Created on 18th August 2006

Work with my friends Ben Hooker and Shona Kitchen on this interesting project for ISEA Festival in San Jose. Ben and Shona have come up with an idea of a flight ticket machine that prints out a realistic “souvenir” ticket.
 

Pressing the big button in the middle, the machine takes a picture of the user and prints out a ticket.
 

The flight ticket contains all kinds of information about San Jose airport — wildlife, pizza served, lost and found — as well as portrait of the user and real-time photos of airplane taking off. We use Processing to write an application that dynamically compose and print the ticket.
 

Shona and Ben created this beautiful rotating installation in San Jose airport and downtown.