Reclaimed windows and doors form facades of Collage House Old doors and windows, antique wooden columns and metal drainpipes give this house in Mumbai an aesthetic its architects claim is inspired by the ramshackle buildings found throughout the city (+ slideshow). Local studio S+PS Architects designed Collage House to accommodate four generations of the same family. It is located on top of a hill overlooking Mumbai, and is arranged in a traditional Indian style around a central courtyard to avoid unwanted overlooking from neighbouring buildings. The architects were influenced by the ad-hoc building typologies that many of the city's inhabitants construct using found materials. This prompted them to used salvaged materials in their design, helping to promote an alternative approach to recycling. "A visual language emerges that is of the found object, ad-hoc, eclectic, patched and collaged," they added. "An attempt has been made here to apply some of these lessons without romanticising or fetishising them." Project credits:
Marshall McLuhan Speaks Special Collection Unity - Manual: Importing Objects From SketchUp Importing Objects From Blender How to do Stereoscopic Rendering Overview SketchUp is one of the commonly used software for architecture modeling. To use a SketchUp model for visualisation in Unity, user will previously need to convert it to an intermediate format which Unity supports and use the converted format in Unity. To overcome this problem, Unity now supports importing SketchUp file directly into Unity without the need for conversion and allowing user to access certain properties within the SketchUp file within Unity which is not previously possible. Glossary of Terms Importing SketchUp Model Importing a SketchUp file into Unity is similar to importing a 3D model that is supported by Unity (eg FBX). Click on Assets -> Import New Asset.. from the menu bar Drag and drop the file into the Project window‘Import New Asset…’ via Project window’s context menu Once the model is imported, you can place then use the model in your scene by placing it into your scene. Materials and Textures
In Conversation With ... Mairead McClean - The Gloss Magazine Featured in our September issue of THE GLOSS, Northern Irish artist MAIREAD McCLEAN reveals her INSPIRATIONS, ROLE MODELS and why she is FASCINATED BY MEMORY … Who has been your mentor? I don’t have a single mentor as such but I have close family who have helped build my confidence over the years. I am one of twelve children who learnt from our amazing parents how to share and contribute. I had some inspirational tutors at art school who were artists in their own right. What inspired your recent works? What have you learned about finding your voice? Proudest moment? Favourite fictional heroine? An artist’s duty is to … provide a counterpoint to conventional thinking. Your motto? Do you have any causes you actively support? The role of art in your life so far… it allows me to ask myself what I really think, it prompts me to ask questions and it makes me doubt. What are some of your favourite indulgences? Penny McCormick Love THEGLOSS.ie?
la femme au tableau Erinnerungen sind unbezahlbar. Niemand weiß das besser als Maria Altmann, eine ältere Dame, die in Los Angeles ein beschauliches Leben führt. Nur wenige kennen ihre Vergangenheit und wissen, dass sie einst unter dramatischen Umständen aus dem Wien des Dritten Reichs fliehen musste. Jahrzehnte später erfährt sie, dass sie die rechtmäßige Erbin von mehreren Gemälden Gustav Klimts - einer der bedeutendsten Maler Österreichs - ist, die sich einst im Besitz ihrer Familie befanden und von den Nazis enteignet wurden.
A Line Was Drawn | Mairead McClean A Line Was Drawn weaves together material from a number of different sources including footage generated during the production of Making Her Mark, animated sequences, television archives and two distinct voiceover narrations. The work explores issues of how our world is structured through the creation of borders and boundaries limiting movement, thinking, questioning and agency. An integral part of the forming, imposing and maintaining of these delineations is the control over the narratives around them. Through its layered format and contrasting sources of sound, A Line Was Drawn aims to question the construct of seamless television documentary and news narratives tasked with conveying a particular story to convince or intrench a point of view. The film meditates on the need of an individual to have their voice heard in the midst of rules of storytelling and dominant historical narratives. Hide Content
Fractal Lab - sub.blue History Fractal Lab started around the beginning of 2011 as my first explorations rendering fractals in the browser with WebGL. Previously I had created renderers using Adobe PixelBender and QuartzComposer, which both had the advantage of easy integration into Photoshop and AfterEffects but were very limited when it came to interactively exploring the fractal space. Fractals are by nature highly detailed and so the smallest change to an input parameter can often result in dramatic differences in the output shape. In order to properly explore the space (and discover hidden gems that coalesce at specific parameter combinations) I decided to build a new UI (that had to nice to use!) The first version of Fractal Lab was a proof of concept to show that you could modify and fly around the fractals in the browser at interactive speeds. Implementation My more recent projects use Javascript ES6 and React.js with Webpack, and Node.js as the backend server of choice. Ray Marching Optimisation Notes
Pipilotti Rist: Sparkling Pond, Bold-Coloured Groove & Tender Fire, Sydney Last year, Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist brought her hypnotic 30-year retrospective to the MCA. The mesmerising and immersive artworks, dubbed Sip My Ocean, only hung around for four months, but now you can catch another one of her works in Sydney — every night. Sparkling Pond, Bold-Coloured Groove & Tender is Rist's new dazzling artwork, which has just been unveiled beneath Park Lane, one of Central Park's residential towers. Colours and gently animated videos are projected onto three different areas — looking a bit like 'urban electronic bonfires' — every night from sunset till 11pm. As well as colours and images evoking Sydney plants and vegetation, the projections use algorithms of waves to create a 'watery world'. The colourful artworks are free to visit, and touching, sitting and even lying in them is encouraged. Pipilotti Rist: Sparkling Pond, Bold-Coloured Groove & Tender can be viewed from sunset to 11pm every night.