Pressure project 2 – Yujie
Posted: February 22, 2022 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »This pressure project asks us to use Isadora and Makey Makey to reveal a secret. I was struggling for a long time about how to define a secret that can be connected to physical forms that conduct electricity. First, I was thinking about the things that are serious, epic, or hidden in daily lives. But those things are really hard to connect with daily objects that could animate Makey Makey. However, it hits me in the last class where Alec said that the secret can also be something that is delightful and small. These comments then reminded me of something I find delightful myself. I couldn’t stop watching the funny and silly videos where people use various materials and ideas to make Bing Dwen Dwen, the mascot of the 2022 Beijing winter Olympics. Because of its surging popularity and unexpected shortage of supply, people can’t get the mascot even after waiting for long hours. So, they started to make all sorts of creative and personalized versions of Bing Dwen Dwen. I was so amazed by people’s creativity and exceptional skills. I think my class would be also fascinated by these grassroots creations.
I first download and edit the news videos about how cute and popular Bing Dwen Dwen is to give some context for people who don’t really watch the Winter Olympics. Then I use text draw to give directions to the class that you can actually get one if you follow the process. By holding the “I” button with one hand and pressing one of the drawings with the other hand, the earth and output of the Makey Makey will be connected through the human body and the pencil graphite. Then different videos of Bing Dwen Dwen creation will be triggered to display.
The four options are represented on a paper with pencil drawings. The four drawings have some elements related to the video so that they can trigger some imagination and lead people to reveal the secrets behind them. After one of them is revealed, the display will always go back to the selection scene for the next revelation.
Here is the main Isadora scene of trigger connection between videos and drawings.
Picture of connection
