NaArMaMo Day 28 - Painted circles

A few days before it was National Toilet Paper Day! I forgot about it then, but remembered on the 28th, so used a toilet paper tube to paint circles. My circles are quite uneven. Damien Hirst and Yayoi Kusama make it look so easy! My intention was to have circles painted with conductive paint so that touching them makes a sound, but that part needed to dry and be painted over and hooked up. So for now, here's the current state of the painting and some altered versions with Mirror Lab.

NaArMaMo Day 29 - Tate Modern

Day 29's art was created in the Tate Modern, with doseybat! You were allowed to draw over the floor in the Turbine Hall. I drew some triangles and a spiral and a fish.

NaArMaMo Day 30 - Faster playing music

On the 30th, I created another Processing app on my phone. Using the Haversine formula, it calculates distance walked from latitude and longitude, over a time period. If the distance is greater than a certain number, then the music starts playing faster. Still need to test it properly though!

NaArMaMo Day 31 - Cut-up Piem

My last art piece for NaArMaMo 2021 was a Piem (Pi + poem), which uses words cut out of a newspaper. The numbers of letters in each word correspond to a digit of Pi. (For example, when I was at school, I was taught, "How I wish I could calculate Pi" = 3.141592.)

What I did in August 2021

I participated in NaArMaMo (National Art Making Month) and created a piece of art every day!

Art I made included:
A glow in the dark Space Invader cross-stitch
A belisha beacon out of a balloon and paper
I altered photos with Mirror Lab
I made a piem out of cut up newspaper words
I made collages and montages
I edited photos in Audacity and created glitch art
I made two automata
I took photos of cobwebs and barbed wire
I painted a red balloon with conductive paint, and hooked it up to a Touch Board, so that if you touch it, 99 Luftballons is played.
I painted a map of the village with conductive paint, so that if you touch a particular road, you can hear a motorbike.
I created a sound walk using the Echoes app, so that you can hear sea shanties near to the Baptist Chapel.
I edited a photo of the village in Audacity and added recordings of the village into it.
I used the drunk function in Max to draw circles and play sounds.
I used video sensing with Scratch and tried to catch stars.
I wrote an app in Processing for my phone that draws circles on the screen depending on which direction I walk.
I used Processing to play a sine wave and changed the frequency depending on the latitude, and the amplitude depending on the longitude.
I wrote an app in Processing to play music faster if you are walking faster.

More details: NaArMaMo.
Some photos on Flickr: NaArMaMo 2021

I visited Folkestone and swam in the sea and saw art that was part of the Triennial.

I attended Ingress First Saturday in virtual Southampton and helped solve the passcode challenge.

I went to Maidstone for Ingress Second Sunday and walked a lot, and saw a dinosaur outside the station.

I visited Hastings and swam in the sea.

I spent a few weeks in Kent and walked across fields and in woods, and saw fungi, a jersey tiger moth, a rabbit, Roman snails, and a goldfinch.

I ate a Hokkaido azuki and strawberry flavoured KitKat.

I went to Coram’s Fields with my family, and watched people bungee jumping and ate salted treacle ice-cream.

I met up with a friend in Brixton and walked around Brockwell Park and drank coffee.

I visited the Tate Modern with doseybat and we drew on the floor.

I walked on average more than 11,000 steps a day.