Free Telephone

This invention took a lot of sweat, hard work and a lot of creativity from my partner and I and my corresponding co-workers . This invention is suppose to be a free phone. We invented this because some people actually think that things are free in this world so we just wanted the public to know that it is not. When you crank this machine up, the message that you hear is "Ha, Ha, Ha, you thought I was free". As we went up to install the "Free Phone" in the telephone booth, we had some technical difficulties. We had to find a way to the phone on the telephone, without having it fall or have someone take it and run. So we took like at least 20 minutes to install a wire through the phone connecting it to the phone booth so that it won't mysteriously leave the booth.

A Global Warming Massage

This is basically a sound box that is able to record and already has a recording inside for the public sayings. Don't litter and help prevent global warming. The reason for this massage is because people, Society, and the world it self is lacking the acknowledgment is happening. We were all reminded about the problem with global warming through out the project that's why we decided that topic.

Sound Box

This sound box was decorated to attract kids. We put it in a park where mostly kids go. The message sent out to these children is to have fun in life and live it to the fullest. We chose this message so that children can experience things without looking back and regretting what they didn't do in their lives. It was the perfect place to let kids know this message.

Sound Box Project

Our project being documented.
This is our project being display to the public.

These are the buttons we use to make our rain sound.

Our sound box.

We had a workshop on how to create sound boxes. Cassandra and I had pair up together and created our very own sound box which we had recorded the sound of rain. The reason why we choose rain is because we tried to find a way to catch the people's eye. Since we had a hot week last week we decide if we made a poster on how the weather had been and tell them that its better to rain than to sweat then maybe it would attract the people to come and try our sound box project.

Street Art with Ryan Watkins-Hughes

Today we got an overview of a street art from Ryan Watkins-Hughes. Artists he discussed included Michael De Feo, Karen Walker, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Swoon. Other projects he showed can be found here.

Below is an image from one of Ryan's projects - Shop Dropping.


One term that came up several times today is "meme". This originates from a book by Richard Dawkins called "The Selfish Gene". You can read the chapter about memes here.

Graffiti

To me graffiti is a drawings or words that are scratched, painted, or sprayed on walls or other surfaces in public places.