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RMB CITY-A Secondlife City Planning
“RMB CITY”
6mins/2007/3D Animation
Director: China Tracy
3D Engineer: Rivers Singh
3D Production: arcXchange
Music: ME:MO
RMB City will be the condensed incarnation of contemporary Chinese cities with most of their characteristics; a series of new Chinese fantasy realms that are highly self-contradictory, inter-permeative, laden with irony and suspicion, and extremely entertaining and pan-political.
Geometrics: Elements of form, structure, materials and manufacture
An exhibition showing the work of Structural Engineer, Price & Myers’ Geometrics group.
Geometrics; Elements of Form Structure Materials and Manufacture offers a fascinating insight into the realization of four projects and demonstrates how principles of geometry, engineering, materials and manufacturing methods have been used to go from simple base components to intricate and apparently complex three dimensional forms.
The projects include a bridge inspired by woven baskets, whose form has been engineered using trimmed hyperbolic paraboloids; a building made up of over 10,000 individually cut plywood parts; a stainless steel bridge whose stressed skin is perforated with thousands of holes whose size varies according to the stress levels and a new staircase made out of a new high strength concrete that can be cast to incredibly slender proportions.
The exhibition, sited in the historic setting of the German Gymnasium at Kings Cross is contained in a Geometric cocoon, which forms an integral part of the exhibition and embodies the themes of form structure materials and manufacture in its design and construction. The surface of the cocoon will offer information both on the four projects and aspects of the featured architects work in Argent’s nearby Kings Cross development. Continue reading ‘Geometrics: Elements of form, structure, materials and manufacture’
Billingsgate Fish Market
Open: Tues to Sat 5am-8.30am, Sun 6am-8am
If you’re an early bird, head down to Billingsgate Fish Market to browse the daily arrivals of fresh seafood from the coast and overseas. It’s the largest inland fish market in the UK. Children under 12 are not allowed in the market.
Trafalgar Way, E14
http://www.visitlondon.com/attractions/shopping/markets/food-markets?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=go_sem_307
I always enjoy Alan Yentob’s – Imagine tv series.
-Imagine… aims to capture the power and effect of the arts and the people who have changed our way of looking at the world.
It is presented by Alan Yentob, who says “The brief for Imagine… is simple. To be bold. We aim to be inclusive but we hope to inspire and surprise too.”
I have missed quite a lot of his programs. Just accidentally I found out his last year program about ‘Being a concert pianist’ at Youtube. Hope you can enjoy as well!
Quoted from website:
‘Alan Yentob examines this special form of musicianship in a film inspired by benjamin grosvenor, the 12-year-old boy who last year [2004] won the piano section of the young musician of the year competition. pianists including evgeny kissin, vladimir ashkenazy and lang lang talk intimately about their lives, their work and their motivation. ’
Total has 9 sections on Youtube Continue reading ‘Being a concert pianist – Imagine by Alan Yentob’
Barbican website
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=7272
Viktor & Rolf website, very cute 3d computor gaming efffect;
http://www.viktor-rolf.com/_en/_ww/index.htm
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=7750
I have just bought one for myself. Cool stuff, good exercise as well………highly recommended!
very fun indeed!
And control flying helicopter as well…..these two object become my new office toys for tea break!
While I was researching an event/installation called ‘Sonic Garden’ in LFA 08 leaflet:
http://www.lfa2008.org/event.php?id=648&name=Sonic+Garden
I found out that actually someone has used the same tittle and done a brilliant interactive design…..check his website, I think it is a great idea to have fun in his project. This project should be included into Psycho Building exhibition at Hayward Gallery.
For such a long time, people have been asking me how I developed Chairman Deng Xiaoping’s portrait on chopsticks of AsMuchAsYouLike installation. Well, here you go. I have done so many researches on image of Chairman Deng Xiaoping; however, I couldn’t find a nice simplified version one. It is interesting to know that Chairman Deng doesn’t like himself to be Chairman Mao who is worshiped by many people and treated as God. Therefore, you rarely find any article published his symbolic image. (or you call iconic image) The only image I found is his photo taken when he visited Shenzhen which is the first city became economic special zone due to his Open and Reform policy. Only this image has significant symbolic meaning to Chinese people. So I have done some photoshop works and simplified a bit.For publication on this image, please contact whchen@whchen.com
I didn’t want to release the image earlier because I am afraid of internet ‘copy’ and ‘reference’ effect.
NO REFERENCE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.
For more information on As Much As You Like project, please visit www.asmuchasyoulike.org
or previous post Asmuchasyoulike.org_韧用
Article from devicedaily.com
Naturally, magnetic fields are invisible, but the scientists from Space Sciences Laboratory at NASA have made animated photographs to make them visible. To create this, they use 3D compositing along with sound-controlled CGI, that make the fields dance in an “absolutely gorgeous movie”, called the Magnetic Movie.
This video is really interesting for everyone, but mostly for physics-addicted, that are now able to see with their own eyes how does a magnetic field look and “dance”.
Original article from todayandtomorrow.net
Magnetic Movie is a film by Semiconductor. They made magnetic fields visible in a very nice way, 3D CGI at its best, while scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory excitedly describe their discoveries. Watch it!
EDIT: To set things straight, this video is a 3D CGI visualisation of how magnetic fields could look like. It is not real, just a mix of video footage with computer generated imagery.
For full version movie, please visit
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/06/02/magnetic-movie/
Finally, ResoNet_Green Bay is installed at Store Street. More images and stories will be followed when I recover from the busy schedule.
Funny video, not sure why Zaha Hadid tried to create this mega shoe. experiment the ‘technology’? (I meant the technique is pretty much a century old. no? apart from precise CNC cutting wooden mould.) testing psycho-size? or shouting to the world ‘I am a giant shoe maker!’;);)
Very entertaining in deed, watch the creation process of a pair of Zaha Hadid designed shoes in collaboration with Brazilian shoe brand Melissa.
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