Aspiring Design Researcher
- Summer Daze -
My first and ironically last post of 2018. Lots of things went in an unexpected direction this year. I had possibly the worst summer of my life, yet there are some key moments that I will cherish forever, each being represented here as a small blender animation. Despite everything, for the first time since years I can genuinly say that I’m still in a really good place right now.
I hope 2019 has great things in store for all of you!
Because of my anxiety lately, I thought it would be therapeutic to challenge myself to write a journal entry every day this week. Reading back on my week’s entries, I think self-doubt and regret have become my top arch enemies. Sometimes it’s not always easy believing that everything happens for a reason. This week has been a lot of self-reflection and trying not to be so hard on myself for things out of my control. Breathe, reflect, and try to do better.
You’ll never know just where you’ve been, dear, ‘till you get to where you are. When the clock’s run out, the stars align, and the lost are found, will you stand up tall and proud?- “Nothing Left To Lose” by FIELDS
It will be ok, as long as we take care of each other. One ship, one crew, Earth and Humanity.
anyone else upset that they’re trying to give robots ugly, uncanny valley human faces instead of daft punk heads or tv heads
When trying to make an expressive robot head, this:
or this:
Looks good.
This:
is also perfectly acceptable.
However this:
is the stuff of nightmares.
You’re never going to make it look human, stop trying. Make it look obviously inhuman in a way that looks good instead of diving further and further into the crevasse of Things That Should Not Be.
same thing with prosthetics TBH, this shit looks simply bad and pitiful
This however looks cool and enhanced, I think way fewer people would look at this with pity
I once spoke to a girl with a prosthetic who was pretty excited about the new possibilities, she said people always see her as a broken human, as someone who is not complete, while she sees herself as a fully functional cyborg, and I found it quiet powerful.
Yeah, I recall the tale of a pair of servicemen, a man and woman who lost opposite arms. They gave them these very functional prototype prosthetics that use peroxide steam to work, but the artificial skin was hideous. They both independently stopped putting the skin on the arm and were happy to just glue pads to the fingers to grip with and walk around with a Terminator looking skeletal metal arm.
Gosh damn, that leg is absolutely gorgeous!
The key to good prosthetics is to embrace that they aren’t a real arm/leg but still perfectly good and useful instead of trying to make it a cheap imitation of a human limb.
