Last conclusions

I enjoyed shooting the video because it was something different,  unexpected. It just shows an idea using creative imagination. The concept was to illustrate a way of changing clothes, and therefore the colours of ones clothes by the change of the weather. It is clear that it isn't by touching the sun that one can change clothes, but it also pictures the correlation that could be between the two. Even if there is no end result, I feel as though I have achieved a lot because I came up with an idea and turned it inside out, it failed but i think that it gave me considerably more to think about because it challenged me to question things. I developed the idea and attempted to project it forward, to make it a reality, but in the moment that one realizes that the reality that it is creating will not provide the learning and interaction that it should, maybe the most important thing for a designer is to learn though their failures, and not all good ideas turn into good projects. And perhaps the functioning of it has the least importance because a code already exists, it does not need to be invented. I will definitely continue investigating and researching my idea, and also for personal satisfaction find a way of adapting the arduino and using it to my advantage rather then disadvantage. This has been in all ways a struggle because having one set idea narrow the option down, but it has made me more inxcited about my personal envolvement and engagement, that the most important part is my reaction and what I learn so that I can improve. Progression, rather than regression.

My very theatrical video!

Featuring Gianna Galgani
Music cresits to Jennifer Hudson, "All dressed in love"

a fact

Water destroys technology!

thoughts

Although Arduino has failed on me, I think that most importantly it has triggerd the thought that any design project should. Is has made my question the role that we are playing and that the success rate is highly dependent on the realization of how it is adaptable to the life we lead in this century.

IDEAS

I have come to the conclusion that sometimes it is not necessary to use the senses of an arduino, that for my project it has limited rather then broadend the horizons of it's potential use. As humans we have enough senses so that certain calculations are easier and quicker using just those things that make us humans. Eyes are a better calculation of overall colour, rather then photoshop. The simple fact is that if one is wearing jeans and a bright red jumper and red shoes, photoshop calculated an overall percentage of 67 % blue and 33% red, but jeans are irrelevant because they are basic, while red is the actuall colour that is important to relate to ones mood.  I have found an alternative way of making my project accessible to a variaty of people and in a less pretentious way, making it more fruitful for the outcome of the day :D

a storm of questions.

And even if it were to be in a domestic manner, does everyone have a computer with a webcam? is it healthy to start the day using technology when the environment is already bombarding us every day with it? Why is it that we allow a computer based calculation to determine our choices and make assumptions on it? If I wear a bright yellow shirt on a gray day does it have to be that I want to light up the day? or could it just be because I am meeting a friend that gave it to me for my birthday so she will be pleased if I wear it. Why is this race to make things more entertaining and fun make things soo complicated? why do we stop thinking expecting that technology does it for us?

clothes are limited.

As humans we tend to limit our ideas to the place where we live, because often that is the only reality that we know. When picturing my project on a bigger scale I was thinking about photobooths placed around London that would take a photo of your fully dressed body, the arduino through photoshop would calculate the dominant colour and associate it to the weather forcast after the person had inserted the time and place when getting dressed. It would print a short horoscope telling you how your day would be reflected by the colour  associated to the degrees of temperature, but is that a priority? is it even necessary, and I couldn't think of something more limited. School pupils wear uniforms, all kind of working people have a dressing code, tourists have a limited wardrobe, during the winter one usually has one daily coat. And in the end also colours and degrees are limited. The reality of limitations.