08 August, 2008

*595 - Bliips

A little belated: my darling Bliips from last semester. ARCH 459 final project :)



The Bliips are a curious species that feed on music and live in little glass boxes.
If you open each box, you will find that each cluster sings a different song.

The Bliips dance to their own music.
They pulse according to the beat and sway with the melody.
Their colors and radiance change to reflect the mood of the music.
When the music stops, they fade and wilt.


I still can't believe that I made this! The product of days of panic, tears, hanging laptop, and all-nighters in the Rand computer lab - designing the bliips, choreographing the bliip dance, going blind with measuring out milliseconds and coordinating with the pulsing / swaying / glow / colour of the bliips, tweaking the damn camera which refused to follow its path, and finally helplessly watching my images render at the speed of a sleepy sloth when there were only a few hours to daylight and the project was due the next afternoon and knowing that the rendering takes, what, 5 painful hours.

And running back shivering to catch a few winks before groggily & headache-ily trudging off for my Food Science final paper, and running back to make the final tweaks before presenting in class and secretly burning the final CD for submission during everyone else's presentations.

All the time, with Nuf watching on and beaming at the Bliips when they were being cute and quietly helping me whenever I was about to shrivel up and die :) Thank you Nuf ...


Watch them Bliips dance, yo: