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Team Meeting

Thursday after hand in.

Final Presentation - looking at video and stills -

• video of a traditional couple, looking at communication and honesty, but also needs to be to the extreme, of emotion and expression.
• Integrated first person experience through the website
• Series of stills of intergenerational communication, and communication between non-social norms

Ross liked the leeches.  we need to know what we want to compose.  look at how we pull it off the skin.  CRAFT - with material, and people.

Website shots

Here are some screens of the website, firstly is the main view.

The two rows are top: picture galleries and the bottom row is videos.

the following is the picture gallery view, the previews are laid out generatively so the layout is different every time :)



and finally the video view. (click the flesh logo to go back);

Website!

I've just finished the website. I've made it as idiotproof as possible to add images (even Scott can do it :P) , just put a new folder of images on the server with a 100px by 100px image named "preview.jpg" for the gallery preview.

www.flesh2090.com

Associated Experts

Paul Hillier - Photography; Technical Staff, School of Architecture

We had three meetings with Paul Hillier to consult him about tone and lighting our photography. He granted us access to his camera and studio and we shot the majority of our photos over three days. He helped us with the camera settings, and spatial and technical set up to shoot skin tones.



Anne Galloway – Anthropology; Senior Lecturer, School of Design

Anne Galloway gave us some avenues to explore how different cultures interpret the different parts of the body, and cannibalism. We had initial email contact and then verbal discussion a couple of times for this project.



Celine Reisser - Marine Biologist/Geneticist, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Sciences

We have talked to Celine about the wider implications of changing human eating patterns and the possibility of editing our genes to grow extra features.



Aaron Williamson - Chef de partie, Martin Bosley's Restaurant

Has provided expertise on chemical reactions used to create different mediums to present foods on the body.

Notes from Thurs

Here's what we got down on paper on Thursday to keep in mind tomorrow and for the rest of the week.

Processing some stuff in processing.

Processing!
Patterns for laser cutting and they all also animate so we can do videos of them growing.
YAY.

Vascular berrys

Well I have been doing Processing sketches up until now some samples below (these all grow etc) I was going to 3D-ify them into solids, but that will take me too long, for too little output. (I'll post up those tomorrow)

I did however have an idea for some 3d print models: Basically berrylike things growing from stalks from ones veins. the berrys are like a cage filled with a jellylike substance :)

So Idea had, I set to learning houdini to achieve it :)

What you see here is just the jellyless shells attached to stalks:

And a single berry shell:

so ya those are screenshots of my WIP, my idea is to get these 3D printed then dye them, lacquer them then set the pods into jelly so they get filled with... well Jelly.

The berrys themselves have no back so they would sit against the skin and "stick" there and can be peeled off.

The models aren't quite done but I hope to have them mostly finished by tomorrow.

Chur

BITE ME

We should call ourselves BITE ME. Ross said :)


What are we all doing from here:

Scott: Working in solid words to make molds
Cam: Experimenting with CNC milling machine, making molds.
Ben: Form and motion for the website, and designing the growth pattern for the seeds.
Ron: (although not here) you have been nominated as 'laser cutter'
Byron: Charging on with motion tracking
Kev: Make molds and work with the gelatin
Medi: Files for laser. Working on combining the mold aesthetics with the laser. Audio.

3 weeks until next crit.  We want serious material to work with for film and video by the middle TUESDAY of the hollidays!

Group Meeting

Talking about the architecture.
Hiring a candyfloss machine?
Kev knows someone who working with food and chemical reactions etc. going to look into that.

How do we really show intimacy. Ross said the contact in our images was the strong point.

Looking over requirements for next submission.

Material experiments - looking at using ice, jelly, crystals. Things that shift and change.

Alms - an intro

I have been struggling with the wording of this (must have rewritten it about 15 times) so if you have suggestions just hit me up this avo.


Alms:
80 years from now sustenance and the communication of ones' self become synonymous.
Our bodies grow food as a reflection of the emotional and mental states which make up our personality and the process of sharing ones food with another person has become a meaningful dialogue of expression and emotion through the "taste" of personality.
As our thoughts constantly shift and morph, so too does the food we produce. Our diet becomes a dynamic representation of the community we are involved in.





I have also thought of a couple of questions:
how fast does this food grow?
how long are we digital (so when we come back to the physical we have food to eat)
can we survive of our own food alone (or do we need a balanced diet of mixed personalities? :P )

Group Meeting 11/3

Group name: Alms  (after much debate and mashing of words)

Taste, growth, communication, share,

Communication is our sustenance.  we survive off what others emotions produce.  We are conscious and aware of sustaining ourselves resourcefully.  The fact that this growth can sustain us, and that it communicates who we are is of equal importance.  The reason to share is about honest reproduction, and through this, the advancement of the human species according to Darwins theories.

Group Roles:  We Object!


Numbers:
Meredith 021846077
Ben 0212459005
Scott 0210451171 / 0272878281
Kev 0220439937
Byron 02102539424
Cam 02102232413
Ron 0274959577



MEETINGS: 12:30 Friday and 12 midday Sunday

For Monday

Name and short philosophy - ben
Critique

• Philosophy - scott
• Architecture - kev
• Web base - byron
• Presentation - ron
• Workbook - medi
• Film - cam

Expanded group philosophy - Medi + scott
Media to use + rational - medi + kev
expansion on architecture, the output (models and material experiments + algae) - ron + cam + kev
Visual experiences - ben + byron
Time management - kev + scott


Architecture can walk while we live virtually? **discussion** sleep walking.  We decide we can allow for movement while we are living consciously, at a walking speed.  Exactly who what where etc is yet to be expanded.

Personality is relative to a flavor.  There is more then good and bad.

Ross wants contrast between the physical and virtual.  What happens if you fall in love virtually, and have to travel immense distance to 'taste' them. "diluted cannibalism"

Move through from the unreasonable to the reasonable.

White Board

White board notes from yesterday

Project 1

Submission 1 Monday 15 March  20% (10% group, 10% individual)

• Team selection, group philosophy and previous DLF project critique.
• Proposed  media (eventually web based) and rationale for selection.
• Initial physical/digital experiments illustrating the specific visual qualities and group architectural direction.
• Defined area of individual responsibility (eg physical modeling, 3D printing, programming, electronics, video, web)
• Time management charts showing project tasks and completion dates. Recommendhttp://www.viewpath.com that is updated daily.

Soooo.

Meeting tomorrow after Prof Prac.

In my understanding, essentially we are looking at capturing and communicating the emotive qualities of our experience, using the physical world as a means of expressing those emotive qualities.  Are we all on the same page with this?  We are looking at the Dolphins as our precedent.

Ben is: working with moving, organic processing code.

Byron M is: Looking at the dolphins visual communication + critiquing.  Looking at some 3D scripting.


Cam: Material experiments

Meredith is: Starting to write.  Getting our ideas and themes on paper so we can start refining.  Critique the philosophies of the Dolphins

Scott is: Looking at the physical communications of the dolphins and critiquing.  start brainstorming of how we could communicate.


Ron: Material experiments


Kevin: Research technologies




Discussing about the architecture.  Could the architecture mimic our lifestyle in the virtual? 
We are focusing on communication.  Exactly what we are communicating is still in discussion.  Sharing your emotive experience.


Architecture that grew and could shift.  when you are in the virtual world.  your needs and desires are communicated to the architecture, so if you desire to be under a peach tree, thats where your architecture would take you.  So the next time you come back to the physical, your architecture would have moved you to a peach tree.


Your mental state communicates to your architecture, and the architecture's communicate while we are in the virtual world so that when we come back to the physical, our architectures have gathered together into communities.


Really we are talking about sex.  About relationship.


Ben wants to eat each others architecture and have this be a means to communicate emotions.


While we are in the virtual world, our architecture grows.  The 'taste' of this growth is based on our mental state in the virtual world. When we come back to the physical, we share this 'taste' with others, and we 'taste' others.