Thursday, February 14, 2008

Ontario Science Centre - Gio Petrucci

My first trip to the OSC was a bit of a let down. Now, due to time constraints, I wasn't able to explore anything beyond the one main room we walked through for the Exercise, but from what I was able to gather, it sucked. Here is my personal vision of how it went about:


1 - This was before the actual beginning of the self-tour. It was a giant printer. I loved it. I want one. This was in the back where they printed larger jobs for the Centre. I was very impressed.

2 - This was the great entrance way to the Phase II part of the exercise. Flashing lights and nightclub sounds were very cool. I like this part, and it made me want to go out drinking.

3 - Robot table. I saw it right away to my right as I walked in. Junk collections. I wandered around the table, and it was all too much. When things are chaotic and jumbled I tend to lose interest instantly.

4 - Sound activated goop: best thing ever. Ok, maybe not the best thing but I saw Diandra and David playing around and because I was with them I was interested in seeing what they were doing. Only reason I came over, otherwise I probably wouldn't have noticed it. It was cool to interact with, the keyboard made the goop react making it ripple.

5 - When I saw the planetariums I walked over because of my interst in nature. Then I found they were empty tanks, which was boring, and one filled with cockroaches. No thanks.

6 - A chair. The only reason I came to it. I wanted to sit down.

7 - There was a very interactive station where you would sit inside of a booth and get your picture taken and then across the room, about 15 feet away there were tubes filled with water and then they would reproduce the image from the camera onto the tubes, which were actually bubbles forming the photo. This was cool. I stayed here and played around with it for about 15 minutes. I liked it a lot. It took me a while to realize what it was because I noticed the bubbles and the tubing and THEN realized what it was for. So discovered it backwards.

8 - This was the last thing I wandered to and I didn't even remember what it was. A barrier of sorts blocked this section off from everything else and it was just a jumble of colour and chaos. Too much visual stimulation made me want to leave. And then I did. Burger time, oh yeah...

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