Here are new and improved placards for the rotational decider.
Seeking Advice: Tells if you should or should not do something.
Yes and No: Answers the question.
Numeric Solutions 1-50. For random number generation.
Instant Destination: Gives you a unique unexpected place to go, based on your current location.
Blank: allows the user to create their own custom placard.
After spending more time and money than I have—designing various chance cards, inserting bearings into laser cut plastic discs and cutting wood—I built a biased wheel. It has a slight wobble, which causes it to stop in or around the same position every time. No good for generating random results.
After spending a day pulling my hair out and getting back to the drawing board, I found a great article about Murphy, a Random Mechanical Cascade Machine, built in the late 1970′s to test theories of chance and randomness (and the difficulties that man has in playing along).
Read the article here
500 cards—each completely unique—with possible winning numbers for three popular New York Lottery games.
Are you here because you found one of these cards? Did you play any of the numbers? Were you a winner?
I would love to know how your numbers fared for you, where you found the card, or what you think of all of this. Feel welcome to leave a comment, and check back often to see what is new on the site.
Why do this? I wanted to bring a new audience to the site, but I wanted to find an unconventional way of going about it. The challenges to me were; to bring curious people in to the site that were open to the idea of chance as an influence in their own life (as well as finding a group outside of art/design community) and also to not just advertise or litter the city with these cards, but give something that could potentially be of value to the viewer if they act on it.
I designed and built this wheel to aid myself in the process of generating chance. It is multifuncional; giving results for;
+/- (or heads/tails); up/down/left/right; and 360 degrees (in increments of ten).
This exercise marks the beginning of my research of the topic I will be exploring for the rest of the year. For Paul Sahre and Lindsey Ballant’s Senior Project Class at The School of Visual Arts, we were asked to gather a collection of 25 items. Not knowing what I wanted to collect, I gathered a variety of ideas, and started to explore them, but nothing seemed to grab my interest. I finally decided to go to a specific area (Alphabet City, New York City) and see what grabbed my interest. I decided to focus on a specific feature in my items— their color. My collection is a search for blue in the previously defined area.
You can see the images here.
