prosthetic knowledge
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Abstract Christmas tree sparks protests in Brussels
An updated version of a post made earlier today, now with a video from BBC News
A minimal voxelesque Christmas tree with projection mapping and a staircase to view from it’s top hasn’t gone down well with some …
Thousands of people have signed a petition against an abstract light installation replacing the traditional Christmas tree in Brussels city centre.
More than 11,000 signatures have been gathered in the online petition and a Facebook page attacking the new feature has been launched.
Critics accuse officials of opting for the installation for fear of offending non-Christians, especially Muslims.
Maddy Savage reports.
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Abstract Christmas tree sparks protests in Brussels
A minimal voxelesque Christmas tree hasn’t gone down well with some … via BBC News:
Thousands of people have signed a petition against an abstract light installation replacing the traditional Christmas tree in Brussels city centre.
More than 11,000 signatures have been gathered in the online petition and a Facebook page attacking the new feature has been launched.
Critics accuse officials of opting for the installation for fear of offending non-Christians, especially Muslims.
But the mayor’s office said it was part of a theme this year of “light”.
Traditionally, a 20m (65ft) pine tree taken from the forests of the Ardennes has adorned the city’s central square, the Grand Place.
This year, it has been replaced with a 25m (82ft) construction, though smaller real Christmas trees still decorate the square, a spokesman at the mayor’s office said.
The city’s website said the new “tree” was one of five “light” installations around the Grand Place this year, offering visitors the chance to climb to the top and enjoy “beautiful views” of the city.
Tourism councillor Philippe Close at the mayor’s office said the aim was to show off the “avant-garde character” of Brussels by blending the modern and the traditional, to produce something new and different.
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Time Scanning by Donato Maniello
A collection featuring experimental photography scan-disruptions of trees:
Capturing a moment and expand it up to the point of creating a tear that becomes aesthetic sign.
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LEGO Forest In Australian Outback
From Inhabitat:
A sprawling forest of larger-than-life LEGO trees and flowers recently sprouted up in the Living Desert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of LEGO coming to Australia! The installation is part of the LEGO Festival of Play, a nine-month program of hands-on events and elaborate creations that celebrate the versatility of everyone’s favorite building blocks. The LEGO Forest is ‘planted’ at Broken Hill, where it creates “a colourful contrast against the vibrant landscape”.
The life-sized LEGO Forest consists of 15 iconic LEGO ‘pine’ trees, each sized 4 meters in height, and 15 sets of flowers. Rising from Broken Hill’s distinctive red soil, the LEGO Forest pieces are perfect replicas of the original plants – but they’re sized 66 times bigger to create a surreal life-size play world.
“To have such an iconic brand that so many Aussies grew up with, set against the classic Australian outback is a wonderful sight,” said Wincen Cuy, the mayor of Broken Hill. “I’m sure both locals and tourists of all ages will have a lot of fun discovering the magic that LEGO Forest will bring to Broken Hill.”
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SnappyTree
Online browser-based 3D tool to create your own model of a tree, which is fully exportable for common file formats:
SnappyTree is a procedural tree creation app designed to demo webgl and proctree.js. SnappyTree produces proctree.js JSON which can be used to generate trees client side in other web applications/games. In addition, SnappyTree also provides export options for wavefront and collada file formats so the generated trees can be used in other native applications.
You can experiment with this online tool here
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Godzilla Christmas Tree
Yes, a Christmas tree in the form of Godzilla …
Godzilla-shaped Christmas tree spews smoke, Aqua City Odaiba shopping mall, Tokyo, Japan. (2006)
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From my Facebook feed, someone’s Christmas tree …
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3D Data Capture Scan Of Forest Area Reconstructed (via ScanLAB Projects)
In 2010 we produced a series of black and white and later colour scans of 55/02 - a shelter on the north shore of Keilder Water, Northumberland. 55/02 is the product of a collaboration, between architect Sixteen*Makers and metal fabricator Stahlbogen. We used the scanning process as a tool for checking the actual product against idealised digital designs.
For the practice ‘55/02’ marks the latest manifestation of many years of tacit experimentation, training and collaboration in design and manufacturing processes. This is fuelled by a fascination with making and the ever increasing synthesis of digital design and manufacturing techniques. Because of the intimate relationship between the designers and makers 55/02 never had a single set of construction drawings but existed as a series of tactile tests and digital representations. In this instance these scans come to represent the closest to an ‘as built’ set of drawings for this project.
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Question: Photoshop or genuine shadow pareidolia? (via Reddit)
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by Neil Craver (via syntheticpubes)
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“An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters.
Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs. People in this part of Sindh have never seen this phenonemon before - but they also report that there are now less mosquitos than they would expect, given the amoungt of stagnant, standing water that is around.
It is thought that the mosquitos are getting caught in the spiders web thus reducing the risk of malaria, which would be one blessing for the people of Sindh, facing so many other hardships after the floods.”
- via tumbledore / oversets / hm3
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002 by Gerco de Ruijter via BLDGBLOG
Part of a collection of 32 photographs of tree nurseries, which the artist asks the question, ‘How abstract can a landscape become while remaining a landscape?’
There are many other great examples to be found here at BLDGBLOG
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By tokyo-r, who is as brilliant as always.
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‘two love trees’ by ran hwang, 2009 (buttons, pins, panel)
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Michael Kenna (via nervepinch)
