Sunday, April 4, 2010

Hey everyone, I apologize for the lack of posts. I've had an awesome spring break, and I have a lot of free time coming up that I hope to spend working on some personal projects at Tockwotten.

Over break, I taught myself to use a sewing machine to some extent, and sewed a cap as padding for the stool I made earlier which I'm pretty happy with. I also made a sock-thing to hold plastic bags as a practice project. These were really fun to make and I look forward to trying to make more stuff out of the leftover recycled fabrics we have.






I also have a few tentative concepts for the spaces project - here are my main two:

A room that teaches you to juggle. This would involve some instructions posted and some setups that would be conducive to learning the necessary skills - I'm imagining a series of inclined planes that people can lean over (supported by something) and use to juggle in artificial slow motion by rolling balls along. Not sure if that would actually be easier than regular juggling, though.

A room that's conducive to sleeping/lucid dreaming. I think it would be interesting to try to set up the perfect conditions for sleeping, and then perhaps implement some kind of stimulus designed to help trigger lucid dreams. Kind of a room-sized version of the novadreamer.