December 2015 – rebecca (marks) leopold

For my fabrication final I had a few ideas but knew I wanted to work with brass. I wear the same brass earring everyday and i love it’s simplicity. I decided I wanted to try to recreate it. Using a ball peen hammer, I was able to make a basic tear drop form then cut it off from the rest with a hacksaw.

I had the idea to laser cut images of leaves onto paper and then figure out a way to affix them to the brass. I was pleased enough with the concept and really enjoyed just looking at the two materials together that I decided to refocus on the earring and really trying to manipulate the brass.

The really thin grid paper burned a bit after it cut which gave a really wonderful organic quality to the edges of the leaves.

leaves | pillars | blades, begin. final.

Here is the current incarnation of my drawing program. I’m pleased that I was able to say “I’m going to make this thing” and then I made that thing. It’s not perfect but it is certainly a reasonable sketch of what I had in my mind two months ago. After using it a bit – the interaction makes more sense to me on phone. Open this with Chrome on yr phone please.

Above is screen shot of the working mobile version. I took out the frame/screenshot function because: a) i wanted to save space on the smaller screen and b) it felt more intuitive to simply use the screen shot function of my iPhone rather than tap to save.
The interaction needs work. The grab function makes it so pretty soon when you move your mouse/finger closer to other blades they get picked up as well. and eventually you have a rotating ball of grass. It’s difficult to render an image without the other blades following yr current movement. It is easier on the phone, I think perhaps because there is a smaller frame and takes less time to place a blade where and how you want it. I want to continue working on this program and eventually iterate with different images, objects other than grass. More mobile, always.

The screen version has a delete function when you press a key. This is super broken and is most likely the first thing I need to work on when the semester ends.

House drawing attempts…

drawing houses...

This is last week’s prototype for the design of the pineArt Box.

Here is the box with button and dials.

pineArt box

We have most of the components of the drawing box operating. There are two images on the canvas, the first on the left is the stream from the webcam, on the right is created when a user pushes a button. S/he manipulates the image with the needles and three potentiometers which adjust an R, G or B value – then “clicks” their finished drawing into being.