Digital Fabrication and Design: January 2016

Monday, January 25, 2016

iAm - Electronics

I wired up the electronics for the iAm project. I did an led test and they work perfectly. I just need to refine the code and wait for some epoxy on my connections to dry.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

After rendering the pieces on the wall, I started to wonder what it would look like if they were all mounted onto a stand alone steel frame... I like how minimal the wall version looks compared to this... I wonder what this would look like suspended from the ceiling vs. coming up from the floor. The desert shot makes me chuckle.

iAm - Rendering

I rendered a few images of the iAm project to get a feel for how I'd like the light to work. It turns out you cannot animate light in Keyshot, so I will be taking some animation frames from Keyshot into After Effects.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

DFD & Frank Stella's Retrospective

On the way back from Spain I had a connecting flight in New York, so I decided to stay for a night and check out the Whitney Museum since I hadn't been before. After viewing the collection I made my way into the Frank Stella Retrospective, and oh baby did I fall in love with his work. I had seen many of his paintings before in books, but had never seen his sculptural "paintings." I am so glad I got the audio guide -- Stella was influenced by architectural structures and tools, something I can definitely relate too. Here are a few of my favorite pieces --- and I am especially thrilled about the most recent body of work of gray-scale sculptures created using digital fabrication processes!!!