noisy jelly

"Note : This project is a fully working prototype made with Arduino and Max/Msp, there are absolut no sound editing in the video...

Noisy jelly is a game where the player has to cook and shape his own musical material, based on coloured jelly. With this noisy chemistry lab, the gamer will create his own jelly with water and a few grams of agar agar powder. After added different color, the mix is then pour in the molds. 10 min later, the jelly shape can then be placed on the game board,and by touching the shape, the gamer will activate different sounds.

Technically, the game board is a capacitive sensor, and the variations of the shape and their salt concentration, the distance and the strength of the finger contact are detected and transform into an audio signal. This object aims to demonstrate that electronic can have a new aesthetic, and be envisaged as a malleable material, which has to be manipulated and experimented."

i'm a frayed knot, knit wit

yarn bombing or "guerilla knitting" has been happening a lot lately, ever since the crocheting/knitting craze began. I've even seen one on a trail a mile and half up to the summit while hiking. to think that someone stood there to knit a cozy around a tree, how much time it took, and whether or not that was the purpose of their hike, was baffling. I wish I'd taken a picture of it.

there are a few that got some press back then, like project pothole and this guy and many countless others. today, there's spidertag. dunno about you, but I'm kinda liking this...

savasana boot camp

I'm thinking about joining a boot camp class because running and dance classes aren't cutting it for me anymore. Or maybe immersing myself in yoga since the majority of exercises I do involve high impact aerobics. But with yoga, I always end up with a headache because I forget to breath, which is basically what yoga is about, no? And those poses. Holding those poses are sometimes more painful than getting that last mile in. I do have my favorites, like the child's pose and the cat + cow pose. These feel great in the morning after waking. And then there's my very favorite, the savasana.

Now who wants to grab a hot fudge sundae, two tacos on the side, heapings of guacamole and a burger filled burrito?!