Opepen House wip
Utilizing the Opepen preview grid as the starting point, each edition is a design for a specific room, the smallest unit of architectural thought. Ideas for each room are under development.
Each edition is a partial blueprint for the entire house. Each room may not strictly follow the Opepen-form, but draws from many formal motifs developed by the VV team and community - four cubes, the rounded corners, head + shoulder, semiperfect numbers, etc. Jack and team have created a powerful and simple visual language that could be interpreted by many, but I have always wanted to go deeper and identify a framework where I can build my contribution to the thought.
As with any architecture-inspired works I share, the work is meant to be understood spatially. From the top view (which architects call the 'plan view') you get a conceptual understanding of how the overall layout draws from the Opepen geometry. In addition, each space will be designed so that it can be experienced via oncyber, or any platform of your choice.
For serious collectors with a full set - a complete blueprint - I will develop actual architectural drawings that can be used to build out the space IRL. Think Aman-style retreat with VV concepts.
Updates coming.
I still haven't figure out how to successfully call the @BlockadeLabs SDK api. If you know how or interested in working together, I'd really appreciate it!
@ImCharcher@felix_trz@ogusko
Join us ๐ This month's Design School: Designing Body UI in Bezi https://t.co/raNtF2HZ0L
We will also cover vital skills like pivoting, nesting, and atlasing for 3D assets.
Made a passthrough video player with realtime GI and reflections!
Don't think I've seen official video apps support this, I feel like it adds so much realism
#MetaQuest3#MixedReality#VR
๐ The end of 2023 inches closer at warp speed! I want to send appreciation to everyone (especially to you, who are reading this ๐ฅฐ) for a year of challenges, discoveries, and sensual delights (!)
What EPIC, EFFERVESCEEEENT things happened in the last year?
1. recorded 462 hours of piano in the workshop
2. launched my music + pocket-sized adventures newsletter, publishing 13 issues, with support from pledged subscribers even though I didn't request it !
3. released Travel Poems . Chapter 2 . The night sea into the world, kicked off with a concert + exhibition at Pandora Art Gallery
4. Travel Poems . Chapter 2 is selected for John Kehlโs (@SongSurfingPod) list of Favorite Albums of 2022 ๐ฟ
5. released 40 OTHER recordings, including 2 music postcards
6. music postcard 24 gets exhibited in the theater at Olafur Arnalds's concert!
7. direct support: sold over 200 NFT editions, and two 1/1s, alongside albums and golden tickets
8. the wonderfulest interviewer Daniel Lazar put out our 1-hr-40-min deep convo for his season 10 premiere of For a Living (@ForaLiving_Pod), alongside a music tribute made with Brian Trahan and Joshua Weiner ๐
9. I was awarded support by New York State Council on the Arts @NYSCArts, to write music throughout 2023
10. โRuby, My Heroโ was selected by @tedgioia for his Honest Broker publication
11. first tour around Taiwan, first concert series in the Open Metaverse ๐ฅ
12. was told I sound like Cory Henry mixed with Nils Frahm
13. I began going behind the scenes and showing myself โย this is a big deal; it has started with 4 deep-dives on Travel Poems tracks: words and feelings that I didn't think to look for even six months ago.
14. met oodles of out-of-this-world lovely people, played lots of delightful and ear-opening concerts, attended so many inspiring shows (hello Madison Cunningham at Union Chapel ?!)
15. collaborations with @fmiasp, @WintermuteGAN, @Ellii_art, @singlezer0, and other luminaries I can't announce yet
16. wrote 16 issues of the Meme Maxis newsletter, thanks to the community of supporters of The Memes by @punk6529
17. organized 3 minicollider events with @brianpretends and @PiaWild
18. took 12,954 photographs (excluding phone shots)
19. found a morning routine that's fun, nourishing for the soul, and easy to keep consistent
20. encountered 7 moon sightings that took my breath away
21. ate 22 pounds of chocolate
Thank you. I'm so happy you're here ... your support is so immeasurable that it makes me teary-eyed. Especially because a tree is hardest to nurture in the beginning /ย indeed, we are just getting started ๐
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Happy Birthday MemeMaxis!
Today we have been collecting Memes, making art, discussing high & low & supporting each other for a year!
So much talent, knowledge & great friendships in this group!
Big thanks to Punk6529 for inspiering us to get together!
Tweet that started it!๐