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Bombs at tea
The Arolfini
I recently went to the arolfini which has alot of difrent things going on i watched a short film called Bomb at Tea Time. Take a trip back in time to the 1940s with this special Silver Screen/Old Media event, open to all. Bombs at Teatime is a portrait of domestic life in Britain throughout one of the most extraordinary decades of our history. At times wry, affectionate and surprising, these rarely seen short films from the BFI National Archive document a time of great austerity as Britain sought to retain its sanity in the shadow of war. I have always been interested in the second world war and enjoyed watching it and it rily was like a window into the 1940’s.
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Monday, 23 May 2011
While in bristol i was reading about this photoshop teqneak that takes 360 views and wraps them into photshop to to make a world it was called poler wrap. First you need to take photos in a perfect 360 degree angle and stitch them together, normaly this would be long and tedius work but my camera has a pamamrama mode which ment it only took three photographs to get the full 360, once i had the three photos i had to merge them together and fix the point were thay met to make it one seamless 360 image, now you flip the image and use the poler unwrap and photoshop will turn the image into a globe, then its just a matter of doctering the image as best you can to make it look ok.
This is an image of the downs in bristol an area near to the famous suspention bridge teken while i was out with my girlfriends sister waling her dog.
This is a park called snuff mils around the corner from my sisters house taken while i was out taking the nephews to the park.
Here is another pamarama photo i took of a walk way in a park near my house in bristol called st George park.
This is a pamarama photo i took while on a day out with my family in bath. it was a nice day and we were near a river i like to swim in, to get to the part of the river we swim in you have to pass over this waterfall.
After getting known for his renders my brother started doing a seriese of weres notch posters. notch is the guy who created Minecraft, he would hide his avatar within a picture for fans to find.
its become very populer.
Once the teqnuie was perfected he went on the render the REDDIT server which srtarted getting alot of attention.
This is the same shot but in the day time, as you can see my castle has come a long way since the frist shot again it was alot of work and i cant beleive how big the hole thing is.
In Minecraft their is a day a night and everything inbetween in these renders my brother was trying to get the lighting from the torches right, as you can see in this shot the lights are to bright.
After building more and more my brother used my castle to perfect his Minecraft Rendering.
This is the first rendered shot with the wall and the cleaned up grounds.
This shot renders the entire area of my castle in Minecraft their is as much to explore underground as their is above, miles of underground tunnels.
We rendered the castle from a few different shots.
While building my castle i showed it to my brother and he was also playing minecraft and was working on a way of rendering out images from the game using a particle system to build the scenery instead of straight up importing it as a 3d entity.I started landscpaeing by first makeing a wall the surrounded the castle, then i leveled out the entire area inside of the wall and evened it out as much as possible.
once i had made the main bulk of the castle i was amazed at just how much work i had done, the majority of the stone to make what you see in the picture i mined from within the mountain its self to create rooms within. now i had got my castle i wanted to landscape the grounds around the castle.
Once i had a big enough space on the top of the mountain i build the main keep. this would be the center main building of my castle.
Once on top i build a tower at each corner of the mountain top my aim was to join them together to create a square.
This is Minecraft! its a simple but very fun and addictive game! i like minecraft as you shal see, basically but simply you dig up a block and you then have that blok and you may place that block were ever you want so you can build a small house or a massive castle. i have been obsessed with castles since i was a kid so when i started playing this i knew i was going to build a castle before i even started. First i had to pick a plot after running around i found a mountain that was the highest ridge around so this would be perfect to build my castle on top.
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Left 4 Dead is a game that venerates zombie movies throughout the ages; George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead r was one of my favour films of recent days for me it had everything I like about zombie films. Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is also one of my favourite zombie films allot more dramatic scenes and is much closer to home. In the game, you and up to three other survivors must battle a zombie apocalypse with a simple goal you aren't trying to eradicate the undead horde; you're just trying to survive.
The game by valve is in its self an amazing and intense and very poplar the online mode means you can play with friends or outer people around the world. The dreaded zombie apocalypse has finally come to pass, turning the vast majority of the population into mindless, ravenous unread hordes. A handful of humans remain immune to the zombie virus, and you play as a small group of them. There's Zoey, a young woman and Bill the grizzled veteran Louis, the middle-class office worker; and Francis, the biker. Armed with real and makeshift weapons, these survivors must battle their way to salvation. It’s the kind of game anyone can play my girlfriend who had never played a first person shooter got riley into left for dead. The amount of detail gone into the game is outstanding.
The zombie horde that you battle is based on the "fast" zombies seen in movies like 28 Weeks Later. These zombies don't shamble. Instead, they sprint at you with inhuman speed, scale fences, and bust down doors to get at you. Horde zombies aren't smart, but they are dangerous in large numbers. The real danger comes in the form of some special zombies. There's the hunter, which can leap across large distances to pin a survivor to the ground. Then there's the smoker, which has a frog-like tongue that can grab a survivor by the throat. The boomer is a corpulent zombie that vomits or explodes to spray survivors. Getting hit by the substance will not only temporarily blind survivors, but it drive the zombie horde into a feeding frenzy? The tank is just that; he's a brick of a zombie that can take an enormous amount of damage and dish out a fair amount. And finally, there's the witch; she's an enormously powerful zombie that can take down a survivor with a single swipe.
Now, if i had to say somthing bad about Left 4 dead, it's that the fact that there are only four scenarios, which is a small number to wrap your head around, and you can play through a scenario in 20 or 30 minutes on the normal difficulty setting. On higher difficulty settings, it'll take longer since you'll die a lot, requiring restarts at the beginning or the most recent safe house that you've reached. Granted, the four scenarios are highly replayable, you could play them over and over again and events unfold differently. There are two reasons for that. The first is the built-in "director" system that manages the action. If you're doing well, it will throw more zombies, like a sadistic dungeon master in a game of Dungeons & Dragons. If you're doing badly, it might decide to ease up on you a bit by providing health kits and ammunition. The second reason is simple human nature. It's a blast to play with others, but it can also be a hilarious experience, as well as a slightly frustrating one at times.
There's absolutely no doubt that Left 4 Dead is one of the most social and exciting multiplayer games that I’ve ever played. It's almost pitch perfect in how it captures the tension and the action of most zombie movies. This is an incredible and highly replayable multiplayer experience that's definitely worth checking out, especially if you're looking to prepare yourself for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
Friday, 12 November 2010
Whilst at the arolfini i also checked out this cool looking Coal Fired Computer & Tantalum Memorial Media artists YoHa (Matsuko Yokokoji and Graham Harwood) present their Coal Fired Computer. This recent work responds to the displacement of coal production to emerging economic superpowers like India and China after the UK miners' strike in the 80s. Coal Fired Computer also reflects on the complexities of our global fossil fuel reliance as well as the histories of labour and industrialisation. Alongside this is Tantalum Memorial, produced by Harwood, Wright & Yokokoji. This work is a telephony-based memorial to the people who have died as a result of the coltan wars in the Congo.
STREET FIGHTER TRIBUTE ART CONTEST!
Spread the word to anime/video game fans across the internet and around the globe. All are welcome to enter!
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Street Fighter is one of the most influential video game franchises of all time. It launched the head-to-head fighting game genre and brought together millions of players around the globe to do battle, first at arcades and then, later on, across a variety of home consoles. 2008 is the 20th anniversary of the franchise.
I am a big fan of street fighter and i was at a park with some firends messing around and one of my friends got a great pictrue of me in mid air. i enjoy makeing themed posters so i thought this would be a good picture to base my street fighter tribute picture on.