Shaun Presenting Photoshop

Today Shaun gets to show us the potentials of what Photoshop can do even though it is more limited than other Adobe programs such as After Effects.

There were total of 7 students attended for Shaun's lecture.

Even though I pretty much learned most of the Photoshop's features from my DSGD 83 class like isolating images, I still learned some new things such as making 3D images and creating brushes.

Structural Idea and Sketch

On Monday April 26, I sketched out the outline of what the pigeon will look like.

The sketch is also an outline for how the thin steel wire I'll be using to construct the 3D model.

Thinking about 3D Model

On Wednesday April 21, I came up with an idea along with discussing about it with Shona to create a model pigeon out of metal wiring to create the skeleton. The metal wire skeletal form is the be the model of the metal skeleton technology that is implemented into the pigeons. The model will not be too detailed, but enough to understand the concept.

Building a Small Gadjet

On Monday April 19, the class have a workshop of building a small light sensor LED gadjet.

The process of building the gadjet was fun even though it was confusing at first.

I am glad that I get the chance to build a small electronic device since I never get to build one before.

Presentation of Concept

On Wednesday April 14, the class presents their ideas and concepts for Project 4 of urban San Jose phenomana.

For the final product of my project, I believe I'll be going for making a magazine page, just need to find a technology magazine to place it in.

Continuing Research/Presentation

Today is just a continuation of researching about pigeons and brainstorming or listing of concepts.

Pigeons originated as Rock Doves and from the bird family of Columbidae within the order of Columbiformes.

Pigeons are known to be one of the smartest bird species. People have used the pigeon's talent to be messengers because they are able to recognize and differentiate people and able to return back to the sender after the delivery.

There are many potentials of what pigeons can be used for. Such as their poop was commonly used in the Europeans as saltpeter for gunpowder.

Pigeons are money makers for people who are into racing pigeons by training them to out run each other.

Pigeons living in the urban cities mostly live to mate and breed which is why there are a lot of them.

Even though pigeons are mostly seen as unwanted pests for their waste in commercial areas, they have been known to be fantastic creatures.

So how about having some more use for pigeons?

These are my rough ideas for a phenomena:

• able to identify wave signals such as antennas, internet activity, cell-phone signals, radio waves
• these pigeons are valuable to guide or navigate signal connectivity since they are able to sense such signals
• these pigeons adapted to transmitter signals, just like they have adapted to the human world, that they can act as a router
• these pigeons can be found typically anywhere that has telephone poles and wires
• just like pigeons can recognize the English alphabets or the way they can learn to become homing pigeons, they can now recognize electronic frequencies
• by owning one of these pigeons, they can grant wide range signals for cellphones, blackberries, and other wireless connections

Shaun gives me a great suggestion, base on my idea of pigeons emitting electronic waves for reception, for an idea about people implementing or changing the pigeons exoskeleton into metal like Wolverine.

Additional ideas I have after Shaun's suggestion:

• in realization of the potential of these pigeons, a technology was made to implement metallic skeletons in the pigeons in order to enhance the feature
• the metallic implant in the pigeon's bones allows their talons to draw electronic emissions from the electric field around the telephone wires without disrupting the actual signals
• the metallic bones in their wings act like multiple antennas to send out electronic signals

Here are some pictures of pigeons around telephone lines that I found from flickr.


Some images I found online to reference the pigeon's skeletal structure.

Researching for Project 4

On Wednesday 4/7/2010, after the introduction of Project 4 from Shona, the first idea comes to mind is Pigeons.

Here is a site I took reference from:
http://www.deterapigeon.com/21-amazing-facts-about-pigeons.htm