieces to play around. Just to moan a bit, it seems a real nuisance to have the studio away from the uni building. I hope I will manage and I will be able to make things happen and don’t waste to much time up and down the road. I might even get a firmer bottom for all the walking this year… and it could be worse, as always.
Regarding the academic side of the course it is all quite full on, loads of taking notes, writing essays, and generally a lot of critical thinking. Undergraduate level seems easy peasy when compering to this. But I like the pressure and it makes me pushing myself even further, to be more organised, to think in advance, to be methodical.
My studio is big and bright and I can wait to see things happening.
I’m also doing the puppetry course at Phoenix and I already have an idea for a puppet video thing between a penis and a vagina (classic Ferrari). Has anyone done this? Well, I think I have to see it myself and to have fun with it.
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