Flash & Interactivity
March 29th, 2010
Mouse-over to stop the pentagon. Click to change colour. Mouse-out to keep it moving!
BIM on the iPhone
March 25th, 2010
goBIM is an iPhone app that can browse BIM models and its information. Nice and portable to carry around to show clients – would be good to port it to the iPad.
[Images from http://go-bim.iankeough.com/wordpress/]
The Farm by Anish Kapoor
March 21st, 2010
This monumental piece has the ‘wow’ factor.
Although the Tate sculpture was temporary, Kapoor often creates his outdoor sculptures for permanent residence. Such is the case with his recent installation for “The Farm,” a 400ha (1,000 acre) private estate outdoor art gallery in Kaipara Bay, north of Auckland, New Zealand. Kapoor’s first outdoor sculpture in fabric, “The Farm” (the sculpture is named after its site), is designed to withstand the high winds that blow inland from the Tasman Sea off the northwest coast of New Zealand’s North Island. The sculpture is fabricated in a custom deep red PVC-coated polyester fabric by Ferrari Textiles supported by two identical matching red structural steel ellipses that weigh 42,750kg each. The fabric alone weighs 7,200kg.
The ellipses are orientated one horizontal, the other vertical. Thirty-two longitudinal mono-filament cables provide displacement and deflection resistance to the wind loads while assisting with the fabric transition from horizontal ellipse, to a perfect circle at midspan, through to the vertical ellipse at the other end. The sculpture, which passes through a carefully cut hillside, provides a kaleidoscopic view of the beautiful Kaipara Harbor at the vertical ellipse end and the hand contoured rolling valleys and hills of “The Farm” from the horizontal ellipse. Fabrication and installation of the art piece is by Structurflex Ltd., of Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand, overall engineering is by Structure Design Ltd., membrane engineering by Compusoft Engineering Ltd.
Fabric Architecture. Anish Kapoor sculpture blends fabric and steel in New Zealand. 2010. http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0110_sk_sculpture.html
[Images from http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0110_sk_sculpture.html]
Sam Brown: On To The Next One
March 17th, 2010
Sam Brown directed Jay-Z’s music video for ‘On To The Next One’ single found on the Blueprint 3 album. The only thing that could be better than a visual feast of a music video is when people talk about it.
And wouldn’t this be a dream for all creatives:
Brown: He [Jay-Z] gave me a very loose brief, and made it clear that we should be progressive with the video. All the imagery was thought up by me and was a response to the track itself. For those interested, the idea is actually about a funeral for old imagery and ideas, hence all the gothic and oppressive stuff. I was also trying to contradict the excess of hip-hop videos by making something brutally simple and claustrophobic.
http://www.vibe.com/posts/v-exclusive-%E2%80%9C-next-one%E2%80%9D-director-sets-record-straight
Floppy Disk Typography
March 16th, 2010
I did some experimentation with some 3.5 inch floppy disks lying around at home. Got some letters of the alphabet – it’s a lot harder than it looks. From a design point of view, it’s like trying to produce a product from what has been given to you.
Remember Me movie poster
March 12th, 2010
I don’t care much for Robert Pattinson or Twilight (admittedly, I haven’t seen the movie), but I like the movie poster for Remember Me. The photographer has captured innocence and intimacy between the two characters and the choice to present it in black and white gives it a sense of timelessness.
