Author: Shelly Farnham

Author Archives: Shelly Farnham

Animated Pinball as Wall Art

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We adapted the Arduino software originally developed for our Attacks from Mars projects for a custom wall piece painted by Shelly Farnham:  See Attacks from Mars on the Wall.    We then worked with the Seattle Pinball Museum to do a piece to display on their wall using an old Totem playfield.  See the animation on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAfIDhl02q0. This art project was inspired in part our love for pinball!   Jeff Larson of our Totally Legit crew is a designer for the Seattle pinball zine, Skill Shot, and Greg Larson is a pinball repair technician at Quick Pinball Repair, a…

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Luminous Garden v2 Winter

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Our Luminous Garden project was so popular this summer we adapted the group installation to be an indoor show, displayed the winter of 2016/2017 at the Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar, and in the Skykomish Maloney Store.  The theme was “taking a walk in an otherworldly garden”.  At the Maloney Store, we had a pop-up maker lab in the back of the show, so we could continually add new pieces to the show over the course of the month. Mentioned by the Seattle Times More photos on flickr Time Lapse Video Participating Artists and Technology Creatives Andy Tomacelli :: Beanne Hull…

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Skykomish Bridge Project

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We had a great opportunity to do an interactive lighting project on the Skykomish bridge, to help light it up for the holidays.   Skykomish is a small mountain town 16 miles West of Stevens Pass on Highway 2. As people drive over the bridge, their cars are detected with a sonic range finder and the lights chase along with them. The goal is to both excite people to drive over the bridge, and to notify the town that someone is driving in. For the lights, we used outdoor LED lights with color controllers.  We used a sonic range finder…

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