Week 4
For the drawer projection project, me and Zeshu are thinking of creating a projection of a theater inside the drawer. We got this vintage-looking nightstand and planning to do projection from the outside to the inside of it.
Inspired by the toy theater in Benjamin Pollock’s toy shop, we are planning to map the outside of the drawer into the outside of a theater, the first drawer to be the interior of a theater, and the second drawer to be the backstage of a theater.
Incorporate with a sensor and Arduino, ideally, we can match the opening process in a theater with the opening of the drawer.
It was great that last week the guest speaker, Jeanne Angel, provides us with another perspective to do larger scale projection projects as a team, and the previous guest speaker to do projections as an individual artist. I learned a lot from how they organize the projection projects and the pipeline of producing work in a team.
About the projection project
The Tower of Terror is a very popular ride located at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World Resort. This ride is considered “scary” or “spooky” as it takes Guests into the 5th dimension after hopping aboard a maintenance service elevator. But from the outside to the entire ride used quite a lot of projections. Especially the outside facade, it looks extremely normal but after the sunset, it turns totally opposite. I went there this January, and this ride experience probably was one of my favorites of all the rides I took at Disney. The projection works really well when the ‘service elevator’ moves from space to space, creating an almost ‘storyline’ during a supposed to be scary turbo drop experience.
Inspired by the outside facade of the Tower of Terror, I’m thinking of mapping the outside of a theater in the drawer projection project.