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Karly and Rose's Project & Artist's Statement

Posted by Karly Bornstein in Physics - Echols on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 3:48 pm

For our project, Rose and I decided to do a camera. We first had the idea of putting lights inside the hula hoop, but we thought that we be too much and it couldn't be used afterwards. Both of us enjoy photography and Rose just happened to have an old camera in the house that we could take apart. So we figured, let's light up a camera. We had many different ideas of where we wanted everything to light, but we finally came up with an idea. The camera was emptied inside, except for the lens. For the final sculpture, we had a 4 lightbulbs in a series, 2 replacing the flash, and 2 showing in the screen. The switch is the button you press down to take a picture. After all the hard work and planning, we were very happy with the final result.

Seamus Kirby and Kristi Bezhani Circuits Project

Posted by Seamus Kirby in Physics - Echols on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 2:08 pm

As we built our model, we notice that art has an enigmatic manner of being incorporated into science. What we thought to be interesting about the art behind this project, is that in a standard piece of art, there are things that cannot be seen, such as possible hidden emotions or the tiniest of details. In science on the other hand, there are also things that cannot be seen, such as electrons, neutrons, protons, etc.. Put the two together and we have many hidden messages that cannot be resolved in the instant. Science, unlike art has theories of the unseeable messages that rationalize what happens in reality based off of logic. But art is much more than a simple theory. With art, there are no accuracies or facts as there are in science, the only thing that matters in art is self and perception. There is never a right or wrong within art, but within science, it is possible for errors to exist. In the scientific world, errors are a negative sign, while in the artistic world, errors are perceived as beautiful of flaw and natural imperfect humanity. We chose to create an earring holder out of forks and spoons, because it combined our interests of food, and jewelry. What makes our earring holder unique is that when the earrings are placed on the holder, all the lights turn on.

Circuit Project + Artist Statement

Posted by Kenny Le in Physics - Echols on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 1:42 pm

For my project, I decided to make my lights outline a Mac Apple on my laptop holder. I chose to make a Mac Apple, because at SLA we use laptops everyday. I liked the apple on the Mac laptop, so I thought it would be cool and original to make an apple outside of a laptop holder. On top of our Mac laptop case, there is an apple that glows. I wanted to represent that apple on my laptop holder. I use 6 light bulbs with 3 on each branch. I connected wires in a parallel series.

Alisha's Circuit Sculpture & Artist Statement

Posted by Alisha Clark in Physics - Echols on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 12:55 pm

I picked the design of a child’s costume to light up, because I adore my younger siblings, cousins and family friends. I’m usually the one that watches over the babies and they love to dress up. This is my little cousin's costume of a lady bug. There are three lights on each wing that are centered in the hearts. Within each wing, there is a parallel circuit that runs off two AA batteries. On the sides, there is a green switch. When pressed down upon, it will light up. It is nice to look at and watch as it lights up.

Q1_Circuit Benchmark (Light-up Batman Cover) Briana & Merrik

Posted by Briana Hicks in Physics - Echols on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 11:02 am

The thing we choose to light up was the book cover of a Batman Vampire book. The reason we chose a book cover is that we like graphic novels. There were two copies of the Batman Vampire so we decided to use that one. All the lights were meant to show the vampiric parts of the book. The bats and the eyes are one of the main things around vampires that we can find on the book cover. Just for emphasis we lit up the B in batman. The bright red lights were meant for looking like a vampire. In the book batman becomes a vampire and to show that we had his eyes light up. The bats are essential to the makeup of a vampire and to batman. Those were needed to show batman off.

Q1 Benchmark Circuit Pictures – Daniel Varnis & Viet Le

Posted by Daniel Varnis in Physics - Echols on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 9:23 am

Our sculpture was made designed inside of a compartment of a Lovaza water bottle The circuit contains Red LEDs for a few reasons. First, we both really like the color red. Second, we really like bright lights. And well, LEDs are very well known for being bright.

Also, we were trying to be as environmentally friendly as possible. So we used the water bottle, because were basically recycling for more than the basic use of drinking. Also, LEDs are VERY environmentally friendly so it worked out pretty well.

Below is a picture of the circuit turned OFF

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Below is a picture of the circuit turned ON

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Walking in breast cancer style

Posted by Sarena Shuman in Physics - Echols on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 9:10 am

This piece "Walking in Breast Cancer Style" was inspired by the month of October. The theme for the month of October is to support breast cancer and the breast cancer walk. This piece is a converse sneaker marked up with the breast cancer symbol. The out line of the symbol is lit with pink christmas lights. We put pink everywhere! Pink trim of glitter, and pink tape, all showed that we are walking in breast cancer style. It's thinking outside the box, something new and inspirational. We wanted viewers to see the breast cancer symbol, showing that breast cancer is a serious health issue around not only America, but the world. We will walk for breast cancer, any time!

By:Sarena Shuman and Lexus Forman

PHYS-011

Term: 2012-13

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