wAlKeR...

This is my walker from the Heirarchies exercise that we did in one of our seminars, I learnt a lot from this exercise as i hadn't used a lot of the links, IK chains and contraints before. its a shame that i have made my avatar already as i could have developed a more advanced person if i knew this previously, but saying that i am quite happy with the simplicty of my avatar and its environment as that was the originl plan anyway.

Cars

These are my old cars, thought i would have them scooting around! they are just splines that i've extruded and maped so very simple!

bUbBlEs!!!

Using a tutorial from a fellow blogger ( video-tutorials-chile.blogspot.com )and also 3D studio max help i have managed to create a Particle system. I have now got to find out how to animate this...

Guest Lecturer_Encounters

Ruth Ben-Tovim, a theatre designer came in to give us a lecture to tell us about her on-going project: Encounters. Her and friend and Trish O'Shea have acquired disused shops and explored ways of enticing the local community into creating collaborative art. This project began by finding a few plastic farm animals down Sharrow's high street in Sheffield. Sharrow is where Ruth Ben-Tovim lives and also where they opened their first shop with the help of funding.

They have taken the idea of communal identity into a number of different streams: Lost&Found: where they planted similar plastic toys around Sharrow with a note on: if found return to...
the moey: a mobile
Theatre/performance: made gift bags with activities to complete inside, actors recited stories they had collected previously from people in Sharrow..
Collections: finger prints, journeys, stories etc from villagers,
exhibiting in Venice,
Archaeological dig: dug up a small area, collected and labelled everything they found

I find this project really interesting and refreshing. We live in a age where we are gradually becoming more and more distanced from one another, where not knowing your neighbour is becoming common. For art to bring a community together and at the same time (in some instances) produce quite personal documentation of individuals in a community, is really quit inspiring. It also explore the idea of multi-authoring. the information and artefact's they continue to collect through a variety of ways, has little to do with them personally although by them providing the means it is still classed as their work. I haven't heard of a artist doing anything like this before and for this reason I find it hard to categorise what they do. Ruth described themselves as "forensic artists", and I think this as close to a 'style' as it gets. They work on many levels of interactivity and there work is extremely original.

They have a really good website as well: www.themoey.co.uk
www.wearencounters.co.uk