Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

UT Tip

Hit F4. It'll switch your view from the player's sight to behind the player so that you can quickly toggle between what you would experience visually if you were in the environment and the ceiling height compared to the player's height.

Jobs' Mover in UT

Client: Steve Jobs.
Concept: A shrewd businessman, this mover would be fit for Jobs and one other partner. It is dangerous on entry [sharp pointy form] and could prove fatal on exit, as this mover moves to the meeting space. The partner may think they are getting their 'big break' with Jobs but they are looking down the barrel, with Steve Jobs following them, ready to pull the trigger on the sacrificial lamb.









Two Point-Perspectives








Ideas



Mover Ideas



Wednesday, May 14, 2008

MashUp

As the daughter to a modern imperial iPhone army, she is at the forefront of this kind of society. But beware. Nothing is quite what it seems.

"If she doesn't like a CEO, I will cancel their Jobs.

This notion that workers are interchangeable cogs remains the corrupt and controlling pathology of Jobs in a juggernaut company. Knowing it would generate more success and wealth, minimalist
standard-issue cubicles were a triumph. This unprecedented revolution would have formed capitalism in the communist revolution of 1949 in China.

“It was glorious,” a Porsche-driving tycoon said, of using well-known models for personal endeavors by the age of 11. The Billionaire had a blinding realisation on the standard touchy-feely philosophies of Silicon Valley, “Natural? I do not believe in totally natural ambitious women. Rubbish! She is a woman. Their essential purpose - decorative daintiness. If my sister wants to do something, okay; housewives, seamstresses or child-care workers. Natural has something to do with food, something to do with vegetables. In particular, an Apple.”

With profits looking good and diamonds that are "bigger than a very big grape”, they have also converted the wheelchair symbol on the pavement into a Mercedes logo. There is only one Mercedes that doesn't need to search for very long, and the subsequent growth, of the business is stunning. The result?

The Apple is irredeemably evil.

*Note: The words Apple and Jobs are not necessarily used in the context of the company or person.

Zhang Yin: "Thanks to mao, Zhang Yin's a billionaire"
Will Hutton - 15 Oct 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/oct/15/comment.china

Steve Jobs: "How Apple got everything right by doing everything wrong"
Leander Kahney - 18 Mar 2008
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-04/bz_apple

Donatella Versace
Hello Magazine
http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/donatellaversace/

Perspective in Unreal Editor





EXP3 - 18 Perspectives







Ideas

Monday, May 5, 2008

Additional Images - The Axis

As Nightingale would exit her space, she would walk the axis of the 'cross', representing her medical ventures. There is a slit which is intended to allow a narrow beam of natural light in. This would light the path all the way down the axis, and would compliment her nickname "Lady with the lamp". The cross, together with this slit, can also be seen in a religious light (pun intended...)



Sunday, May 4, 2008

Additional Images - Ramps

Nightingale's ramp was integrated into the 'fallen pillar' as a means of access to the world (through someone's sacrifice). It is relatively simple in its design, but this lends towards the idea of conventionality.

Hawking had numerous ramps that were integrated into the building. The first section of ramp (image 1) connects to the roof of the meeting area, then snakes its way through the building (image 2), passing above the lowered ceiling (image 3) - these paths had their views intentionally blocked as a way of creating a 'gradual realisation'. After the last ramp (image 4), the observer is struck with a visual which intends to connect the two buildings - the similarly angled section, as well as the slight appearance of a cross when looking at Hawking's space (I did not have enough time to refine this as well as I wanted to).






Thursday, May 1, 2008

Textures in UT2004

"Perhaps our peculiar gifts are 'arbitrarily' sacrificed so that they form the foundation and underlying order of conventionality in our world; and let those of us who are truly considered to be 'divinely' inspired, rise and live on in history."







LIGHT


The texture uses straight lines of varying weights and lengths which do not seem to have an overall consistent pattern, yet could hardly be called chaotic or anything else along those lines. They maintain an 'underlying order' by remaining perpendicular to each other.

Image 1: Hawking's space, looking up at subtracted area.

Image 2 and 3 : Hawking's half of the meeting space, looking up towards Hawking's space.







DARK


The concentric sings are alternately broken at 0 and 180 degrees, or 90 and 270. The design incorporates two initial rings, which represent the clients. The rings slowly run out of space to expand and thus have to share space with each other until the point which both are within the same ring. In the case of the clients, this would be sharing both physical space as well as ideas.

Image: looking along the meeting area's (cross) axis towards Nightingale's space.





MEDIUM



The black bars in the the texture represent the people who have sacrificed their talents or skills. They lay the foundation, like sleepers on a traintrack, for the world. Upon first inspection the texture looks very rectangular, lending itself to the idea of this sacrifice giving rise to conventionality.