Ken Jacobs

[From mlarscott]

D R A W 1 5 m i n s O F T V
I want to throw in a link to a conversation to a film artist Ken Jacobs, a man who teases out the essence of film and has produced some seminal works;

Benjamin Button’s Face and Prof. Pablo’s Assignments/Lectures

[From Jensen Ying]

If any of you remember Professor Pablo’s grueling polygonal head project from IDM first semester or his lecture regarding digital faces… then check this out.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ed_ulbrich_shows_how_benjamin_button_got_his_face.html

Ed Ulbrich, from Digital Domain, explains the digital creation of Brad Pitt’s face for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

Liz Diller Alice Tully Hall Talk

[From John Kim]

Architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R’s (Diller Scofidio + Renfro) more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin. I believe we are going to visit Alice Tully Hall when we go to NYC. @14 min she talks about Alice Tully Hall.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/liz_diller_plays_with_architecture.html

Interesting Portfolios

[From Wei-Li Cheng]

This is a site where people post their portfolios for employers from various firms to see. Even though it’s mainly geared towards designers, there are some really cool portfolios to check out.

http://www.coroflot.com

Bahrain Building Changes Air Pressure

[From Becky Cole]

http://www.bahrainwtc.com/index.htm

Here is a pretty interesting building in Bahrain that uses its shape to change the air pressure.

Kerkythea

[From Richman Neumann]

This is directed to any 3D-modellers who want access to a great free rendering engine, most significantly Google SketchUp users due to their previous lack of options.

Introducing KERKYTHEA, or KT as its development team calls it. Kerkythea, I can attest, is a supremely simple and intuitive rendering software that plugs right into Google SketchUp, and also accepts 3DsMAX and Rhino files.

Alex Schreyer has posted links to all the significant downloads and FAQ’s on the attached website, and offers up a bit of “getting started” advice.

Hope this helps some of you stranded SketchUppers!
Richman

Architecture using Weather

[From Becky Cole]

I thought this was a good representation of where architecture uses weather.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Ringing_Tree_(Panopticons)

Landscape and Urbanism Blog

[From Danny Burdzy]

This is a great blog focusing on Landscape and Urbanism with the use of “veg.itecture.” It might prove helpful for Water and Television with both topography and structure.

http://landscapeandurbanism.blogspot.com/

Damon Hyldreth

[From Talia Perry]

The sculptor I mentioned today in Red Studio: http://www.damonart.com/. Abstract knot pieces that do some interesting things with space.

MOScat

[From Talia Perry]

During the lecture today, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample mentioned using their own software to explore experimental arch and catenary structures.  It’s online and free to use: http://applets.mos-office.net/MOScat/

Inhabitat

[From Aaron Swartz]

A great green source:

www.inhabitat.com

[I have made the link specific to architecture, but there are interesting parts of the blog referring to design and art. -Pablo]