Can you save links and formatting for WP classic editor but clean up spelling and grammar issues? One of the recent features we added to the bav-o-rama is removable panelling. The idea occurred to me when we setup the Tetris diorama with a TV, console, and The Shining carpet.
I kept the walls covered with the black garbage bags I used as a quick solution for over-sized Silent Night, Deadly Night diorama, but even then the question was percolating: “What would make a good background that could be re-used when the diorama was not necessarily a scene from a film?”
Turns out the answer wasn’t exactly blowing in the wind, but rather hanging on the wall.
Turns out the art Michael Branson Smith made for UMW’s Console Living Room back in 2015 was what I was trying to reproduce almost unconsiously. The CRT TV, Shining carpet, and, of course, cheap wood panelling on the walls. That was the missing piece, the bav-o-rama needed wood paneling and the great Alberto was up to the task!
The panelling hangs on top of the existing composite board, and can be easily removed and stored away for when we have a different diorama to install. I have to say it adds the perfect finishing effect to the space. What’s more, it essentially brings MBS’s art to life—a theme of the bav-o-rama for sure.
Add a 19″ Sony Trinitron, Panasonic VHS player, a random console, in this image the Atari 7800, and you got yourself something of a diorama series focused on that whole console living room idea.
The next step is finally building out the bit that enables people to actually play the console from the street. That is definitely something I know is possible given I tested it out with Tetris, now I just need to acquire and hack a few old school controllers that can be securely mounted in front of the window. To making it an ongoing, changeable piece I need to find a way to securely mount various controllers from the various systems—so something of a modular solution. So that idea of having folks play games remotely will not get lost in the wind, but rather become part of the permanent bava.studio collection. That is super fun! Actually, this whole thing might have a life of its own, or at least a name of its own, but I’ll save that for the next post.
Oh man, how crazy would Tetris via hand/arm motions be?
My old codepen stuff is broken now but <a href="https://mediapipe-studio.webapps.google.com/demo/pose_landmarker"Google's stuff would handle the pose recognition, then it’s mapping it to the controller signals. I think. Anyway.
Like Minority Report, that would be sick. I am thinking through the whole interface piece, and that has been fun. Setup a box or a bar and figure out how to fasten the joystick while also making it comfortable and playable. I want tot keep exploring that kind of shit, interface for a sense of public is fun.
Can’t help the reflex that the paneling ties the whole diorama together… maybe the carpet and curtains are tough to top.
It’s wild!
Us 70s and 80s American kids gotta love that panelling 🙂 It doesn’t have the same reference in this part of Italy given the wood walls were common in the Rifugio and Stube, so for them it is kinda like a mountain retreat—so context kind of collapses.