Final Video

I work at a youth development summer camp that leads into afterschool program. I work with around 500 kids from ages 5- 16. Most kids think of this place as a second home as do I. Spending every day from 6 am to 7 pm there you get connected with everyone there and start making friends. every year after 10 weeks with the same kids and counselors they really become your best friends and the last week everyone realizes how much their gonna miss camp and seeing everyone. you realize all the laughs you've had all the fights you've had and all the memories camp has provided. working there now for 3 years i have seen many kids break down crying on their last days because they'll miss their counselors and best friends. some of these kids coming to camp is their only steady day to day thing and the memories and discipline and communication skills developed there are amazing. I shot this on my phone so the quality is not the best however the best i could do at work. I combined all the videos in software call Camtasia Studios. I used an array of video filters to create the fancy look including film filter, sepia and transitions called Glow. I got a creative commons licence for the music therefore its copyright free. and the quote from john green represents how after summer the camp is pretty much empty and you feel so empty because there's barely any kids however the memories there are endless and every spot on camp has its own special memories and meanings. I hope you enjoy!

Performance Art

Living in Florida my entire life, I've never done the typical winter activities like build a snowman. Instead, my friends and I usually go to the beach Christmas night or on Christmas eve as it's usually in the high 70 to 80s. Therefore, we (Milenda Clark , Emily Proffitt, myself) decided to take a sculpture of a snowman and create it in the Florida weather which would be taking it out of it's normal environment. This required using materials other than snow and ended up bringing a little Christmas spirit to Tampa in the process. While putting together this snowman made out of plastic cups, we played Christmas music and had many onlookers. When were about done we had some people asking to take photos with it because it was cute and unique to see someone building a "snowman" in Florida. The completed snowman was about 3 ft tall and 1 1/2 ft wide. The video is linked below.

My three influences for this project were:
Gilbert & George - The Singing Sculpture which is an 8 hour singing sculpture performance. I like how they took the a idea of a sculpture which is an inanimate object and made it live.
Stelarc's "Ear on Arm" sculpture and project. Stelarc had several art pieces were he placed an ear on an arm. This is taking a sculpture and adding an unexpected object to it.
Swiss artist Victorine Mueller who encases herself in her sculptures which are made from balloons or pvc pipes.

All these art pieces take a sculpture and add an unexpected element like singing, an out of place object, or a live person inside. These pieces required technology to create the sculpture or the appearance of a sculpture in the case of Gilbert & George.  I think the future of performance art includes live streaming and social media. Artists will be able to reach a larger audience and have more impact using these new technologies

Snowman

Music

The five music movements i have chosen are punk, nineties, girl power, electronic, and disco.

Punk: I chose the ramones; I feel like they are very similar to green day in their style of music. they have the sameish tempo in their beats and also the singing style is similar. you can also bring it down to the fact that they use the same instruments as the other and their production style is the same.
Green Day

Nineties: I chose Radio head I believe they are similar to a coldplay. The song that came to my mind when I thought of radiohead was "lift" (linked below) I instantly thought of coldplay "the scientist"  (linked below). These two songs are similar in tone both very mellow and they both have some kind of story telling aspect to their music.
Radiohead
Coldplay

Girl Power: For Girl power i was inspired to choose Icona Pop only because i was a fan of them and have seen them perform before while on tour. i thought they resembled another popular band that was around while they were popular which is walk the moon who i have also had the pleasure of seeing on tour. they definitely take the same sound. very techno but fun and strong at the same time i can hear a lot of similar instruments between them.
Walk the moon
Icona Pop

Electronic: David Guetta is one of my favorite EDM artist. his music is amazing and tells a story. i chose to compare them to aronchupa. Aronchupa takes a more playful approach to EDM but i feel like the beats come from the same inspiration. EDM is a very similar and close knit community coming to standing out would be hard but they both take that on by singing in their songs more than some other artist. that's why i grouped them together.
Aronchupa

Disco: Bee gees they were very high pitched and fast paced music. this was hard to find a comparable person and took some time, so i went with Justin Timberlake. Justin is very high pitched singer ( not as high as the bee gees) they are both danceish music.
Justin Timberlake

Xerox Art

My inspiration for this is Vincent Van Gogh. His abstract concept to a real scene has always intrigued me. I recreated this inspiration by photo copying my hair in many different lengths styled it differently each time I even dragged my hair in a big zag form across the scanner as it was scanning to make it appear as if my hair magically grew like 8 inches. The bottom of this image is supposed to be hay. My name is Haley and the meaning behind my name is hay meadow so I wanted to incorporate that, so intentionally the art looks like a hay field. I hope you enjoy my interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh's abstract view of scenery.(4x2)

Grid Art

Hi, I did my grid Art using roofing nails. I took the approach of a typical 30x30 square grid. After I had all 900 nails in the boards I proceeded to paint them I referenced a picture of a concert audience silhouette since I love concerts and some how I make it into every concert audience picture of the shows I go to. When I painted the nails I then pushed some nails at different heights and put some at an angle to make it 3D. I hope you like it!

ASCII ART

After looking at tons of pictures of ASCII art I have found it interesting. At first it is quite hard to figure out what some of the pictures are, however when you realize what it is when you can appreciate it sorta. I find the first the picture on the main page kinda cute since its close to halloween and the pictures is of witches, but the witches is the only thing I can actually visualize in that ASCII picture. I have no clue what's around them unless it might be a sky but then why is it curved and whats the tail thing. Is it a pumpkin?

I feel like everyone at one point in their life has tried to make these on their Facebook timeline or in the comment section or where ever. i personally tried it when i was about 10 or 11. i am way to impatient to try and do this or figure this out but, it is impressive. looking at the more spaced out codes that make pictures like the witches or the devil so on and so on, i find it harder to make out. also, the first picture of the girl under anime tab and others the girl is really hard to make out in my opinion you have to look at it for a few seconds to see its a girl.

I like how some of the pictures use the contrast of shading by making some symbols bold or uppercase or lowercase.... overall I don't find it really cool to look at for a long time or really appreciate it as an art form because it gives me a headache trying to figure out what some of these pictures are and it's only kinda cool when the picture is a super simple design and you look at it for like .02 seconds scrolling through your timeline (it's kinda cool but really annoying, honestly I just hate anything having to do with computers)

21st century technology

21st Century Technology

Hypodermic Needle

In 1844, Francis Rynd invented the hollow needle. Rynd used the needle to inject medicine subcutaneously. Then in 1853 Charles Pravaz and Alexander Wood modified the hollow needle to make it sharper.  Wood used the new needle to inject morphine into his patients to treat nerve conditions. The next major advancement was made in 1899 by Letitia Mumford Geer. She designed the needle to be used with one hand (Omnisurge, 2015).

The next few advancements focused on the materials the needles were made from. In 1946, Chance Brothers created an all glass syringe.  This allowed the needles to be sterilized in pieces but it was still expensive.  Then in 1974, Phil Brooks patented the plastic disposable syringe bringing the costs of needles significantly lower (Omnisurge, 2015).

Today, the hypodermic needle is being revolutionized again. In 2011, Seiji Aoyagi created a hypodermic needle that is based on a mosquito’s bite (Coxworth, 2011). The mosquito’s mouth which is called a proboscis is a system of six needles. Two of the needles, called the maxillae, are jagged.  The mosquito uses these needles to saw through the person’s skin. The needles are very sharp and the person can barely feel the cut.  Any pain you feel from a mosquito bite is from the anticoagulant they inject in the blood and not the bite itself (Quiros, 2016).  The jagged surface of these needles causes the least amount of nerves to be affected at any one time since very little surface area on the skin is touched. 

Seiji Aoyagi and his team studied the mosquito and created a needle using a jagged outer surface instead of a smooth surface (Coxworth, 2011).  This has resulted a nearly pain-free needle. Other insect technology is also being used to enhance our current medical technology.  This field of science is called Biomimicry.  Researchers are now examining wood-boring wasps.  These wasps have a needle-like spike that they use to lay their eggs in wood.  They use a reciprocating motion instead of a rotary motion to drill into the wood. (AskNature Team, 2015).  Using this technology, the wasp can insert its eggs deep into the wood. 

The wasp’s spike has two interlocking valves which has backward-facing teeth (Coxworth, 2011).  One of the valves latches onto the wood while the other valve cuts into the wood. The two valves then switch catching the wood and cutting into the wood. This rapid, reciprocating motion allows the wasp to drill into the wood nearly an inch with very little force and very little pressure on the wood. (Coxworth, 2011).

Needles and scalpels based on this technology will be used in the future for brain surgery. The less force used to cut or inject into the brain the less the brain tissue is damaged. We can then expand this technology using a combination of Artificial Intelligence and insect technology (e.g. maggots ability to detect dead tissue) to create smart needles and scalpels. These new medical devices will be able to drill into the body navigating around crucial areas with very minimal tissue damage. This would allow surgeons to target previously inoperable locations and create hypodermic needles that target specific tissue.

Works Cited:

AskNature Team. “Ovipositor drills through wood.” AskNature. September 9, 2015. Accessed October 16, 2017. https://asknature.org/strategy/ovipositor-drills-through-wood

Coxworth, Ben. “Mosquito inspires near-painless hypodermic needle”. New Atlas.  April 4, 2011.  Accessed October 16, 2017. https://newatlas.com/mosquito-inspires-near-painless-hypodermic-needle/18320/

Omnisurge. “The History of the Syringe.” Omnisurge. May 5, 2015. Accessed October 16, 2017. http://omnisurge.co.za/the-history-of-the-syringe/

Quiros, Gabriella. “How Mosquitoes Use Six Needles to Suck Your Blood.” KQED Science. June 7, 2016. Accessed October 16, 2017. https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/06/07/how-mosquitoes-use-six-needles-to-suck-your-blood/