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Poster IDEAS

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lunes, 16 de noviembre de 2009

IDEA: Stereoscopic 3D OLED ROOMS with tele-immersive technology

December, 6th, 2020

This is my third day away from my hometown and I already miss my friend Erminia so much, the OLED displays had arrived yesterday, but the room still has details to be refined.

December, 11th, 2020

At last! The room is ready; I had encountering feelings uprising in my insides as I approached the white door. I knew the displays were on the walls, ceiling and floor, and I had a pretty good preconceived idea of what I was going to find in there, the elements’ configuration, the lighting, the silence…and still.

After five deep breaths I turned the door knob open. “Oh! Take off your shoes, Ulysse.” I almost forgot to do so; this thought struck my mind before stepping into the Cube, it is not a rule applied to these polyvalent rooms, but it alleviates home chores, actually had I not taken them off, nothing important would have happened, for I would be able to clean the dust from the OLED display on the floor with a cleansing tissue, no water because these displays are still very sensitive to liquids.

I was dragging my feet, mesmerized by the dark squared OLED, so thin, so graceful but so dead. My first instinct was to sit on the translucent cushioned couch in the middle of the room. It is like an elongated island floating on Organic Light Emitting Diodes displays. It is on that island that I am going to hug my friend again. But not today…the Cube has not been connected to Ad Astra net (AAnet) yet. I know Erminia’s Cube is fully functional now, though, she called me early this morning.

December, 13th 2020

Today was the Big Day, I got connected to AAnet, I had Erminia’s favorite animated movie “Toy Story – 2020 revisited”. There was no need for her to have the movie, as the AA connection allows me to share the film projection to her own displays. The best part, however, was to feel her company, she was sitting at my side and before the movie started, we could hug and exchange some words. This was possible, let me tell you, thank to Tele Immersion, Erminia was not there with me, but a real time 3D representation of her with audio transmission thru the stereoscopic OLED displays beneath us. Actually, at her home in England, she was video tracked with an array of fast-refreshing video cameras, at the same time other cameras were capturing light patterns projected in the room to reproduce the required depth, and a 3D scanner was complementing the 3D representation and portraying the actual color of her clothing. This representation was re-created on the displays located beneath the translucent couch, and projected some centimeters above the OLED display surface so as to create the illusion of Erminia being on it and not going through it. Conversely, Erminia had a good representation of me in her own Cube Room.

I realized Erminia was using Very Irresistible, I don’t know why it is her favorite; I find it so sweet… I asked her to spray a little in the Gel Aromatic Machine anyways, the computer then de-codified the smell and transferred it to my own Aromatic Machine from where, trough the integrated fan, Givenchy filled up the atmosphere, it made hugging so much more realistic… “Much more”, not really, just “more” because without GA Machine (which is sold separately) you have already the sense of touch very exploited. In fact, haptic sensors that recall small electrode massager pads are stuck innocuously on the skin, then some forces, vibrations are applied, this mechanical stimulation creates the sensation of really touching the projections, and allows remote control of the displays, movie reader and other devices.

Indeed, by the pertinent pointing of the fingers, I can turn on and off, lights, the displays (at once, or selectively), the GA Machine, the AAnet connection, etc. and so can the other people inside the room (physically not in hologram). Now, let’s talk about the amazing experience of visual delight. These OLED displays, are not only special because they are made by OLED, that is, more environment friendly, thinner, flexible and bright but because they have been enhanced with stereoscopic 3D technology, a stereo image is formed by the super positioning or rapid sequence of images of the same object taken from the point of view of the right and left eye, creating the 3D effect.


Image taken from Tom’s Hardware “Auto stereoscopic Displays” Weinand, L. (2005)

The stereo zone, however will be larger for these display will also have Eye tracking systems based on small cameras, so as to give the public greater freedom of movement by adjusting the lens plate in real time. This feature is particularly important for the Cube Room as projected movies are decomposed in a way that the front OLED display, the right, the left, the one on the ceiling and on floor show the images corresponding to the front (main action), the right, the left (this two mainly used for decorative elements of a place or landscape such as trees, extras…), the up (sky, virtual ceiling…) and down (lawn, soil…) respectively. So head mobility, specifically, the eye mobility is essential.

Indeed, the first time in the Cube was very good, we could enjoy “Toy Story 2020 revisited” and the first thing that amazed me was that we could feel inside another world from the very beginning, just thru the movie menu in which while pointing the fingers to “Set up” I felt being part of a giant Toy Trunk. When the movie was over, I turned off the screens (except for the one on the floor) and held a video-hologram chatting with Erminia for some hours.


References:

• Presenter Michio Kaku demonstrates "tele-immersion" technology by dancing in a virtual world with people who are hundreds of miles away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlBgIO6Mp9A

• AUGMENTED REALITY AND BOOKS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKw_Mp5YkaE

• EngadgetHD “3DFusion debuts glasses-free 3DFMax display” Murph, D.(2009) URL:http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/02/20/3dfusion-debuts-glasses-free-3dfmax-display/

• Tom’s Hardware “Auto stereoscopic Displays” Weinand, L. (2005) URL: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/3d-stereo-technology,1023-6.html Best of Media Network

• How Stuff Works. “How holographic environment will work”Bonsor, K.http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/holographic-environment2.htm HowStuffWorks Inc.

lunes, 9 de noviembre de 2009

Iconic Symbols

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There you go, my iconic symbols depicting daily (fictional and otherwise) activities. :D

lunes, 26 de octubre de 2009

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lunes, 28 de septiembre de 2009

Quite a statement...

Well, here are my images people...
Paintings:
This painting is called Alla cuelga mi vestido (My dress hangs there) and was painted by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in 1933. I took this from the webpage www.fridakahlofans.com/c0120.html. There you can find a fairly good interpretation of such masterpiece. It is a quite balanced composition, with a conceptual symetrical axis in the middle, I think it is successfully giving out the message of anti capitalism due to the elements portrayed, of course, but also due to the chaotic feeling one feels when looking at the blending of sizes of elements and at their juxtaposition (it is also a collage), without neglecting the coloring.

This one is Guernica by Pablo Picasso, it was painted in 1937 and it is a strong statement against war. I took the image from www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/guernica_nav/main_guerfrm.html (there you can, again find the explanation and motives behind the masterpiece). It successfully cries anti-war, there is a solemn air set by the coloring, then it comes the pain and turmoil evoked by the distorted and different placement of the elements, it is like you can hear them cry.
Posters:
I cannot show you the posters here because there is a clear statement on the page in which I found them: they are meant to be shown on that page only. But I invite you to go to www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/index.php , click on Soviet Posters and click on the poster number 32 by E. Mirzoev from 1938. I chose this poster because it is a clear example of the
so- called Personality cult propaganda, you see a big Stalin in the center of happy faces , he is the Father. It is a harmonious composition with organic forms, without rough edges, very peaceful, they are cleaverly combined to evoke reliability and gentle supremacy. In this same web page, inside the collection of Chinese posters you may find a similar design in the first poster of the list from 1949 and which designer remains unknown. In that poster the division between the people and the governmental hegemony is not marked by a difference in size but in a difference on space, that is, Mao Zedong is at the top in a invisible balcony so the people needs to turn their heads up to their protective father, crossing in their way a glorified image of the healthy power of the new government. Finally, from the same site, go to Cuban Posters and look at the third one from 1963 (designer unkwon), this poster based its message in the relationship between the three elements shown, in fact, the weapon, the chimey and the book are portrayed as being part of a three-organism symbiosis, and it really conveys the strong ideas of protecting the independence and autosufficiency of Cuba, according to President Castro.
Album covers:
I will continue on track with two controversial albums, the first one is from the band Mom's apple pie that released an homonym material in 1971, I took the image from http://www.sleevage.com/ (a good collection of album covers). According to this site Apple Pies became somehow a synonym for comfort, peace, freedom across the US... so this cover challenged the concept of freedom (especially that of speech) by portraying a quite
suggestive image with a "drooling/juicy" apple pie that continues to make some people cringe, amongst the perfect balanced and cozy environment of a typical housewife kitchen (with the loudspeakers??). For the second cover I am getting more controversial with a cover from 1976 by the German band Scorpions: Virgin Killers , this cover has been on the WORST, WEIRDEST (http://www.ugo.com/music/weirdest-album-covers/?cur=virgin-killer) and MOST CONTROVERSIAL album covers lists, it may be a bad taste cover but it is very strong, it was supposedly intended to depict the lyrics of the main song which
addressed the topic of children losing their innocence very rapidly in their times, and you can see actually the prepubescent girl in a "dislocated" position looking at you with deep eyes in the middle of emptyness...a life shattered by the new times. Certainly, there are other ways of presenting it, but it remains nonetheless a powerful, even more if you compare it with the alternative cover of the same album (next).







TEchnical aspects of work shown here:

  • Alla cuelga mi vestido, Frida Kahlo. Oil and collage on masonite. 46 x 50 cm. Hoover Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Guernica, Pablo Picasso. Oil on canvas. 349 x 776 cm. Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
  • Soviet Union (Poster 32). E. Mirzoev. Lithography, 89x60 cm
  • China (Poster 1) The central people's government constitutes the only legitimate government of all the people of the People's Republic of China. Publisher: Political Department of the East China Military Region, Third Field Army(78.5x54.5 cm).
  • Cuba (Poster 3) Fourth anniversary of the revolution. Publisher: Central de Trabajadores de Cuba(Offset, 79x52 cm).


lunes, 14 de septiembre de 2009

Representative and Interpretive portraits.





Hey, I guess I am the last, some technical problems. Well, the first photo is a plain representation of me, as you may see I am reddish and my eyes look like a drunkard's, I am sober, though.

The second pic is me again (no, don't tell!), take this picture as you see fit, that's why it is the interpretive one, I am just going to say that joy and creepy and crazy films and writings are part of me. I think self portrait is sufficiently creepy, crazy and red.

Now, the comparison: mmm... they are similar to the extent it is the same person on the pictures, clearly they differ on the attitude shown on each of them; the first conveys neutrality, boredom, perhaps (or alcohol if you want xD) whereas the second shows a joly me, who likes fun and funny things. If you get to know me in depth you will realize I am not that introverted. Cheers.