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A Midsummer Night's Dream/仲夏夜之梦 - Directed by Mitchell Hébert and Yu Fanlin
February 10, 2013 Late last year, we had a unique opportunity to be part of a completely new interpretation of William Shakespeare's whimsical tale of love and mistaken identity. The performance - a collaboration between the University of Maryland's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts - mixed Beijing Opera, American Folk Music, and Shakespeare to create one remarkable piece of theatre art. To quote Jessica Vaughan of DC Metro Theater Arts: "This production is gorgeous and ridiculous and moving and funny. The scenic design by Andrew Kaufman makes a forest out of long lengths of colored cloth, bamboo and the saturated light of Sarah Tundermann’s design. The fairies literally fly, climbing the cloth to do aerial dances choreographed by Andrea Burkholder. The beautiful costumes extend the dream with soft flowing fabrics and coordinated colors for the lovers, which helps with the mad cap plot. Fairies Emma Lou Hébert, Olivia Brann, Anna Lynch, and Riley Bartlebaugh were all wonderful actors. These normally minor roles took center stage during every transition as they danced all around (and over) the stage." Special thanks to Jen Dasher and her team for their vision in choosing Sparkle for the fairies' costumes. directed by MITCHELL HEBERT and YU FANLIN January 29, 2013 Two nights ago, the MakeFashion initiative - a collaboration of designers blending fashion, technology and art in Calgary, held a Gala and runway show that was absolutely amazing! We're especially proud to have been chosen as the source for some of the outfits on display. ^_^ Laura Dempsey's Sparkle-powered outfit amazed the audience with her motion-sensitive runway dress. Designed with a dancer in mind, the dress responded to the dancer’s movements as she danced and leaped across the runway. Photo: Faby Martin. If you look closely at the first picture, you'll see that all the lights and sensors are connected with the same two continuous runs of thread, and this is possible because power and data to all the pieces are sent over the Sparkle communication bus. Angela Dale's creation - Chameleon Cocktail dress was a lovely piece powered by programmable LED strips. It was really neat that so see the LEDs pulse in beat with the music. Photo: Jeff McDonald.
Pu Gong Ying Tu (Dandelion Painting)
May 12, 2012 OK, I was totally blown away by this concept/project from Jie Qi (one of Leah's students). "Pu Gong Ying Tu is an interactive painting of a dandelion field. When you blow on the white puffs, the seeds disperse and generate new flowers. These flowers begin as yellow dandelions, but after a few moments bloom into responsive white seed puffs."
a l i o t h - a day and night themed shirt
March 01, 2012 Meet a l i o t h - a day and night themed shirt by jenny ^_^. It's made of two kinds of fabric, a white muslin, and "Starry Night" by Cranston Fabric, For extra geek fun, Sparkle and sequins trace out the big dipper. I wonder how bright the lights would have been from under the shirt.
cor(d)set - an etextile cable declutter
February 28, 2012 Ever have problems with too many cables cluttering your desk? We do, and Jenny (caretdashcaret) created cor(d)set to cinch the cables on her desk together. Much better looking than any plastic gizmo. The cor(d)set is a quilt of 4 batted squares, jazzed up with a little Sparkle and LED bling. From Jenny:"It was also my first eTextile project! It was surprisingly easy. I found the Aniomagic Sparkle to be a great first microcontroller for eTextiles. There are others like Lilypad and Flora, but those are more involved. Building the LED circuit was super fun. A little work for a lot of pizzazz!" I like the way etextiles are finding their way into our everyday lives and into objects we actually use. This makes me wonder about how we're going to power all these projects in the near future (did someone say sewable solar cells?) |
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