WHAT ARE WE MAKING
A glimpse of a marvellous underwater world: a natural setting constructed with unnatural materials.
SMALL JELLYFISH
I brought in the two Coke bottle jellyfish I’d made (recipes on blog).
We have materials to make about 10-15 more (inc some small ones).
They can be lit using small LED torches – we need to buy a few more.
We talked about colours (using the glass paint) but I don’t think we reached a conclusion.
They can be hung over the wooden rafters I already have and/or from the ceiling using self-adhesive hooks.
I’ve prepared the bottles by drilling the holes ready for construction en mass.
BIG JELLYFISH
I brought in my broken golf umbrella.
Katie took off the handle.
We thought this could be suspended from the ceiling at an angle so you can see some of the spokes underneath.
There are some red and black twisted canes (you use them in big flower arrangements) and we thought these could be taped to the umbrella as its longest tentacles (and then use the shredded paper for shorter tentacles).
I think the conclusion about lighting was probably to use LED torches along the spokes. But Katie wants to try out Christmas lights too.
But we’re not sure about painting the ‘silk’ – Katie will experiment. And she will bring some nail polish remover to see if she can scrub off the company logos on the white ‘silk’.
CORAL
There was a bit of PVA glue in the studio so we mixed that with water and some shredded paper. We tried two experiments: one were we mushed up the paper and squeezed it into a ‘coral-type form and another where the gluey paper was just hung (a bit like spaghetti) to dry.
Katie experiment with homemade clag (four and water heated into a paste) and shredded paper and let us know what works.
We didn’t come to any conclusions about sizes, amounts or shapes or how we’d make them stand up but I did bring in some chunky polystyrene packaging that we might be able to stick it into.
We also talked about lighting the coral with glow sticks and weren’t sure about hiding the sticks or not (if they can be seen that’s what people will look at)…but Katie did like the look of them stuck into the polystyrene blocks.
SOY FISH SCHOOL
Right at the last moment we’ve added an extra element. I had about 25 soy fish (from Sushi) which we thought we could use something like doweling or a coat hanger and fishing line, to make a school of fish and we would somehow illuminate them too.
We tried to drain the fluorescent fluid from a glow stick into a fish. It’s fiddly and there isn’t much volume so I added water. That seemed to work, but the glow faded fast (it looked really good for a few minutes). I also suggested luminous paint.
Katie will experiment with construction.
A glimpse of a marvellous underwater world: a natural setting constructed with unnatural materials.
SMALL JELLYFISH
I brought in the two Coke bottle jellyfish I’d made (recipes on blog).
We have materials to make about 10-15 more (inc some small ones).
They can be lit using small LED torches – we need to buy a few more.
We talked about colours (using the glass paint) but I don’t think we reached a conclusion.
They can be hung over the wooden rafters I already have and/or from the ceiling using self-adhesive hooks.
I’ve prepared the bottles by drilling the holes ready for construction en mass.
BIG JELLYFISH
I brought in my broken golf umbrella.
Katie took off the handle.
We thought this could be suspended from the ceiling at an angle so you can see some of the spokes underneath.
There are some red and black twisted canes (you use them in big flower arrangements) and we thought these could be taped to the umbrella as its longest tentacles (and then use the shredded paper for shorter tentacles).
I think the conclusion about lighting was probably to use LED torches along the spokes. But Katie wants to try out Christmas lights too.
But we’re not sure about painting the ‘silk’ – Katie will experiment. And she will bring some nail polish remover to see if she can scrub off the company logos on the white ‘silk’.
CORAL
There was a bit of PVA glue in the studio so we mixed that with water and some shredded paper. We tried two experiments: one were we mushed up the paper and squeezed it into a ‘coral-type form and another where the gluey paper was just hung (a bit like spaghetti) to dry.
Katie experiment with homemade clag (four and water heated into a paste) and shredded paper and let us know what works.
We didn’t come to any conclusions about sizes, amounts or shapes or how we’d make them stand up but I did bring in some chunky polystyrene packaging that we might be able to stick it into.
We also talked about lighting the coral with glow sticks and weren’t sure about hiding the sticks or not (if they can be seen that’s what people will look at)…but Katie did like the look of them stuck into the polystyrene blocks.
SOY FISH SCHOOL
Right at the last moment we’ve added an extra element. I had about 25 soy fish (from Sushi) which we thought we could use something like doweling or a coat hanger and fishing line, to make a school of fish and we would somehow illuminate them too.
We tried to drain the fluorescent fluid from a glow stick into a fish. It’s fiddly and there isn’t much volume so I added water. That seemed to work, but the glow faded fast (it looked really good for a few minutes). I also suggested luminous paint.
Katie will experiment with construction.
Have a look here for a LED soy fish lamp: http://www.tomfereday.com/
FLOOR
Katie played around with heaping the shredded paper on the floor as our ‘sea bed’. My only concern is I’m not sure how it’ll work with the coral – more try outs ahead!
NOTE: We can bulk up the paper by putting the furniture fibre (or even the polystyrene cladding) underneath.
Katie talked about spray painting it.
ENCLOSURE
There is plenty of black plastic at the studio and I have plenty of sticky stuff.
We’ll need to hand plastic from the ceiling at least down to the top of the walls and over the ceiling.
Katie had a look into the space through the window as I suggested, but it’s too low – no one would see our fabulous coral! So we’ll have to drape the front from the ceiling too and put in the ‘peep hole’ you suggested.
SOUND
We can quickly record some sounds and I can manipulate them using Audacity software to make a looping 1-2 minute soundtrack.
We’d talked about ‘underwater sounds’.
I already have portable battery-operated speakers and an MP3 player
MATERIALS STILL NEEDED
50 glow sticks ($5) - http://www.ilumn8.com.au/pd-50-x-8-inch-glow-sticks.cfm
20 LED torches (a pack of 4 is $2) - http://www.ilumn8.com.au/pd-finger-lights.cfm
We can order on-line.
A lot of clag!
Some buckets
Space to dry coral
Nail varnish remover.
Self-adhesive hooks (25)
Nicole you were going to bring in your glass paints.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR WEEK 9
- hand in proposal and journal
- present installation idea to group
- look at Katie’s experiments
- prepare the enclosure?
- Record underwater sounds
- Any other suggestions?
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