For the FAST class, a group of us made a stop motion animation describing a potential installation we would design and make on the three intake stacks next to Building 18. They're normally somewhat invisible within the MIT campus, so we decided to design the installation around the idea of calling attention to this industrial infrastructure by making them into mini stages for showcases using air, light, and sound to create space above. Kelly, myself, and Yushiro each drew part of the animation, while Travis put it all together in Photoshop :
Left : visualization of sound (hitting a drum head corresponds to a puff of smoke in one direction or the other)
Center : play of light and shadow (fog becomes a curtain on which an image can be projected, with people able to play and cast shadows both while outside and inside the circle)
Right : visible air movement (jumping on the vents causes the fog machine to rise and fall, creating a denser atmosphere when closer to the ground or a more translucent one when higher up)
We've been brainstorming various installation ideas, so we'll see what ends up being built for next year's MIT 150.
i love stop animation!
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