A Really Fun Post by a Genuine Mad Scientist and New Contributor!
Here is a really fun post by another new contributor to The Last Goddess blog, put your hands together for Colombo!!!
Colombo is an inventor/scientist/artist in New York City, and runs a great blog called “Push the Other Button.” Right now is learning to blow shit up and electricute himself for fun and profit at NYU’s Department of Mad Science.
Seriously though he’s doing some really interesting stuff, the project he’s showing off here is like a fantastic collaboration between Marcel Duchamp and Timothy Leary, with a shot of Wililam Gibson thrown in for maximum mindfuckery.
I really like the electronic neo-psychedelia of this work, I hope to see it set to trippy music soon!
Of course NYU is my alma mater as well, so this is like a major academic collaboration going on here.
NYU in the house!
It’s often that interesting discoveries are made when one is simply fooling around. I had a broken LCD screen awhile ago, and was bending it back and forth, watching the colors shift. It occurred to me that it would be interesting to directly manipulate the crystals themselves. So, in the spirit of overkill, I hooked my 25,000 volt (very low amperage) electric fence controller to a couple of the contacts on the screen. The results were pretty interesting!
For the next several months, I kept my eye out on the junk shelf at ITP for LCD screens. Once I had enough, my idea was to arrange them on a scrapwood frame, with the fence controller arcing through several screens. With all the pieces together, I set about constructing it. You can see my progress in this time-lapse video:
Here’s what we have so far:
In further posts, I’ll be covering the enclosure and backlight structure, as well as the wiring of the screens themselves.
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