June 11, 2012 – Materials! Oh my!

When I see a bunch of raw, awesome, though provoking materials in one place, I get a similar feeling to when I would get a new lego set as a child.

“Oh boy! I could build all sorts of awesome stuff out of this!”

I think the massive conglomeration of materials I want to use would probably come out looking like a giant glitter-turd at this point, so perhaps I should think on them some more and come up with some solid ideas on things to build.

I’m particularly drawn to all of the light emitting, glowing and elictircial materials we saw. I would love to have a wall in my house made out of the cloth that glow, or the uses for cleverly hiding wire using conductive paints. or the EL-strips we saw at the opening. 

This may actually turn out to be some kind of giant light sculpture, or maybe I’m just looking for an excuse to build something and go to contribute to Burning Man.

I purchased the catalog for the materials exhibit we saw at the other center, specifically so I could look up the materials later to use.

I need to think on this more…I see a foggy idea coming into shape in the dark, murky recesses of my mind, and I feel like this one is gonna be good.