Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive
When I used to teach a “Media and Culture” class, I had students do an oral project, a handwriting project, a typewriter/cut-and-paste project, and a digital project, and we spent quite a bit of time reading and talking about how the ways we read and write affect not only what we read and write about,…
A gangway, flanked by still more #steampunk control panels, leads forward from the chief engineer’s station to the pilot’s perch. #blender3d #design #aesthetics
The chief engineer of a fantasy #steampunk flagship needs a small booth for shift change reporting, and a workstation for the busy engineer’s mate. The control panels I worked on all summer are just background eye candy, but boy do they look nice. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetics
One deck below the bridge, the chief engineer coordinates with his technical heads here at the Forward Ops conference table. #steampunk #blender3d #design #blender3dart #aesthetics
When the art director was too cheap to buy the graphic designer a protractor.
The Miller of the Dee; by James Baldwin; read by Dennis Jerz
I showed up at the recording studio for about two hours over the summer; the creative team had three or four different scripts for me to record. We had a grand time knocking them out, one after the other. But this particular script included the stage direction “he sings.” There were lyrics, but no score.…
Treasure peaceful moments in a turbulent world.
Many of these individual steampunk control panel elements are repeated, but I’ve arranged them in modular variations that should increase the “background eye candy” factor. #steampunk #blender3d #aesthetics #blender3dart #design #greebles
More glorious #steampunk control panels, created for no practical purpose. #blender3d #blender3dart #aesthetics #design
Checking out of @frontporchtheatricals Grand Hotel. What an experience!
My brother had already planned to visit from Virginia to see Carolyn in the closing of Grand Hotel. We were already driving to the theater when we got word that Aunt Rona is visiting yet another cast member, and the final show is cancelled. So we stopped by Julie’s Bubble Tea and Smoothies for a…
More #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3d #blender3dart #aesthetics
I’d like to speak to the manager. Yes, I’ll wait right here.
The manager is of course somewhere else in the store, presumably managing, so it takes a while for her to come to the front desk. She has her game face on. The young employee who paged her for me looks on. “Maybe this is a dumb thing, and if so I apologize for calling you…
Adding detail to a #steampunk control panel workstation. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dart
A #steampunk control panel in context. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dart
Top: flat, monochrome rectangles. Middle: rectangles with a flat bitmapped texture of buttons and dials. Bottom: angles, smoothness, glow, and metallic reflections added by texture magic. #blender3d #steampunk control panel #design #aesthetics #blender3dart
More bits of my summer project – another delightful span of a #neovictorian #steampunk control panel. #practice #cgi #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetics
Another delightful #blender3d #cgi #steampunk control panel. #design #aesthetics #blender3dart
On a busy day when I spent 7.5 hours on a film set and 3.5 hours driving my car, I managed to eat dinner with 2 of the 3 other members of my household, walk a mile, chat with my sister on the phone, and churn out another delightful #blender3d #cgi #steampunk control panel. #design…
Just a handful more of these elegant #steampunk control panels and I can move on to the next step in my summer #blender3d project. #aesthetics #design #blender3dart
