Now finally it has come to the end of another semester, and another final studio class.
Today our guest lecturer was someone we all know really well, the one and only Russell Lowe. In his Lecture Russell gave an interesting lecture, on current projects and papers he is currently working on. One of them was for a hospital and another was for an artwork competition. It showed both the practicality and also the fun side of the programs we have been taught to use. I found him to be useful and quite engaging out of most of the guest lecturers, because I guess I could relate to him most, and he is someone successful in this sort of a field.
After Russell’s lecture, we had a brief talk by Stephen Peter about Grad studio, it seems daunting and almost surreal, that its so close. We had the opportunity to look through some past years projects, the ones I mainly looked through were modelling and visualisation. They seemed to be of a high standard, and it gave me ideas on what I can do for my final project. I have never used 3 DS max before and maybe this might be a chance for me to. I would like to challenge myself and do the best I can do, as it will be one of the final things I do in my university career.
We were then talked to by our Tutors, Jeremy and Graham. They went through our building and added their critical review about it. I thought this was really important as our tutors guide us into the right direction, to achieve the best possible outcomes from us. Graham had talked about changing the outside environment, for it to be more inviting and more Oasis like. Also there were a few technical issues, like spaces and things like that but that’s all part and parcel of using a comp program. Also changing the style of the windows and changing the structure of the building.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Communication & Culture
What is communication?
Communication is the method by which people share their ideas, information, opinions and feelings.People sharing ideas, information, opinions and feelings may contribute to the operations of teams and the work of individuals.There are various modes of communication, some of which are used more commonly in some workplaces than others.
There are three major parts in human face to face communication which are body language, voice tonality, and words. Communication is the process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood the same way by both sender and receiver. It is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods.
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.
Assertive Communication
The most effective and healthiest form of communication is the assertive style. It’s how we naturally express ourselves when our self-esteem is intact, giving us the confidence to communicate without games and manipulation.
When we are being assertive, we work hard to create mutually satisfying solutions. We communicate our needs clearly and forthrightly. We care about the relationship and strive for a win/win situation. We know our limits and refuse to be pushed beyond them just because someone else wants or needs something from us. Surprisingly, assertive is the style most people use least.
Aggressive Communication
Aggressive communication always involves manipulation. We may attempt to make people do what we want by inducing guilt (hurt) or by using intimidation and control tactics (anger). Covert or overt, we simply want our needs met - and right now! Although there are a few arenas where aggressive behavior is called for (i.e., sports or war), it will never work in a relationship. Ironically, the more aggressive sports rely heavily on team members and rational coaching strategies.
Passive Communication
Passive communication is based on compliance and hopes to avoid confrontation at all costs. In this mode we don’t talk much, question even less, and actually do very little. We just don’t want to rock the boat. Passives have learned that it is safer not to react and better to disappear than to stand up and be noticed.
Passive-Aggressive Communication
A combination of styles, passive-aggressive avoids direct confrontation (passive), but attempts to get even through manipulation (aggressive). If you’ve ever thought about making that certain someone who needs to be “taught a thing or two” suffer (even just a teeny bit), you’ve stepped pretty close to (if not on into) the devious and sneaky world of the passive-aggressive.
References
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/communicn.html
http://leehopkins.net/
What is culture
Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.
Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behaviour; that is the totality of a person’s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behaviour through social learning. A culture is also a way of life of a group of people; the behaviours, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.
Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its symbols include a group’s skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions. Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behaviour acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artefacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other hand, as conditioning influences upon further action. Culture is the sum of total of the learned behaviour of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation. Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another.
References
Definition of Culture. Eastern Oregon University. accessed 13 May 2009. http://www2.eou.edu/~kdahl/cultdef.html
Hofstede, G. (1997). Cultures and Organizations: Software of the mind. New York: McGraw Hill
Communication is the method by which people share their ideas, information, opinions and feelings.People sharing ideas, information, opinions and feelings may contribute to the operations of teams and the work of individuals.There are various modes of communication, some of which are used more commonly in some workplaces than others.
There are three major parts in human face to face communication which are body language, voice tonality, and words. Communication is the process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood the same way by both sender and receiver. It is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods.
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.
Assertive Communication
The most effective and healthiest form of communication is the assertive style. It’s how we naturally express ourselves when our self-esteem is intact, giving us the confidence to communicate without games and manipulation.
When we are being assertive, we work hard to create mutually satisfying solutions. We communicate our needs clearly and forthrightly. We care about the relationship and strive for a win/win situation. We know our limits and refuse to be pushed beyond them just because someone else wants or needs something from us. Surprisingly, assertive is the style most people use least.
Aggressive Communication
Aggressive communication always involves manipulation. We may attempt to make people do what we want by inducing guilt (hurt) or by using intimidation and control tactics (anger). Covert or overt, we simply want our needs met - and right now! Although there are a few arenas where aggressive behavior is called for (i.e., sports or war), it will never work in a relationship. Ironically, the more aggressive sports rely heavily on team members and rational coaching strategies.
Passive Communication
Passive communication is based on compliance and hopes to avoid confrontation at all costs. In this mode we don’t talk much, question even less, and actually do very little. We just don’t want to rock the boat. Passives have learned that it is safer not to react and better to disappear than to stand up and be noticed.
Passive-Aggressive Communication
A combination of styles, passive-aggressive avoids direct confrontation (passive), but attempts to get even through manipulation (aggressive). If you’ve ever thought about making that certain someone who needs to be “taught a thing or two” suffer (even just a teeny bit), you’ve stepped pretty close to (if not on into) the devious and sneaky world of the passive-aggressive.
References
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/communicn.html
http://leehopkins.net/
What is culture
Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.
Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behaviour; that is the totality of a person’s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behaviour through social learning. A culture is also a way of life of a group of people; the behaviours, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.
Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its symbols include a group’s skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions. Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behaviour acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artefacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other hand, as conditioning influences upon further action. Culture is the sum of total of the learned behaviour of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation. Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another.
References
Definition of Culture. Eastern Oregon University. accessed 13 May 2009. http://www2.eou.edu/~kdahl/cultdef.html
Hofstede, G. (1997). Cultures and Organizations: Software of the mind. New York: McGraw Hill
Monday, June 1, 2009
Progress and Week 11
Week 11
Today we had lecture in ICinema Centre of UNSW. The iCinema Centre was established for Interactive Cinema Research into digital interactivity for benchmark applications across the arts, culture and industry. It brings us in new media, aesthetics, cinematic theory, multimedia design, computer science, cognitive science, software/hardware engineering and mining virtual reality. We had the priveledge of watching some amazing video's that the researchers had made.
I found it to be quite an experience, and i think it would be really rewarding if you were to design or make innovative movies such as the ones showed to us today.
Started researching on the screen text overlay,
Not much luck so far. So just did some research on the other two topics that were not given to us, but i would like to do them anyway. The topics are Communication and Culture, i think they should be interesting topics, im going to chose to define the different types of communication that exists, since it is a very broad topic.
In regards to the definition of culture, that also is very Broad, but i will see how it goes.
Today we had lecture in ICinema Centre of UNSW. The iCinema Centre was established for Interactive Cinema Research into digital interactivity for benchmark applications across the arts, culture and industry. It brings us in new media, aesthetics, cinematic theory, multimedia design, computer science, cognitive science, software/hardware engineering and mining virtual reality. We had the priveledge of watching some amazing video's that the researchers had made.
I found it to be quite an experience, and i think it would be really rewarding if you were to design or make innovative movies such as the ones showed to us today.
Started researching on the screen text overlay,
Not much luck so far. So just did some research on the other two topics that were not given to us, but i would like to do them anyway. The topics are Communication and Culture, i think they should be interesting topics, im going to chose to define the different types of communication that exists, since it is a very broad topic.
In regards to the definition of culture, that also is very Broad, but i will see how it goes.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Week 10
Since i have not been well, i have not been able to action any of the tasks, that i planned to complete. Hopefully this week i should be making some progress, my individual specialisation is On Screen Overlays (Text, information, etc.). So Im very excited and hopefully will get my tute started for those who want to use it :)
Friday, May 15, 2009
Studio Wk 9
We had a guest lecturer Shilo Mc Clean come in and gives us a talk about digital story telling, I found her talk to be very interesting and insightful as i enjoy seeing Computer graphics used in such instances. Then As she wrapped up, we were briefed with our next task of the final assignment and the requirements. We then were given a topic for our tutorials that we have to create for crysis. I chose to do text pop ups. That should be interesting and hopefully i can use it in my team fabrication.
Peer Review
After the presentation on thursday, it was really impressive to see everyone's fabrications, which have improved so much.
Just a a few thoughts on each teams Strengths and weakness's
Digilism:
Strengths: The building they choose was not a traditional sky scraper and that brought a sense of intrigue, to actually what is the function of this particular structure?
Weakness: The spaces within the building should have been further developed and the audience was not sure of the scale of the building as such. Even though they had produced a city, but we cannot judge scale from an aerial view.
Orange:
Strengths:The building is an interesting choice, the AI and the sense of scale was exemplified well as we were able to see the interior of the structure and judge for ourselves.The lighting also was integral to the building, as it showed the texture of the exterior of the building at night.
Weakness:I think the map of the city could have been more similar to the original as they are using a real city, im sure shanghai must be more lively than what they portrayed.
Urbans:
Strengths: The space is unique and has been much improved since the last time they presented.
Weakness: Some elements outside the building looked out of place and its integral they use A.I to give a sense of space, scale and time.
Omega:
Strengths: They had a lot of info for the external environment, which they capitalised on.
Weaknesses: They could have improed on the internal feature of the building.
Atlar:
Strengths:The model itself and the site placement is excellent.
Weaknesses: The rooms within the house look a bit bare and this can be further improved, by just adjusting the furniture.
Just a a few thoughts on each teams Strengths and weakness's
Digilism:
Strengths: The building they choose was not a traditional sky scraper and that brought a sense of intrigue, to actually what is the function of this particular structure?
Weakness: The spaces within the building should have been further developed and the audience was not sure of the scale of the building as such. Even though they had produced a city, but we cannot judge scale from an aerial view.
Orange:
Strengths:The building is an interesting choice, the AI and the sense of scale was exemplified well as we were able to see the interior of the structure and judge for ourselves.The lighting also was integral to the building, as it showed the texture of the exterior of the building at night.
Weakness:I think the map of the city could have been more similar to the original as they are using a real city, im sure shanghai must be more lively than what they portrayed.
Urbans:
Strengths: The space is unique and has been much improved since the last time they presented.
Weakness: Some elements outside the building looked out of place and its integral they use A.I to give a sense of space, scale and time.
Omega:
Strengths: They had a lot of info for the external environment, which they capitalised on.
Weaknesses: They could have improed on the internal feature of the building.
Atlar:
Strengths:The model itself and the site placement is excellent.
Weaknesses: The rooms within the house look a bit bare and this can be further improved, by just adjusting the furniture.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Final progress Update
Following the late nights and last minute glitches, im hoping that we have covered everything, at the end i ended up doing the lighting three times and did a simple video showing the single dwelling at various times of the day, this put alot of time constraints on me, as my part was all last minute basically, and feels like more of load , then i had to get inspired to finish off my blog and complete some of teams Blog things completed. I guess i have learnt that its very difficult working in a group and there are various dynamics in the group, the lectures during the semester have also helped us understand the collaboration topics a lot better.
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