The simulacrum is not just a copy, but that which overturns all copies by also overturning the models: every thought becomes an aggression.
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"Virtual Power R&D Crit Feedback
Presentation and Crit Feedback for mid year research and development paper under spatial design at Massey university in Wellington.
Staff Fish
Staff Profiles scanned and converted into a digital model using a custom sketchup plugin to generate the model, 3dsmax to render out.
Staff Profiles as Tropical Fish
Here I’ve scanned the text profiles of selected staff at Massey, available to the public to view from here: http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/colleges/college-creative-arts/people/staff-profiles/research-staff.cfm
3d models are generated from the scans using a custom script, which analyses quantitative data about line length, number of spaces/numbers/capitals etc.
The models were the skinned with the staff work image on their profile page.
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noun
any minute, marine protozoan of the class Radiolaria, or, in someclassification schemes, the superclass Actinopoda, having anamebalike body with radiating, filamentous pseudopodia and ausually elaborate outer skeleton.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cbwaQwOW1rqnxr0o1_250.jpg)
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is pleased to present “Yevrus 1, Negative Impression,” an installation designed for the SCI-Arc Gallery by alumni Benjamin Ball (B.Arch ‘03) and Gaston Nogues (B.Arch ‘94) of Los Angeles-based Ball-Nogues Studio, opening June 1 and running until July 8 at SCI-Arc.
Constructed from non-architectural artifacts, Yevrus 1, Negative Impression is a disposable architecture of literal references that calls into question the contemporary architectural vogue for digital complexity and abstraction. The cast impressions of 1973 Volkswagen Beetles and speedboats unite to form a strong structural whole that serves as a lookout tower in the SCI-Arc Gallery. More information after the break.
The designers chose the individual components from within the Los Angeles suburban-scape for their iconic and structural potential, as well as their availability. Once chosen, the parts were digitally scanned in three dimensions and cast in biodegradable paper pulp using a proprietary technique the studio refers to as a “Yevrus”—the word “Survey” spelled backwards. With this work, the first in a series of experimental Yevrus projects, Ball-Nogues rethinks the purpose of the site survey. No longer seen as a simple tool for construction and engineering, the survey becomes an instrument for finding form, seeking structural stability and realizing iconic meaning.
The entrance to SCI-Arc’s parking lot is at 350 Merrick Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013, between Traction Avenue and 4th Street in Los Angeles. The SCI-Arc Gallery is open daily from 10am–6pm. For more information, please visit here.
