Balloon architectures at the speed of sound

Outside - looking worried.

Inside - ready to become a hero.

eyeful eiffel rifle tower

two hours on

eiffel tower construction

Balloon fictions

Jimmy and I had an afternoon messing around with balloons. We wanted to take the 'explosive' element of our fictional bomb and extend it into an immersive structure - an architecture at the speed of sound. Obviously we didn't attempt a detention, we wanted to see the structure and test the feeling of being surrounded in balloons. It had an amazing acoustic effect and was really quite scary, as you can see from Jimmy's face:


The idea here, is to velcro the balloons together and have individual detonators on each balloon - the control of the explosion will be handled by a computer. Jimmy suggested anthrax in each balloon, i think it maybe going too far!

Borges gets the Reiffel Tower

This was sent by a student who emailed Laura - absolutely brilliant. The Secret Miracle by Jorge Luis Borges (1944) …

The squad formed and stood at attention. Hladik, standing against the barracks wall, waited for the volley. Someone pointed out that the wall was going to be stained with blood; the victim was ordered to step forward a few paces. Incongruously, this reminded Hladik of the fumbling preparations of photographers. A big drop of rain struck one of Hladik's temples and rolled slowly down his cheek; the sergeant shouted the final order.

The physical universe came to a halt. The guns converged on Hladik, but the men who were to kill him stood motionless. The sergeant's arm eternized an unfinished gesture. On a paving stone of the courtyard a bee cast an unchanging shadow. The wind had ceased, as in a picture

Architecture at the speed of sound

If we make deconstructing green=boom architecture, we should capture it like this:

I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.

or like this

More Bird houses

Hmmmm.... more CCTV birdhouses, i think we need to re-think this one:

re lig ion

same derivation

as ligament


meaning sticking or bringing together..

my Latin is a little rusty but that's pretty much it.
Plugging in is next to
Godliness.

The competition

I'm not sure how i feel about this:

Thanks be to Matt

Thanks be to 0att

(This was a mistake, but perhaps it is a sign. I am inclined to leave it here.)

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth.[1] It may be expressed through prayer, ritual, meditation, music and art, among other things. It may focus on specific supernatural, metaphysical, and moral claims about reality (the cosmos and human nature) which may yield a set of religious laws, ethics, and a particular lifestyle. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience.

And again.

Religion has been defined in a wide variety of ways. Most definitions attempt to find a balance somewhere between overly sharp definition and meaningless generalities. Some sources have tried to use formalistic, doctrinal definitions while others have emphasized experiential, emotive, intuitive, valuational and ethical factors. Definitions mostly include:

* a notion of the transcendent or numinous, often, but not always, in the form of theism
* a cultural or behavioural aspect of ritual, liturgy and organized worship, often involving a priesthood, and societal norms of morality (ethos) and virtue (arete)
* a set of myths or sacred truths held in reverence or believed by adherents

Sociologists and anthropologists tend to see religion as an abstract set of ideas, values, or experiences developed as part of a cultural matrix. For example, in Lindbeck's Nature of Doctrine, religion does not refer to belief in "God" or a transcendent Absolute. Instead, Lindbeck defines religion as, "a kind of cultural and/or linguistic framework or medium that shapes the entirety of life and thought… it is similar to an idiom that makes possible the description of realities, the formulation of beliefs, and the experiencing of inner attitudes, feelings, and sentiments.”[8] According to this definition, religion refers to one's primary worldview and how this dictates one's thoughts and actions.

From good old Wikipedia

Church of Assisted Belief: ADVANCED BELIEVERS

We have
Cardboard and foil helmets
Foil and tape helmet

We need to make
Lead version (Jimmy)
Knitted version (Laura)
Kids version (All: BMX helmet needs to be cut and taped. I have tape.)

We need
Plugs and Cable (we need these for the kits as well)

Then
All of these need to be photographed as portraits and in context of use.

And
We might even actually try and seriously see if they work.

Church of Assisted Belief: RECRUIT KITS

We have
Foil
Crocodile clips

We need
Plugs (61p from Screwfix: Laura to order)
Yellow/Green Cable (Jimmy to check at home, or Laura to order from Screwfix)
Tape (Gaffa is expensive: are we all OK to give them electrical tape instead? Laura to order)
Boxes or whatever (Laura)

To Do
Pamphlet drawings (Jimmy)

Experience schematic (plus variations if you feel like it)
Plug schematic
Clip scematic
Temporal lobe location

Temporal lobe stickers (Laura, maybe using Jimmy's drawing to print. Matt maybe to laser cut outlines)

We could have the 16%

Jimmy letterboxed position 5

Bomb Cam 2

Letterboxed.

Bomb Cam

A great day for important research

I Believe!!!!

okay, I'm going to try and articulate my initial problem about the 'god helmet' project - this may go into a theological ramble, try to stay with me, it maybe useless - but today i turned a corner on the project.

I don't believe in God, I'm not a spiritual person, I don't seek approval or direction from a higher source... however, I find the cultural position of organized religion fascinating. It's here that my problem began - for me the helmet started as a deeply personal artifact, it was for solemn personal reflection. Today, by suggesting that we ask others to make the helmets, we released the project into the social domain. That's not to say that it was introspective, but it was about the psychological ramifications of EM - not the social implications of a technologically negotiated belief. I'm sure it was my own short-sightedness, but i think involving 'the masses' in a project about religion/faith/feeling is important.

I guess people approach their faith in different ways, some are quiet believers - holding their thoughts to themselves for their own benefits - this type of faith can range from hardcore catholicism to buddism or just pain new age meditation. I'm more interested (as always) in the politics of the situations - the new social structures, the new negotiations of power, the new cultures of use and re-use. Once the 'church of assisted belief' has gone into the wild, it'll start to pull up really interesting questions.

Putting Leo to bed

The accidental revelation of the day was taking these two photos... it fulfills my desire to be like Leonardo Dicaprio. I look cool, I feel cool, I am cool!

I can now move forward.

Big Bad Jimmy

I like this one, and I think that Portrait might be the way. Cinematic Moments may not be all about images from films... It might be iconic images, ones that we think we remember from films. It doesn't matter if they really are or if we've imagined them. As long as there's a shared recognition of that image, it works?

Actually looking at them now they're all quite good, and Jimmy needs to be a bit bigger (as he said).

Boom V & Laura

Green=Boom V from Laura Potter on Vimeo.

Laura=Boom from Laura Potter on Vimeo.

The Wrestler

http://www.capcom-unity.com/bigmex/blog/2008/08/12/how_to_make_a_lucha_libre_mask_out_of_a_tee_shirt

http://www.weaponofcreation.com/files/IES/htskin/clrhead.htm

http://www.stretchy.org/catsuit/extras/hoods/

Kit contains:
"10 paces each" distance gauge
2 x ankle height camera stands
2 x infra red remotes with holsters (left or right handed)
2 x cardio targets with integrated camera receiver connections

When you aim, you aim for the heart. Each person wears a cardio target (badge: one can be sheriff) which is wired up to the camera shutter. When the remote hits the target the shutter fires and the picture captures the time (there must be a time thing on the image itself). Both cameras are compared to see who is dead.

Frodo saves Sam

Problem is that Sam's not reaching out 'cause he's just drowning.

Showdown moment

So this is what I'm thinking about.




But we don't want anything like this.

External sound not GSR

More science

This is Jimmy's GSR audio over two 0.5 second periods. The first is before the boom, when the sound seems to be at its lowest pitch.

This one is 4.5 seconds after the boom, when the pitch gets to its highest.

This is Laura's GSR audio over two 0.5 second periods. The first is before the boom, when the sound seems to be at its lowest pitch.

This one is 3 seconds after the boom, when the pitch gets to its highest.

In both cases I've selected the highest and lowest sounds I can hear, so we can compare each person a) with themselves and b) with each other.

Jimmy is still the Ice Man.