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4/19/2012
4/9/2012
Persistence of Vision: Collage and Motion
The concept of cinema is not foreign to anyone: our brains and eyes register a stream of still images in a sequence and we perceive motion. This optical illusion is known as phi phenomenon; information that doesn’t exist is being supplied (what happens in between frames) and the illusion of motion is created. Many artists use this phenomenon as a baseline to experiment with our understanding of space, time and motion. The work of David Copithorne (top) looks at sequence and motion and how it registers time and 3 dimensions in a static frame. The work of Polish graphic designer Franz Falckenhaus uses duplicity and scale to examine how the brain attempts to make a logical connection between image and motion.
An inversion of this experimentation is motion is the Thaumatrope. Motion is used to combine two static images into one. This illusion is produced by taking advantage of a different cognitive phenomenon called persistence of vision, by which the eye produces and afterimage on the retina.
3/27/2012
Mike Golden of DBox talks with Under Over Out Studio
Next in the studio’s mini-lecture series was Mike Golden, video and animation expert. He gave a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the video for HWKN’s winning PS1 entry: Wendy. Besides bestowing priceless technical advice, Mike gave a screening of the videos that inspire him which is always a treat for a room full of young designers.
3/27/2012
Late last week our own Richard Florida wondered on Twitter whether pedestrian walking speeds might indicate a city’s economic activity — reflecting some sort of “urban metabolism,” as he put it. Turns out there’s a rather long history of research into the speed of walking in cities, and that the evidence reveals, among other things, a strong connection between fleetness of foot and fatness of wallet. Call it a sign of the Cantering Class.
3/20/2012
Under Over Out Studio Newspaper
In an effort to raise community awareness and involvement the studio created a newspaper hand-out and distributed 1,000 copies at the Delancey Street Subway Station. The newspaper included a postcard image of each project with a brief description. The community was invited to visit the studio blog and weigh in on the student’s proposals for the Delancey Underground.
(Source: underoverout.experimentsinmotion.com)
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The studio will focus on a site known as the Delancey Underground, an unused trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge, that is speculated to become a subterranean public park, nicknamed the 'LowLine.'
Juergen Mayer H.
The founder and principal of the crossdisciplinairy studio, Jürgen Mayer H. Architekten. He studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and Princeton Universtiy. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide and is part of numerous collections including MoMA New York and SF MoMA.
Marc Kushner
MARC KUSHNER, AIA, worked for J Mayer H Architects in Berlin and Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis (LTL) in New York City before cofounding HWKN and Architizer. Since graduating from Harvard's Graduate School of Design in 2004, Marc has co-taught advanced architecture studios at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation with Juergen Mayer and Marc Tsurumaki, as well as a summer studio at Parsons.
Benjamin Porto
An architect, Ben is a founding member and contributor of Reality Cues, a virtual collective concerned with addressing architecture in a new digital and interactive/social medium. Among his many contributions are GraffitiLab, a research project investigating architecture in the medium of popular culture and @Archistophanes, a persona invented to address the role of the architect as a social being.
