Yes, I will finish this. 

The Untitled Infinite Light Randomizer, originally drafted up in preparation for TIWWI’s Night Lights event last summer is yet to be completed.  My main issues lie exclusively with my (always) complete lack of actual wherewithall about how to actually create anything.  Especially anything requiring electrical experience, engineering knowledge, etc.

But I guess that’s what I like doing.  Someday I’ll complete it, in my workshop in the woods somewhere far off away from others. 

The purpose of the device’s construction (about three feet long, three feet high) would be the seemingly fruitless effort to create something infinitely random.  The pursuit itself is what matters - as this hypothesis is most likely impossible of course.  In pursuing the answer, we find we create our answers along the way, despite the end product.  In my mind, the opposite spinning sets of angled mirrors, combined with a collection of differently angled laser flashlights running at a separate speed would produce a sporadic, playfully “infinitely random” bouncing up to dance in front of the viewer on a semi-opaque cone shaped “receiver.”

My first attempt at the device was based off the body of the now deconstructed double window fan from my former roommate Tina Dhingra.  (Fortunately, there was a setting already that allowed the fans to spin in opposite directions.)  On top of those fans I created discs with angled pocket mirrors.  Between the two discs of mirrors I placed a stripped down motor from a regular non-oscillating fan.   I placed these all on dimmers to fully control the power output of each spinning element.  In the center I created the “tree” of angled laser flashlights.  My initial goal was to have these pocket laser pointers all powered as well, yet this proved impossible and therefore had to be rigged to have the on button always de-pressed.  In addition, I had to find a way to put lenses on each laser pointer, as they were two focused and perfectly circular to actually look like what I was picturing.  So I broke a handful of small bottles, took the most curved parts and fashioned these new “distorted lenses” to give each laser an always unique, always changing shape.  Many slices to the hand later, I had my first crack at this.   Although I didn’t have the time to fully construct the rest of it, The Untitled Infinite Light Randomizer worked kind of satisfactory for brief moments..  The dimming power output idea didn’t pan out, as each spinning device - at different times - would gain momentum and speed up out of control resulting in velocity altered mirror angles.  The laser pointer tree also failed frequently with the de-pressing method for their on buttons never proving long-lasting.

Farewell!