Keri Behles

For the grid art assignment I decided to do H3H3 from his Vape Nation video because I wanted to make something inspired from something I enjoy, so it expresses more of who I am. I used beads and it creates this cool effect when you lift the piece up where you can see through the beads so it makes the actual image harder to see.

When I created the flip book I really want it to have a sketch style, not super detailed but not too basic. I started off with the idea of having an eye turn into something else, I didn't know what until I actually started and that was the mentality I continued with. I didn't really plan everything out because I had never had to do 200 frames in animation so I didn't want to create a plan just for it to fall apart while creating it. 

After looking at several different styles of ASCII art, I found that I personally enjoy the higher detailed pieces. I'm a big fan of pixel art so ASCII art was very interesting to me and I like seeing the grid that forms in the more detailed pieces. The piece with Gandhi was really interesting to me because it wasn't just random letters and symbols used, it actually uses words from one of his speeches and just changes the colors of the letters to create his face. I thought that was a really creative take on this type of art. I don't know if I would ever have the patience to use ASCII in this manner, but I do enjoy the end result. I would struggle to actually map out a grid and figure out what needs to go where since its not as fluid as using a pen or paintbrush. The amount of time it takes to plan it all out is what I think would be my downfall. The creativity surrounding ASCII art to be able to create something out of symbols on a computer is really amazing. I thin...

The Bionic Hand The bionic hand is the future of prosthetics because of its ability to allow the user to move the fingers by themselves. It was invented in 2007 by David Gow and is formally named the iLIMB. It uses its own motor-control system to allow the fingers, thumb, and palm to move independently of each other. The technology behind the iLIMB is drawn from the prosthetics that are common today and modern computers. The furthest back we’ve traced the use of prosthetics is to Ancient Egypt with a prosthetic big toe. The big toe prosthetic was more practical and did not require movement as its only purpose was to keep the sandal from falling off. When prosthetic limbs started to appear they, like the big toe, lack movement and were mainly used for a specific purpose, such as with General Marcus Serguis of the Ancient Roman military who had an iron arm that he used to hold his shield. Prosthetics remained the same up until Ambroise Paré, who introduced hinged p...