The journey so far

My interest in the subject has been turned into curiosity and hence the following image does justice to my work.

http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/yee-ming-tan/200811231206

This second image is a snapshot of something I read on Facebook and adds to everything I'm working on.

https://www.facebook.com/KnowledgeOfToday?ref=stream

http://www.knowledgeoftoday.org/2012/02/illuminati-secret-hidden-from-masses.html

Lastly I'd like to sum things up for christmas with a new book I've found that I'll be reading soon.

http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Through-Dark-Emotions-Despair/dp/1590301013

Mariam Greenspan: Healing through the dark emotions

We are all touched at some point by the dark emotions of grief, fear or despair. In an age of global threat, these emotions have become widespread and overwhelming. While conventional wisdom warns us of the harmful effects of ''negative'' emotions, this revolutionary book offers a more hopeful view: There is a redemptive power in our worst feelings. Seasoned psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan argues that it's the avoidance and denial of the dark emotions that results in the escalating psychological disorders of our time: depression, anxiety, addiction, psychic numbing, and irrational violence. And she shows us how to trust the wisdom of the dark emotions to guide, heal and transform our lives and our world.

Drawing on inspiring stories from her psychotherapy practice and personal life, and including a complete set of emotional exercises, Greenspan teaches the art of emotional alchemy by which grief turns to gratitude, fear opens the door to joy, and despair becomes the ground of a more resilient faith in line.

Device test

After coming up with the device it was now time to test the piece, whether it works or not. One always hopes for the best but you know how life can be so here it is check it out and tell me what you think. Personally it needs heavy tweaking and it kind of broke down on the day of the test! My humble expression at that moment ''GREAT, now I get to rethink the whole thing !'' 

My Verdict:

Translating Movement

After analysing the camera movement I went on to the next step which was to try and find a way of show casing that movement while the film is being projected. Using Steve Farrer's idea of a rotating projector I decided to work on a mechanism that would help me do something similar. This movement however needed to be in conjunction with with camera movement in the selected one second film I had built. Using a pico projector which can be charged and used wirelessly I came up with the following idea. I needed a strong heavy duty motor that could power my my device and to keep things cheap I used a cordless drill. 

Frames In X Axis:

Sketch Idea:

Understanding different mechanisms:

Shift from speed to steering angel

http://world.honda.com/history/challenge/19874ws/photo/04.html

Slider Crank Mechanism

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094114X12000444

Intervention:

Steve Farrer

analysing horror

TROIKA

'Arcades is a site specific installation for Future Primitives, Biennale Interieur 2012, Kortrijk Belgium.

‘Arcades’ is a sight specific installation that inscribes one architectural space within another; an arcade made of the light is implanted into a space defined by strong brick walls, a pitched roof and exposed wooden beams, that of a former stable. The arcade is given shape by a series of 14 pillars of light that are met by  fresnel lenses refracting the rays that travel through their focal points. When travelling through the lenses, the light beams do not simply change direction but bend hyperbolically to form the arches of gothic architecture.

'Arcades' creates a spatial suspension of disbelief which questions our relationship with the metaphysical in a world increasingly governed by practical, rational and scientific principles. By confronting the viewer with seemingly impossible phenomenon of bending light it creates a space for contemplation and introspection, suggesting a synthesis between agnostic reason and intuitive belief.

The arcade of light lies between the intangible and physical, the visible and the seemingly impossible. it asks the viewer to pause and contemplate the surrounding space whilst promoting openness rather than closure. The illusion doesn't usurp but rather re-enforces the experience of a space. Here, in the spirit of satin glass, of 'Lux Nova', in which spirituality is invoked through light, science invokes the sublime.
REF: http://troika.uk.com/arcades?image=2

time to take a breather from darkness

In the vast subject of fear, there is an area where its not a fear that you have but one that's been devised for you. In this case it is my parents who fear that flowing water is dangerous for me, to the extent that they fear for my life. Being a person who's surrounded by his own anxieties this seems to me as an unimportant matter. However, with the long story behind this case I am interested in analysing a particular site in mind.

Greenwich Foot Tunnel:

The tunnel has been in the news for  while regarding "where the taxpayers money is being spent", "why has it been shut for so long" etc. but what I'm most interested in is this spooky article on the net i found.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/londons-greenwich-foot-tunnel-closed-after-reports-of-unusual-smell-8080979.html

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Inside_Greenwich_Foot_Tunnel.jpg

The Greenwhich foot tunnel is a pedestrian tunnel crossing beneath the River Thames in East London, linking Greenwich in the south with the Isle of Dogs to the north. The tunnel is currently open while refurbishment works contimue on the entrance shafts and domes. The works were due to be completed by june 2011, but delays mean that they are now scheduled to be complete sometime in 2012.

Ref: Wikipedia

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?um=1&hl=en&q=greenwich%20foot%20tunnel%20map&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bpcl=36601534&biw=2314&bih=1342&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il