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Artist Influence

Masao Yamamoto

Masao Yamamoto (山本昌男 Yamamoto Masao, born 1957) is a Japanese freelance photographer known for his small photographs, which seek to individualize the photographic prints as objects.

Most of his work are, as small as half a finger or even a fingernail. Initially because he was poor, he glued a small photo on the wall to save the cost of making a picture frame Later, The small size of the photo become his intentional choice, to him, the photo is like a memory, if you can hold a picture in the palm of your hand, it seems like you can carry that memory.

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The question is “take a small photo because you want to hold the memory in your hand, but the memory will always fade or run away, how do you think?

M: There are always good and bad parts in memory. For example, when I was young, my relationship with my father was not very good. But after 10 years and 20 years later, looking at the pictures again, those bad memories before will be slowly forgotten , Those beautiful memories about my father will stay.

Makoto Shinkai

Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠 Shinkai Makoto), born as Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠 Niitsu Makoto, born February 9, 1973), is a Japanese director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. He is best known for directing Your Name, the highest-grossing anime film of all time, and was listed by Variety as one of 10 animators to watch in 2016

 

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Monday 02.12.18
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Goodbye schedule

Yuntian Zang

ART 4901

PROJECT PLAN

Say Goodbye 再见

 

 

WEEK 1: Aug 26 | INITIATING | 

  • Begin Researching for Project Proposal
  • Study artists with similar approaches

WEEK 2: Aug 31 & Sept 2 | PLANNING PROJECT |

  • Begin rough sketches of project/installation
  • Continue Research
  • Books to consider: Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature Into Urban Design and Planning, By Timothy Beatley, & Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World, by Jared Green

WEEK 3: Storyboard and character Design

WEEK 4: Draft model

WEEK 5: Finished model and start to rigging

WEEK 6: Finish rigging both character include facial rigging

WEEK 7: Start animate

WEEK 8: Continue animate

WEEK 9: CONTROLLING PROJECT

WEEK 10: Finish animate and render

 

  • Final touches, sanding, painting, visualization or programming, anything that can make it look nicer do it.
  • Video Documentation – set up a time with Yoni to set up each project and film the final processes, collaborate for final video
  • Prepare how to explain work, how to discuss progress with Amy, ask questions, consider how viewers will perceive the work.

 

WEEK 11: Edit and audio

  • Individual meetings with professor
  • Begin project completion for upcoming critiques 
  • Final touches, sanding, painting, visualization or programming, anything that can make it look nicer do it.

WEEK 12: | CLOSING PROJECT |

  • MON final critique for 4999
  • WED final critique for 4901 
  • Install in gallery
  • Begin final touches on video documentation
  • Prepare for BioPresence exhibition 

 

WEEK 13: Nov 23 (WED - THANKSGIVING BREAK, NO CLASSES) | CLOSING PROJECT |

  • MON Artwork dropoff at Urban Arts Space for 4999 students. 4901 students have Individual meetings with professor to discuss your progress.
  • Sign up to help run the BioPresence exhibition.
  • Homework: refine video documentation of artwork.
  • Prepare for final critique

 

WEEK 14: Nov 30 & Dec 2 | CLOSING PROJECT |

  • Mon: Final critique for 4999 at Urban Arts Space - everyone meet there. Exhibition open to public Dec 3 - Dec 19
  • Complete video documentation of artwork.

 

 

WEEK 15 & FINALS • Dec 7 - Dec 16  | CELEBRATING PROJECT |

  • MON: Class critique of each student's video documentation.
  • DONE. *sigh of relief*
Monday 02.05.18
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Goodbye storyboard

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Monday 02.05.18
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Tower

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photogrammetry

Render in Cinema 4D

 

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Thursday 11.09.17
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Air Flute Zither

Inspiration 

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Photogrammetry

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Thursday 10.26.17
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Metamorphosis

The juvenile  hormone acts like a delay for the metamorphosis throughout the whole larva stage.  It works by blocking the genes in the imaginal discs –  tiny disc-shaped bags of cells that kick into action when the caterpillar wraps itself in the chrysalis, eventually turning intoan antenna, eye, wing or other butterfly bit. As such, the juvenile hormone is essential to the caterpillar’s survival prior to metamorphosis. You see, once the larva reaches its final moult and begins its metamorphosis, strange things happen to its body. Cells in the larva’s muscles, gut and salivary glands are digested and act as spare parts for the soon-to-be butterfly. Each cell is programmed to self-destruct through the activation of enzymes called caspases.

Imaginal discs

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The caspases tear through the cell’s proteins, releasing prime butterfly-making material. Were it not for the juvenile hormone, this could have happened at any time killing the caterpillar. Instead, nature programmed the hormone to lower in levels at exactly the right moment, when metamorphosis is ripe.  With less juvenile hormone around, instead of inducing a regular moult the ecdysone now drives the caterpillar to pupate. Once a caterpillar has disintegrated all of its tissues except for the imaginal discs, those discs use the protein-rich soup all around them to fuel the rapid cell division required to form the wings, antennae, legs, eyes, genitals and all the other features of an adult butterfly or moth. The imaginal disc for a fruit fly’s wing, for example, might begin with only 50 cells and increase to more than 50,000 cells by the end of metamorphosis.

 

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Tuesday 08.29.17
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Thousands hands and thousands eyes (03/20)

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Update 03/20

The MotorShield I bought from adafurit industries. Soldered myself, for some reason it fails to hold my 12v linear actuator, and literally burned when we tested. I have to buy another one from velleman. 

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Get my new Motor shield from Vellleman modules, it can handle 2.5a (max)/channal. also 3d printed free hands. here is so far what I got.

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Wednesday 03.08.17
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Six Realms of Desire

The Six Realms are a description of conditioned existence, or samsara, into which beings are reborn. Although sometimes they are described as "real" places, more often these days they are appreciated as allegories.

The nature of one's existence is determined by karma. Some realms seem more pleasant than others -- heaven sounds preferable to hell -- but all are dukkha, meaning they are temporary and imperfect. The Six Realms often are illustrated by the Bhava Chakra, or Wheel of Life.

(These Six Realms are the realms of the world of desire, called Kamadhatu. In ancient Buddhist cosmology, there are Three Worlds containing a total of thirty-one realms. There are Arupyadhatu, the formless world; Rupadhatu, the world of form; and Kamadhatu, the world of desire. Whether it's useful to know anything about the thirty-one realms is a matter to debate, but you might run into them in old texts.)

Please note that in some schools the realms of Devas and Asuras are combined, leaving five realms instead of six.

In Buddhist iconography, a bodhisattva is placed in each realm to help beings out of it. This may be Avalokiteshvara, bodhisattva of compassion. Or it may be Ksitigarbha, who travels to all the realms but who has made a special vow to save those in the hell realm.

Deva-gati, the Realm of Devas (Gods) and Heavenly Beings

Asura-gati, the Realm of Asura (Titans)

Preta-gati, the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Naraka-gati, the Hell Realm

Tiryagyoni-gati, the Animal Realm

Manusya-gati, the Human Realm

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Tuesday 03.07.17
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Thuderdome

Spaceships model

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Thursday 02.16.17
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Shader Test [NakiCranalMage to StuplWater2]

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Wednesday 02.01.17
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Space Vehicle Model

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Wednesday 02.01.17
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Space Vehicle Sketch

Main problems that space vehicle need to deal with:

  1. Temperature
  2. Power source
  3. Uneven surface
  4. Air condition
  5. weight
  6. radiation

Small space vehicle vs. Larger space vehicle

Small space vehicle

  1. Two driver only
  2. Power source: radioisotope thermoelectric generator
  3. Work Package interface
  4. lightweight
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Larger space vehicle

  1. 10 passengers +2 driver
  2. Power source: solar energy
  3. Robotic arm
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Common device that required:

  1. Ice- shielded / Fusilsble Heat sink : Extreme temperatures of up to +120 degrees Celsius facing the sun but -180 degrees Celsius on the side facing away from the sun. So a lot of cooling has to be considered when constructing the rover.
  2. Pivoting wheel+rocker bogie suspension: enables crab-style driving for docking
  3. Docking hatch: allows pressurized crew transfer from pressured rover to habit.
  4. life support system.
  5. Auto drive.
  6. antenna

Metals and weight:

A rover needs to be built in space aluminium and magnesium for maximum resistance to the radiation on the moon.The more weight a rover has, the higher the costs are.

Metals in the Mars Rover Curiosity

Metal

Use

Titanium tubingForm Curiosity’s legs

Titanium springsAdd cushioning within Curiosity’s wheels

Titanium bridlePart of the parachute deployment mechanism used during the rover’s landing sequence

AluminumCuriosity’s wheels

Aluminum mortarPart of the parachute deployment mechanism. Hand forged from an aluminum billet

Aluminum honeycombFormed the core of Atlas V, Curiosity’s launch vessel

BronzeDU® metal-polymer bearings are critical components in the rover’s drill

CopperCuriosity will collect samples in cells, which are sealed in a pyrolysis oven by pressing the cell’s copper collar into a knife-edge seal with a force of up to 250lb. The sample is then heated to 1100°C for analysis.

LeadCuriosity will be powered, in part, by a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator that will use PbTe/TAGS thermocouples produced by Teledyne Energy Systems.

Tellurium

Germanium

Antimony

Silver

Stainless SteelStainless steel gas generators provided the high-pressure gas used to propel Curiosity’s parachute from the spacecraft.

RheniumA RD AMROSS RD-180 booster engine powered the propulsion system used to launch Atlas V. Rhenium is alloyed in the jet turbine.

Tantalum630 tantalum multi-anode capacitors are responsible for powering the ChemCam laser module onboard Curiosity

TungstenThe back shell of Curiosity’s atmospheric entry vehicle released two sets of detachable tungsten weights in order to alter the spacecraft’s center of mass as it approached Mars. Individual ballasts weighed 165 pounds (75kgs) or 55 pounds (25kgs).

GalliumPhotovoltaic cells layered with minor and semi-conductor metals will provide Curiosity with power during the day.

Indium

Germanium

SiliconSilicon chips etched with more than 1.24 million names are aboard Curiosity.

CopperA penny minted in 1909 (when they were still mostly copper) is onboard to help scientists calibrate the cameras currently sending images back to Earth.

Tin

Zinc

Wednesday 02.01.17
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Telepistomological Themie Product &video clip

3D Print Ant and cellphone holder 

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Laser cutting & CNC cutting the maze 

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Final Product 

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Video Clip

 

Upload it to a Chinese Website:http://www.bilibili.com/

Get 3704 view; 35 comments; 11 favorited

8 people even send me some money as reward *\(^o^)/*

Video Link for Chinese Version: http://www.bilibili.com/video/av7215998/

Video Link for Chinese Version: http://www.bilibili.com/video/av7215998/

Monday 01.30.17
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Telepistomological Themie [Art & Tech Show]

Ant Maze Post
Monday 01.30.17
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Telepistomological Themie [Sketches and Render images]

 

Design Inspiration

Ant Colony

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Sketch

 

Render Images 

 

Monday 01.30.17
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