What I did in August 2021

[squirmelia]

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.

Comments

[miss_newham]

That's an impressive use of an August! Was there much new art at this year's Folkestone Triennial?

[squirmelia]

There is a reasonable amount and I particularly enjoyed the larger pieces!