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2018 - 2019
120.65 cm x 242.57 cm
47.5" x 95.5"
Urethane and acrylic binders, pigments in dispersal water, dry iridescent pigments and resin on panel.
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I started Binary Breakdown in early 2018. It was my intention to let the painting grow and develop without meaning. I wanted to stay in a state of active meditation throughout the process of creation by keeping thought conceptually loose. Nothingness is the dominate influence in this painting.
Working flat I was able to suspend a sense of bottom and top, allowing this painting to be hung in four orientations with four different titles. I applied the titles after the painting was documented. The title Binary Breakdown refers to the disintegration of gender identity based on anatomy in contemporary culture.
Feminine and masculine symbols create a duality in the lower half of the painting. All things flow from the single feminine symbol on the left toward the multiple masculine symbols center right. The simplicity of this dichotomous separation speaks of the human need for meaning when confronted with the discomfort of chaos. But it also speaks of the bifurcation into opposites from a single source. The Eastern philosophical symbol of Yin and Yang comes to mind. Suspended above this separation is a mass of organic shapes and colors whose individuated details can only be grasped through close observation.
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology Building - UTS
Sydney, Australia.
Architect: Denton Corker Marshall
Contractor: Lend Lease
Cpmpleted:2014
Project Cost: $240 million
Energy rating:5 Star (GBCD)
The FEIT (Building 11) is part of the new constructions that have revitalised the western gateway to Sydney’s CBD.
It is a massive investment in the future of education & research, with the ability to accommodate up to 5,000 students & staff.
The 12 level, 44,000 sq. metre building is cloaked in a shimmering aluminium veil.
The angled semi-transparent facade that envelops the building is made up of aluminium sheets containing binary code patterns.
At night the facade is lit by a myriad of green LED’s providing an impressive light display.
A crevasse-like horizontal and vertical atrium runs through the entire building, providing natural light and pedestrian access via bridge links.
An Escher-like series of stairways connect the two sides of the building.
Unusually, the building has no formal ceilings and has a raised floor system to contain all the building services, including air conditioning.
This gives the building design an industrial element with exposed concrete.
A tree-lined arcade provides a ‘green’ link between Building 11 & Building 10, and features a cafe.
FEIT is a ‘living lab’ with sensors placed throughout its structure to provide ‘realtime’ data on it’s performance including energy production & consumption, and rainwater collection.
The building features nine classrooms, two large tiered theatres, and a 3D Data Arena.
State of the art labs provide high-tech learning & research facilities in aerodynamics, software development, and dynamics & mechanics.
FEIT features a sustainable design, with roof-mounted wind turbines, and solar panels to generate electricity for heating & cooling.
The facade of the building provides natural lighting that reduces energy costs by up to 15%.
The provision of numerous stairways encourages less usage of lifts.
Source:
UTS Media Kit June 2014
Ansel Adams wrote a lot about visualization, and especially pre-visualization. What he meant was that the final print should be seen in your head, mind's eye, before you actually take the picture. This picture is of the walls behind Hamilton's City Hall. They are normally slate gray, but I imagined them very high contrast to make the holes in the walls look like binary or musical code. Processed to achieve the effect I was looking for.
'Hello Kid'
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX670 MX
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Platform: PC
Program used: SweetFX
Alterations: Vibrance, SMAA Anti-aliasing, Bloom, and HDR, Saturation, Sharpness
Variant on Binary Kite.
Rendered in POVRay. I seriously need to learn how to work with materials and lightning in POVRay.
Rapidly rotating, seething with heavy elements waiting to break free in a dazzling shot heard round the galaxy...
A baby girl quilt for my friends Joelle & Gabo - they're both geeky aerospace engineers, so I figured a quilt featuring binary would be right up their alley! I did make a somewhat major mistake with the binary, any guesses?
There are quite a few pieces in this quilt and coupled with the pink linen blend, it's fairly heavy. I'm thinking for the quilting, I'm just going to do some random lines across the front, so that it's not too stiff & heavy. Quilting OPINIONS welcome! (I originally was thinking pebble quilting, but I think that's just a bit too dense for this top.)
Stats
Fabric: Tula Pink Parisville Eye Drops in Dusk with Free Spirit Linen in Blush; Backing is Joel Dewberry Heirloom Blockprint Blossom in Amethyst
Size: Approx. 53" x 40"
Made: August 2011
Pieces: ~500 (I used 4 bobbins to make the top)
Blogged: ~Michelle's Musings~
Binary Conversation, depicts two monumental heads turned towards one another. It was unveiled in 2012 in Newbury, Berkshire as part of the Willlow Close housing development and was produced by Joseph Hillier.
One of the heads is formed from hundreds of circular rings, the other from hundreds of round particles – creating the impression that they have been pixelated.
Pictober day eight. Prompt - eight
I wasn't going to post this one here, but it was well received on DA and IG, so here you have it.
If this makes sense to you, you have fairly serious geek creds.
(Dad taught us all how to count to 31 on one hand in binary.)
#blackandwhite,
#pictober2021, #pictober, #hand, #binary, #01000b,
I shot this on my walk before supper tonight. This is another iPhone photo, but I needed to capture this moment.
"Root of Tree" kirigami version (fractal binary tree)
design: Alessandro Beber, Oct. 2019
fold: Alessandro Beber, Oct.-Nov. 2019
paper: one single 21cm square of 80gsm Canson tracing paper
Here are some examples of my recent kirigami fractal. It was first designed from a 1:√3 rectangle with the last CDO @origamicdo contest in mind, but being a kirigami (using folds and CUTS!) it could not be accepted. You can see a modular origami version in the previous post.
Anyway, I'm very proud of this design, as it is a REAL single-sheet origami/kirigami fractal, ie. the process itself is a fractal. It means that infinity could be reached with a single, finite sheet!! (Modular approaches require adding more paper to reach the next level)
The construction is very simple, just few folds and one cut, which can be repeated in more places (2x) and smaller scale (1/2) at each step. Each step consists of creasing both diagonals and the horizontal middle line, halfway cutting the sheet in half vertically, and pleat fold the two flaps using angle bisectors, obtaining one triangle with two flaps, both similar to the original sheet, on which you can repeat the process ad infinitum...
Moreover, the process is quite independent from the proportions of the sheet, as you can see from the pictures. It can be made from any kind of rectangle, eventually adding a couple more folds to hide some excess paper appearing when the rectangle is too long (vertically) or placed horizontally.
Try it!
"Space Engine"
5120 x 2880 (Hotsampling via WBG) • In-Game FXAA • Config Tweaks
This is a shot of a couple of moons orbiting a binary star system. Max LOD and other tweaks.
'Angry Hallowed Child' set
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX670 MX
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Platform: PC
Program used: SweetFX
Alterations: Vibrance, SMAA Anti-aliasing, Bloom, and HDR
"Root of Tree" kirigami version (fractal binary tree)
design: Alessandro Beber, Oct. 2019
fold: Alessandro Beber, Oct.-Nov. 2019
paper: one single A4 (silver) rectangle of 80gsm Canson tracing paper
Here are some examples of my recent kirigami fractal. It was first designed from a 1:√3 rectangle with the last CDO @origamicdo contest in mind, but being a kirigami (using folds and CUTS!) it could not be accepted. You can see a modular origami version in the previous post.
Anyway, I'm very proud of this design, as it is a REAL single-sheet origami/kirigami fractal, ie. the process itself is a fractal. It means that infinity could be reached with a single, finite sheet!! (Modular approaches require adding more paper to reach the next level)
The construction is very simple, just few folds and one cut, which can be repeated in more places (2x) and smaller scale (1/2) at each step. Each step consists of creasing both diagonals and the horizontal middle line, halfway cutting the sheet in half vertically, and pleat fold the two flaps using angle bisectors, obtaining one triangle with two flaps, both similar to the original sheet, on which you can repeat the process ad infinitum...
Moreover, the process is quite independent from the proportions of the sheet, as you can see from the pictures. It can be made from any kind of rectangle, eventually adding a couple more folds to hide some excess paper appearing when the rectangle is too long (vertically) or placed horizontally.
Try it!
The binary birthday candle: The only birthday candle you'll ever need. One candle with 7 wicks that you light depending on your age. Works for birthdays 1 through 127.
Read more about this project here.