Star Signs

This image basically shows the constellations of the Zodiac Star Signs in the path of the sun.

Star Signs: 

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

virgo

Libra

Scorpius

Sagittarius

Capricornus

Aquarius

Pisces

PLAN

I have got a good idea for this project. I have been researching into star signs and how their constellations are formed. I will be using the constellations to create creatures for the star signs. I will be creating two types of creatures, nice ones and mean ones. To develop this project further, I could create mini-animations showing the creatures designed. 

Time, Artifice and The Virtual

For this assignment, we are working in pairs; my partner Max and I have chosen the keyword Viruses. 

The quotation given with the keyword is:

 ‘Well, I was born in 1930 and I remember going to the New York Worlds fair in 1939 and at that time the future was wonderful; six lane highways controlled by electrical machinery and electro-mechanical this and that. It was a grand future and we would all have four day work weeks or three day work weeks because machines would do most of our labour and things would just get better and better for everybody because we would all benefit from this power and control. Things have turned out so vastly different from that. Within six years of that the Dresden in Tokyo had been fire bombed and Russia and Nagasaki had been A-bombed and the Jews in Germany and Eastern Europe had been slaughtered and things went to hell and continued to go to hell. What more can I say.’ - Kenneth Knowlton, 2002

We will be working together in studying the keyword and quotation to create a piece that would symbolize what it is. 

To see the work we have done on this project please click on the link below:

http://virusesproject.blogspot.com/ 

New Project - Invisible Architecture

INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURE

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For this project I have decided to focus on Stars and Creatures.

Stars
A star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth. Other stars are visible in the night sky, when they are not outshone by the Sun. For most of its life, a star shines due to thermonuclear fusion in its core releasing energy that traverses the star's interior and then radiates into outer space. Almost all elements heavier than hydrogen and helium were created by fusion processes in stars.

Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24 
Credit: NASA, ESA and J. M. Apellániz (IAA, Spain)

Image Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubbl Collaboration

Scorpius Constellation with blurred bright star

Image Credits: http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim/Scorpius_constellation-LHRVB-50mm.html

Under-sea coral? Enchanted castle? Space serpents? These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are actually columns of hydrogen gas and dust where new stars are being formed. This picture of the Eagle Nebula was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula is 7000 light years from Earth and is huge - the largest pillar is about 4 light years from the top to bottom. 

I will be researching further into the stars and see if I can create imaginary creatures from the stars.