Saturday 25 February 2012

Louise Bourgeois, Ai Weiwei and Stelarc


LOUISE BOURGEOIS
NOUN: reverse
VERB: standing
ADJECTIVE: minimalist


AI WEIWEI
NOUN: wheel
VERB: moving
ADJECTIVE: insanity


STELARC
NOUN: machine
VERB: shuffling
ADJECTIVE: absurd

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Creative Work, Architecture and Something Beautiful...


This is a screenshot of a cel-based animation that I did for my yr12 IT Multimedia major work. It's about 5 minutes long and made up of about 5500 frames which were all drawn individually. I spent about 15-20 hours on it.
It is an entirely cel-based animation with no path based movement or motion tweening of any kind.
This animation is a parody of the 'everyday life' of a high school student, as seen from their perspective and pokes fun at the repetitive nature of school life.





This is an image of the temple complex, Angkor Wat which is situated in Angkor, Cambodia. It is a major tourist destination and has become a symbol of Cambodia even making an appearance on their national flag. As expected, it has been listed as part of the World Heritage Site.
About 500,000-700,000 tourists visit this site every year and so there has been a lot of restoration work to prevent erosion and deterioration due to weather and natural causes.




I took a photo of the box art, because trying to take a picture of my tv screen didn't work out so well...
This is a photo of the 2nd and 3rd games in the Assassin's Creed series. They are things that I find beautiful (not the boxes, but the programming of the games themselves).
Both of these games take place in Renaissance Italy (late 1400 - early 1500) and the environment and architecture within the games are amazing. The attention to detail on each of the buildings pays tribute to the architecture of the time and the historical accuracy of sites such as Saint Mark's Basilica, the interior of the Sistine Chapel, the canals of Venice and even the Colosseum are mind blowing.

That and the game itself is fun to play.