Slow Design Principles response

Student: Ashley Villagrana
Teacher: Sabrina Raaf
Class: Intro to responsive arts
Called the Pythagora Switch is a educational television
program that airs on television. Shows the number one principal in the Slow
Design principles, which is to participate. They displayed what they call
interactive physical properties that we normally in everyday life can see. This
television program was shown in Japan in 2002 for a television show and two
people named Masahiko Sato and Masumi Uchino made this to encourage and educate
children about the possibilities.  These
were done in such a child like way to catch the eyes of the viewer. For
example, the intentional cute little wagon that was going through little
obstacles was to give a message to viewers in the show and to capture the
concepts of creativity.
They had multiple little projects going on like this it was
really awe inspiring how just the little movements across a book or a little
ball being led through a railroad set to go hit a domino set and then to launch
it into the air was really magical.  The
addition of getting the movements down pact that it displays a message is a
really fun concept to see in action. Then there was another where using gravity
and the function of objects normal uses are used and captured in a process to
display their methods is charming as these projects can be in a everyday
setting in a room or child’s playroom and put to action. These actions are
started by the interaction in the beginning with the setting into action of the
human of letting a object go or flow into the projects. Children I feel were
getting the fun out of everyday objects in ways they never seen before to
become creative and learn to grow into very well round about leaders for today.
The 1st principle was displayed in the Honda
commercial, which is to reveal using objects in such processes for a common
goal that no one could ever imagine. This project was the Honda commercial that
allowed a chain of reactions to happen to market the use of their cars. The
filmmakers and crew took apart two Accords to get across the efficient
functionality of the car in their commercial. This commercial is known as the
cog and it was really expensive to do it was about 6 million but it was worth
it to display the meaning in the commercial to all the viewers.  The fun part in this video was how they
displayed all the functions inside and out of the car to the window wipers, to
the windows, to the sounds to the engines to anything. It astounded the Honda Company
when they got to see what they had got in their purchase as much as it
astounded me.
This commercial took about 606 takes and it was all worth it
in the end. The crisp and new feel of the sounds movement enticed my feeling to
purchase this accord. This commercial indeed boosted the sales worth on the
car.  It quadrupled purchases it is funny
how such a small positive chain of reactions of the inside of a car can ignite
our fascination and wonders of such a car. 
The object though was a car so imagine their reactions when they did
take apart two handmade accords for this by the engineers. But everything was
flawless to each function, process and small step it reveled the functions  of the cars.