first test of Spirograph

after chatting and playing with it I think this is what I need to change:

- the angle of the cogs - more rounded and equal top and bottom
- place the outer circles further inwards as the holes towards the center work much better due to the pressure being applied...

design a few different ones and cut them at a smaller scale in card, (this one was in 5mm plywood) to test which works best and to try layering some together as I think this will help to

what other medium to draw with? - smaller chalk sticks/ graphite

smaller holes that slot in to the existing ones? so same spirograph can be used for multiple materials to draw with

Redrawring the Spirograph in Illustrator

After getting to uni at for 8:30!!!!! as Neil had kindly said he would squeeze me on to the lazer cutter.I found that my VectorWorks file just wouldn’t work! –wouldn’t convert, save or open as an Illustrator file.
Mike suggested a DXF file this seemed to work but still wouldn't open on another the computer

So I embarked on redrawing it in Illustrator which I don’t really know how to use –asked one of the technicians – is there a way of putting the shape on a line and bending it around a circle? no but suggested this way

Effect > Distort and Transform > Transform
Which allows you to select a shape, chose the number of copies, which point to rotate from and chose the degree of rotation. Also Scale - which will rotate the shape into a spiral and Move - spacing etc. But after fiddling about with this for a while I couldn't get it to work.

so the technician Kay showed me this helpful website: www.illustrator-brushes.com - which has a handful of tutorials for Illustrator brushes (also sister website for Photoshop brushes)

Select rotation tool (if you hold shift you get set angles) (slect object press enter brings up rotate panel so you can enter in angle).

What I did:
- drew a circle found center (using co-ordinatates of page) and marked with horizontal and verticle line
- placed the tooth so that end points touched the edge of the circle(which I had also made largr then my orginal VectorWorks Scale up)
- by moving the rotation point away from the center of the tooth to center of the circle
- press Alt key, trial and test to find right angle to join the end points of the tooth, select copy
- shortcut key to duplicate copyied object Apple and D


This first attempt of the middle circle didn't join up, I think that this may of bean becuase of how iI orginally placed the tooth on the circle and then copied it

Outer circle:
Inner Cirlce:
Middle Circle:
Smaller Circle:


Placing holes for circle

circle the average diameter of my chunky chalk/crayon 3 cm
draw sprial and placed circles on spiral, then deleted center lines and spiral

finished Illustrator drawring

size: 70 cm by 70cm

Outer circle: d rotation: 5
Inner circle: d rotation: 6.8
Middle circle:
Smaller middle circle:

Site Specific Spirograph?

I was thinking about this one little area near Lidils, which I always find interesting as there are so many built in circles - the double mine roundabout and with in the little park:

Natural Health Service...

....reading an article in from the National Trust Magazine....

'recent poll commissioned by Natural England found that 94% of the population thought it a good idea to refer people for outdoor exercise rather then medication'...'at least 5 times a week being active has the same effect has the same antidepressent effect as taking tablets.'

...'we have drifted away from how we were designed to live. we need to be restored to our factory settings'........we are designed to be on the move much of the time and this helfs keep our blood pressure down, generate good cholestral, allows more oxygen to the heart and muscles and keep our joints healthy and free of pain. Just a 30 minute bost of exercise will boost our immune sytem for te whole day helping keep away infections'

....'we were never designed for treadmills, and algthough the gym can really help some people, for many it simply isn't suitable. We were firmly once connected with the natural enviroment...harvard zoologist E.O Wilson termed this link biophilia - an innate affinity with nature'

...'health walks and the Green Gym so that local people were introduced to exercise in their local envirometn....across the UK..with 4,00 walks a week.......reasons people gave for walking were keeping fit being in the countryside, watching the seasons change and socialising'

...'the natural enviroment has a powerful efect on us to become less stresssed'

...'research in Tokyo and Holland shows that people are more likely to walk or cycle to work if the streets are lined with trees and they live longer and feel better'

Chalk - Crayon?

The colours and so scrumptious and fresh! mmm edible! but i was expecting chalk not crayon!



















LESSON LEARNT
- always ask for a sample before forking out the cash!

22nd Thursday - Crazy Day!

Visited Conchange studio with Raw Canvas looking at the new Microsoft Expression Software and Microsoft Surface - a 30 inch table top works much like an iPod touch in that you can grab, slide, flick, pull the surface as a group or separately.

Chalk arrived - but delivered to my home address! had to go and collect - nice 3 hour journey back n forth!

I AM FOR AN ART....
Exhibition and live art event: Thursday 22 January 2009, From 8.30pm until midnight
Bun House Pub, 96 Peckham High Street, London SE15 5ED

Taking its name from Claes Oldenburg 1961’s text piece, this one-night only exhibition brings together the work of a group of 2nd year BA students from Camberwell College. The exhibition is the result of an intense period working with artists Mark McGowan and Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre, as part of an Elective Level 2 Course on Performed and Live Art Practice. The evening will include film, interactive installations and performances.

Here's some pictures from my little skit:




Quite impromptu as I hadn't planned on what I was going to draw, joing in with Irene Pineda who was leaving a trail, drawing lines for her to follow, around peoples feet - giving them flippers.... I tryed to get hold of a little photo printer so I could draw throughout the night and print pictures on post them above the fireplace in the pub, but couldn't get holf of one

WHY IS THE BIKE PATH BEING ERASED?

early rise drive

Got up early to help Chloe to experiment placing abanded chairs in the park before our lecture, was a laugh cyclign with them!

mmm man with trailer drove through - can I use a trailer frame somehow?













meanwhile I grabbed out my chalk for a split second on the paving and around the dog poo










































quick search on the internet (www.pavingexpert.com) - that these tactile paving slabs are called
blister paving (in a sqaure pattern)- indicating pedestrian crossings with dropped kerbs

offset blister - used at train stations, parallel to the platform edge
lozenge - platform edge warning on street setting like tram lines
hazard - warning i.e bottom of steps, should be parallel to edge of hazard
cycleway - indicate cycle lane laid parrallel with direction of travel, same slabs used on pedestrian side of path but running across the other way
directional - to indicate safest direction of travel

An Excursion with Ella

- I brought this tape dispenser, as I wanted to quickly make temporary paths across the roads and paths.
- Taking notice of short cuts people take, a more convenient path although there is a crossing a few meters up. Chloe had mention in Israel its illegal to cross the road unless the green man lights up.
- Adding colour to the continuous grey stretches

Excursion with Ella and Owen





































I invited Owen to wonder with me "an excursion with Ella", with the intention to tape some paths together and explore. We ended up walking round to Area 10, to the Hannah Barry Gallery, by the Bussey Building.
We tried to get up onto the roof, which supposidly has superb views over all of London as it's the tallest building in Peckham.
But as we were climbing up and up and up through the dark stairs on every floor there was a different Christian Church - picture 'alter of mercy evangelical center'. There are so many hidden christian centers in Peckham!

I wanted to try and tape a path across Peckham Road to college as many people don't use the crossing. With Owens help he held one end of the tape and I ran across the road, problem was that it didn't stick and the cars stopped. Darn! The tape would look so nice! So instead we played football with the tape that wouldn't stick.

Ideas:
inviting people out to play throughtout the project

proposed routes for work

1 Spontaneous public interactions - paths of cars/walking/running/bus/bikes…
2 Construction of play tools, drawring instruments - paths of cars/walking/running/bus/bikes…
3 List of objectives


1 Spontaneous public interactions performance - paths of cars/walking/running/bus/bikes…
Working unannounced in public, I will break routines, accepted and expected behaviour by ‘joyful and exuberant behaviour’ in the form of an action, intervention, installation, and drawing. I will aim to do a performance everyday on various scales so myself, the process and outcomes becomes integrated as a daily occurrence. Training myself to look with potential that any environment can be a playground, contrasting the frantic pace of modern urban life. Questioning and reflecting upon how my actions effect the location, surrounding people and how it could be seen as antisocial behaviour

2) Construction of play tools and drawring instruments - paths of cars/walking/running/bus/bikes…
Explore temporally or permanently placing colour in the streets. Using the vast stretches of roads as a canvas. By constructing ‘play tools and drawring instruments’ so that myself or others, singly or collaboratively can add colour. Dr Majora Carta: ‘you shouldn’t have to move out of your neighbourhood to make it a better one’. Taking inspiration from Robin Rhode I will explore using materials such as chalk, graphite, crayons and water paint and scrubbing clean. So that my trace is visible for a period but not damaging to the environment and so that I lower the risk of it being apposed by public and authorities.

3) List of objectives
• To encourage and inviting participation on various levels from passer bys/ community – satisfaction of achievement and involvement
• Brightening the everyday dullness
• Site-specific
• Humour and play
• Illusion and reality
• Artist/activator
• Raw energy/surprise/randomness of an incident on the streets element of spontaneous performance/ instant
• Physical education and learning
• ‘ The cats away and the mice will play’ play in empty Camberwell and Peckham at night
• Lottie Child: ‘Research is wandering, talking, looking, thinking, and Intervention might include talking to strangers, drumming on street furniture, climbing trees, …..sitting around, listening to the sounds of the night, shouting’