Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Lazy Christmas holidays.

Finally I pushed myself hard enough to white something here and get my hands on a bit of work. It's been a really nice holidays and I think a bit of rest over Christmas was well deserved. Although it was sooo hard to start working again and knowing myself and my thinking "I can do that tommorow, I still got loads of time" I need to get back on track.
Just before holidays we had a tutorial and talked through our innitial ideas, what I want to record, what mechanism, what is my innitial location etc.
Walking through South Bermondsey I realised that there is a lot of water drops coming out of nowhere under the bridges, there is drain pipes (if that's how they're called) going along the huge workshop buildings etc. Water is collecting everywhere and at the end finds its way to vanish- running though the pipes, dropping from under the bridges, comming into a little fens/marshs/wetlands (how it's called really? found these words in dictionary but not sure which ones is right to use) and then evaporating into air. It would be nice to be able to record those ways of water journey, it's marks or its shapes during the running.
I've been looking for inspiration as I also had an idea of trasnfering water into energy or having water as an energy source. Although it would be amazing to create something like this I'm scared that it's a bit too risky and too challenging at this level. I keep this idea in my mind and definately will use some of the ideas that came exploring it, but will create something mechanical/technical rather then electronic.
So going back to recording waterdrops, I researched a bit and found "how to" video of how to make cool waterdrop effects using actual waterdrops. I experimented it myself and here is my results:


I think this definatelly pushed me into direction that I want to explore and develop.

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