space – Alan Winslow

I’m tossing around two ideas for my final project.

The first idea is a solar-powered television, set to a static channel. I find it fascinating that 1% of the static on old television screens is the leftover glow from the big bang. To power, the display with the sun seems to be fitting. I would build a custom housing to place the television in and leave it permanently on a static channel playing the most incredible show on earth.

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My second idea is to carve a globe on the lathe. I’m thinking of creating two bowls that can fit together inside the bowls will be the circuit to power a light. The light will rotate around the globe like the sun.

I started testing my lathe skills today and like the results.

This sketch escalated quickly! I have been toying around with the idea of pixel art. I love the simple aesthetic. I was drawing the other day and thought how pixel art might be a fun way to represent the sun and planets in our solar system. The blurred, fractured surfaces of my sketches reminded me of looking at the stars through an old telescope I had as a child. While drawing the planets, I got to thinking about traveling to each one and the vast open space that is space. This led me to do a little research on the distance between each planet. I found this fun calculator. The lengths are insane and difficult to wrap my head around to make it more manageable; I decided to make a “short” film of traveling through space. I calculated out 100,000 miles for every second of time. When it was all said and done, I have an 8 + hour-long piece. I’m still shocked at the magnitude of the solar system, but this sketch helped me wrap my head around the time it would take to explore it. Below are the pixel art sketches if you don’t have 8 hours to watch the film.

Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

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Time Final

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