I Am Luminous Deer

This is my personal Logo.

Take that.

Everybody's Sewing for the Weekend. Ok, maybe just me.

I'm making a sewn LED matrix. I spent most of my weekend working on this, and, it's pretty sweet.



Here I am prepping each of the 64 LEDs in hot glue (I only burned myself once!)



The long vertical and the horizontal traces were sewn on my newly inherited retro sewing machine, and each LED was stitched in by hand. I curled the positive end into a loop, stitched it down onto the horizontal trace, then poked the negative lead through and down to a separate piece of fabric, then curled and sewed that lead onto the negative trace.



The Lilypad Arduino is going to be used to drive my LED display, since it was made to be sewn and is pretty friendly to a total arduino newbie like myself.



Only one LED decided to snap off during the sewing project. In a moment of shear craziness, I started heating up my soldering iron. Thankfully I came to my senses and thought "This is why I prepped extra LEDs"



Here's a test! It isn't actually programmed or sewn to the Lilypad yet. This is just a test done by running a blink script on the arduino while having certain traces connected.




Anyways, that's where I'm at!

Finally a service I could get behind.

Oh yes it's that time, time for another link for you to follow. I love the internet.

http://www.catsforgold.com/

Musings

I just started cutting out fabric for my LED matrix dress. It's going to happen, and it's going to be awesome. The colors will be different than what I'd imagined, but what can you do when shipping from China is so unpredictable. From white on white to red on black.

I'm picking up some 3D prints tomorrow from the shop, I can't wait to see them! The one that's done for sure is my remix, and the other is a sculpture.

Hurrrghhh time to think of what to write for my term paper.

My two favorite hand-painted comic strips:

http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus4.html

http://www.tinykittenteeth.com/

It was hard to find a list of more of the social-issue-related ones, but this Japanese company makes these hilarious bras once a year to highlight social trends or issues.

This bra is a countdown clock that stops when a ring is set into it. It's supposed to be for the Japanese woman who is actively hunting for a husband, as recent trends show more and more women being proactive in searching for a mate.

Here's an article about it, http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE54C1E720090513

And here's a pic of it




A short list of some of the bras can be seen here, it's totally worth a look:
http://inventorspot.com/articles/best_8_bizarre_bras_triumph_inte_8275

Kind of Gross

This is kind of gross, but also quite intriguing. Did they kill the flies or just find dead ones?

They have more up:
http://curiousphotos.blogspot.com/2009/10/creative-art-in-fly-dead-body-15-pics.html


Here's an interesting bit of marketing, using live flies

http://adoholik.com/2009/10/31/eichborn-publishing-flyvertising/

Nice Costume

http://testroete.com/index.php?location=head

He based it on a mod popular in many games. I like how he uses the faceted look that game art has so far away from to his advantage.