Sunday, April 8, 2007

Things that keep me awake at night, unlike boogie monsters



So now onto an idea I've wanted to create a while ago: the water dress. This time fountain may just be the key to making this dress somehow viable. All you need is to construct the outer shell with see-through plastic, with these crazy light installations within it...turn off the lights, and you have some darn amazing fashion. Maybe I'll make one for my wedding dress, or start a line...
AND--not only will it be quiet an experience, this will be a tangible-like optical illusion which will throw you head first into the sense of wonder, visually persuade you to think about timing within space and liquid emotion.




Mostly I love the fact that this guy worked in a place that used these lights for surgical procedures, but his mind was somewhere else. Let's hope it wasn't somewhere else when he was actually surgicaling people.
These lights could perhaps be of use within the dress process, although I doubt this will be my final project idea as of current status. However, the idea of a tangible illusion still holds and simmers.

1 comment:

Kjell Hansen said...

The time fountain is a great piece, thanks for calling it to my attention. It's great that the artist provides DIY instructions too.

When I was generating initial ideas for the 202 project, one of them (that eventually evolved into the concept of Follow Your Heart! as it is now) was to use a strobe light to chop up perception of continuous reality into discrete frames, wherein the framerate is governed by a performer's heartrate. It could make for some neat stopmotion/slowmotion filmic effects.