Let's see where this one goes...
July 30, 2012
Solid Works
First Ever 104 Post
I'm about 2 weeks behind now.
Great. But thanks to the influenza, I can now blog post in the comfort of my own home as I can't go to uni and put this back any longer.
For our first project we are making an abstract form (inspired by precedents of course) and modifying it into 81 iterations using Solid Works and 3DS Maxxxxx. To aid this process we chose words to describe these forms.
Let's do an episode recap type thing:
tutorial1:
Met Sunny. He's a cool guy. I think he knows what he's doing.......?
We chose (or at least I attempted to?) our three words - a noun, an adjective and a verb.
crustacean
fractuous
respirate
I ended up with these words after one of the longest trains of thoughts I have ever been on.
I wanted to be a little bit different and wierd and so I chose crustacean. And as I know it, crustaceans are creatures with an exoskeleton that occur as marine uhh... things. They are deathly tasty. To be exact, the precedent image I picked up for this word is not a crustacean.. well it is.. but its an amphipodal crustacean. You should probably wikipedia this because I did and I didn't understand enough to put it in my own words.
I thought the word 'fractious' was a good motivator for the 3DS Maxx iterations because I myself can be quite fractious sometimes.
As for 'respirate', I liked the direct juxtaposition of this word to fratious as for some reason 'respirate' as an aura of calmness around it - probably due to its relationship with 'breathe'. I liked how it linked with crustaceans because they need to respirate too. I chose the image (below) of an ATP molecule as a lot of the time people will look over the scientific aspect of cellular respiration. And it looked kinda cool.
Then as we isolated our precedent images on Photoshop I decided to merge the two images of the amphipod and the ATP molecule together to base my Solid Works model on.
Awwwwww yeaaaaaaa.
Great. But thanks to the influenza, I can now blog post in the comfort of my own home as I can't go to uni and put this back any longer.
For our first project we are making an abstract form (inspired by precedents of course) and modifying it into 81 iterations using Solid Works and 3DS Maxxxxx. To aid this process we chose words to describe these forms.
Let's do an episode recap type thing:
tutorial1:
Met Sunny. He's a cool guy. I think he knows what he's doing.......?
We chose (or at least I attempted to?) our three words - a noun, an adjective and a verb.
crustacean
fractuous
respirate
I ended up with these words after one of the longest trains of thoughts I have ever been on.
I wanted to be a little bit different and wierd and so I chose crustacean. And as I know it, crustaceans are creatures with an exoskeleton that occur as marine uhh... things. They are deathly tasty. To be exact, the precedent image I picked up for this word is not a crustacean.. well it is.. but its an amphipodal crustacean. You should probably wikipedia this because I did and I didn't understand enough to put it in my own words.
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| epimeria? with its crafty little feet |
As for 'respirate', I liked the direct juxtaposition of this word to fratious as for some reason 'respirate' as an aura of calmness around it - probably due to its relationship with 'breathe'. I liked how it linked with crustaceans because they need to respirate too. I chose the image (below) of an ATP molecule as a lot of the time people will look over the scientific aspect of cellular respiration. And it looked kinda cool.
Then as we isolated our precedent images on Photoshop I decided to merge the two images of the amphipod and the ATP molecule together to base my Solid Works model on.
world.
Reeaally badly done but I like how the trees on the cliffs end up looking like a baobab tree...
July 25, 2012
PROJ1 First Shoot + Proposal
I may have gone overboard.
Four Hundred and Eighty Nine.
Photos.
proposal
For the project SPACES I wanted to show areas in which we make unspoken social contracts. One such space I think is the elevator. They are not just mere modes of vertical transportation, but they have the magical ability to turn each of us into a socially awkward penguin.
shootONE
Today and earlier last week I went elevator hunting. Needless to say, I found some. I ventured around central Wellington and took photos of a few different elevators and now I will proceed to decide whether or not I want to continue to shoot in this style/setting or try an alternative approach.
Here are the contact sheets. SOMANY. Click to enlarge!
During my little trip, I found an empty room at the Telecom gen-i buildng. It looked new and it must've been waiting for some lighting and furniture as it was right at the foyer but was almost completely empty.
Later on I also found myself in an alleyway that led to an almost finished construction site where I was told by the electrician that I could take some photos without a hardhat and what not. So I did.
After looking through over 400 photos, I have come to a decision about my photography - no more elevators. There were a few good shots, but I'm starting to find the whole 'not yet furnished area' thing much more interesting. Or the EXIT signs of Wellington. Maybe it's because I've been looking at elevators the whole day. I'll discuss this at tutorial tomorrow (where I'll be sitting at the front this time because I definitely don't want to wait 40 minutes again).
I'm quite the photography noob so I ended up taking the same shot over and over again because I wanted a lot to choose from. Little did I know that I would be going through 489 photos to come to this sort of uninteresting conclusion.
Four Hundred and Eighty Nine.
Photos.
proposal
For the project SPACES I wanted to show areas in which we make unspoken social contracts. One such space I think is the elevator. They are not just mere modes of vertical transportation, but they have the magical ability to turn each of us into a socially awkward penguin.
shootONE
Today and earlier last week I went elevator hunting. Needless to say, I found some. I ventured around central Wellington and took photos of a few different elevators and now I will proceed to decide whether or not I want to continue to shoot in this style/setting or try an alternative approach.
Here are the contact sheets. SOMANY. Click to enlarge!
Later on I also found myself in an alleyway that led to an almost finished construction site where I was told by the electrician that I could take some photos without a hardhat and what not. So I did.
After looking through over 400 photos, I have come to a decision about my photography - no more elevators. There were a few good shots, but I'm starting to find the whole 'not yet furnished area' thing much more interesting. Or the EXIT signs of Wellington. Maybe it's because I've been looking at elevators the whole day. I'll discuss this at tutorial tomorrow (where I'll be sitting at the front this time because I definitely don't want to wait 40 minutes again).
I'm quite the photography noob so I ended up taking the same shot over and over again because I wanted a lot to choose from. Little did I know that I would be going through 489 photos to come to this sort of uninteresting conclusion.
July 24, 2012
Panoramabama
My aunty at Piha Beach (2012)
I think I did a pretty sweet job. Time to make the WORLD....
July 18, 2012
Testing: Attention Please
Checking the label and links for my new DSDN courses for Tri2!!
TODO:
104
Come up with some words for inspiration re:proj1
Find precedent imges
Scan and upload sketches
SolidWorks tutorials
141
Experiment with more materials
Make a flickr account
144
Pick a theme/scene for proj1SPACE
Make a panoramabama
Also my flickr url:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hkiiim/
TODO:
104
Come up with some words for inspiration re:proj1
Find precedent imges
Scan and upload sketches
SolidWorks tutorials
141
Experiment with more materials
Make a flickr account
144
Pick a theme/scene for proj1SPACE
Make a panoramabama
Also my flickr url:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hkiiim/
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