my friend alexandra ginsberg sent me this link to another sensory experience: a glowing ceiling made of sheep intestines by julia lohmann. isn’t it beautiful? and delicious. a whole new material interpretation of the soft ceiling and the cloud ceiling for sensory rooms.
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synthetic cities
architects beware – entire cities can be generated faster than you can ink a threshold: procedural city building is a common tool for generating complex backgrounds in movies and animations. several approaches are discussed, and a few like this one by stefan greuter which generates cities randomly complete with billboards and rooftops in nice, self-contained […]
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soft ceiling
my old friend zach nagle sent me this link to an installation at skidmore college by lee boronson similar to the cloud ceiling in sensory decor – beautiful inflated plastic forms like clouds with rays of materialized sunlight poking through.
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sensory room
sensory therapy is a field that has only existed since the 1960s – an attempt to provide calming therapy to people suffering from many kinds of anxiety, related to learning disabilities, hyperactivity, depression, autism, dementia, sleep disorders – you name it. it seeks to provide balanced stimulus of the senses to ground the mind. recently, […]
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some perspective
this is a re-hash, i know, but you can’t teach a florentine new tricks…perspective! as alberti’s story goes, brunelleschi stood in front of santa maria del fiore in florence with an easel and a mirror through which he could see the baptistry, and copied the mirrored image onto the canvas. by flattening the image in […]
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