Seoul texture

- The use of the tax we pay.
- Korean design identity - flower on the refrigerator.

(eyes from bills) How many artificial fountains has Seoul set up? 326!

(10-won coin)

(bills)

(50-won coin)

(500-won coin)

(process)

Projection

NOTE 3hrs shooting (Saturday) & 2hrs shooting (Sunday) were enough for draining a battery. I don't have a spare-one so I took only 4 pictures. I spent much time on searching the right place. The park was too bright to project still at night. I should've done enough test.

Tough experience

I ordered inverter & 12V battery from online shopping on Wednesday and got all parts on Thursday. I was supposed to do project that night. But the battery had low Ah (12V-3Ah). It was small one for motorcycle. Then, I ordered another big battery (12V-40Ah) again and it was delivered on Saturday. It worked well. I brought them outside. The battery was not my main concern any more.

Then, a projector became the problem. It was hard to set the right position of it, especially projecting to the ground. After a number of try, I decided to change my concept from reflection to projection which still has common part, sarcasm.
I'm going to project the classical object onto new Seoul design object. Some of design object will look better and others will look unnecessary. Or it just look like a kind of signage system. This may lose the concept of Graffiti. Anyway, I hope everything will work well today.

This experience taught me about scheduling & planning.

(+) Still late at night, the park is too bright and, of course, crowded with teenage gangs.

Sketch - Composition

Welcome to Ttukseom han-gang riverside park!

Clean, tidy mini toilet

New kind of tree

Take off your shoes.

side by side

Have fun!

Idea Sketch

Ttukseom han-gang riverside park

This park has been changed a lot thanks to Han-gang Renaissance Project.

At first, there were some bunch of trees and teenage gangs. The city government kick them out and started to renew whole things in the park, even old trees. I'm very thankful to walk in the beautiful park. But I still think that it costs an astronomical amount of money to renew. Today, a number of workers start to check the big fountain which will operate to the end of November.

Sarcasm

Thank you for the beautiful installations, mayor Oh.

Reflection (modified 04/17)

photo: Tomas Rawski via Creative Commons (flickr)

Shadow reveals only when light source lightens the object. Although the shadow resembles an object, it means(infers) an opposite side of the object, either good or bad.

Thus, I want to project the shadow on the pavement when the object (people, car or birds) pass by.
The shadow is the opposite side of the object like reflection.


This requires the following techniques and devices;
video camera
max/msp w. jitter
3D software - Maya
projector - can't borrow from the school office Thank you David!
battery - DC12V link
power inverter
cart


The contents of the shadow can be;
pictogram + sarcastic phrases
Sarcastic phrases may be direct and understood easily (even it's the role of sarcasm!).
Therefore, one option is the mix of pictogram and phrases that looks like something else.
Still phrases difficult to realize its meaning are good good option.

Projection

by Tobias Battenberg (more pictures available at here)

Good example of typo projection. They are simple & clear!

Pavement drawing + Shadow

by Julian Beever (google)

I'm thinking of the projection on pavement as a shadow.
Shadow represents (infers) the inside of things that the subject doesn't want to show.
The video clip below shows a funny interaction between a shadow and a person who owns it!

Now, here

"Now, here", calligraphy by Mitsuo Aida

'Now, here' is a concept of this project. I want to show the current status of Korea.  I read an article about plagiarism of graffiti in Korea. (link) I don't blame them. It is hard to figure out the form of Korean graffiti.

Some options of this project

Korean calligraphy : lack of my skill.

Posters or flyers on the wall : instead of graffiti. common.

Projection mapping : environmentally friendly. 

The first graffiti

photo by Sisse Brimberg, National Geographic

When I was an undergraduate student, one student activist drew small graffiti on the wall of cafeteria. I couldn’t read and understand what it meant. It was just like other graffiti, but for me it was not more than rubbish. That student was blamed in public and finally wiped the graffiti off the wall. He was a candidate of student union president and lost in an election, of course. I think that what really bothers me is the material, spray. It is sticky and hard to remove. I didn’t like dirty my school, or wall of school. And that’s the reason why graffiti artists use spray.

It was Lascaux cave that come to my mind at first. Human beings have enjoyed doodling for quite a long time. We think that the cave is very important because it reflects the lifestyle of that time. At this point, in the future, people can guess the life and think from present graffiti. Therefore, I can say that graffiti is the doodle that reflects status here and now.

Also, the graffiti of one student in the first paragraph shows that there were many students who didn’t know about it and hated it. The graffiti chose wrong TPO.