{"id":1725,"date":"2022-11-03T12:05:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2022-11-03T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:05:53","slug":"color-of-monotony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/bumbleberry\/11\/03\/color-of-monotony\/","title":{"rendered":"Color of Monotony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this project, I am using stop motion and paint to retrace my steps in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Color of Monotony\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l8R_ApakOJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This project was inspired by me and my friends joking about how we&#8217;re coming out of the fall break replenished, but will be walking dead in about a week. It was also inspired by my friends joking about how difficult it is to find time to do the things we want to do.<\/p>\n<p>By using the form of a stop-motion animation on a white canvas, I can visualize the monotony of school week in straightforward, convinsing way. I attempt to capture how being trapped in the circle of school &#8220;muddies up&#8221; a person. The colors, even though bright and clean at first, becomes tainted and lose their shine after repetition and repetition of this circle.<\/p>\n<p>The final step in the video is of a depressing color, but it breaks out of the circle and walks toward a new direction represented by the white spot. (Hopefully that will be me tomorrow :&lt; )<\/p>\n<p><strong>Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recorded the locations that I&#8217;ve been to every day since the end of fall break on my phone:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1732\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/locations-640x325.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/locations-640x325.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/locations-768x390.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/locations.jpeg 930w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 85vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, I used red paint to represent Mellon Institute, yellow paint to represent campus\/ETC, and blue to represent my home on the canvas. I then used my two fingers to &#8220;retrace&#8221; my steps among these locations.<\/p>\n<p>To create the stop-motion video, I reused the processing code for the stop-motion capture from the lecture. I also implemented a quick auto-clicker using Python, where the program can click the left mouse every five seconds. This frees up my hand from touching the computer repeatedly when I&#8217;m manipulating paint.<\/p>\n<p>Software testing using my lil pumpkin \ud83d\ude42 :<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1730\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/test-640x398.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/test-640x398.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/test-1024x637.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/test-768x478.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/test-1536x956.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/test-2048x1274.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/test-1200x747.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Setup for recording the stop motion:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1728\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/setup-345x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/setup-345x480.jpg 345w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/setup-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/setup-768x1068.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/setup-1105x1536.jpg 1105w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/setup.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 85vw, 345px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspiration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A project that greatly inspired me is a performance art by Zhilin (\u76f4\u6797) for Alienware laptop promotion. In this performance art, he captures the monotony of stay-ar-home working routine trapped in a house, which is a norm nowadays because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1749\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5044-640x296.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5044-640x296.png 640w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5044-1024x473.png 1024w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5044-768x355.png 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5044-1536x709.png 1536w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5044-2048x946.png 2048w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5044-1200x554.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this project, I am using stop motion and paint to retrace my steps in the past two weeks. This project was inspired by me and my friends joking about how we&#8217;re coming out of the fall break replenished, but will be walking dead in about a week. It was also inspired by my friends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/bumbleberry\/11\/03\/color-of-monotony\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Color of Monotony&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}