The end of his finger is bulky because I put 4 white LED's on the end, then covered them in red tissue paper so they'd glow red. Unfortunately, they aren't bright enough to shine through the layers of clay. The wires for the LEDs run underneath the paper maché clay up his arm and down his side, into a hole in his butt with a 9V battery, an Arduino, a piezo speaker, and an accelerometer.
The accelerometer detects when E.T. is touched, and each touch plays one note from the E.T. theme song. At the art show, people would hug and rock E.T. to play the entire song continuously.
References:
Jonni Good's tutorial on ultimatepapermache.com, "How to Make a Paper Maché Cat".
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
I displayed this at the Art Crawl the next year. There's a compartment behind the eye that fits a GoPro, and an opening for wires to come out of the mouth. Someone stole it before I had a chance to try that part out. I made it flat on one side so it could hang on a wall, but it also stood on its own.
I made this doll and gave her a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/astra.starr), then set her free on society. The intent was for strangers to teach her things about being human and post pictures of what she learned on Facebook before passing her on to someone else. The third person she went to kept her. In the above photo, she is learning about road-tripping.
Art to be shown later:
octopus painting
photography
Cecilia's poem painting
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