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Week 2 Assignment

For this week I was inspired by the movie My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki, especially the bus that is in the shape of a cat (with a lot of legs).

I want to recreate the scene in which the cat is running on a wire between two electricity pole and his windows were lit up. Originally I wanted to create a 3D poles but the paper I chose to laser cut was too thick. I glued the pieces on a piece of artboard instead.

The copper tape was hidden under the laser-cut electricity pole and connects the 3V battery to the LED light inside the cat bus. See the video of how it works here: Video

 

The Crying Dress by KOBAKANT (Week 1)

The Crying Dress is a beautiful project, done by Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi aka Kobakant. The dress acts as an companion to the wife of the deceased commissioner by constantly shedding tears and playing melancholy sounds. I love this project for its simple but sophisticated aesthetics: the dress is made of water-resistant black fabric with white and black conductive threads. The designers intentionally didn’t hide many of the electrical components because the dress was made for a hypothetical scenario in 2020 when “electronics, previously known for their uniformity and quantity, almost overnight become a showcase for individuality, materiality and skilled labor” (Kobabant website, 2012).

Video of the making of this dress can be found here.