Danhobak Media Environment: March 2011

2011-03-27

Now, here

"Now, here", calligraphy by Mitsuo Aida

'Now, here' is a concept of this project. I want to show the current status of Korea. I read an article about plagiarism of graffiti in Korea. (link) I don't blame them. It is hard to figure out the form of Korean graffiti.

Some options of this project

Korean calligraphy : ~~lack of my skill.~~

~~Posters or flyers on the wall : instead of graffiti. common.~~

Projection ~~mapping~~ : environmentally friendly.

The first graffiti

photo by Sisse Brimberg, National Geographic

When I was an undergraduate student, one student activist drew small graffiti on the wall of cafeteria. I couldn’t read and understand what it meant. It was just like other graffiti, but for me it was not more than rubbish. That student was blamed in public and finally wiped the graffiti off the wall. He was a candidate of student union president and lost in an election, of course. I think that what really bothers me is the material, spray. It is sticky and hard to remove. I didn’t like dirty my school, or wall of school. And that’s the reason why graffiti artists use spray.

It was Lascaux cave that come to my mind at first. Human beings have enjoyed doodling for quite a long time. We think that the cave is very important because it reflects the lifestyle of that time. At this point, in the future, people can guess the life and think from present graffiti. Therefore, I can say that graffiti is the doodle that reflects status here and now.

Also, the graffiti of one student in the first paragraph shows that there were many students who didn’t know about it and hated it. The graffiti chose wrong TPO.

2011-03-20

Word! Word! Word!

When I check the best seller list at kyobobook.co.kr, books about mentor, motto and self development are always high-ranked. It shows that people can't find the way they are and it's not possible to get the answer from books. Thus, I want to express the modern people who are stuck in the flow of good words about life.

words used in this project
Life is a zoo in a jungle. (Peter De Vries)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. (Helen Keller)
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. (Carol Burnett)
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. (Kurt Cobain)
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. (James Dean)
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. (Colette)
Live simply that others may simply live. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Steps
1. Revise the previous project
2. Add words
3. QTVR
4. Drawing
5. Cube

QTVR ▼

2011-03-13

silence

~~ongoing~~

The second QTVR I took was filled with modern complex structures. And there were just few people in the park. I wanted to exaggerate that atmosphere. So I refined the image in black & white.

Steps

1. Render option : cubical image

2. Photoshop filter : Sumi-e

3. Retouch

2011-03-10

Note

(Copy from Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited User Guide)

Panorama conversion

Typically, after you have stitched your images, you render it to produce a panorama,
but in some cases you will need to edit your panorama in an external image editor and
therefore change the file format. The Panorama Conversion is used to:

- Convert a panorama into another format. For example, you might want to create a
QTVR or VRML panorama that you need to modify in an external graphics
application. To do so, you must export it as spherical, cubical, or cylindrical
projection, edit it in your external editing software and then load it back into Stitcher
before convert it to the desired format.

Loading a panorama
Panoramas are loaded in the same manner as image files after selecting File > Load Panorama.

NOTE For a cubic panorama, you only need to choose a single face. Stitcher loads
automatically the other faces if the file naming convention of the files is the same (letters _f, _r, _b, _l, _u, _d or numbers)

There was much easier way to attach edited images than I did in the last article.

2011-03-08

2011/03/08 Test

1. Take pictures
at Ttukseom riverside park

2. Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited
3. Photoshop
- Render option : Cubical Image

- I tried to add this picture to Stitcher but this didn't work well.
The sky is so bright that characters can't preserve their color.
Plus, distortion of picture made it difficult to match.