Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Week 6 - Beautiful Pic
Hungary...the turrets of Fisherman's Bastion reflected in the windows of a modern high rise:
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
EXP1 - SketchUp Model Uploaded to FileFront
My EXP1 SketchUp Model can be found at http://hosted.filefront.com/pipwilliams/
EXP2 - Client Quotes
Florence Nightingale -
"Vital observation...is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort"
Crisp, J Potter and Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing. Mosby Press, Marrickville, 2003.
Jane Goodall -
"The greatest danger to our future is apathy...Can we overcome apathy? Yes, but only if we have hope...now that we have finally faced up to the terrible damage we have inflicted on our environment, our ingenuity is working overtime to find technological solutions. But technology is not enough. We must engage with our hearts also. And it's happening around the world"
Goodall, J 2002, 'The Power of One', Time Magazine US, accessed 15 April 2008.
Stephen Hawking -
"The only way to have scientific theory is if the laws of physics hold everywhere including at the beginning of the universe. One can regard this as a triumph for the principles of democracy: Why should the beginning of the universe by exempt from the laws that apply to all other points. If all points are equal one can't allow some to be more equal than others"
Hawking, S 'Quantum Cosmology', The Nature of Space and Time, September 1994, p.40.
class rep meeting
hey all,
so in the unlikely event you read this i've got a class rep meeting tomorrow where i can let russell know about the good, the bad, the confusing, the ugly etc about the course. feel free to post a comment about anything....troubles with lectures, technical difficulties (i don't know about anyone else but i'm having trouble with downloading steam on a mac), assessment clashes etc. and if i find out anything interesting in the meeting i'll make a post about it later!
pip
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Exp 1 - 3 Animations
Patricia Piccinini - Above Ground Studio
Ricky Swallow - Below Ground Studio
Patricia Piccinini - Stairs and Interior Focus
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Swallow And Piccinini - Material and Production Methods
Ricky Swallow Clockman 1998
Ricky Swallow’s Clockman - a sculpture made of plastruct, plastic and Letraset - was created by the artist in 1988. At only 9.4 X 4.6 X 2.5 centimetres, the figure has been scaled so that it is much tinier than reality. The use of plastruct infers that Swallow has incorporated plastic scale model parts ordered from the company Plastruct into his design. While Letraset is a company which “manufactures sheets of artwork elements”, the term “was often used to refer generically to sheets of dry transferable lettering of any brand” (Wikipedia, Letraset, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letraset, 8/4/08). I assume this material would have been used to create the numbers that were attached to the clock-face. An important feature of the final material, plastic, is that it is capable of being shaped. It appears most likely - after observing images of Clockman and researching the materials used - that Swallow would molded the man’s legs and feet out of plastic before attaching them to the plastruct clock-face on which he would have applied the Letraset numbers and hands.
Patricia Piccinini Undivided 2004
Patricia Piccinini created her sculpture Undivided - which depicts a peacefully sleeping child being embraced by an equally peaceful yet ultimately grotesque creature - in 2004. The colourful installation has been created using silicone, human hair, flannelette and mixed media to capture the details of the human and animal figures with such precision that they appear intensely real. I assume Piccinini shaped the figures out of silicone, before she dressed the animal in the human hair and the child in his flannelette pyjamas. Different construction methods would have been necessary for the bed, which I presume from the image is made from wood. Sewing would also have been required to construct the sheets, pyjamas and teddy bear. Considering the sculpture is only 74 X 101 X 127 centimetres, however, the production of these different elements would likely require less space than their non-scaled equivalents.
Monday, April 7, 2008
36 Textures
Left to Right, Top to Bottom; Spongy, Bubbly, Hairy, Spikey, Rough, Rubbery
Synthetic, Metallic, Natural, Grainy, Wrinkly, Porous 
Organic, Matte, Slippery, Dense, Oily, Moist
Ripply, Stretched, Stitched,Furry, Fuzzy, Fibrous 
Mesh, Wiry, Woven, Silky, Gritty, Lumpy
Dry, Sticky, Glossy, Jagged, Coarse, Squishy 
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