Browsing the internet late at night in the Summer of 2017 i came across this picture: As i’ve just returned from CULTCOSMIC, an amazing festival in Sweden (sadly no more?) and i was high on inspiration and fresh experiences, i knew i had to do something with this. So in the bright and warm evening in Stockholm i started streaming to Twitch from my mobile phone and cutting out hexagons to see how it would look if someone built a similar model but with hexagons.
After this stream, i realized that it was possible to build this thing and that the actual design itself presented some interesting graphical options for potential projection onto the surface itself. I modeled the structure out (once again stream), trying to figure out what the easiest construction for this would be assuming the structure would be 3,5 meters tall.
With the structure mapped out, i added some surrounding elements to visualize how the structure would look in the middle of the night:
After doing this, i felt the need to figure out this structure would look if you projected onto it. To easily do this, i slapped the model from C4D into Unity and setup a Spout texture, with Unity hosting the Spout texture as a “projector” light, it was easy to shade the model in a way that would look realistic to real world examples. This allowed experimenting with Resolume Arena in real time into Unity running the visualizer to figure out how this would look. It’s sort of like a poor man’s D3 / Cast WYSIWYG but free, here’s a demo with some sample motion graphics.
The goal is to build this massive piece at some point in time, i intended to build it for Cult Cosmic 2018, however that festival doesn’t seem to be happening any longer so i will rethink the audience for this a bit.
I can write forever about this experience, but the short story is that visiting Cult Cosmic reiterated the fact that creativity can have many outlets. It doesn’t have to fit within the boxes i assumed to be exciting and inspiring. It showed me that life really is what you make of it, waiting for the “moment” to happen when you’re considered “good”, is something you have to wait forever for. The only way of getting there is by just doing it now. Seeing what people came up with and executed on left me with a newfound passion for my own projects.
I made a bet with a coworker that i could not be sober for a year. That year was 2016. He was wrong. I won that bet.
Being sober means you regain a lot of time otherwise spent in a bar or hungover, i didn’t even realize how much time i spent on these things when not drinking. I also found myself very bored and lacking an outlet for something and by a sheer coincidence i found myself at the Burning Man Decompression Party in San Francisco 2016. I snapped a photo of a sort of funny sign, but it was first afterwards it really interested me.
The sort of perfect circle in a 3x3 grid had a very interesting visual balance to it. The negative space was as interesting as the center of the picture which started to grow on me. A while later, not being able to sort of shake this i started experimenting with circles in the same way as the sign, turning into an on-going series of pictures. Here are a selection:
As i’ve just returned from CULT COSMIC, an amazing festival in Sweden (sadly no more?) and i was high on inspiration and fresh experiences, i knew i had to do something with this. So in the bright and warm evening in Stockholm i started streaming to Twitch from my mobile phone and cutting out hexagons to see how it would look if someone built a similar model but with hexagons.
