Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Draft model of the bridge and elevator
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
my Landscape in Crysis and attempt for an elevator
a real photo of Glen Canyon in America.
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[the test model is from EXP2]
with a different angle
Mash up
Oprah Winfrey's article:
Ms. Winfrey’s move from broadcast to cable is a transformative moment for the television business, marking the first time a talk-show host has taken over an entire channel. The stakes couldn’t be higher for Ms. Winfrey and the coterie of television veterans that has assembled around her. For someone who has enjoyed outsize victories in almost every venture she has pursued, OWN will be the ultimate test of her power.
"The unveiling of her 24-hour cable network, OWN, which began at noon on New Year’s Day, was most striking for what it lacked: nowhere in that opening gush of feel-good highlight reels, self-improvement plans, spiritual quests, aha! moments, celebrity master classes, and people finding their truths and living their own best lives was there a snicker of malice or a hint of raillery. At times, it seemed almost like a comical conceit, like those movies that pivot on the sudden disappearance of a basic pillar of life, “Death Takes a Holiday” or even “The Invention of Lying.”
Quoted from link: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/oprah_winfrey/index.html
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Lady gaga's article:
As her new video Telephone’s success suggests- over 7 million views in 3 days. A week later, a Google search for telephone shows the 375+ articles about the video before even a description of the communications device. Whether one loves her or hates her, they have to admit, she gets attention. If there is someone out there who shows the potential of the union of social media and celebrity, it is Lady Gaga.
Her social media presence is an object lesson in how to keep fans interested: from direct daily interaction to linking together her far-flung fangroups. If one wants more Lady Gaga, she provides and the zealousness of her fanbase is unquestioned and active. She validates their interest by speaking directly to them and they respond in kind, finding increased connection with their idol and a community where they can easily participate and belong.
Telephone is the second part of a narrative begun with Lady Gaga’s 2009 music video, Paparazzi. In which she killed her boyfriend and went to jail, where we find her at the beginning of Telephone. Directing both videos is Swedish Director, Jonas Åkerlund, and smartly, both videos are much longer than the songs they dramatize.
By creating a new fictional storyworld to play in, Lady Gaga has yet another tool in her media arsenal and by making sure that each platform iteration of her music is a significantly different package than any other, the audience isn’t getting bored, in fact, these little monsters are clawing for more.
Quoted from link: http://thesocialrobot.com/2010/03/lady-gaga-and-social-media/
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Jonathan Ive's Article
Who is the most valuable Englishman on earth? Wayne Rooney? Colin Firth? Neither gets near Jonathan Ive, the boy from Chingford who is now senior vice-president of industrial design at Apple. Ive has given style to a family of machines that has changed the way the world thinks.
Transient, global, instantaneous, intelligent, wireless connectivity is a bigger idea than the French Revolution. More than any other individual, Ive has decided what this idea should look like. And it looks beautiful, desirable.
In 1992 Apple Computer made $530 million profit from selling a lacklustre and directionless range of boring products the colour of tinned mushroom soup with excitement to match. Last year, Apple's profits were $14 billion selling gorgeous entertainment products that cause consumers to form enormous queues and camp out overnight. Sometimes, they riot.
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MASH UP!!!!
Empowering over crowds of people can be achieved through the intelligence of a person. No matter what ways he /she uses to persuade people to follow him/her, such as direct daily interaction with people, mastering classes, helping people to find their truths and living their own best lives, if there is someone out there who shows the potential of the union of social media and celebrity, it can be said that this person has the power of overruling others. The most common way to unite people is to through public channels. Media is the main channel to connect all people into one. In some successful cases, talk-show hosts can even take over an entire channel broadcasting his/her ideas. More powerfully, this "power" can even has the ability to take over people to do enormous acts, such as riots, or more seriously, changing how world thinks.
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
18 Sketches Perspectives
Set1
Set5
Research on clients:
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was once the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, which a Yale study claims broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream. By the mid 1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture and promoting controversial self-help aids, she is often praised for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. From 2006 to 2008, her support of Barack Obama, by one estimate, delivered over a million votes in the close 2008 Democratic primary race.
Born January 29, 1954
Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States
Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American pop singer-songwriter. After performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side in 2003 and later enrolling at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, she soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of rapper Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and signed her to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.
Inspired by glam rock artists like David Bowie, Elton John and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Amy Winehouse, Gaga is well-recognized for her outré sense of style in fashion, in performance and in her music videos. Her contributions to the music industry have garnered her numerous achievements including five Grammy Awards, among twelve nominations; two Guinness World Records; and the estimated sale of fifteen million albums and fifty-one million singles worldwide. Billboard named her both the Artist of the Year in 2010 and the top selling artist of 2010; ranking her as the 73rd Artist of the 2000s decade. Gaga has been included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world as well as Forbes' list of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world. Forbes also placed her at number seven on their annual list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women.
Born March 28, 1986
New York City, New York, U.S.
John Ive
Jonathan "Jony" Ive, CBE (born February 1967) is a British designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the principal designer of the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
| Born | February 1967 (age 44) Chingford, London, England, United Kingdom |
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| Occupation | Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Apple Inc. |
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