Sony Creative Science Award 2011
The 2nd time into the Sony Creative Science Award 2011 competition, and we grabbed away the Merit Prize with this recycled project titled - Pursuit of happiness. Months of researching, brainstorming seems worth it. We're considered the 'lucky' (when opportunity meets preparations) ones, out of a few thousand pieces of projects submitted, we were shortlisted. The whole idea was inspired by the karakuri , automata concept. I started building the 3 seagulls with popsicle sticks. Duplicating a few copies of the same body shape on the popsicles, three pieces were glued together to get the thickness (body) of the seagull. Small little piece of white felt were sticked at both sides of the body as an extension from the wing to the body to give it the flexibility to flab. The whole setup was a A4 paper carton box, waves pieces were cut out from trash cardboard, wine cork was used as the turning nob of twisted wires to do the tricks etc... It's interesting to see how each b