{"id":31,"date":"2007-04-12T21:08:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T04:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/updates-stencils-and-a-squirrel"},"modified":"2007-04-12T21:10:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T04:10:21","slug":"updates-stencils-and-a-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/updates-stencils-and-a-squirrel","title":{"rendered":"Updates, stencils, and a squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aside from getting into Flex (which is awesome to say the least) I Just posted (well not “just” since it’s been a couple weeks now…) the most recent update to BlueSuburbia<\/a>— the “stairway” scene.<\/p>\n

\"BlueSuburbia<\/p>\n

Based around the imagery of spiders and broken glass (as in broken glass being a spider’s web). This time poems are presented in fragments and impressions, that take form in “pieces” found by navigating about the area.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/p>\n

A few excerpts:<\/p>\n

“At the bottom of the bottomless pit
\nEyes of a homeless man
\nIf there is a god surely he knows no love!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“That story i know to well
\nSpare me the grief of telling it again
\npoverty
\nbeing without
\nnonexistent rot
\nfruitless pointless choiceless struggle
\noverwhelmed by worthlessness
\noh… god
\nthere is no hell to rival this”<\/em><\/p>\n

“pain…
\nwhat is pain?
\nNo longer bearing a consequence
\nit too will end
\nlike everything else”
\nso i wait<\/em><\/p>\n

Until I no longer breathe”<\/em><\/p>\n

“oh god, do you hear me now?
\nhow i wish to hurt you back!
\nFeel the pain of the poor
\nthe helpless
\nare you there?
\ndeaf?
\nblind?
\nmute?
\nmere fancy?
\ndon’t deny me blame!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“i feed the machine because the machine feeds me”<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Cotton\"<\/p>\n

The poetry in itself acts much like a train of thought, one dis-associated musing leading to another accompanied by vague images lost in a space of blinding light. In general it’s made to bear resemblance to “memories”.<\/p>\n

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The majority of the voices and sounds have been generated via synthesis — hardly anything is real, only a handful of effects have been sampled. Much like the imagery the audio acts randomly, playing at random pitches\/intervals\/levels to create a seamless and non-repetitive soundtrack.
\nThe environment adjusts to the users choices. The more you explore the more spiders appear slowly infesting the scene. Other, larger parts, of the scene permanently change according to your choices.
\nAside from the gratuitous use of bitmapfilters, the greater part of animations have been scripted, if not then they are rotoscoped using various archived footage. Its all very intricate.<\/p>\n

At any rate…<\/p>\n

\"3D<\/p>\n

I’ve also been making sad clothes crazy (via stencils).
\nA few pieces:<\/p>\n


\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/stencil2-2.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/stencil2-3.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/stencil1.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/stencil1-back.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/stencil1-close.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/stencil3.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/stencil3-back.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/stencil3-back-close.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/cheese-for-john-cleese-please.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/noodles\/cheese-for-cleese-please2.jpg\"<\/p>\n

There’s a squirrel outside that often comes and watches. He won’t go away.<\/p>\n

\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/deepfriedcookiecake\/caP1010393_edited-1.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/deepfriedcookiecake\/caP1010417.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/deepfriedcookiecake\/caP1010394_edited-1.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/deepfriedcookiecake\/caP1010450.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/deepfriedcookiecake\/caP1010421.jpg\"
\n\"http:\/\/nathalielawhead.com\/deepfriedcookiecake\/caP1010418.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Other than that the Irvine area is a very pleasant place to live. They’re all over “green-power” and alternative living… at least that’s the case in the area near the John Wayne Airport and cubicle farms. I missed the palm trees.<\/p>\n


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\nA plane over the John Wayne Airport, where they teach flying.
\nMost of the people taking classess there are bored developers.
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\nA high school surrounded by insanely high gates. It’s a “nice” school, meaning the gates aren’t doubled.
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\nStickers on a post in the Costco parking lot.
\nVandalism in the area is near to none so its a rare sight to see, at least rarer in contrast to LA.
\nA kid vandalizing a wall (graffitti) was just recently shot to death by an officer.
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\nGas lines.
\nCostco offers the best prices of gasoline to their members, so the place is usualy packed by cars waiting in line.
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\nIf you switch it the emergency shuts off.
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\nThe malls are unbelievably huge, literally the size of a small town in Europe, and packed with shopers
\nthat come from arround the world to blow their $’s.
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\nA parking lot outside of Ralphs. Most of the strip-malls tout an American flag.
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\nThe UC Irvine natural reserve surrounded by the growing buisness complex. Every possible company
\n(primarily IT and computer) have an office here (Google to mention one).
\nConstruction is constantly taking place, giving way to higher and more elaborate sky-scrapers.
\nThere is some dispute with the union workers and the Irvine Company, although I don’t know the details.
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\nA tree that does not take well to being hugged.
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\nThe swamp.
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\nThe outskirts of the wildlife reserve, marked with a Trail sign.
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\nA skyscraper in the making.
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\nThe arcitecture to many of the buildings is unbelievable. The pictures do them no justice.
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\nThe back of a Hilton hotel situated next to the airport.
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\nThe Arboretum. At certain times of the year the fog is so thick driving through it is a literal imposibility,
\nlet alone a hazard. It also boasts the most car accidents. There’s some urban legend floating arround that
\nsome freak ghost woman dressed in white causes the accidents. A “If you see her you will die” kinda thing.
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reflibman 5 points 2 hours ago
\nI was waiting for a rabbi…<\/em><\/p>\n

DystopianFutureToday 2 points 1 hour ago
\nWhat are you, some kind of anti-semite? (\/snark)<\/em><\/p>\n

doctor_shim 1 point 0 minutes ago
\nHe meant to say ‘rabbit’, but his keyboard ran out of ink<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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