SUN PROPHECY MAGAZINE

THUNDER DOME RATS

…they are REAL…

Stephen Freskos swears the Thunder Dome Rats are real! After the San Francisco’s PG&E power plant’s nuclear blast back in 1950, Stephen has finally decided to come forward after 49 years of denying seeing anything. He says he is in fact the very man who is the Thunder Dome Rat creator. “I created those monsters; I was the one who was spray painting those signs near the energy vaults! It’s my fault! IT WAS ME, IT WAS MEEE!!!!” Says Stephen as he weeps. The rumors are in fact true. Just recently, California’s high tech scientist, Scott Haefner, has dared to enter on his own free-will into the power plant ALONE. He has made it out alive, but doctors are still observing his every move. No one knows for sure what he really saw and if he is just hallucinating like all the others. When Scott came out of the building, he was panting, he was raving, he was scared out of his mind! “They’re real! I saw them! They’re real! They were, they were….every where!!!” Says Scott as he rocks back in-forth in the fetal position in the corner of the San Francisco Mental hospital. According to Scott, these Thunder Dome rats are no ghosts, they are mutated rats. Scott claims they crawled on the walls, ceilings, and the floors. “Paint,” he says, “They paint everywhere! Everywhere I turn, there’s paint! Spray paint! The colors change by their moods. When I get near them, they get angry and spray red paint! There’re so many colors, so many unknown beautiful paintings EVERYWHERE! THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!!!” So far, these rats have not harmed him in anyway. No scratches or any bruises were found on Scott from the rats. The only scratches and bruises were from him when he was scrambling to get out of the building alive. To our knowledge, these mutated creatures are not harmful to humans. They feed off the flesh of their own dead to regain more energy and more paint to continue their life as a Thunder Dome Rat. Stephen Freskos will be attending court this Friday for the cause of the San Francisco’s PG&E power plant’s nuclear blast of 1950. The trial will be devastating to those who have loved-ones who once worked in the power plant and became mentally insane all because of the carelessness of one young man.

The Making of the Thunder Dome Rat

I started out with the left side of a Panasonic head phone being that it had a body of a rat.



Then I added several types of wires to the top of it to create jumbled hair.




I then proceeded to to take the bottom of the head phone apart and screwed in the LED light fixture (with the help of Stephen Freskos) to the inside.


After, I used black electric tape to hold the foam ear piece to the bottom of the headphone. Doing that hid all the wires and gave me my final Thunder Dome Rat.

In the Making...

The Process

The Thunder Dome Rat in the making....

This device I built uses a miniphotocell (aka LDR...light-dependent resistor) to sense changes in the level of ambient light. The transistor is then turned on or off by the photocell. In bright light the photocell's resistance is low, so the transistor turns off, which turns the LED off. In low light, the photocell's high level of resistance switches the transistor on and the LEDs glow.

ART74: Network Creature

RESEARCH

Rats

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rats are various medium sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea.

Graffiti

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted."

Power station

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"At the center of nearly all power stations is a generator, a rotating machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by creating relative motion between a magnetic field and a conductor. The energy source harnessed to turn the generator varies widely. It depends chiefly on which fuels are easily available and on the types of technology that the power company has access to."

Thunder Dome Rat
(The Story)

Among the city buildings of San Francisco is an abandoned PG&E power plant where no living human flesh has dared to enter. Rumors of ghosts and unnatural life forms roam deep inside the building. No ghosts, but definitely unnatural life forms. In the early 1950s, there was a young man spray painting signs inside the power plant near electrical energy vaults. He was not aware that the chemicals from the arousal in the cans could cause a nuclear blast when it comes in contact with electrical energy. Oh it wasn’t just any kind of nuclear blast because it didn’t kill anyone. Instead it made everyone in the building go mentally insane. They all began to hallucinate and the entire building was immediately evacuated. During the evacuation, rats were exposed to the nuclear power and were transformed into an unknown life form. Before any of these newly born creatures we able to travel to the surface of the building, the entire building was boarded up and there was no escape. Those that saw these creatures during the evacuation believe that they are ghosts or beasts from hell. Till this very day these rats were given a name called the Thunder Dome Rats. They wonder the floors, ceilings, and walls of the forgotten building. They thrive on their new ability to paint. But not just any paint, they spray painted on the floors, walls, and ceilings of the building with their bodies. Once they run out of paint, their bodies wither and disintegrate while other rats feast on their flesh to regain more energy and more paint to continue their life as a Thunder Dome Rat.

(Photo by Stephen Freskos)

Currently working on...

PHOT 120: Image and Idea

currently working on...

For this particular class, we are instructed to develop a self determined body of work over the course of the semester. At the end of the semester I will then exhibit my work in a gallery. So far my idea is rather complicated and I'm still playing around with different ideas. My original plan is to create a photo (somewhat like the ones below) that gives off an old effect by displying it through a 100 year old glass window. I have the window and it incredibly dirty and very old...wood frame is chipping, paint is peeling, etc. Really, any photo can have an old effect using this window as a frame, BUT the trouble I am haveing is not being happy ENOUGH with the example photo i have taken already (below). Those photos are what I'm leaning towards, but I'm not sure it's what i want to do.Right now I am playing around with different ideas of having my little sister in multiple shots. I used photoshop and lightroom to get these results.

First I started out setting my tripod in the perfect spot and not touching it throughout the entire photoshoot. Then i continuously took photos of my sister using a clicker so i would have the same background. Throughout the shoot I had her change clothes to give the outcome a more interesting look.

After I picked out which photos I was going to use, I went into lightroom and did my best to give each photo the same shade and perfect contrast. Then I used photoshop to bring each photoin as one using the wand. Because the clouds didnt match up in each photo, I used the wand around my sister and placed her in the correct spot by zooming in the photo and placing her perfectly.



Once I felt I was done, I opened the photo back into photoshop and messed around with the lighting and came up with the photo below.


This isn't my final project, but it is along the lines of what I plan on doing...we'll see.

Art74: 1st Project

Insiring Media Art
By Wolfgang Staehle

https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Wolfgang+Staehle

Why I liked it...

•>He captured images of the building every few seconds and transmitted them through the Internet to the
ZKM, where they were projected on a gallery wall.

•>Staehle titled the installation Empire 24/7 in reference to Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), an eight-hour-long
film in which the camera focuses on the Empire State Building from dusk until dawn.

•>Staehle framed the Empire State Building in a prolonged still shot that draws attention, through the absence
of action and camera movement, to the structure of the tower itself, to the effects of light on the building and
in the sky, and to the act of viewing itself.

•>Staehle's Web cam work reflects the temporal compression of Internet communication.

Concerning the News
By Yuri Kageyama
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earns_panasonic

Japan's Panasonic cut 15,000 jobs, shut 27 plants worldwide!

YouTube Fascination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRLyygkUt4&feature=dir

RAT CAT DOG??!!!

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRLyygkUt4

Future Technology
By Luigi Lugmayr
http://www.i4u.com/artical23080.html

Robotic Arm for your Desk

Is it necessary???
HELL NO! Don't be lazy and just lift your own arm across your own desk.

Boogie Bot

I just finished a short video project with my other group members, Emily and Chen. The project video is called “Adventures of the Boogie Bot”. It can be found on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmlhS67X3D4 . We were to create a film about technology with a mind of its own in strange paranormal occurrences. So the three of us decided to work with Emily’s wined-up cowboy robot that danced. We started off creating a story board about the robot on a journey through SJSU campus dancing for people and squirrels. We realized that it might be a little hard to get the robot to dance in front of a squirrel without it running away or snatching the robot with its teeth. So we decided to have the robot just dance for people. We messed around with the idea and finally decided that the robot needed a purpose for dancing in front of other students. Finally we came up with the idea of “Spreading cheer, not fear. The adventures of the Boogie Bot.” If you look at the story board, you can see that it follows exactly the way the video is performed. Using imovie tutorials in editing the movie was very helpful. This was definitely my first time using the program and rather complicated at first. The only changes to our film would be the quality of the camera. The video’s picture quality wasn’t as great as I hoped it would be. But I definitely wouldn’t make any changes to the film because I personally like the way it came out.

Our Story Board: