Final Project: Image³

November 25, 2008

My printer broke down. What a wonderful week it is. I guess since there is no class today, I will go out to buy a new printer. I think I have to make all the squares again so there would be no difference in the quality of the printing. My old printer is old and the colour is not as nice as it should be.

Proto Types

November 11, 2008

My idea has changed a bit since the first idea. I plan to do my image cubes that have not only images of the faces and parts of the faces. The majority of the idea is the same. I will still have it able to build together with other cubes that create faces with many different faces. The idea relates to the book of Frankenstein with the features that would make one very beautiful but actually is not due to the mixing of the qualities.

The cubes itself will have information like statistics and quotes related to beauty and image. I would like to make a program that extracts quotes and things people write about beauty and image on blogs.

Proposal v2

October 18, 2008

In the society image seems to be the first impression in people’s mind. They judge people by their faces and not even give it a thought. People have become obsessed with looks and the vanity of beauty. I propose to do a project that is based on the theme of the face.
I will cut out images of faces from magazines and flyers to fold cubes. The cubes can be placed together to build “faces” that are a mix of all types of faces and parts of the face. The cube will allow people to make three eyed people or some people that are strange looking. It is a piece that is very narrative and interactive. The people looking at the piece can pick up the cube and turn it around and place it anywhere and with any other cube. The piece is like a modified jigsaw puzzle meet with Rubik Cube.
The selection process is just from magazines and I will cut out all the images of the faces in the magazine or try to since they are doubles sided and I cannot get all the faces. I will chose some magazines that are not only about fashion and beauty so I can have people that are not airbrushed and made to seem perfect. I will also but in faces of other things to add a variety like robots, and animals.
I wish to make people see that all the beautiful images of celebrities can be turned to not so perfectly beautiful people while having fun doing that.

Proposal

October 13, 2008

For my project I would like to use processing to sort the images with tags and create a bigger picture with the certain tag. I would like to focus on the keyword “clouds”. I would create a geometric construction with origami for the colours of the image chosen for that day. The shape would depend on the amount of colour in the image.
The idea is similar to Chris Jordan’s work and Boris Muller. I would use an electronic mean to get the data via a program source and code. I would then take that one image of the day and create a physical interpretation of the image with the colour in the image and a different origami shape.

The story my piece will tell is the images in Flickr modified to a 3D physical interpretation.