Exploring Metaphor in Glass: Rupert's drops Kaputs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s51CCHLpYnw&hd=1

This is a joint venture between two students of the digital media lab, a history major and a graduate student at the glass program from San Jose State University. This performance\installation piece describes the chronological pattern of social and political unrest of the last 5 years; pinpointing 17 geographical locations around the world and matching these locations with the explosion of a rupert's drop.

But why revolutions occur? Revolutions not always happen because of the vast power of the revolutionary class, but rather happen because of the instability of the governing class. These weakness usually come from failures of the economic/financial system or from war.

The rupert's drops contains an interesting metaphor for this concept: the larger mass in the head of the drop is extremely strong and regardless of how much pressure is applied to the mass it fails to release the energy from within. It's only when the fragile tail of the drop (the governing class) is snapped, that all the tension is released.

If you want to know more about this project please follow this link http://imagescubed.com/occupyearth/#work