Wednesday 31 August 2011
Monday 22 August 2011
development of installation
Standing Tall: Apartment in Katayama by Mitsutomo Matsunami
I have chosen to model the apartment building to house my installation as the modern clean lines will help enhance the lighting projections that the data will be giving off. This picture here shows how much the building stands out from its surrounding environment; I want to get this effect on my war ship as well... I want to create the juxtaposition of residential living with the way of life at war. This juxtaposition is a reference to the way we perceive war on a societal level compared to that of the people who are actually out there fighting the war... the reality.
My Model so far:
mode for documentary
I have chosen to uses a combination of expository, observational and reflexive. My main aim in my documentary is to make the viewer feel as if they are in the installation themselves. The documentary poses questions about what is happening which would be the types of questions that would go through someones mind if they were exploring the installation themselves.
Saturday 13 August 2011
150 word description related to chosen pachube feed
I have chosen to go with the data from the feed that was monitoring the light. I can relate this closely with the idea that pure war is based on a society level as the feed is monitoring the home. For my concept it is going to be related to an apartment building where light only gets in at certain times of day because there may be a tree in the way or it may be from artificial light. The artificial light is what I'm going to be focusing on... it will be the lights that comes from the tv. If someone watches tv when they go to sleep they might turn the light off then turn the tv on, creating an artificial light. This also directly links in with my ideas about Virilio as it is the tv that is creating the representations of what is meant to be reality. We are so disconnected from reality because we can only get as close to it as the tv.
Further brainstorming:
- the "machines" (my objects that I created in sketchup) will hold the data that the tv recieves to project "reality"
- disconnection from reality
- objects/ images appear real but as you get closer tothem they dissappear or are fake
tutorials
Animating the Time of Day
Scale an Object with Time of Day
Reading an XML File in Flowgraph
Monday 8 August 2011
pure war!
I started out thinking of the shape of a barrel of a pistol and created this model from that. The reason why I chose a pistol as my starting point is because in today's society people seem to be removed from the real war of the world and are more focused on the war that is based on a society level. When were hear of shootings or murders we associate this with a pistol rather than a rifle or tank... the real weapons of war. This idea is derived from Paul Virilio's focus on technology and the thought of speed ie. technology = today/ current/ future and speed = the death of a human being from one pull of the trigger.
This is the texture that I created for my model. The images I chose related to Paul Viriolio's work (including soome of his sketches) and the idea of speed vs technology vs military and their weapons.
alter custom material parameters
I had a go at playing with the material parametres and found that opacity was the only other one that I could get an effect with. I used this on the custom chasis material that I made earlier but as you can see from the video it looks more like the glow parameter.
change standard material
I have changed the standard material but it looks as though I might need to use the UV Mapping that Russell mentioned in his tutorial for this one.
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