Critique session notes:
31.05.23
Table felt like you are looking into a portal- as if you are a God looking down onto earth, or hellscape
Bird’s eye viewpoint- connection to skydiving or travelling in planes, sense of freedom, thrill, and escapism
The frame- the seating in a stadium, the audience. Also a separation device
Cards on the frame- pulls the characters out from the world and behind the frame with the viewer. Cards facing you suggest that this is your character.
Capitalism- are we complicit or are we victims? Are we the machine or are we victims of the machine?
Distancing mechanisms
Illusion of power, control, and distance
Frame also creates an invisible forcefield surface- what will breach this forcefield and will remain contained within it? Will the obelisk breach it?
AI cards- better feedback than I expected, yay- Eldritch (uncanny, otherworldly), HP Lovecraft, unseeable Gods, unattainable language. Feels like a glitch, matrix, or the moment when you’re trying to read in a dream but the words don’t make sense.
How much specific knowledge do we need to have to encounter this?
Game looks playable, but you don’t yet understand the nuances behind it, and don’t feel like you ever will, it feels overly complicated
Reply to previous note: But doesn’t that reflect the world we exist within? We don’t know what is going on but we do our best to keep going
Black hole, or rabbit hole. How much is too much, where it becomes conspiracy?
What is the symbolic language at play?
Tapping into cultural vernacular
Establishing rules, ways of engagement, or where to begin
Understanding the signs of a boardgame, but not understanding how to play this particular game- is this something I have intended, or not?
People who have experience of ‘gaming’ feel like this is more approachable, and know how to engage in it, whereas people who don’t have this experience can’t understand it
Video-game POV- feels like the map they give you for navigation and quest goals
UNLOCKED ROOMS- gauzy screen blocking out map
What access to different levels do we have? Is there an upgrade level, secret level? Is there a boss level? What do you have to do to earn it?
Who has access to what and when and how?
Level of knowledge, enchants or disenchants playing as a factor into how far you get
Unfinished shelf (the underneath and tucked away)- secrets, space, reveals and hides, has value to it- slow burning corridors, pathways to secret places and discoveries
Hidden lore
Tabletop space- neutral space- relationship between the board and table, should the whole table be activated and alive? Visual image, digital images, Warhammer style diorama?- 3Dimensional space, rising and falling of pathways, emerging from flat surfaces
What is flat? What is image? What is dimension?
What material knowledge system it comes in
Mary McGregor Reid: DND models, ask Justine at the library if I could have a conversation with her
Rectangular shape of table- looks like TV screen. Dining table dynamics. All have a structural place, engagement and operation, hierarchy, competition and teamwork, opposite side suggests rivalry, whereas the person sitting next to you seems to be your team mate. Natural congregation around tables.
Dungeon Master having the head of the table- how is this different from the other seats? Seat as prompt. Image as signifier as it not being a players seat.
Stage of the game presented- has been it been played? Is it mid-game? Is it after the game has finished?
Do I want them to play or not? Performance? Someone sitting at the head of the table, or playing?
Prompts to INCLUDE or EXCLUDE people. Inviting or not?
Interactive, performative, or an object to look at? ENCOUNTER
Level of SPECIFICITY- level of buy-in. Fans want specifics of the story and invented mythology. Level of detail is crucial. LORE HUNTING. Fan cultures of internet culture and media- code, deep diving, easter eggs
“Ancient mythologies” in statement- too broad, needs to be specified
Ironic or serious? Celebration or critique?
Celine Frampton- AI- Four Apostles who witnessed the crucifixion. 4 different viewpoints around the event.
Triangulate the viewpoints on that history. Each God’s viewpoint on the same subject
Characterisation beyond card content of character
AI- loop over and over- AI dealing with human and emotional narratives- highlights the gaps and failures
AI- how do you know what is intentional and what isn’t? Incorporating the failures into the project
Reference to contemporary, or futuristic, places. Not just ancient. Familiarity
Battle Angel Alita (Manga)- garbage chute of razors
Two locations- how to get from A to B?
Material Investigation can be pushed - seriousness with the treatment of materials, materials that are weighty, cold, feel ancient
Small resin trinkets- 1:4 scale, feels like a reward, or token to be won
Items, physical inventory. Things. Materiality to make things mire substantial
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To be or not to be (a blackmailer) part 2
After the incident with Damian, word spread throughout the Wayne family, and now everyone was fighting over who would get to meet the newest member of the family (aside from Alfred, who was simply too dignified for something like that, and Bruce, who knew that Danny was coming over next weekend to visit the foster kittens.)
Jason was the next to interact with Danny, and contrary to what anyone says, it was purely by accident that he managed to bump into the kid.
Danny was chasing after a ghost who had stolen his newest invention for a Wayne Industries competition. He was hoping to use the invention to gain an internship in the engineering department and finally get out of the fast food industry. The ghost was a child and seemed to grab anything shiny or even remotely interesting.
He'd chased the kid all the way to a warehouse in Crime Alley where the kid lost steam and gave up the chase. Danny grabs the device, rips open a bright green portal, and shoves the kid through before quickly closing it again.
He's not in a hurry to head home, and he kinda needs to stop at the store anyway for a few ingredients before Tim comes by for dinner, so he transforms out of ghost form after making sure no one is around. He doesn't really come to Crime Alley often, so he wasn't expecting the mugging he was being subjected to by some creep with a pocketknife. He wasn't surprised (it's Crime Alley after all) but he'd been going over his grocery list in his head.
He was debating whether to completely ignore the guy or to punch the guy in the face when Red Hood came out of nowhere and smacked him around before turning to Danny and making sure he was ok.
Danny, of course, has to say something snarky while at the same time reassuring the hero that he was, in fact, just dandy.
Jason didn't rush all the way over here for nothing and racked his brain for any ideas that would let him hang with Danny. He didn't have to, though, because Danny stared at him with starry eyes and enthusiastically asked for an autograph AND a picture in one breathless sentence. Mentally punching the air he brings out his own phone and they both get pictures of the duo.
Jason only wanted the photo to rub it in everyone's face while Danny wanted a keepsake of his favorite Gotham hero. No matter what Tim said, Red Robin was Not the best and that was something they'd just have to agree to disagree on even if Tim did grumble about it every time it was brought up.
Red Hood drove Danny to the store and even waited for him to finish so he could drive him home. A few more pics in hand, and a dazed Danny was dropped off at his apartment.
The Wayne manor was in an uproar when the pics hit the Batfam group chat.
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today's 'technology is in such a hell state now that I genuinely feel compelled to scream about it daily' moment was my trying to print and scan a document, with my printer/scanner (which, I must have you note, despite my pleading with the seller did not come with usb wire option available, and none of the others did).
Predictably, having been used on the day of purchase and not since, the printer did not work despite being less than 6 months old. Searching for why this could be led me down a rabbit hole that eventually resolved into how the print cartridges for this model just dry out and clog up if you don't use them every single week. you know. what a normal thing to happen. but don't worry! just soak the bottom in a shallow bath of warm water for 30 minutes dry it off and reinstall it that'll make it work
8)
you what.
Anyway, it did work. I print the test sheet, boom, what should have worked before at least worked now. And there was Much Rejoicing.
alas. alas. how shortly lived it was.
Now I naturally move on to print the document, sign it, and scan the newly signed document. The document from my pc. With this printer/scanner which is sitting on a desk directly NEXT TO my pc.
Which. will not. connect to my pc.
I plead. I bargain. I follow the wizard twice, thrice, but it is a cruel wizard, a tormenter from the nether world. "Type in the IP address!" He taunts me, cackling maniacally as I do, weeping over my staggering fingers attempting to puzzle the code out of the 1 inch touch screen, numbers and dots jazzing into nonsense in my field of vision as I loose all comprehension of what the symbols mean. The printer cannot be found. The printer does not Exist. The printer, at this moment, the sole focus of my gaze, decides it is bored and goes to sleep, therefore ending the whole attempt of communicating with it just as the 938678th loading bar had reached its zenith and I, ever the hapless Sisyphus, watch my dignity flatten into a pancake of wordless, stark-eyed bewilderment verging on hysteria as my boulder crashes back down the hill as the wizard begins to drag me back to the beginning of his never ending Labrynth, to be eaten by and become the ouroboros yet again but no! I will not enter back! I shall bite down, break my scales, and end this cycle of tyrannous misery!
anyway that's why I ended up taking a shitty photo with my phone's camera and I'm doctoring it in CSPaint to look like I scanned it with the SCANNER THAT I AM ABOUT TO THROW OUT OF A SECOND STORY WINDOW
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KamehameHamlet Archives: Freeza's Tail
Vegeta (and his helmet) have gotten a lot of love, but I wanted to highlight my other favorite piece of costuming: Freeza's tail!
Read on to see it in action, and how it was made!
Made of a super long industrial pool noodle (with some theatre magic modifications), this costume piece/prop whipped around stage behind Cayla with a twisted fluidity that tied together Freeza's look. I mean just look at how it hooks around the rock then lashes out when Cayla turns sharply.
Let's take a look at how it was made!
The original idea for the tail was based on those wooden snake toys and I cut up a pool noodle as a protoype and sent the following video to our costume designer/magician Sarah Simon.
Sarah took my less-than-half-baked idea and crafted the final form of the tail. She shaved down a large white pool noodle to a taper, and instead of cutting all the way through, she used precise slices at varying angles which allowed specific bends exactly where we wanted them. The diagram below explains it better.
So why put all of this effort into this piece:
1. It's cool. Duh.
2. We needed to be able to pull off this moment.
Thanks for reading! Oh and if you are thinking the following...
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The footage in the gifs comes from a short recording during tech sent to our fight choreographer to show how the choreo looked in the theatre. I'm combing through old videos of that time to find pieces worth sharing with you. Follow this blog to see these snippets or follow the links below to learn more!
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