THE EXPLORATORIUM - Brainstorming Final Project Ideas

Today we had a good change in routine for my Interactive Design for Entertainment class, we went on a field trip to the San Francisco Exploratorium. In this post you will see some of the interesting things we saw and played with. I will also talk about how this visit brought many ideas and will contribute to to the development and design of my final project for this class.

So first things first.... here are the fun pictures and videos from the visit:



After a little while we joined the rest of the crew.



Here is Neil (@neiltan.NET) drinking water from a toilet... enjoying it too.



Here is our brand new band...



And here is the Startle Machine! Kendra and I tried it and were filmed, but our reactions were not as funny to be uploaded. ON THE OTHER HAND, my friend Justin had a different reaction that was actually worth uploading to this Post. So here you go, enjoy!



Lastly, here are some of my thoughts, and pictures I gathered that will help me find some inspiration for the final project. As I explained in my last post, I want to build a site where I will be designing a mini-world with interesting things to click around. I haven't decided yet on how the graphic is going to look like, but this trip definitely gave me some really good ideas.

One of the things this world will have is some vegetation. Here are some interesting plants that might serve as inspiration for these illustrations:


Another thing I mentioned earlier, is building this mini-world contained in a crystal ball. Here is a picture I thought was interesting, this gave me some ideas on some of the things that might happen in this mini-world.