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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Brutal Types
2 weeks ago
Starlab are a US company who started out by making a combination of air filled projection domes (no underside to them - they sit on the floor) paired with light projectors which project star fields inside the domes using a light source and cylinders with holes and patterns cut-out. These were used in education. Starlab in the uk is now no longer around but the product is still in use and sold elsewhere. Starlab have gone on to develop larger domes and digital projection displays via a standard projector pointing up and fitted with an extreme fisheye lense to project in the round. I have a friend who is in contact with the uk company as was and may be able to find a dome, I am following up on this..
Started looking at Ikea items that may make some of our grander schemes achievable as they were so good for our lighting last year. As far as sectioning off the show ikea offer cheap cable fixing systems from which can hang clips for curtains (also cheap) or perhaps for posters? The clips are available in white black or silver. As you can see from the last image panels can also be hung at angles to form boxed edges.
following on from an earlier post about viewing areas above ground..
These projection viewing areas are in a slightly subdued lit area, each circular zone contains padded seats and an overhead data projection with speakers built into the seats. Each is part of a cluster of 3 joined in the centre with extra graphic displays and exhibits built around non functional areas.
Duxford - being an air museum has a large ribbon banner showing planes in flight, this unifies the large gallery by linking exhibits together overhead. The whole structure is lightweight and hung with steel cables. At one stage the ribbon becomes a projection screen.
Its a bugger to apply especially small letters but the result is always worth it.
In the past we have been using noahs art. The example above from the Tate Modern's Rodchenko/Popova exhibition shows how text and images (printed and stuck to the wall) can combine. (Less Ordinary logo by us, others by Made Thought)
here's the template - try your own..
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silver reflective discs
At last years show we used tiltviwer to great effect for showing a mouse driven full screen interface to iconic images of the students work. These were projected into a 45 degree mirror and on to some large floor-based blocks...
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The chelsea 08 tilt site (link)
Recently we did a test with our interactive whiteboard system using the full screen interface as a touch-driven wall-based projection surface rather than a mouse driven one. It worked well and we are thinking about how to adapt this for the coming show?
Designed by Theodore Watson for the Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival (more projects)
Test here using a graphic entrance and curtains to divide space - also shoved the glitterball bear in as its in the air still? The benefit of this zoning is light and shade and colour control in each area, producing spaces to hold work based on the contents rather than in the open, controlling audience flow, also in this model a long gallery space. Negatives: hassle of erecting and cost of materials, is the space big enough to support this? also curtains ate not hanging spaces - can they be?
Various research at the The University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
3d displays: heres the science bit.. (link)
At the Graphics lab..
Our award-winning innovations in rendering skin, creating photorealistic faces and lighting digital scenes enable virtual worlds and characters to look more real and convincing. Our technology helped create realistic lighting for computer graphics characters in films including Superman Returns and Spiderman 2 and 3. Relighting Human Locomotion presents the first results of a virtual cinematography system to film an actor's performance and then change their lighting and camera viewpoint in postproduction for photoreal compositing. The central device is Light Stage 6, a 26-foot sphere with over six thousand time-multiplexed LED lights.
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