Khim: Container Ideas

Container Ideas

Materials List:

Korean Clay

(it's very light!)

Plastic Sheets

Cardboard Sheets

Wooden sticks

Hinge (*not available yet due to flooding problems;

the nearest department store got flooded)

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When you put the mouse in, the weight of the mouse will turn the container upside-down due to the unstable composition (as in the design) of the container.

Thus, the mouse will also turn upside-down.

CONCEPT:

Referring to the fact that the first mouse was dubbed as "the mouse" because it looks like a mouse, the idea is used here.

When a mouse dies, one of its position is that its stomach faces upwards. The fact that the "container" turns upside-down when the "optical mouse" is placed on it refers to the imitation of the mouse's death position, and also to the point that "the mouse (the real-life mouse — the first mouse)" was invented, comes, then "falls down (can be interpreted literally, or as in falling down in popularity)" and ended its life as the "optical mouse" (in the action of dropping dead, twisting its body upside-down, representing the end of the mouse-using era).

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CONCEPT:

People have turned to use touch-pads, which "looks nothing like the mouse" (even its name) to perform the same function that's supposedly belonged to the mouse, and thus "the COMPOSITION of the mouse is no longer in standard-use."

Like Frank Gehry's work, I'm exploring and experimenting on "deconstruction" where everything is altered, swapped, and out-of-place.

For instance, this building by Frank Gehry, 'Guggenheim Bilbao':

The roof is not where it's supposed to be (as in general or standard composition), thus it's "deconstructed".

I wanted to try something revolutionary based on the idea of the "container" by deconstructing the mouse to imply the idea that the mouse "doesn't look the same like it once was" and that the standard form that people used to use for the mouse has now "died out".

APPEARANCE:

On the surface it looks like a normal, rectangular box, but inside everything is "altered" and are very "out-of-place".

This refers to how people live on without realising the change, but unseen by the eye the fact is that the age of the mouse is "coming to an end."

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CONCEPT:

A minimalist design.

Like how the body is "preserved" within the tomb, I tried to apply the same idea on the mouse.

Press the Korean Clay on the mouse to get its shape, then you'll get a container with a blank space inside, perfectly fitted for the mouse to be put in.

When the clay dries, a plastic sheet will be wrapped on its inside to protect the clay and the mouse (I'm also thinking of using a fabric; that will make it a "Mommy Mouse".)

There's also a pretty interesting argument about the mouse here:

Still Think The Mouse Isn't Dead? - Windows Ate The Mouse