I’m not feeling very creative right now. Doing this brainstorm was really challenging because I wasn’t getting as excited or as passionate as I usually would about this final project. Despite this, I tried to explore some different things and think about how this could be applied to a final project.
My first step in the brainstorm was to look through the generative design book and mark the pages that interested me for this final project. I found that, when I did this, I was particularly interested in this sketch and this one.
For the first one, with the text, I was drawn to the idea of academic pressure. I pictured possibly a dance performance going through the process of writing an essay, the highs and lows, showing the frustration and the stress and the satisfaction when it’s done. I’m not sure whether the sketch linked above or perhaps this sketch would be better for this idea. Personally, I love the look of the first one, showing the letters connecting and having the ability to scramble the words. With the second sketch, I worry about it becoming too scrambled. I don’t think the audience needs to be able to read the actual words, which I think is a good appeal of the first one, as it’s in a different language. I think the focus should be on the dancing and the text should be a complement to that. In terms of making these sketches unique, I think I’m leaning towards combining these two. Having the ability to draw the text, possibly using computer vision to replace the mouse function with a person.
The second sketch (the this one) would really be similar in the computer vision sense. I just don’t really have an idea as to the intention behind it. Right now, I’m exploring it because it looks cool. But I don’t have a higher purpose as to what statement I want to make with the performance. Which is a downside. And probably means I shouldn’t pursue it more.
The issues I have with doing this type of performance is that like….man…I’m like 60% interested in it. I really want to work with lights in some way. I just don’t know how. So that’s when I went to processing. Because they have some cool light functions that I remember exploring last year. And I specifically remember playing with this sketch: 
This is a really cool thing that plays with directional light. And honestly it just looks so cool. I have the same issue where I’m not sure what I would want to say about..the world? life?? something greater than this???
So this would be in a similar fashion as the others where there might be a dancer and the mouse follow is replaced with the computer vision.
HOWEVER. All of these ideas. Seem wicked limited and, honestly, kinda lame on my part. What I really want to do is something like that video in the beginning of the year. You know..the one that fully made me cry when I watched it.
I really feel like this is too much though. But something like this is what I want to do. Idk. Help.
This was a very passive brainstorm. I think I’ll spend more time in the next few days changing values in sketches and playing around with different things. But for now, I think it’s good that I got thinking about what I want to do.
Really, I want to do something with lights. That’s really where my passion lies and it’s what’s going to motivate me to work on this project more than anything.