making a signal map for Talk Over Tea

Yesterday I received CSM's floor plans and today I am turning them into a map to show where there is good mobile phone reception.

Working with 8DIX on Dark Horse by Katy Perry

About a month ago I got a call from Jordan and Luca, 8DIX's directors and chief designers. I was told that 8DIX have been asked to supply Katy Perry's crew with hats for her upcoming Dark Horse video which was going into production at the time.

They had an idea for a cool bandana and t-shirt design featuring a sharp toothed version of the well known ancient-Egyptian eye symbol.

We worked night and day to get it just right and tonight the video came out - what an incredible feeling to see 8DIX work featuring on such a scale. It is really exciting!

The bandana and look - the design is even painted on the big guys' belly!

early versions of the design

Luca's original sketches

Working on Talk Over Tea logo

I'm just feeling like I need more documentation!!!! so here:

I want to order badges so I need a logo asap

This logo will be used for badges and for the new Twitter feed @TalkOTea

A day of stress and anxiety

My mid point review is on Tuesday at 11:00 - I have nothing prepared to show at the moment and I am #stressed beyond what I can explain.

But here is a description of what I would like to have by then:
- an A5 booklet* with notes and #WIP images of my three projects: ‘Science Book’, ‘Penny for your Jokes’ and ‘Talk over tea’
- the mechanism which will be inside the Joke dispenser for ‘#PFYJ’
- the mechanism that will be inside the Schrodinger cat book (Science book)
- any visual material like badges for the tea service.

The problem is that I must act fast and I am not certain I am up to the task

Here is a work in progress photo of a cat joke printed on thermal paper:

And here are some notes Yoriko took for me during a chat we had about the 'Talk over tea" idea

Success on the 'Penny for your jokes' front

With help from Angus and Sion, I now have a working system that plays a random video from a library of files every time a penny is inserted!!!

Successful use of the 'Penny for your jokes' machine from Gilad Visotsky on Vimeo.

More on Science book brief

Since my last post on the Unit 10 'Science book' brief I have change direction quite a bit.

I am now planning to create a device that will produce freshly printed text each time a magnetic card is detected near it.

The device has a cat shape recess to indicate where a card should be placed. I chose the shape because of the relationship this idea has to the Schrödinger Cat thought experiment.

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