Mars environment

These imagesepresent the arid outer atmosphere surrounding the oasis within a dome. My goal is to work with the contrast of lifeless surface and the humid/tropical climate within the dome.

building blocks of life on mars

“The bioengineers were already working on new microorganisms: shifting, clipping and recombining genes from algae, methanogens, cyanobacteria, and lichens, trying to come up with organisms that would survive on the present Martian surface, or under it.” Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars p.172

Terrain project

This was much more involved than I had expected, and hope we have some time to review civil 3d and contours. Also, my surface kept breaking as I was moving vertex points and I couldn’t tell until trying to render it that i had to go back in and weld things together. Why is that? Anyway it definitley doesn’t look like an earthly landform. I was inspired by reading about the formation of mountain chains by craters rather than plate tectonics, so I wanted to create an exploding range of steep slopes.

Vic Muniz on Creativity

You really need to watch  this.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/32

Check’m out

My brain crashed.

All I can think about is life beyond studio. Today in history two presentations were about sites in San Francisco, where I will be spending some time in June after going to Napa with my sister. Yeah, champagne, wine, food, shopping, days of beauty, more champagne! Who has time to work?

In the meantime, you won’t be seeing me during intersession because I am designing the lighting for a dance concert in New Orleans. All of you should come check it out. No buns or tutus. It rocks! Its comic and irreverent and at times serious and since we talk about choreography so much around here, this would demonstrate the full meaning of that concept. How edifying. Its at NOCCA on June 1&2 at 8pm. Should last an hour, (yes we will have a bar at NOCCA) so hang out and play in the bywater!

 Check out the site at http://www.tsunamidance.com

Just wanted to post a few of photos of the site I may be incorporating into my presentation. Some of them will represent the site next to a perpective of a proposed view. 

 If you missed the art openings, here is my account.  3 galleries (4 if you include Chelsea’s) 2 were free, one was a $5 doantion and Chelsea’s was $12 by the time I got there.  Mostly 2d, ready to go with a price tag. Longshore gallery was the most welcoming and lively, complete with skytracker, live music of Mike Foster, libations, live art (2 latex coated women with nothing but the longshore logo painted on their bodies, eerily bordering on minstrel, like some of the paintings in the gallery) and the dq’s were dressed to kill, out glamouring and out femming most of the xy gender present. In stark contrast, the other side of perkins was much more bourgious, complete with junior leagers and children. There was one lonely little resin block of swiss cheese sitting on a light table/podium that was nice to touch and move around over the light, but the smug was killing me and I had to get out of there.

So I wandered around with my camera taking photos and enjoying the night and the music, watched people watch people and then met up with NicNat and proceeded to indulge my vices and stay well past my time limit.

The evening made me more confident that there is a small culture in Baton Rouge that potentially could thrive if there was a consolidated effort to push it and support art that invigorates the community and isn’t simply another product for sale. The best part of the evening was when a second line from Longshore came through the crowd outside of Chelsea’s and encouraged us to get up off the edge and live a little. Now that’s direct community outreach!