Harry Cronshaw

For our finial project we each created an artifact to reflect a aspect of emergence in my case i focused on the concept of the “whole being greater than the sum of all parts”. so I began to look into ways i could present this, I decided to gather a array of woods and other materials. I collected a range of items that i could use these include  an old round oak table from an abandoned house in Devonport that I found at a wood disposal site, which was dismantled and re worked to make the 4 square legs.  I then collected old boxing rimu from the same place and some more from a building site i work on part time, these went into what is now the table top. The final peace I used was a modern bed that was broken out the side of my house  My next step was to look at how all the materials I gathered and I chose that the table was the best option to showcase these materials interact. Looking back i would have spent more time finding a wider range op peaces however i am glad that i chose rimu and oak as they are high quality wood that reflects where i grew up as all the homes where old cottages I felt this would fit into my personal emergence. The assembling of my project was the next step was to assemble the peace i chose to use screws and inter locking beams to provide support i also used wood glue to provide extra support resulting in a solid product however if i was given more time i would have used more dowel joints as they are more structurally sound. Due to the presence of nails in the timber i was unable to use AUTs equipment, I didn't want to compromise on removing them as i like how they add to the style so used the equipment at home which made the project take a little longer

Blog Posts (End to Beginning) 

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/179338039401/reflective-statement 

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/179330292156/final-project 

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/179330292156/final-project

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/178945331001/final-studio

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/178935191501/over-the-last-3-days-i-have-been-using-wood

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/178712664136/my-net-step-after-choosing-to-change-the-style-of

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/178685365491/yesterday-i-used-scrap-materials-from-the-3d-labs

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/178624252676/links-to-photos

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/178432898146/after-getting-into-groups-we-decided-that-we

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/178397954266/a-brainstorm-of-things

https://harrycbct.tumblr.com/post/177468162501/potential-conceptual-ideas

To summarize the outcome of my work i would say i have a successfully achieved what i set out to do however within the the knowledge i have of the software used. My aim was to make a simple experience that raises awareness for the high drowning statistics in New Zealand and create awareness online for this issue. I wanted the “game” to be simple but easy to understand and straight to the point. The outcome of this was a simple still camera platform in which the animation of my player depending on the stamina.      

When making this experience I have found a series of positive and negative as well as a few bugs due to my lack of understanding of how to use Unity and C# code, This resulted in the project being buggy another observation i made was how hard it is to portray something as sad and important as this topic as it is also very important to me. This led me to looking into the importance of animation in my game as the animation as this along with the stamina bar are the two main ways of showing the player is dieing or struggling to keep afloat i did this with the previously mentioned. This put a lot of pressure on the portrait and style of animation this lead to the design choices previously stated while reflecting on my work i began to look into the ideas of colour theory and how the dark shades of the colour blue represent distance coldness and sadness this is because in the ancient Egyptian times people wore blue were considered of lover class and education as well as poverty. Gage (1993, page 12 - 18). As it was also cheap to manufacture and also more common in colder climates according Mollo (1991, page 12 - 18).

The conclusions I drew from this where in the form of pros and cons that i found in creating this project. A large pro was the way unity works and how once you overcome the learning curve it becomes much easier to understand this enabled me to link the animations to the staminerbar as well as the speed. However i have also observed that there is very little agency in my game this means there are no choices for the player to make. I did this because i wanted the game to represent Drowning and when one is drowning there are few choices to make except to just move forward this kind of lack of agency is also common in the 2 previously mentioned games by pippin barr, in which they player must just complete a task with no other way out or way to solve the never ending problem to give the player a feeling of hopelessness.

              Looking to the future i wish to continue with this game however i have found some notable things i wish to change in the future. I am proud of the concept and mechanics however given more time i would make the character only move once per press and have the animations respond quicker to the change in stamina, To summarise i would work more on the execution of my idea as well as refine the art style as even though it is what i wanted to achieve it is not quite right.

References

https://swimreaper.co.nz/?src=nav

https://www.pippinbarr.com/2017/04/12/lets-play-ancient-greek-punishment-cpu-edition/

https://www.pippinbarr.com/2014/04/20/dont-drown/

Gage, John (1993). Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction. London and Paris: Thames and Hudson. Page 12 - 18

A brief Summary of my project is that i have focused on making a experience in which You play as a character that is drowning in water however i wanted to reflect the concept not create a actual simulation this was both in part due to my lack of understand off unity and it seams to head on for me and i wanted to make a more subtle portrait of this idea.

The ideas around my work were heavily inspired by the ideas seen in the games made by Pippin Barr the two main examples of this are his games these are “Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: CPU Edition!” as well as “Don't Drown” from these two games i took the concept of the inability to win and applied it to my game. For my style inspiration i wanted a very minimalistic look similar to the game Limbo i also like the aesthetic of the Swim Reaper ad campaign for swim safe new zealand

There are many people looking into the ideas of raising awareness for a social issue through interactivity like Brenda Romero’s Train board game as well as the previously mentioned Pippin Barr they both play with the two main themes in my game, and i am extremely supportive and fond of both of these ways of looking at these issues. The idea of true death and the never ending repetitive dieing and the idea of raising awareness of a issue as seen in Brenda Romero’s game.   

References

https://swimreaper.co.nz/?src=nav

https://www.pippinbarr.com/2017/04/12/lets-play-ancient-greek-punishment-cpu-edition/

https://www.pippinbarr.com/2014/04/20/dont-drown/

Gage, John (1993). Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction. London and Paris: Thames and Hudson. Page 12 - 18

Over the long weekend i began to experiment with how i could use all the components i have collected these include the following: The old oak table, the rimu floorboards and the Kauai framing i have chosen to use these as i am looking in to Emergence of materials and the idea of giving new life to old materials as previously stated taking things of little or no value and giving them more value than there total sum than what they previously had. I begun by sanding and cutting down the rimu flooring and preparing it to  be made into a table top and began to sand the legs to rework them into usable legs that i can use to fit the dimensions of the table i want to make which is 1500mm by 720mm. 

LINKS TO PHOTOS

https://twistedsifter.com/2014/11/veiled-figures-carved-out-of-marble-by-antonio-corradini/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hx2DYx4umQ

http://mide.aalto.fi/Ajankohtaista/DemoDay2012-demot?text=2

https://tworzysko.blogspot.com/2017/02/soulful-journey-in-patina-and-rust.html

https://www.bellissimaartescapes.com/2016-trips/dyeingtorust

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stronger-than-steel-able-to-stop-a-speeding-bullet-mdash-it-rsquo-s-super-wood/

https://ic.fsc.org/en/what-is-fsc-certification/controlled-wood

https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/289285976050910923/?lp=true

https://www.trenchmesh.com/trenchmesh/reinforcing-mesh-cage.html

http://jeannerapone.com/metal-coffee-table/modern-metal-coffee-table-with-rustic-wood-and-nice-on-round/

https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/794603927977230072/?lp=true

https://dornob.com/naturally-imperfect-gorgeous-sculptural-furniture-pieces/

https://www.core77.com/posts/19242/Flotspotting-Vito-Selmas-SimpleComplex-Wood-Furniture-Designs

https://www.pexels.com/photo/abandoned-abstract-close-up-corrosion-1301413/ 

Furniture and how it can affect data

The constant state of change

Ergonomic and simple designs like our long line

Objects that are affected by a variable/changing force

noun. the act or fact of changing; fact of being changed: They are pleased by the change in their son's behavior. a transformation or modification; alteration: They noticed the change in his facial expression.

Dissecting raw materials to create something new

https://amatampabay.org/ikea-uses-analytics-shape-customer-journey/

I want to look at analytics and data to construct a range of furniture that have a common theme using a social issue or other topic.

I want to look at things similar to the last brief however use the material as the variable instead of a specific data set   

Hacktivism art form

https://charlesjohnson-bct.tumblr.com/

Taking apart objects and putting them back together differently as if they have “glitched”

I want to generate objects by breaking them down into the simplest forms and rebuilding them to create a final “thing”.

Shaping a object based on a constant.

Change of Data

definition

Practice

repeated exercise in or performance of an activity or skill so as to acquire or maintain proficiency in it.

Project

an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim.

 Types of data

Statistical data

Live data (constant feedback eg from a mic affected in real time)