I simply decided to translate my ideas of incorporating mirrors, lighting, and sound into a different one. (Photo by Jeremy Papasso/Staff Photographer) The CU Boulder campus closed all in-person classes due to COVID-19 virus precautions. BOULDER, CO – A lone University of Colorado student walks through the Norlin Quad during lunchtime on the CU campus on Monday, March 16, in Boulder. Making a shift was easier than expected given my ability to scrap together ideas on changed circumstances. In this case, create something with little shop access, low shipping dependability, and ultimately a much lower budget. With Corona affecting everyone, I had to decide how I wanted to shift and what I could manage given the new adjusted circumstances. The original aesthetic of the first kaleidoscope was reflective rainbow and gold trimming, given the nature of that object, I felt that I wanted to continue that aesthetic. At the beginning of the semester, I joked to myself I would take my small kaleidoscope and make it bigger and more elaborate. For me, a $7 rainbow kaleidoscope from a toy store, I couldn’t resist the pretty colors. This idea from the beginning was to make a spectacle worth experiencing, it was only a matter of time before I stumbled into what I would unknowingly fall in love with. The ‘aesthetic’ direction would be described as psychedelic rainbow as well spacecraft/future. Pacemakers: A pacemaker is an electronic device used to help regulate the heart rhythm and create an electrical impulse to stimulate the heart to beat.For my project I ended up creating a set of interactive psychedelic kaleidoscopes, all from repurposed material.Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD): An internal device to treat tachyarrhythmias (irregular heart beats).Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG): An artificial tube or a healthy blood vessel from another part of the body is surgically attached to make a new pathway around the blocked part of your artery.Recovery from the surgery is much quicker and the reduced trauma makes heart surgery an option for patients who would otherwise not be candidates for the surgery. The surgery is performed while the heart is beating. Not having to be connected to the heart lung machine further reduces the trauma to the patient. A heart-lung machine gives oxygen to the blood and pumps the blood through the body while the heart is stopped during surgery. In addition, the patient is not put on a heart-lung machine. Unlike traditional open heart surgery, a small incision is made in the patient's chest rather than the long central incision. Minimally-invasive beating-heart surgery: Straub's cardiovascular team pioneered this procedure in Hawaii.Bronchoscopy: The process of inserting a tube with a camera attached into the lung to examine the lungs.Coronary Atherectomy: A special catheter is used to shave off and remove the blockage from a coronary artery.Cardiac or Coronary Angiography: Angiography (X-ray movies) requires injection of a dye containing iodine (a contrast agent) through the catheter to outline the inside structure of heart and blood vessels.(Endoscopy is the process of inserting a tube down the throat) Transesophageal Echocardiogram: An ultrasound of the heart combined with endoscopy-like procedure, allowing pictures of the heart to be taken from the esophagus.Pacemakers: A pacemaker is an electronic device used to help regulate the heart rhythm and create an electrical impulse to stimulate the heart to beat.Electrophysiology Studies: Studies done to diagnose and assist in the treatment of abnormal heart beats.This requires a special blood thinning regimen to prevent clot formation Coronary Stents: One or more special metal coils are placed within an artery and inflated with a balloon catheter.Balloon Valvuloplasty: A catheter with a balloon at its tip may be inflated within a narrowed heart valve.Balloon Angioplasty: A special catheter with a small balloon device at its tip may be inflated within a coronary artery to “dilate”, or enlarge, a severe narrowing.
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