Julie Lien - BENV2423

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Week 2 - 2 Images of Elevator Ride

View from Ive's Elevator Up from the top.

View from Ive's Elevator Up from ground level.

Week 2 - 6 Two Point Perspectives

Most definitions of power emphasize the ability to influence others, their choices and their actions. Despite great fame and fortune, both manage to guard their privacy. Ranking the famous on that basis would require a very different methodology: we would need to determine which celebrities most influence — or could influence — things such as voting behaviour and attitudes about important social choices. By that criterion, Oprah Winfrey would still rate quite high. Certainly, money and power tend to coincide, but the connection between them is not a one-way street. Money can generate power, but it's also true that power gained through other means can be monetized and produce wealth. [Lady Gaga uses her]music and videos to raise this question and to confound the usual exploitative answers provided by “the media.” Copycats will surely follow, but to say Gaga is an innovator or trailblazer is to give her too much credit. Her elaborate performances and celebrations of outsiders, if anything, prove that she's a pop music history major, tapping into a glam-era cult of personality similar to David Bowie and Marilyn Manson. Having a deep understanding of how a product is made: its materials, its tooling, its purpose. Mostly, he focused on the need to care deeply about the work.

Blue: Pfeffer, Jeffery.'Oprah, Tiger, Lady Gaga: Do they really have power?',

"http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/06/oprah_tiger_lady_gaga_do_they.html, accessed 15th June 2011.

Black: "Who Is Jonathan Ive? An in-depth look at the man behind Apple's design magic ", http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_39/b4002414.htm, accessed 15th June 2011.

Red: "Positive Article Above Lady GaGa's Influence on Pop Culture, "http://www.ladygaga.com/forum/default.aspx?cid=594&tid=416684, accessed 15th June 2011.

Week 1 - Valley

Initial 'Valley':

This valley was initially a 'natural' landscape, but after some though of the correlation between my clients (Lady GaGa and Jonothan Ive) and their environment, I decided to go for a more man-made environment.

Final 'Valley':

Week 1 - 6 One Point Perspectives

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Week 3 - Experiment 2 - Final Crysis Submission: Frap Captures, Objects + Final Sandbox 2 File from FileFront.

Electroliquid Aggregation:
" Through the study of mathematics in points, lines and surfaces one gradually establishes a clear set of rules which shapes their own knowledge and understanding. "

The differing geometries which make up my final building exemplify the notion that complimentary ideas/geometries gradually grow in meaning when placed side by side. The use of small geometries linking larger geometries further enhances this hypothesis.

This is Newton's lab (Hypothesis 6). The idea of 'light' is portrayed through the 'lightly supported' walls, floors and ceiling, the blue lighting 'gradually' leads us to the main structure('subject') of the building, the column connecting both spaces.

The contrasting light (light = less geometry) and dark textures(dark = more geometry) reinforces Agnesi's passion in mathematics and talent is exploring different geometries. The contrasting textures elevates the idea that both of the scientists were able to construct extraordinary discoveries through testing their different hypotheses.

Link to Levels and Objects folder on Filefront:
http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/92Julie