I wanna make a lazer

I realized that what I like about photographing the clouds, and the shadows is their fleeting nature. They are things that you have to capture, or else they disappear.

This gave me more ideas on what I could do in terms of a final project.
I've been doing more thinking about what I want to do for my typography project. It would be amazing to make a typographic hollogram. Or to make laser letters. To make a hologram or a laser, I would need to make a laser. I want to make a laser. I don't think I am technically skilled enough to do so, and I don't know if I have enough money. I also found out that 'laser' is spelled with an 's' and not a 'z'. Whoops.

A light painting like this one might be a cool way to capture the writing, but... it's been done before.

The fact that the letter forms in the clouds and shadows are something that not everybody sees unless you are looking for them made me think of secret messages.

I tried out writing with clear wax on a piece of paper, then passing it to a friend who painted the paper with watercolors to reveal the message.

This gave me the project idea of selecting a few messages, writing them on pages in wax, and sending them off to friends or relatives in different places. I would ask them to photograph them after they revealed the message. This brings in the element of surprise because they don't know what the message says, and I don't know which one I've sent them.

I have also been thinking about working with materials that are very fickle and need to be captured. This made me think of soap bubbles. I could create large scale letter forms out of wire, dip them in bubble solution, wait for the wind, and film/ photograph the whole process. I think that it could yield some very visually interesting results.