Saturday, May 02, 2009
Novism Graffiti was a great success! So many people enjoyed playing with our project. I think that it's important that people enjoy themselves when they experience art. It shouldn't be work. The only real hitch with it was that I had to change the settings on the program every day for some reason. The 2nd day we didn't get into the show in time for me to get the settings all ready before people started coming in, so that was a bummer. I had to leave it be with the red and orange not working because someone important wanted to try, who was then disappointed that they couldn't get it to work, because they wanted to use red and orange. I fixed it after they left though. If I had only been able to set up sooner...
I'm happy with how it turned out. I managed to get a lot of screen shots of everyone's pieces, though the outlines for them are on my teammate's computer. So everyone'll just have to guess what these pictures are supposed to be. They actually look pretty cool without the outlines, and a lot of people mentioned this. So I don't actually mind that I don't have them.
The other projects were successful as well. Though I was skeptic about the Lightning one, there's was really cool. You had to sit in a room with a simulated thunderstorm going on, and hit a drum in order to stop it. So you ended up making the thunder, instead of the lightning. I believe they intended for it to be frightening, which it wasn't. But that doesn't mean it wasn't successful. The picture overlay project was neat. I had no idea what they were really going to do, but I'd never seen anything like it.
They basically changed the shadow of anyone's hand that was in the box into a picture of something related to the background image. It was pretty neat.
I sadly didn't get to try the College Experience, since there was always a line outside it and I got distracted and forgot until the next time I looked and saw a line.
The cool fractal image project was impressive. I actually have no idea how they managed it. But it was fun to play with all the same.
The Colors project was fun to play on, even though I don't really know what it was about.
I think the Singing in the Rain project would have been more successful had it been in the same room with the rest of us. It was out in the hall, so many people didn't notice it. But it was definately the fanciest looking, with the motion sensing umbrella and everything.
It was fun, I'm glad I got to take part in it.
