UT Models

First draft

Second draft

Final model

Videos of Final Environment

Elevators

Madonna's Space

Madonna's space is composed of two platforms - one for writing, the other for performing (including Hollywood Bowl style dome). These platforms constantly switch position, emphasising the equal importance of the two aspects of a singer's career.

Image Captures of Final Environment

The hanging minimalist meeting space is designed to emphasise the power of the diagonal transparent supports.

Madonna's Performance Area - here she would practise performing

Madonna's microphone-shaped catapult uses a common image to show the power of the pop star.

All of the light in Obama's Auditorium comes from the thin vertical strip behind Obama's stage, emphasising Obama's power.

4 Image Captures of Draft Environments

First Draft


Second Draft

Sketchup Model

This model contains the two elevators and the dining table (all untextured):

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=6986553df9dd7266eb9578efe74e3dcf

36 Custom Textures

18 Sketch Perspectives

Mashup of Three News Articles

I am trying to communicate several ideas about the idea of power:
Firstly, that power taken to an extreme can often result in absurdity. Secondly that power is not always a good thing. And thirdly that it can quickly fade.

At the beginning of the year, Chief Justice John Roberts, who flubbed his lines in front of a worldwide audience Tuesday, went to the White House and administered the 35-word presidential oath once more. The oath was administered again "out of the abundance of caution because there was one word out of sequence". After he was sworn in, Obama became so influential that what he puts on the catwalk tends to pop up everywhere else the following season.

Behind the usual mayhem, however, was the understanding that amid a major recession, two wars and the threat of terrorism, things are bound to get busier for the Obama administration. His power has been steadily decreasing due to this tension. Nowhere is the shift in the power structure more blatant than on Obama's album's irresistible first single, "4 Minutes," where he sounds like a featured guest trying to keep pace with Timbaland's colossal beats and Timberlake's nimble melody.




The three source articles:

Obama:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-21-obama-work_N.htm

Prada:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/prada-stands-out-by-turning-to-elegance-lace-and-minimalism-784562.html

Madonna:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/04/26/on_her_11th_cd_madonna_still_has_control_issues/

UT Model + Five Images

http://www.mediafire.com/?zom2wtzhykm




The overlapping lines in this texture reflect the complexity of science.


The texture on the vertical post appears difficult to understand despite its clear order.
The texture on the horizontal components is faint, and difficult to perceive.

Electroliquid Aggregation

Being a scientist is all about uncertainty. A scientist is merely a curious man looking through the keyhole of nature trying to know what's going on, and because of this uncertainty I am satisfied if only one in a thousand ideas turns out to be good.

36 Textures

Images of New Model

EXP2 First models

Alfred Nobel - "If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."




Jacques-Yves Cousteau - "What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on."

18 Axonometrics

Old textures

As my tutor pointed out, I have not yet uploaded my 36 custom textures from EXP1. Here they are now.

EXP2 - Quotes

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
http://www.firstscience.com/home/poems-and-quotes/quotes/jacques-yves-cousteau-quote_2365.html


Alfred Nobel

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
http://www.rightwords.eu/quotes/quote-details/26497/if-i-have-a-thousand-ideas-and-only-one-turns-out-...


Keith Campbell

“Most of the retailers in our center are reasonably optimistic. Nobody's seeing the headlines of Armageddon that were appearing several months ago.”
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Keith+Campbell

Sections in book

I was just reading the forums, and it looks like there's a bit of confusion over what the two 2D drawing from the notebook meant. Just to be safe, here are my two original sections drawn in Week 1: