Vikramranu
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About Me
You can find my works here - Undrawn
Full Name - Vikram Kumar Ranu
Email - vikramranu@icloud.com
Mob - 9632470514
Andamans with ANET
Kindly correct my spellings
Inter tidal walk, forest walk, ANET location, Mangrove walk
Documentation 1st Draft
'SATURDAY TO SATURDAY '
Day 1 Jan 10
Exploring ANET with maps, clues and questions (Letter Box)
Beatle nut
Oceans and tides were high
People and team working over there, the first interaction
Settling in
Cutting of lock with the ax saw
Drawing first iPad drawing sitting in balcony.
Shifting to next hut.
Night out at the beach with Vivek and drawing 7 iPad drawings of trees.
Day 2 Jan 11
4:30 AM - Intertidal walk
Few picture and video documentation
the big white tree Padauk
Walk on the sands and then on the oceans cause the tides were high
caves
sounds
depth
Drawing Yashash
Sand art helped connecting with massArts students
Break fast - eggs and poha.
Caustics and tree shadows on the oceans.
getting to know few of them. interacting with mass arts faculties, artist and biologist.
Sensing with conscious
DIY 101 learned about LED
Fun rotation DIY uv led light toy, that i can relate to Jelly fish
Day 3 Jan 12
8 AM - Mangrove walk
Headed by Savita and Katya
Fidler crabs
Hermit crab
Snorkels
Mud Scikppers
Dog-headed snake
H2S hydrogen Sulphide
Avacenia
Picture and Video documentation
SeaKrate walk,Pit Viper, spotted 2 torch light night time with video documentation. dogs following us behind
Walk with Yashas and Mark From Anet to near by Anugama to Anet - interaction
Play with insect catcher tool, joy of counting 28 small insects and 1 spider
Day 4 Jan 13
Helping (very little) for Jackson’s oven
Beach and swimming and interaction with mass arts students about their culture and college lifestyles and telling my shy- indian story.
Scuba diving training
breathing in and out, removing water in the glasses while inside the water.
Lunch with mass arts at a resort
Jetty - Fish landing, Lobsters , fishes - video documentation.
Bengali Fisher men
Walk from Anugame to Anet
Baracuda fish cooked for dinner
Interacting with mass arts standouts art works
Exploring tree house and Yashas’s Art and Science lab.
Light beep understanding chip design, integrated circuit, resistors and Capacitors. Help from Mark
Day 5 Jan 14
Scuba Diving
Rain and storm
GoPro video documentation
Mangrove walk
Play with seed as javelin
Fidler crab think like an artist
Sound documentation for rain that falls on the tall trees
Presentation by Scuba instruction about coral reef we experienced
Make an insect catcher tool with a bottle and 2 pipes
Reflection with Mass arts students and interaction via different kind of performance oriented games. Sharing our best experience.
Interacting with teaches and understanding them empathy. Listen more the talk.
Using Saul’s microscope
Saul explaining about the colour sensing tool - spectrometer. black and white standard UV and UR.
colour of a gecko
Working with webcam camera and its lens and clicking pictures
Reading by Padmini on Goethe
Day 6 Jan 15
Heavy Rain
Drawing insects
Drawing people
Dry Snake bite on my left foot - may be a baby Keel-back
Watching them with microscope
Working on a stable microscope.
Lerning soldering
2nd Presentation by Scuba instruction, inspired by one photograph of Katya
Milkha’s movie screening on his Masters movies
Fun performance based interaction , the laugh and belly , and circle inside of a circle.
h2 - massarts. S Srishti together we are H2S in the mangroves and ANET as the Catalyst
Day 7 Jan 16
Rain
Mangrove walk , mud hole water PH value, slight rain water neutralised it
Walk on tidal with teacher, understanding with empathy, listening more, less talking. taking videos of them.
Working on finishing the Led rotating toy with a glove attached made of duck tape
Exhibition of our DIY
Surprise by ANEt - Video presention on Anet and our funny documentation
Party
Day 8 Jan 17
Certificate Scuba diving
Packing
Flight from Port Blair to Chennai
Train from Chennai to Bangalore 8 hrs
10 PM reached bangalore
Day 9 Jan 18
Gud bye, Lunch at Arzu’s House, Ants , Toit, Vistah, See off
Day 10 Jan 19
First Draft Documentation
DIY list that I worked on
learnt about basics tools
1.Led fun jelly Fish
2.Led bib bip (Learning resisters and capacitor)
3.Insect catcher
4.Microscope
Srishti
Day 11 Jan 20
Reading : laboratory to landscape
Lab Visits with in srishti (objective is to create a lab of our own)
chemistry lab
physic lab
biology lab
dark room
cooking lab
music drama lab
art studio
art-science lab
How to make our own lab
Emptying and setting our own lab
Peter Vogel - screening The sound of shadows 2011
introduction to basics of electronics
creating abstract switches
Day 12 Jan 21
Reading - Study of Atelier Tradition and Goethean Science by Artist Daan Hoekstra
Conclusion
Recommended reading about "Dr Faustus"
Basic of Eletronics
Resistance 1k 10k 120k
V=IR
Circuit diagram basics
Varying resistance
LDR Light D Resistance
buzzer speaker - varying sound
Day 13 Jan 22
Movie - "Life in Aquatic"
Reading - "Yearners and Schoolers"
LOGO programming language for kids.
different ways of connecting these circuits, aligator clips, breadboards, soldering (different stayles) and more
Capacitor
Amplifier
Potentiometer
Chips and IC's
Day 14 Jan 23
Presentation by Andrej
Andrej from Parague
creative design of basic amplifier circuit.
Day 15 Jan 24
Holiday, Worked on the face circuit amplifier I made and it was working . (Whole day)
drawn fish circuit amplifier
Transmiter - touch circuit.
Day 16 Jan 25 - Sunday
Holiday, Movie night
Day 17 Jan 26 - Republic Day
Documentation,
Reflection on Andamans trip
Opportunity to collaborate with MassArts students and make some great friends
ANET as catalyst
see biology in different perspective
working with school teacher with empathy
working in diy understanding electronics basic priciple and how simple fun engaging things can be done using this
working with Jakson, Saul, Mark and Yashash
walk alone on the roads and face tall diversity of trees
saving water and not shaving
snake bite - finally i belong there
night out camping in the beach
drawing in ipad
engaging with Mass Arts student while doing sand art and other performance oriented activity
sleeping less (getting good sleep) and running around looking for work has change me to be more responsible
the feel of falling lonely was gone for that time of my life
Interacting ANET people and their library was whole new nature kind experience
drawing in the dark
interacting with standouts that were drawing
scuba diving breathing on and off for 40 mins inside water
i collected a lot of inspiration
Reflection on lab and class
space design
learnt to organise
help on small small things helped me learn faster
i feel responsible, self independent, and not lonely
spending time in class is engaging
small group is always better.
owning a lab feel like owning a workspace, i feel like storing all my tools there cause i cant work in my house.
education - scientist perspective and balance
Mark and Yashas as a source of ideas and information
Day 18 Jan 27
Work in collaboration on making 1st draft simple book story based for kids to understand.