Week 1 – 01/22/2020

The State of my Thesis

Prototype Prints

Prototype Mold

This mold took about ~12 hours to cure. Also, by vacuum degassing out all the air pockets after mixing the two plastic materials needed to start the curing process, there are little to no air pockets in the mold.

Resin Cast Prototype

Back Light Test Videos

Test Video 1 (Short)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r-bM__KxLXHDdlmn0UAFLK2qyNbus3Gp/view?usp=sharing

Test Video 2 (Long)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g29TqigryGb1yUCyy2SBZaCloEkb7lmO/view?usp=sharing

Personal Consensus – What needs to be done?

• Thesis project itself is an area that I feel relatively comfortable with, in regards to making objects and cutting audio and video content in a timely manner.
• What I worry will consume too much time is figuring out how to physically display the project, and how much technical engineering will be needed for LED lighting if it is indeed necessary to have.
• Lastly the Thesis paper, obviously still needs to be worked on with the proper formatting.

What has been done over Winter Break?

• Cut down audio of community meeting
  • Overly long pauses in Speech have been removed
  • Unnecessary conversations have been removed towards the end.
  • Meeting have been cut into 2 parts, part one being a public monologue of Server/Community owner addressing the problems that have been brought forward regarding several transgressions about the community and how its ran (including a case of Sexual harassment that occurred), and part two being members of the community reacting to the monologue which in turn bring the Server/Community owner back from work to address how they feel, and how he feels.
    • Part one is ~42 Minutes Long in its current draft
    • Part two is ~ 50 Minutes Long in its current draft
      • ~15-20 minutes of audio have been cut, not including the third part of the meeting which was 2 hours long and already cut out.
      • Will see about re-reviewing this further to see what more can be cutting for listener retention.
  • Once this is done, I can go back to re-modeling the sound files and drafting a mixed media concept of a video screen with the community chat being shown, the resin sound sculptures, and potentially individually accessible LEDs.