The Impression Keeper

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THE IMPRESSION KEEPER

Millions of photographs are taken digitally every day and are spread over websites and servers. It could be said that people take photographs to be the reminder of their identity in time. For an individual, a photograph is a valuable impression, for someone else a photograph could be something very different. Photographs are consider as individual’s “value of impressions” that identify each identity. This project virtually integrate and bring impression and past impression back into one hub that could be justify to individuals’ need. Millions of “value of impressions” are spread all over in the world every day.

Visual perceptions are like consistent snapshots that we put together. Our eyes processes information every split second weather we know what it is or not. In order to perceive the world clearly, we have to stop and capture or analyse that moment still. Therefore people choose to capture these moments or impressions from photography. Exploring Bangkok is like taking 60 photographs every second. In these photos we see what we are intended and not intended to see, depending on our chose of perception in that situation and moment in time. (Reading Complexity)  Impressions could be change according to the choice of decision of how we perceive what we had confront in both objective and subjective way. (In this diagram, the blue screens are the division of interface between the thing and the people. What they had focus and extracted would be imprinted on to the blue screen to indicate the choice of perception and view point.) (Thing & Counter Thing) Separation of many small objects are combine together to be one full experience like the warrior elephant. (Grammar) We experience impression as a whole and not form one single pieces.  We don’t look at one thing, we absorb everything at once. (Virtual Space)

The vantage point changes the experience and attitude toward object. One whole impression could be change according to time, position, side, and equip. (In the virtual space, the visitor could move freely as if they are in the real world. The space had been design specifically for the visitor to be able to experience and perceive the thing and counter thing from different point of perception. The visitor could interface the thing from different period of time base on the position they are at. For example. The visitor could be in the present looking back to the ceremonial happening in the ancient time. According to the division of interface that imply intimidation, the visitor could be the least powerful in the space also be the most powerful while being in the virtual space. (Virtual Space)

                (The PraSriSanPet Temple is one of the main attractions of Ayutthaya, It is a must for tourist or television media to visit the 3 famous stupas when coming to Ayutthaya. Before in the “Ramatibade 1^st” Period, this area used to be a palace. However in “Trailoknark” Period, He move and rebuild the palace to the North and turn this area to a Royal Temple to perfume ceremony. Therefore there is no monk in the area. Later when Trailoknark died in 1492, the first Jedi was built for him and his son; “Somdet Pra Barom Rachaterad 2” by his younger son “Somdet Pra Rama Tebadi 2”. After that, the last Jedi was built for “Somdet Pra Rama Tebadi” himself in 1499.) (The main site that people pays attention the most is the Mondop own by “Trailoknark”. Tourist would walk in to the temple and first stop by the information boot. They would look at the 3D model and look up to the real temple and take their first snapshot of impression there. After that, they would walk to the pathway and post to take their second snapshots of impression. They would then continue to go up to the Mondop and take their third snapshots of impression. This is the main circulation that could be seen while visiting the site.) (Ayutthaya Diagrams)

Photographs are collections of impressions. How could we go back to choose the impression that we want and is requisite to our moment in that time? Hence, a hub that could help us find these “valuable impressions”. What if this hub can help us seek the past impressions we want?

Creating a virtual hub, The Impression keeper could track down impressions and past impressions and display it within the frame that we want. It is like a 3D sharing network of experience and photographs. People could come to The Impression Keeper to look at other’s people past impression or purposely create their own impressions to be display to the world virtually and 3 dimensionally.

Having The Impression Keeper, it would enhance a new experience and objectives of why people want to come to The PraSriSanPet Temple. Their new aim would be to come to the site to create impressions or to revisit the past impressions created by people from the history. People would come to create an artificial impression that deals with the history of the site. Photographs are collection of elements and fragments. Being in The Impression Keeper, we could extract and display or hide what we want or not want to see from the projected photographs of past impressions and present impressions. The elements could be split up and quantify to the specific needs. Millions of impressions will be projected on to the exact location that it had been taken. Therefore, there will be overlapping of different impressions base on different period of time. Instead of using a 3D scanner on the site to collect these data, we use people’s natural desire to create impression to collect the data instead. With The Impression Keeper, we could extract elements and fragments to know all the data like the 3D scanner such as the circulation, weather, birds, decay, movement, and experience. (Virtual Space; Ayutthaya)

When entering The Impression keeper, the visitor will have a case that would be attached to their camera device. This camera tracking device will be link to the sensors all around The PraSriSanPet temple. Therefore, as soon as the visitor create an impression, that impression will automatically be save to the data with the information of time, location, and identity. This data would be collecting all the impressions and save to the server and could be share and view anytime and anybody. This technology would create a new experience of visiting space and increase the purpose of visiting a specific space. It could be brought to tourist attraction, role playing, conservationist, and etc. (Virtual Space; Ayutthaya)