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The Garden Path in the Wondering Woods

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We created a garden path made of reactive pavers as a part of our larger group installation, the Wondering Woods at Electric Sky (2017). As you stepped on the pavers, a pulse of light went down the garden path to show you the way. The garden path was an orienting piece in the Wondering Woods installation, both created by our art group. The goal was to explore what if the woods could see you and interact with you. LEDs were controlled by wifi-enabled Arduinos. See video with demo of LED animation here: https://youtu.be/P23V_Tt727Q Following Electric Sky, we also installed the Garden…

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Just Totally Legit — Dropping Recreational Light and Magic

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It’s official, we are dropping the “Recreational Light and Magic” part of our name. We were calling ourselves Recreational Light and Magic (a Totally Legit LLC) as a bit of culture hacking, jabbing the Star Wars’ parent company Industrial Light and Magic.   Thanks to Jeff, we even had a set of matching Logos!  Somehow, Industrial Light and Magic never noticed.   However, it has just been too much of a mouthful.  So as of this week — we are just Totally Legit.  

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The Luminous Garden at Electric Sky, Lusio, and Arts-a-Glow

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This summer a large portion of our creative efforts were devoted to the Luminous Garden — a large-scale group collaboration creating an experience of an otherworldly garden biosphere, one with luminous flora and fauna and interactive kinetic sculptures. Please see our summary slideshow of the experience: http://www.slideshare.net/ShellyDFarnhamPhD/take-a-virtual-walk-through-the-luminous-garden This project was originally created as an installation for Electric Sky.  It was funded in part by 4Culture, and was sponsored by Third Place Technologies and the Town of Skykomish. Our basic framework was to provide an overarching experiential design theme “taking a walk in an otherworldly garden arboretum”, and then recruit other…

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Attacks from Mars 2016

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Attacks from Mars is a giant, roaming pinball machine with an animated playfield.   It is a Burning Man “mutant vehicle” project, where we love nothing more than to create a compelling mobile experience for riders, so that the journey of traversing around the playa is as much fun as getting anywhere.  With the Attacks from Mars pinball machine, our riders are the ball in the game, and as they bounce around the play space, they are activating sound and lighting.  This project is a gadgeteers dream, with interactive, controllable LEDs, arduinos, switches, etcs. — all those wonderful mechanical aspects…

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