Cheats For Blender!

I found this image that has all the shortcut keys for blender which really was able to help me out. Check it out!

www.blender.org/index.php/Reference/Hotkey_map

Check out this video

While we were watching the video in class today, I thought of this commercial...

this is cool

the music video for Gantz Graf

Final Project!!!

Yay! We are finally at our final project! But it is going to be just as stressful as the other projects if not more for some people. I have an idea in my mind but everyday I question myself about doing the legos again. Now that we have until Dec. 5 ( I know theres time) but I kind of want to do something alittle different. I will experiment with my different ideas over the next few days and see which is easier and what I like.

Here's another one

Random blender movie found on Youtube

So, how do we make objects interact with other objects like this? The cube deforms when it hits the surface.

Matthew Fuller Reading

I think it is amazing what Gordon Matta-Clark did to the split house. I can't imagine organizing something like that will all of those mathmatical equations. Blender would be such a helpful tool for that kind of art! I like what Alicia said about the Amtrack because I think it is a perfect comparision to what Matta-Clark was doing. That reminded me of something I saw on tv the other day, although it is not really industrial and is very old. The Hellfire Caves in Buckinhamshire is a cool place with lots of windy tunnels and such. It kinda relates to the stations he was talking about in the reading. It is so interesting because the Hellfire Caves were dug hundreds of years ago. They are an artwork of the 1700s.

matthew fuller

One concept that struck my interest early on in the Matthew Fuller reading concerns Gordon Matta-Clark's "Substrait" film, which discusses underground metropolitan spaces and structures. I just visited Chicago this past weekend and took the Amtrak. What startled me about the Amtrak service, and the train station in general, was that the train drops you off practically in the middle of the depot, not in some fancy waiting area. I had to trudge a good quarter mile through the cavernous, dirty, cement and steel laiden underground station to get to the door that led to the fancy waiting area. This journey really opened my eyes to another world of the city.

Interesting to me is that often in large metro areas, two entirely distinct yet connected cities seem to exist - one above ground and one below. They change and transform depending upon one another's needs. A structure that is fixed above ground surely has a counterpart below it, whether it be a basement,sewage tunnel, electrical wiring or a subway.

It almost seems to touch on the idea of different dimensions (the above ground and the below) in an easy to grasp way.

Blender could potentially be a great program to illustrate these ideas of the above and below. Thank you Gordon Matta-Clark!

Gordon Matta-Clark

In one of Matta-Clark's works, "Reality Properties", he bought fifteen small, unused sections of land that were left over in property deals or poorly drawn architectural plans. Anything from a section of sidewalk, a part of someone's driveway, curbs and gutters were purchased. Much like his bisection of a house, he wanted to create severed structures and activate the unused areas by the manipulation of rule-based systems to achieve a different, un-intended end (to give the new, transformed structures meaning)