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A Fictitious Argument Emerges Between Coriolis & Beaufort

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Documentation of my installation for the Cranbrook Graduate Degree Exhibition. Approximately 3300 plastic flags and 7 fans.

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  1. On April 24th, 2007 at 00:06, Todd said:

    Wow, that’s amazing!!! It looks like so many things. It’s a lazy day at the ocean, an exciting day white-water rafting, a frightening forest fire, the space shuttle taking off. And so much more. BRAVO

    Todd

  2. On April 24th, 2007 at 01:01, Skip said:

    It’s mezmerizing. What’s the story behind the name?

  3. On April 24th, 2007 at 11:01, Peter said:

    I am in awe, what a brilliant idea, very original and very nice to watch. I wish I could see it in real life. There’s a big blank area, to you plan to complete this area further, or is this the final project? Great job.

  4. On April 25th, 2007 at 12:45, Michelle said:

    forward, upward, onward !

  5. On April 30th, 2007 at 15:32, JK said:

    Todd: Not really sure I’d be that scared of a forest fire that looked like this. ;)

    skip: A Fictitious Argument Emerges Between Coriolis and Beaufort.

    Peter: This is it for this iteration. I only had an allotted amount of space in the museum gallery for my installation, and I kept to that. I do hope to further develop this idea into other spaces and configurations though.

  6. On May 3rd, 2007 at 12:48, Lian said:

    That’s awesome!

  7. On May 12th, 2007 at 21:40, ROTT said:

    … splendid!! Love your work JK… hugs & congrats!!

  8. On June 11th, 2007 at 19:00, whynot said:

    similar stuff to http://nedkahn.com/ and always fun to watch

  9. On June 22nd, 2007 at 22:18, DJ said:

    you are just brilliant. your like a physicist artist legomaniac mechanical engineer.

  10. On June 22nd, 2007 at 22:20, DJ said:

    I wonder what it would be like with metallic blue and silver flags that would undulate more visibly.

  11. On June 27th, 2007 at 23:18, Kate said:

    What if you were able to control the switching and on of the fans and create different patterns (thus creating different textures), and maybe sync them with music?

  12. On July 5th, 2007 at 10:41, Jonathan said:

    You’re right, I think it’s something you can only truly experience in real life. Beautiful.

    Is this permanent installation? If not, what did you do with the plastic flags after?

  13. On July 22nd, 2007 at 11:31, maggie said:

    hey is that your embroidered lettering in the nytimes magazine today? did you do the stitching or did your mom? BEAUTIFUL WORK!

  14. On July 28th, 2007 at 01:20, Michael said:

    It would be cool to see this with multiple colors of flags.

  15. On August 21st, 2007 at 01:28, JK said:

    DJ: Not sure what Legos have to do with this… but thanks.

    DJ: It would be less minimalist, to be sure.

    Kate: Having the fans controlled by some process is something I thought of, but I created it as is to keep the project from becoming something other than a monument to simple processes. Nor did I want to make a music video.

    Jonathan: This was a temporary installation for our graduate exhibition. I (with the help of Keetra, my mother and father) pulled them all out and have them in a bag in my apartment. Why? you want it installed in your house?

    Maggie: Yep, that’s my lettering for the word ‘Wellderly‘. Thanks for finding it! It’s cool that you think it is embroidered, because that is one of the aesthetics I was going for. It’s actually computationally derived, so I didn’t have to ask my mom to do any work. :)

    Michael: There certainly are millions of possibilities.

  16. On September 15th, 2007 at 18:03, Bob C said:

    This is beautiful! I wish I could see it up close and in person. I hope you saved it so it could be reinstalled in a museum some day. I love your work.

  17. On September 23rd, 2007 at 17:17, fan said:

    I’ve been looking at your work and reading your responses to comments and just wanted to say that you’re extremely full of yourself.

  18. On September 23rd, 2007 at 20:22, JK said:

    Bob C: I saved the flags and a couple fans. I only hope I can reinstall it somewhere else someday.

    fan: Well, I do take a photo of myself every day.

  19. On October 25th, 2007 at 12:49, Samantha said:

    I was just wondering who the guy is in this picture because he looks exactly like my Uncle from the back . My Uncle teaches and studies art and he dresses exactly like the guy in the photo.

  20. On October 25th, 2007 at 21:32, JK said:

    Samantha: Unless you are using a pseudonym, I’m afraid the guy in the photos is not your uncle. It’s me, JK.

  21. On December 18th, 2007 at 17:39, Camie said:

    Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Where did you get the inspiration for this exhibit?

  22. On December 18th, 2007 at 21:44, Corey said:

    I could lie right now and tell you that I am utterly speechless, but as stated, this would be a lie. There are too many things I would like to say in response to your installation but the fact of the matter is since viewing your video my mind has begun to race at an unimaginable pace and I fear I will not be able to piece words together in a cohesive manner. So I will just say this: I was amazed with your installation. The visual effects are uncanny and amicably amorphous. However, after looking again, and connecting the installation with it’s given title, I am awe struck with the concept behind this piece. I can’t imagine what it would take just to visually piece this project together, but you went a step further with the title by cluing the viewer into your personal meaning of this project. It’s very entertaining to dwell on the idea of Coriolis and Beaufort in a heated argument! As an end note, I’d just like to say kudos to you for the double entendre in the title. I hope that I am correct in assuming the wit used in your choice of the word “fictitious.” If I am incorrect, which I somehow doubt, you should look further into Coriolis and his ties to fictitious, and I think you shall be rather amused. Keep up the beauty!!

  23. On January 21st, 2008 at 11:53, JK said:

    Camie: The question of inspiration is always a difficult one, as it often seemingly comes from nowhere, or just pops in the noggin walking down the street. Though, a lot of the work that I do stems from the process of taking a simple/simplistic idea and iterating it to such a degree that something unexpected emerges from the system. In this case, the “simple idea” was wind affecting a flag. My space was defined by the curator and I worked through the steps from there.

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