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.

Jimmy is the winner

This is a waveform visualisation of Loizeau detonating the bomb. You can see it's pretty even all the way along and the bomb blast is easy to spot.

This is Potter detonating the bomb (knowing that it will trigger). You can see the same shape bomb blast but then there's more extreme waves afterwards. It still looks even before and after.

Closer in you get more info. At this magnification you can see the waves from Loizeau's GSR audio output are even, but the frequency is low enough to see individual spikes quite clearly.

At the same magnification, Potter's waves are still too close together to see any spikes at all. This is almost certainly a graphic representation of panic.

[The second 'blob' of activity after the bomb blast is Loizeau laughing, then Potter breathes out and Ward takes a photo: see this image].

I think this now scientifically proves that I am way more scared of that prototype than Jimmy (sorry I couldn't do Matt's because there was too much talking over the GSR audio, however I speculate that Matt will come second). Huston, we have new knowledge.

Don't ask me how I did this. It's taken me goddamn hours. I am sure there will be a much better way, but this was the only useful free one I could find on the net and it took a lot of file conversion back and forth. Coupled with the fact that I don't really understand what I did, I'm just happy to have posted something today.

Can we use the word designtific (like de-scientific)? Is this designtific evidence of actual sensation during use of a prototype?