Thursday, June 17, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
bridge - crysis file upload link
http://www.filefront.com/16772573/Exp3UpdatedArch1101WunShinLiew.zip
Note - Please generate surface texture when opening the file. (For some reason I have to do this every time I load the file.
Instructions: Entrance to bridge is located in the grey structure on top of the building located on the white wall side.
P - for first platform down, O - platform back up
U - for the elevator that takes Helen Keller from the reception area to her office (Y to go back)
J - down for Angela Merkel's lift at the end of the flying platform (H - back up)
L - down for Helen Keller's lift at the end of the flying platform (K - back up)
Note - Please generate surface texture when opening the file. (For some reason I have to do this every time I load the file.
Instructions: Entrance to bridge is located in the grey structure on top of the building located on the white wall side.
P - for first platform down, O - platform back up
U - for the elevator that takes Helen Keller from the reception area to her office (Y to go back)
J - down for Angela Merkel's lift at the end of the flying platform (H - back up)
L - down for Helen Keller's lift at the end of the flying platform (K - back up)
bridge - google sketch up files link
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=6ae1d9ef71a7c8992a7de65369f0f9ca
bridge - final 5 image captures
"Slowly man is waking up. The people — the great ‘common herd’ — are finding out what is wrong with the social, political and economical structure of the system of which they are a part" -Helen Keller.
"Together we brought down the Iron Curtain and I am convinced this can give us the strength for the 21st century” - Angela Merkel.
The above image shows a brick in motion that forms part of the elevator.
Chancellor Angela Merkel used the bringing down of the Berlin Wall as a metaphor for breaking down obstacles of the future such as poverty and climate change.This was used as a metaphor for the design concept. The bridge represents the wall that has fallen, with the perforations acting as holes of light. The moving brick work that forms the elevators and platforms are meant to represent the falling down of the Berlin Wall. The clear structure unifies the two powerful female figures together, and visually divides the wall.
The bridge is located in a valley that was inspired by the Berlin Wall. The two walls are meant to represent the Berlin Wall, and the images on the walls are actual graffiti art on the Berlin Wall. The images contain messages of hope and freedom. The contrasting white and black walls are meant to contrast the ideas of dark times versus hope for the future, with the structure bridging this divide. The setting and its surrounding images and messages are meant to inspire the clients that are located in the building. 
Angela Merkel is located on the white wall side divided into two floors.
Helen Keller's office is located on the side that faces the black graffiti wall
The four walls of Helen Keller's space are textured differently so that she can navigate her way around the room. Teh flying platform that leads to her lift has staggered walls so that she can navigate to her lift. The black graffiti wall is actually one of the walls of this space, acting as a reminder of the problems that she identifies. The smooth glass walls and the brick like motif on the other wall contrast each other as well. The space is for her to write and to do research, as well as to teach those that are also blind and deaf.
The dining table takes on a form that is similar to the bridge structure, made of bricks, and coloured red to contrast the barren land, and to represent that bloodshed that was located at this place. The meeting space on the valley floor was inspired from the 'valley' space that is located between the Berlin Walls, and in between opposing enemy trenches, entitled 'no man’s land', also known as the 'death strip' in Germany. This can be seen as a metaphor for these two powerful female figures that have ventured where not many woman or men have ventured before.
berlin wall graffiti inspiration
Image Source: http://www.volumestat.com/2009/11/09/volumesphere-berlin-wall-art-20-years-after-the-fall/ (accessed on 12 June 2010)
Image Source: http://www.planetware.com/picture/berlin-berlin-wall-d-d045.htm (accessed on 12 June 2010)
Image Source: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/pal29/4/1229043120/berlin_wall_art_2_faces.jpg/tpod.html (accessed on 12 June 2010)
Image Source: http://www.luxist.com/photos/fall-of-the-berlin-wall-20th-anniversary/2299133/ (accessed on 12 June 2010)
Image Source: http://dancingperfectlyfree.com/2009/06/22/dancing-with-the-berlin-wall/(accessed on 12 June 2010)
Image Source: http://qarrtsiluni.com/2008/09/06/berlin-wall/ (accessed on 12 June 2010)
Image Source: http://www.upi.com/enl-win/0fb2397232d28effbc9595a61c31ce0e/ (accessed on 12 June 2010)
Image Source: http://www.vetika.com/skateboard-photography/all/chewy-berlin-wall-push-by-andy-horsley.html (accessed on 12 June 2010)
Image Source: http://jeremyrowe1.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/ (accessed on 12 June 2010)
Image Source: http://impymalting.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/ich-gehe-nach-berlin/(accessed on 12 June 2010)
Friday, June 11, 2010
bridge - draft crysis valley environment 2
The image captures below depict a model environment inspired from "the death strip".
further valley inspiration
The images below show the East and WEst Berlin walls separated by "no man's land" (a term used for land that is unoccupied or under contention). The "no man's land" enclosed by the Berlin Wall was later named as the "death strip",
Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berlinermauer.jpg (accessed 12 June 2009)
Image Reference: http://www.mauer.jp/mauer5/mauer5e.html (accessed 11 June 2009)
Image Reference: http://fattirebiketours.com/berlin/tours/berlin-wall-bike-tour (accessed 11 June 2009)
Image reference: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/its-20-years-since-reunification-but-is-germany-still-divided-1716993.html?action=Popup (accessed 11 June 2009)
Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berlinermauer.jpg (accessed 12 June 2009)
Image Reference: http://www.mauer.jp/mauer5/mauer5e.html (accessed 11 June 2009)
Image Reference: http://fattirebiketours.com/berlin/tours/berlin-wall-bike-tour (accessed 11 June 2009)
Image reference: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/its-20-years-since-reunification-but-is-germany-still-divided-1716993.html?action=Popup (accessed 11 June 2009) Monday, May 10, 2010
bridge - draft crysis valley environment 1
My valley was inspired by scenic images from Germany. The Rhine Valley helped inspire the scene for this environment. The valley walls are inspired by images of the Inner German Border which divided East and West Germany, and the Berlin Wall which divided Berlin into east and west. Both the Inner German Border and the Berlin Wall was known as the Iron Curtain which symbolized the division between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc(the former communists states of Eastern Europe).valley inspiration
Burg Katz Above The Rhine GermanyImage Source: http://www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/Known_places/Burg-Katz-Above-The-Rhine-Germany_1600x1200_19435.htm(accessed May 10, 2010)
Gap in the Berlin Wall, GermanyImage source: http://www.fotosearch.com/FSP402/386009/ (accessed May 10, 2010)
Nature reclaiming German Cold War Death Strip
Image Source: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091026-22823.html (accessed May 10,2010)
Sign Installation at the German Federal Highway B merges the memory of the former inner German border with that of the current EU borderImage Source:
http://www.judithsiegmund.de/typo3temp/pics/eff77e8652.jpg(accessed May 10, 2010)
Remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall near Ostbahnhof in Friedrichshain
Nature reclaiming German Cold War Death StripImage Source: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091026-22823.html (accessed May 10,2010)
Sign Installation at the German Federal Highway B merges the memory of the former inner German border with that of the current EU borderImage Source:http://www.judithsiegmund.de/typo3temp/pics/eff77e8652.jpg(accessed May 10, 2010)
Remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall near Ostbahnhof in FriedrichshainImage Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Berlin_Wall_2006.JPG (accessed May 10, 2010)
Sunday, May 9, 2010
bridge - Mashup
Powerful Womans' Voices
World leaders speak out. The time of blind struggle is drawing to a close. Hellen Keller, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Miranda Kerr have come to the rescue. Together they have become a worldwide sensation
“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions; and conclusions are not always pleasant.” says Keller who visited sweatshops, factories, crowded slums of New York and Washington. ”Of course I could not see the squalor; but if I could not see it, I could smell it”.
Keller inquires why things are as they are? Keller’s answer is that “the foundation of society is laid upon a basis of individualism, conquest and exploitation, with a total disregard of the good of the whole,” but “slowly man is waking up. The people — the great ‘common herd’ — are finding out what is wrong with the social, political and economical structure of the system of which they are a part.
Kerr has offered to sign a petition to save the world under threat. "...Of course I would sign it," said Kerr. Ms Merkel said the world could tackle new challenges, from poverty to climate change. "Together we brought down the Iron Curtain and I am convinced this can give us the strength for the 21st century”
There could be no stronger affirmation of freedom and while force has the temporary power to dominate, it can never ultimately dictate
World leaders speak out. The time of blind struggle is drawing to a close. Hellen Keller, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Miranda Kerr have come to the rescue. Together they have become a worldwide sensation
“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions; and conclusions are not always pleasant.” says Keller who visited sweatshops, factories, crowded slums of New York and Washington. ”Of course I could not see the squalor; but if I could not see it, I could smell it”.
Keller inquires why things are as they are? Keller’s answer is that “the foundation of society is laid upon a basis of individualism, conquest and exploitation, with a total disregard of the good of the whole,” but “slowly man is waking up. The people — the great ‘common herd’ — are finding out what is wrong with the social, political and economical structure of the system of which they are a part.
Kerr has offered to sign a petition to save the world under threat. "...Of course I would sign it," said Kerr. Ms Merkel said the world could tackle new challenges, from poverty to climate change. "Together we brought down the Iron Curtain and I am convinced this can give us the strength for the 21st century”
There could be no stronger affirmation of freedom and while force has the temporary power to dominate, it can never ultimately dictate
References:
British Broadcasting Corporation, "Berlin remembers fall of the Wall," British Broadcasting Corporation , November 9, 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8349742.stm (accessed May 9, 2010)
Fiona Byrne, " Supermodel Miranda Kerr Speaks Out in Support of Embarrassed Bank Broker David Kiely," Herald Sun, February 05, 2010,
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/supermodel-miranda-kerr-speaks-out-in-support-of-embarrassed-bank-broker-david-kiely/story-e6frf96o-1225826947714 (accessed May 9, 2010)
Hellen Keller, "New Vision for the Blind," Justice, October 25, 1913, http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1910s/13_10_25.htm (accessed May 9, 2010)
chancellor angela merkel
Berlin Remembers Fall of the Wall
World leaders, dominoes and fireworks as the fall of the wall is marked. World leaders have hailed the Berlin Wall's fall in celebrations 20 years on from the upheaval that changed Europe.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was joined at the Brandenburg Gate by Russia's Dmitry Medvedev, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and UK PM Gordon Brown. In a special video address, US President Barack Obama said Berliners had rebuked tyranny on 9 November 1989.
The event two decades ago led Germany to reunify, caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Cold War's end. Communist East Germany erected the 155-km (96-mile) concrete barrier in 1961 to encircle West Berlin and prevent citizens from fleeing into the capitalist enclave. At least 136 people are thought to have been killed at the wall while trying to escape.
Ms Merkel - who grew up in East Germany - presided over Monday's celebrations, which were attended by tens of thousands of people despite a downpour of rain. She led a procession of leaders through the Brandenburg Gate - the symbol of German reunification in 1990. The presidents of Russia and France, the British premier and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among those who joined the German chancellor. Ms Merkel said the events of 20 years ago had shown the world could tackle new challenges, from poverty to climate change.
"Together we brought down the Iron Curtain and I am convinced this can give us the strength for the 21st century," she said.
Mrs Clinton also spoke, before introducing a surprise video address from Washington by Mr Obama. "There could be no clearer rebuke of tyranny. There could be no stronger affirmation of freedom," he said of the wall's tearing down.
Mr Medvedev said the wall's collapse had helped Russia and Germany end their World War II enmity. He said he hoped everyone had rejected the dividing lines represented by the wall.
In his speech, Mr Brown told Berliners: "You dared to dream in the darkness. You knew that while force has the temporary power to dominate, it can never ultimately dictate."
After the leaders spoke, a chain of 1,000 giant foam dominoes - painted with messages of freedom by young people - was toppled along where the wall once stood. The symbolic act was to reflect how the then Communist governments of Eastern Europe fell one after another. The first wave of dominoes were knocked over by former Polish President Lech Walesa and ex-Hungarian Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth. Mr Nemeth's decision to open his country's borders first allowed East Germans to flee to the West.
The festivities were capped with fireworks and a concert featuring music from Berlin's State Opera and the American rock band Bon Jovi. Earlier in the day, Ms Merkel retraced her steps on the night the wall fell by crossing the first checkpoint to open 20 years ago. The German chancellor was joined by ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Mr Walesa, the former Polish trade union leader and later president, whose movement was the first to challenge Communist rule successfully in Eastern Europe.
There were cheers from hundreds of onlookers as Ms Merkel praised Mr Gorbachev for helping to make change possible. Earlier, Ms Merkel said in a TV interview that German unity was still incomplete, as the East lagged in economic growth.
World leaders, dominoes and fireworks as the fall of the wall is marked. World leaders have hailed the Berlin Wall's fall in celebrations 20 years on from the upheaval that changed Europe.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was joined at the Brandenburg Gate by Russia's Dmitry Medvedev, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and UK PM Gordon Brown. In a special video address, US President Barack Obama said Berliners had rebuked tyranny on 9 November 1989.
The event two decades ago led Germany to reunify, caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Cold War's end. Communist East Germany erected the 155-km (96-mile) concrete barrier in 1961 to encircle West Berlin and prevent citizens from fleeing into the capitalist enclave. At least 136 people are thought to have been killed at the wall while trying to escape.
Ms Merkel - who grew up in East Germany - presided over Monday's celebrations, which were attended by tens of thousands of people despite a downpour of rain. She led a procession of leaders through the Brandenburg Gate - the symbol of German reunification in 1990. The presidents of Russia and France, the British premier and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among those who joined the German chancellor. Ms Merkel said the events of 20 years ago had shown the world could tackle new challenges, from poverty to climate change.
"Together we brought down the Iron Curtain and I am convinced this can give us the strength for the 21st century," she said.
Mrs Clinton also spoke, before introducing a surprise video address from Washington by Mr Obama. "There could be no clearer rebuke of tyranny. There could be no stronger affirmation of freedom," he said of the wall's tearing down.
Mr Medvedev said the wall's collapse had helped Russia and Germany end their World War II enmity. He said he hoped everyone had rejected the dividing lines represented by the wall.
In his speech, Mr Brown told Berliners: "You dared to dream in the darkness. You knew that while force has the temporary power to dominate, it can never ultimately dictate."
After the leaders spoke, a chain of 1,000 giant foam dominoes - painted with messages of freedom by young people - was toppled along where the wall once stood. The symbolic act was to reflect how the then Communist governments of Eastern Europe fell one after another. The first wave of dominoes were knocked over by former Polish President Lech Walesa and ex-Hungarian Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth. Mr Nemeth's decision to open his country's borders first allowed East Germans to flee to the West.
The festivities were capped with fireworks and a concert featuring music from Berlin's State Opera and the American rock band Bon Jovi. Earlier in the day, Ms Merkel retraced her steps on the night the wall fell by crossing the first checkpoint to open 20 years ago. The German chancellor was joined by ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Mr Walesa, the former Polish trade union leader and later president, whose movement was the first to challenge Communist rule successfully in Eastern Europe.
There were cheers from hundreds of onlookers as Ms Merkel praised Mr Gorbachev for helping to make change possible. Earlier, Ms Merkel said in a TV interview that German unity was still incomplete, as the East lagged in economic growth.
Reference: British Broadcasting Corporation, "Berlin remembers fall of the Wall," British Broadcasting Corporation , November 9, 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8349742.stm (accessed May 9, 2010)
miranda kerr
Supermodel Miranda Kerr Speaks Out in Support of Embarrassed Bank Broker David Kiely
Supermodel Miranda Kerr has come to the rescue of the Macquarie Bank broker whose job is under threat after he was caught on TV checking out steamy shots of her on his work computer.
Kerr has offered to sign a petition to help red-faced broker David Kiely save his job."I am told there is a petition to save his job and of course I would sign it," said Kerr, who is in Australia.
Mr Kiely, who until Tuesday was an anonymous suit, has become a worldwide sensation after footage of him getting caught on TV ogling Kerr's curves became a YouTube hit. He was opening emailed pictures of Kerr while behind him a colleague, Martin Lakos, did a live television cross to Channel 7 news.
The international model said she hoped his employer would not come down hard on Mr Kiely.
Banking news website hereisthecity.com yesterday started a campaign urging colleagues to email Macquarie Bank and save Mr Kiely's job. Mr Kiely is expected to meet Macquarie Bank bosses within days to discover his fate.
Reference: Fiona Byrne, " Supermodel Miranda Kerr Speaks Out in Support of Embarrassed Bank Broker David Kiely," Herald Sun, February 05, 2010,
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/supermodel-miranda-kerr-speaks-out-in-support-of-embarrassed-bank-broker-david-kiely/story-e6frf96o-1225826947714 (accessed May 9, 2010)
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/supermodel-miranda-kerr-speaks-out-in-support-of-embarrassed-bank-broker-david-kiely/story-e6frf96o-1225826947714 (accessed May 9, 2010)
helen keller
New Vision for the Blind
I have visited sweatshops, factories, crowded slums of New York and Washington. Of course I could not see the squalor; but if I could not see it, I could smell it. With my own hands I could feel pinched, dwarfed children tending their younger brothers and sisters, while their mothers tended machines in nearby factories.
Besides the advantages of books and of personal experience, I have the advantage of a mind trained to think. In most people I talked with thought is infantile. In the well educated it is rare. In time their minds become automatic machines. People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions; and conclusions are not always pleasant. They are a thorn in the spirit. But I consider it a priceless gift and a deep responsibility to think. When we inquire why things are as they are, the answer is, the foundation of society is laid upon a basis of individualism, conquest and exploitation, with a total disregard of the good of the whole.
The structure of a society built upon such wrong basic principles is bound to retard the development of all men, even the most successful ones because it tends to divert man's energies into useless channels and to degrade his character. The result is a false standard of values. Trade and material prosperity are held to be the main objects of pursuit and conquest, the lowest instincts in human nature — love of gain, cunning and selfishness — are fostered.
The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted, free human beings. Crushed, stupefied by terrible poverty, the workers yet demand that they shall have some of the beauty, some of the comforts, some of the luxuries which they have produced.
The time of blind struggle is drawing to a close. The forces governing the law of the survival of the fittest will continue to operate, but they will be under the conscious, intelligent control of man. In all my reading I am conscious of a multitudinous discontent. Slowly man is waking up. The people — the great "common herd" — are finding out what is wrong with the social, political and economical structure of the system of which they are a part.
This is not a time of gentleness, of timid beginnings that steal into life with soft apologies and dainty grace. It is a time for loud voiced, open speech and fearless thinking; a time of striving and conscious manhood, a time of all that is robust and vehement and bold; a time radiant with new ideals, new hopes of true democracy. I love it, for it thrills me and gives me a feeling that I shall face great and terrible things. I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such a splendidly disturbing time.
Reference: Hellen Keller, "New Vision for the Blind," Justice, October 25, 1913, http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1910s/13_10_25.htm (accessed May 9, 2010)
I have visited sweatshops, factories, crowded slums of New York and Washington. Of course I could not see the squalor; but if I could not see it, I could smell it. With my own hands I could feel pinched, dwarfed children tending their younger brothers and sisters, while their mothers tended machines in nearby factories.
Besides the advantages of books and of personal experience, I have the advantage of a mind trained to think. In most people I talked with thought is infantile. In the well educated it is rare. In time their minds become automatic machines. People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions; and conclusions are not always pleasant. They are a thorn in the spirit. But I consider it a priceless gift and a deep responsibility to think. When we inquire why things are as they are, the answer is, the foundation of society is laid upon a basis of individualism, conquest and exploitation, with a total disregard of the good of the whole.
The structure of a society built upon such wrong basic principles is bound to retard the development of all men, even the most successful ones because it tends to divert man's energies into useless channels and to degrade his character. The result is a false standard of values. Trade and material prosperity are held to be the main objects of pursuit and conquest, the lowest instincts in human nature — love of gain, cunning and selfishness — are fostered.
The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted, free human beings. Crushed, stupefied by terrible poverty, the workers yet demand that they shall have some of the beauty, some of the comforts, some of the luxuries which they have produced.
The time of blind struggle is drawing to a close. The forces governing the law of the survival of the fittest will continue to operate, but they will be under the conscious, intelligent control of man. In all my reading I am conscious of a multitudinous discontent. Slowly man is waking up. The people — the great "common herd" — are finding out what is wrong with the social, political and economical structure of the system of which they are a part.
This is not a time of gentleness, of timid beginnings that steal into life with soft apologies and dainty grace. It is a time for loud voiced, open speech and fearless thinking; a time of striving and conscious manhood, a time of all that is robust and vehement and bold; a time radiant with new ideals, new hopes of true democracy. I love it, for it thrills me and gives me a feeling that I shall face great and terrible things. I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such a splendidly disturbing time.
Reference: Hellen Keller, "New Vision for the Blind," Justice, October 25, 1913, http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1910s/13_10_25.htm (accessed May 9, 2010)
Saturday, May 1, 2010
space between - uploaded crysis files link
http://www.filefront.com/16335973/z3325057_WunShinLiew_Levels_Objects.zip
http://www.filefront.com/16350473/z3325057_WunShinLiewAssignment2_final%20version.zip
- Updated version - essentially the same environment but the land around Stephen Hawking's lab is resolved so that you can walk around the entire rim and through the structure.
http://www.filefront.com/16350473/z3325057_WunShinLiewAssignment2_final%20version.zip
- Updated version - essentially the same environment but the land around Stephen Hawking's lab is resolved so that you can walk around the entire rim and through the structure.
space between - final 3d model images
Assignment concept: Create an architecture consisting of 3 spaces. Two spaces (client' laboratories) at the end of each structure consisting of 9 interconnected prisms. The third space on the integrated landform where the scientists meet and exchange ideas.
The two rectangular prisms used that were combined together, each object consisting of 5 rectangular prisms (both positive and negative).
The resulting object that was formed from the two inteconnecting objects with a total of 9 prisms. The actual structure used in crysis was slightly different to the planned drawing. The structure on the right was flipped 90 degrees so that it would maximise the orientation of the sun and it's position on the landform. 
The three textures that were used in the scheme
Light: Used to contrast the dark colours for Stephen Hawking's lab which help symbolize the ideas of black holes.Medium: Used in the interconnecting structure between the two labs to symbolising the fusion of the two contrasting scientists' ideas.
Dark: Used to highlight the white colours used for Charles Darwin's labs. White to symbolize progression forward, evolution.
The same materials were also distorted on the other surfaces of the structure to help with the idea of destruction and extinction.
The same materials were also distorted on the other surfaces of the structure to help with the idea of destruction and extinction.
Electroliquid Aggregation Quote:
"Black holes will tear and crush the less improved and intermediate forms of life into extinction"
"Black holes will tear and crush the less improved and intermediate forms of life into extinction"
The Final 5 Crysis Images
Aerial view: Charles Darwin’s lab is of the left, with Stephen Hawking's lab on the right. The two ramps leading down towards the third space defined by the rectangular shadow. Comment: Using a volcano as a setting for the laboratories that house Stephen Hawking and Charles Darwin, its speaks as a metaphor for the black hole that will cause destruction and extinction to the less improved and intermediate forms represented by the vegetation inside the crater.
View from above Stephen Hawking's space
View from the third space: The meeting point
View from the third space: The meeting point Comment: The meeting point is marked in the evening sunset by the light casting a rectangular shadow from the structure onto the opposite wall of the crater with the rectangular shadow symbolizing the black hole (as seen in the first image)
Night view: Light enhanced environment
View from belowComment: The dividing fissure alludes to Darwin’s idea of divergence of natural character as a result of natural selection, with the red glow coming through highlighting possible destruction and extinction that black holes can cause.
space between - 36 customs textures
The progression of 36 textures from light to dark. I tried to develop not only a progression of light to dark from top to bottom, but also left to right. I also wanted to keep with the theme of evolution with developing from blob like structures, rigid forms, to more complex patterns, and to finally naturally conceived forms.
Monday, April 26, 2010
space between - electroliquid aggregation
Concept: “Why still speak of the real and the virtual, the material and immaterial? Here these categories are not in opposition, or in some metaphysical disagreement, but more in an electroliquid aggregation, enforcing each other, as in a two part adhesive.”
Reference: Lars Spuybroek, [1998] Motor Geometry, Architectural Design, Vol 68 No5/6, p5
Quote 1: Charles Darwin
"Natural selection, as has just been remarked, leads to divergence of character and to much extinction of the less improved and intermediate forms of life"
Reference: Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1876)103, http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F401&pageseq=1 (accessed April 19, 2010).
Quote 2: Stephen Hawking
"If you jump into a black hole, you will get torn apart and crushed out of existence" Reference:
Refernce: Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes (New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1993), 116
Electroliquid Aggregation:
Black holes will tear and crush the less improved and intermediate forms of life into extinction.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)