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as the crit looms near

i've been trying to get some more up online for people to see

i'm unsure if i'll share this website or not

more because it's just a little bit rambly and probably a tad boring

but anyway for myself and anyone who may be lurking

i have put up a couple of videos//renders of the flat

i want to think about how this work is going to be shown online

and at the moment it is just in the verge3d software

which is great, but i want there to be accessibility for people who struggle to use it, whether it be due to their browser, or just having issues working the software

so yeah there are going to be a series of videos that work their way around the flat to show off what you would see via the playable element

i have put the first two iterations of these up on my other website

there's a new icon to work you're way to them

but for the impatient

i present

LINK

the space is really starting to come together now

there's only one empty room

and the hallway, although that may remain as a plain transitory space

i'm unsure right now once the bathroom space has something in it i'll work it out

then really it's just making sure things are working 

the aim is to get it fairly done for monday, then i want to work on sewing things, letter writing etc.

and if anyone is reading this and has anything they want to say, i'd love to hear, i'm sure i have a contact form on this page, a link to my email is also on the cargo and tomgraystone.eu page

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messaging

the root isn't here to feed any head

or tree

for the root is the body

the heart

the mind, the soul

roots reigns supreme

a sprawling mass 

messaging 

forget the plant for that is just a figurehead

the root is what gives sustenance  

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ref. REF Ref

wanted to share some images i've been looking at over the past couple of days while i think back on what i have been doing over the year, and more so over the last month or so

the oldenberg work is in relation to the earlier soft sculpture work - i dont think i had seen the saw before, although im now comparing that image to how i have the fabric saw appearing on my website, even using very similar colouring 

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there's a lot of ideas around space, both gallery and domestic present in all of these - matta-clark's anti-architecture is making me think about how i'm trying to skew what you seen in the home - i guess it makes me think as well what else i could do with the model i have made of my flat - how the whole space can be manipulated as well as just a obscuring or anonymisation of household objects

well i say obscuring - but not everything is related to some kind of real object 

if anything most things are entirely removed - they're just coming from manipulations of basic polygons

its more a matter of projection by the viewer that's assigning any value or meaning to them

i think at this point to me they are becoming this strange collection of vertices, and being viewed in a means that are entirely removed from how someone will see them

and with that being said i need to get more images of the way i am seeing them and manipulating them 

(Michael Asher - Kunsthalle Bern, 1992) 

(Gordon Matta-Clark, Office Baroque, 1977)

(Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, 1974)

(Michael Asher, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2008)

(Claes Oldenberg, Saw, Sawing, 1998)

(Claes Oldenberg, Soft Toilet, 1966)

(Rachel Whiteread, House, 1993-94)

(Senga Nengudi, Nuki Nuki: Across 188th St., 1982)

(Rachel Whiteread,  Untitled (Stairs), 2001)

still uploading

COOKERY CLASSES AVAILABLE FROM 12RD OF AUGEMBER REGISTER INTEREST NOW

i actually finally have something up now that is viewable

click what you can and full screen to work

directional keys to move, mouse to change view direction

Online Cookery Classes Available Soon

https://tomgraystone.eu/kitchen

i mean this is still an early version - i guess it cant be too early now, time is ticking

but it's given me a good chance to work out how to get my animations to interact with verge3d, how to make it interactive - although still have a lot more experimenting to do with that

i do have the concern that the full flat when it is full and there is a whole bunch going on will take quite a lot to run

i think right now i'm just hoping it won't effect user experience, i will run tests before hand though

and i do have a back up plan if it does all start to not properly work

i still need to consider how this can have sound interactions, how to fill cupboards and drawers, or at least what to fill them with

it's a conundrum of deciding between keeping it playable, interactive, and also overloaded

hoping to hit the right point

i was about to end this post, but i guess i want to add one more thing

(and sorry these all drag on)

but i want people to have different experiences of the space, i know some people are going to want to push the limits of the space, whereas others may not delve to deep, i think thats exciting, so i guess its making sure that both can have rewarding experiences of the space

i don't know where i'm going with this so i'm going to stop

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intel core i235832482349

process

processing

processor 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5

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rhizhome

home feels like a funny place to think about relating to rhizomes//rhizomatic space

like it's throwing up this question of is the home a non-hierarchical space?

or do we have to work to make it a rhizomatic space?

because with the tenement in particular you have this hub space of the hallway, it's leading off into all rooms, that although we create routines, there is never a set route through the home

when you travel through the home you are constantly mapmaking rather than tracing this particular line of the map

and i guess the home is heterogenous, it is constantly changing to match the way in which you utilise it

this is all kinda rough and so basic right now - this has been a bit of an aside from blender modelling

i'm going to come back to this later and think it through more, because i think this can start to draw together what at times can feel some what disparate in what i'm doing 

it's becoming a weird amalgamation of ideas around rhizome, home//domestic, some elements to do with video games coming in with the 3D building, and i guess trying to work out how to have audience interaction while in this separated time

yeah

more to come

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