MASHUP

She was a pop-culture monster, but Today she is an inspiration. She's tapped into one of the primary obsessions of our age, cranking out weird stuff. Her commitment to confront the changing notion of what's "natural" has changed the way the world thinks. Her message is empowering, it’s about the top-selling artist that almost never made it at all.


More than any other individual the source of her greatest influence was the most successful designer on the planet. He took his share of beatings for nearly 14 years, struggled with many of the challenges to take the monster and turn the monster into a woman of moral character and a source of strength for millions. She would not become a guru overnight.


Inviting her into his hilltop home in San Francisco was the most extreme option but it has transformed her life. In this context, he had even more to offer - his Zen-like obsession and an abiding commitment to the principles of austere aesthetic constructed a persona from pop-cultural sources.


To him, where a thing is made is fundamental to its character. It’s an amazing synergy, the very thing that makes it so powerful. Makes you want to switch to an industrial design course.



References:


Jonathan Van Meter, “Lady Gaga: Our lady of Pop,” Vogue, accessed May 10, 2011, http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/lady-gaga-our-lady-of-pop/


Kira Cochrane, “Lady Gaga Outlandish dresser, performer and politicised pop icon for the Twitter generation,” The Guardian, March 8, 2011, accessed May 10, 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/mar/08/lady-gaga-100-women


Ann Powers, “Frank talk with Lady Gaga,” La Times, accessed May 10, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/13/entertainment/la-ca-lady-gaga13-2009dec13


Condoleeza Rice, “Oprah Winfrey,” Time, accessed May 10, 2011, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187226,00.html


Rob Waugh, “How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind £200billion Apple?,” Daily Mail, accessed May 10, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1367481/Apples-Jonathan-Ive-How-did-British-polytechnic-graduate-design-genius.html


Stephen Bayley, “...on Jonathan Ive, the Designers’ Designer,” Daily Mail, accessed May 10, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1367481/Apples-Jonathan-Ive-How-did-British-polytechnic-graduate-design-genius.html

EXPERIMENT 3 VALLEY

Three images of San Franscisco California. Home to Apple's designer Jonathan Ive and now the inspiration  for my Experiment 3 valley. 

WALKTHROUGH ANIMATION OF EXP2

LINK TO FOLDERS AND MODEL

LINK TO 'LEVELS' FOLDER: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_0jt5SPfSuqMzQwMTNiY2ItYTBiMS00Nzk5LTlmZGYtODc1ZGQwYTAwOWE0&hl=en

win RAR 'LEVELS' file here: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_0jt5SPfSuqN2ZjN2M4OWUtMzQ3ZS00MDA4LWEyOWUtNmEwNTI5YTFiYjMw&hl=en

LINK TO 'OBJECTS' FOLDER: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_0jt5SPfSuqNmJiM2UwMTItYzc1NC00NGU0LWIzZmUtOTI3MjQ5NzMwNWY1&hl=en

winRAR 'OBJECTS" file here: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_0jt5SPfSuqNmVmMTI4NjgtMjI5Ni00OWVjLWEyMDEtZmNkMDYwZmJhOWVm&hl=en

LINK TO SU MODEL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10902999/z2269615_gilling_exp2_final.skp

ARCHITECTURE: Freud's Dream Lab & Newton's Canon Lab

aerial view showing track from water to site

aerial view showing relationship to landform

aerial view showing relationship to landform and the 2 labs relationship to each other 

aerial view shows Freud Dream Lab is in a linear relationship to Newton Canon Lab

view from in the water shows the position of Newton Canon Lab on the cliff edge

Newton Canon Lab's platform

Newton Canon Lab's relationship with the cliff edge

night view of Freud Dream Lab and lighting

night view of both labs and lighting

entrance to Freud's Dream Lab - the closed in dark space with flickering light gives the visitor the impression of a dream like state

view through slot giving a glimpse of Newton's Canon Lab but not giving too much away

about to step into Newton's Canon Lab - the wall material and the square that frames the view both suggest 'orbit' and the viewer truly experiences the top of the mountain from the end of the platform. 

looking back to Freud's Dream Lab

sunset view is framed through the Newton Canon Lab's square portal 

exposed view from the end of the Newton Canon Lab's platform

view showing Newton Canon Lab portal base and view framed back to Freud Dream Lab

ELECTROLIQUID AGGREGATION

"The mind attempts to orbit the earth from the top of a cannonball during sleep if you fire a mountain."

36 TEXTURES

AXONOMETRICS

Left: Agnesi Truth - Right: Agnesi Zero

Left: Freud Sleep - Right: Freud Filter

Left: Newton Momentum - Right: Newton Canon

HYPOTHESIS

MARIA AGNESI

1. The witch never equals zero

2. Women can do maths just as well as men can

3. Maths is fundamental to the education of Christian youth

4. Women's relationship with maths was never the same after Agnesi's book

5. If there is no evidence there is no truth

SIGMUND FREUD

1. Our psychosexuality changes vastly through different stages of development

2. During sleep, the mind attempts to disconnect the person from reality

3. In the first 5 years of life we develop 3 distinct components of our personality, much of this is hidden in our unconscious.

4. Our mind filters our personality to make it socially acceptable

5. Dream interpretation leads to the knowledge of the unconscious

SIR ISAAC NEWTON

1. If you fire a cannonball from the top of a mountain it will orbit the earth

2. You can't make rainbows with Newon's telescope

3. If a body hits another, its momentum is transferred

4. Moving colours blend into each other

5. A body needs more force applied to it to keep it in the same orbit the faster it goes