I thought of having some industrial type of 'control room' in this 'machine of consequence' with lots of monitors displaying the same video. A mood-creator rather than something epic and very important. As a video I thought of Anemic Cinema by Marcel Duchamp. Its hypnotic loop of rotating movements would be a good contrast to what we'd see in the enviorement. But of course we can go the other way, and try some futuristic visualisations, typical ones, with numbers droping by (notice how the word 'typical' – in its futuristic sense – changed since the premiere of The Matrix), or some data-screens with a robot-model rotating in the corner. Saying that I should we should try to avoid any The Matrix-reference. It could be just tacky. Crème de la crème of futuristic fonts may be a The Designers Republic – a studio responsible for the visuals, packaging and manual for the PlayStation/Sega Saturn game Wipeout. (photo)
After Bartholomew brought Moloch – a polish animation – to Rave, I thought to look even to things as distant as Fallout and its world. Well, mechanisation is huge in this post-nuclear land, defective, rusty mechanisation – I have to emphasize. Nasty, bloody, Ajdinesque creatures can be found there as well. (more research)
The aim of the project is to create something what Jared described as 'the mechanism of consequence', in other word – exaggerated in mechanical terms environment involving actions and reactions to those. .
We've been shown The Way Things Go – a short ('short' in this case means just above half an hour) movie created in 1987 by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss , famous Honda advert “Cog” and short clips made for PythagoraSwitch.
PythagoraSwitch is a 15 minute Japanese educational television program where children's "way of thinking" is argumented under the supervision of Masahiko Satō and Masumi Uchino. Also it was advised to look at work of Englishman, Mr. W. Heath Robinson and his American counterpart Mr Rube Goldberg - concept drawing makers, or: concept illustrators – famous for their unneccessary complication of detail. (photo)(photo)(photo) Jared told us to look at two books about them – but when I went to lrc to have a look – of course they were taken out already. So predictable. I think lrc should do something to 'protect' these books of high demand because a tutor advices so his students. Maybe they shouldn't be borrowed, just availible for viewing and scanning, maybe the last copy shouldn't be borrowed. Purple group has this disadvantage of having the same lecture what Green group had two days before, so in some way – we (Purple group) are two days behind, in the process of research. . Giger. We decided to take on board his style, or at least look at his in more detail, and take out as much as we can – planned to go to Switzerland to Gruyere to see his museum – later on advised not to go to, because it would be more of dissapointment and time waisting. We still think of doing some research trip, maybe to have a look at the Swiss architecture in major, maybe something else. I've borrowed a book on Giger with lots of drawings by him - biomechanical stuff, as expected, but also lots of erotics. Also seen a VT1750 with Without Walls programme on it – at some point it had greying Giger speaking in pidgin English that only hand and legs are good in human body because anything else can get a cancer. Interesting. No. . Tom & Jerry: Design on Tom features a brilliant, clever humour, where main characters' counterparts drawn on a blueprint come to live and the farce begins: a blueprint Jerry comes off a scetch to warn Jerry about the machine Tom is planning to create. They change the parameters of it what results in trap hitting Tom and Jerry getting off with a piece of cheese.
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