We made music together today for our theme of phobia...

Today we made spiders with pipe cleaners. We are planning to make original music piece to present our topic of arachnophobia. 

Today we made some progress. We made some pipecleaner spiders but we think we may want to move on to something musical.

For Kassidy and my project, in our studio, Afraid of The Dark we chose to do a live art piece. After thinking about what our most prominent fear was, we chose the fear of the unknown, once placed in the complete dark where your mind can wander. In order to show this we had some of the dancers help us out. We had Lindsay Gilliam sitting center stage as the person who is expressing this fear. Around her would be the other girls placed at each corner representing her fears and paranoia. They would be dressed in black from head to toe in order to not be seen as much, while Lindsay would be wearing all white. There would be two blacklights set up on either side of the stage with all the lights turned off. Each corner would have a bucket of white paint for the girls to use from the outer corners eventually reaching LIndsay by the time the song Tiptoe Through The Tulips ended. This would symbolize her mind eventually giving up and succumbing to her fear of the dark. Since it was a project that could've gone many different ways I would say the audience reacted well to it and everything went as planned.    

Problem:

• Most children have a fear of a monster under their bed
• They are unable to sleep because of their imaginations, and rely on the parents to keep them "safe", causing the parents to lose their own sleep
• Child constantly is in fear and may start to not like to sleep at all

Solution:

• We created a bracelet that can get rid of the monster for the child
• The bracelet has lights that when turned on, can expel the monster because the light has a certain amount of energy
• Child can wear it to sleep, and simply turn it on whenever it is needed to be turned on.  

presedence: 

sketches:

iliteration: 

final products:

While making this product we had to change a few things, we started out using cardboard, then was show these finger ligths, we decided to us those. We had to hot glue the lights to the material that we used for the bracelet part. 

Then we had to decide what each level would reprecent and what the lights should stand for. We just decided that each level would scare away a different type of scary monster, and the lights are just for style. 

yesterday Frieda and I brainstormed and came up with several ideas for our NuVu project. Some ideas included: a mask, a cape, and a skirt. All would represent both the childhood monser and the things that scare monsters away. 

The attached image is the begining of my shawl. It is made up of several shapes that will become bigger and bigger as it cascades down. 

Today Ms. Rosie from NuVu came in to talk to our R+D class. Frieda and I were working on our first life size prototype. We have the main frame measured and cut out, nopw we need to finish the prototype and start designing the wings in Rino. Ms. Rosie helped us figure out how we will eventually design the parts for our cape wings in Rino. 

Today Frieda and I finished our prototype. Rosie, from NuVu, helped us come up with concepts to 3-D print different tools for our project. Next week Frieda and I plan to start designing our pieces in Rino and to also fill out our PO form for our materials.