Project food for thought

This should clear up any confusion.

A new amazing product

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE1pd3HktwA

No, these are not three separate products we are unveiling, this is all one device, we call it the ___________. Boom! Its so intuitive, finally eating comes natural on our device.

Food for thought (Working Prototype)

Extra special effects I saw today

Dauntless barge

Pirates of the caribean special effects analysis

 

 I think anyone who saw the first pirates of the carribean film enjoyed this creative idea used by Jack Sparrow (captain) and Will Turner to infiltrate an enemy vessel. I would propose that the buoyancy of the air-pocket in the picture above would be impossible for two 150lb people to hold down. So how was this filmed? Most likely the first show was done above water merely holding the canoe over what would be open air in either a pool or ocean to get the first shot.

 

But what of the second shot? How was this possible? Well, there's two possibilities based on the time of the shot, either both actors (or doubles since we cant see their face..) had to hold their breath and carry this fully flooded capsized canoe for a few meters, or two scuba divers had tanks placed upside down in the canoe taking breaths from the tanks while overturning the air bubbles from the canoe in-between shots to keep the canoe from floating up and away to surface.

Collateral Excellence

Inside each folder
-Headshot
-Radio Promos/shows on a flash drive
-Shortlist Resume
-Business Card


Delivered these in person to the radio-stations in Michigan that I wanted to work at.

Best part is each station I visited shared their offices with 3-4 other stations so turning in just one is actually like turning in four packets.

Special Note: This is a "for your consideration" packet and not a solid resume. This is merely to keep me in mind before I send in the newer updated resume next winter.

Red letter media

Starwars review

Framing and index vectors; A lessen in profession.

 

Sampled down both of these things so it didnt take up the whole page, notice the index or "pointy" vectors made from the stolen lowe's paint swatches.

Take note that im in the golden rectangle zone, which is merely accidental in both, cameras just capture me perfectly everywhere naturally.

I did some lens flare experiments in some of my pictures but they all made me look too evil so I decided to leave them out for the sake of sanity.

Every other part of my house resembles a big methlab so I figured why not limit myself to only one wall.

And now to figure out why the formatting is locked in centered pyramid mode.

(Spelling for lesson was intentional...nobody got the joke I suppose)

Cory carter here, twitter golden rules, vectors, applied by Pythagoras

Here it is, (included in photo hopefully)

Hbo voyeur-Buddhist meditation

Im going to nitpick here,

The guy is meditating in a Buddhist pose but is listening to a Hindu mantra, http://youtu.be/yD7v-HsTCpc about Ganesh.

Unrelated but necessary

The following movies I could care less

Alien, godfather pt1-2, lord of the rings 1,2,3, gone with the wind,blade runner,moon, Solaris and top gun

Over-rated

Sacred cows of film that stand behind either "I loved the book","I loved the old version" or "it's so old you have to realize they didn't have CGI"

Rhett Butler and Ashley were the only characters I actually cared about in GWTW. Solaris was only good for the ordeal of the story and not for the actual moral dilemmas proposed...

Godfather 1/2 were a victim of over inflated nostalgia and pop-culture. Blade runner was the first and therefor "the best"

Moon was rehashed of so many similar short stories and films before it. top gun was just another Tom cruise film like a mark walberg film might some day become in 20 years.

Alien was too flawed for the sake of plot, the "it's just a movie" excuse can often be the cover for bad writing.

Lord of the rings was fun to look at, too whimsical for me and detaching. I get it, it's an allegory for WWI and isolationism.

Valentine$ Day....

ENTER THE VOID; OF DESIGN PRESENTATION LAND~~

For my design presentation I thought I could do a nice comparison between the beauty and refined design of Monster Energy drinks versus that of it's "yee-haw" competitors Rockstar and Full Throttle (Red Bull is a niche category). Either that or a story of my chinese remote control light bulbs versus the Phillips and LIFX iphone app controlled brands....however to prevent the whole world from falling asleep....

 

So here we are, talking about energy drinks, so what? 

Well, the design of these monster cans used to be ascetically between "meh" and "who gives a damn".

       But I suppose the marketing and design stepped up in recent years to the point where I will actually be seen buying these otherwise terrible tasting drinks from time to time. The problem is I've been burned so many times from phrases like "nearly edible" and "trust me, it tastes like coconut" to the point that when I saw these cans I just wrote them off and went for the 10lb can of sugar known as AMP, which so stylishly looked like everything I ever wanted in a neon can of lemonade cherry or whatever was in the other cans.

Coconut Water Rockstar, beautiful design, tastes like sour socks

Safe, reliable, colorful, no surprises. Like James Cameron films in canned form.(cans even have an alien form from the "A" in amp... )

       So the designs range from black and blue cans of terrible taste with Rockstar to a whole lineup of sleek,reflective,streamlined, neon cans of Amp (although my head hurts everytime I see those conflicting fonts....). You know, nothing special aside from stark similarity of one product to the other and all that.

      Once again you may ask, "why did I read this far into this junk?" well I don't see you doing a better analysis of canned soda now do I? That's what I thought. I get it, this is a little too indepth but I'll summarize.

       I remember I was at a baseball game the day I decided to give up on energy drinks that tasted "good" as I slurped down a green Monster energy drink, only to discover it tasted terrible somehow when mere weeks ago I loved the taste or flavor. I wrote that product off the face of the earth, until one morning three years later I stumbled across such a stange can at my convenience store...

Game changer for my hatred of energy.

      Here it was, a bright red can with Russian font on the front literally saying "Russian". "What the hell is this and what does Russia taste like when canned?" I asked myself. It didnt stop there however. I turn it over...

Yep hammer, sickle and all

This is literally the design of the Kremlin on a soda can, with a Soviet Era Flag. Me being a collector of Soviet Memorabilia I threw the two dollars at the cashiers face and gave it a swig.
Absolutely delicious. If it were just the boring everyday label I may have missed it entirely, White Russian Coffee? Outstanding. The can with its perfectly themed red and gold with dark,bleak-black shadowing and etching just made it seem like these cans were forged by Khrushchev himself in-between missile tests.

The design is what brought me back to great flavor and just an absolutely regal design worth displaying like a fine bottle of scotch. Oh sure, it has those tacky claw marks and the text is not in keeping with what could match a better Russian Sans-Serif approach, but it's their brand and I'll let it slide. Similar to another in terms of the claws and the name, none-else.

If you want a flagship for similarity

Dont even get me started on these things!

look no further. This can (right)
 literally could be 99% away
 from the original and yet
with the subtle dots on the
can(to imply condensation
from a carribean embargo-style
country) along with a picture
of a lime on the side, you drop
everything and buy two.
Cuba-Lima? Yes please. Seriously though, side note; buy at least one and try it.

 So now that I've established this tour-de-fource Id just like to show you what Monster has to compete with in the market.

  Either you get the motorcycle oil cans so trashy they are thrown away at the end of rodeos....

...Or you get a green,red and yellow can with zero caffeine and the hidden ability to make you look like you're in-between joints of weed and hoped "this would tie me over".  But no, you just bought tea in a rasta themed can and you paid top dollar for that watered down-tea. No officer, Im a perfectly normal law-abiding-citizen. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to finish off this caffeine free energy drink...made by an energy drink company.          

Sup class

Just checking to see if this is live

Here we go! Harmony and Balance!!

Affective: The feeling of this? Smooth, bright, modern. Clean and simple yet comfortable and cool.
Cognitive perception: Like something of my dreams, with a room like this, with a space like this I feel like I could finally relax. Its design is just so damn futuristic, my only modification would be a plexiglass gloss on the white surfaces to add more smooth and bright reflections.
Phychomotor Response: The flow of lights on the ceiling may be distracting in the long run as would the black diagonal vectors that give off a convex shape where the stereo system and television would be, but I love the sterile,almost surgical room design.

The texture while reflective smoked gray on the floors is a flat white on the ceiling. Shadows are nowhere to be seen, perhaps dynamic shadows from ambient light are present but not a problem for me. The shapes are strong and defined, no wavy abstract shapes that would turn this room into yet another 60's a-go-go room. Color? Ha! We dont need color, any outside sources would provide the color, my guess is that the lights above could change color with a flip of a switch and thusly change the entire color of the room thanks to all the white furniture, walls and the reflective black floors. Growing up in tacky houses with bland wallpaper or muted burgundy & gold-brown walls can often call one to desire vivid colors and stark contrasts in their later years. Its nearly a dream room. I'd also like to note the comfortable looking fur rug. That couch? So cool, I mean physically; a hot day you walk,in lay down, its like your favorite cold pillow but couch sized. 

Position and Orientation of the room is perfect though I dont enjoy this diagonal shot all that much since it means the room may be smaller than it appears or perhaps the lens used for this picture was too distorted for interior shots. 


 

Visceral Responce

                                            Visceral Responce

This Xbox 360 when released was the bee's knees, the end all for a home entertainment system; HD, ipod player, games, camera docking, keyboard support etc. I bought it on day 1 of the release. It was a truely amazing console design.

It's subtle lines and shapes pushing in, the grated holes for ventilation  the smooth platinum embossing of the DVD tray. The light matted white almost stucko form which held just a slight amount of reflection, this thing was just so cool for its day. There were a few drawbacks however; it would break within 3 years almost guaranteed and every part of that console would degrade from a nice artic white to the "old telephone"dusty beige-yellow. I sent this thing back and forth to an official Xbox repair site in Kentucky, it was no longer the thing of beauty I saw before. I had a cringe reaction to the white ones as a ticking timebomb to the point of not even considering purchase of one at a pawn shop for one third of the price retail. My roommate currently has a white one that hasnt died yet, in the back of my head I still think to myself..."someday"...

   So what happened? Well, the designers were more concerned about form than function, they wanted a powerhouse of heat and processing, but in a tiny white plastic case with only tiny, tiny holes for ventilation.

This was the older Xbox, an exact opposite of the original 360`

                          Then came the redesign, called the slim, priced at 200$. After a full 2 years without videogames I finally ponied up the dough and bought this one. Smaller, black, touch activated and best of all a thundering powerhouse of durability. It was estimated that Microsoft's Xbox 360 division lost around 4-5 billion dollars behind the poor design of the original Xbox 360, no more of that. As you may notice these large black grates provide proper ventilation for the console which were missing in the older design which had terrible force (tiny holes will never ventilate better than large grates). They finally went back to their roots and just "did whats right". No more function trumping form.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bN_3w75zoE

In the video they explain the design as compared to the older xbox to the more smooth, white, concave and well, refined modern Xbox 360.

The realization was that similar products were white in Japan and sold better, most notably the newer Playstation 2 redesign and the Nintendo gaming consoles. The Japanese designs would have white/silver products sitting around the living room and then here sat a big bulky black American Xbox console.
Having not sold well, they decided to make the newer Xbox 360 White in hopes of finally acquiring that highly desired Japanese market.
After a few years they finally switched back to the tried and true black in the default slim model. I bought myself a black Xbox 360 last year and now.....

  Yep, right on back to this beauty, which almost make me want my newer xbox to die in able to justify buying this "iPhone Xbox". Sleek, glossy, modern. It does the exact same thing my console from 2005 could do, yet it looks prettier doing so.