Sunday, June 08, 2008

what things sometimes look like


















what things sometimes look like

things sometimes look plastic, all hard and angular edges. they look confused and disheveled, turning around and around.

things that are round look 2 dimensional, but they aren't! spheres that twist and spin have sloping surfaces whose geometry positions itself without considering the eye.

things that make no sense are further complicated. they wind and fall and jut out sideways. put together, they look like mountain tops.

giant tetris bricks fall from above in 3 dimensional space. the green rain of the matrix data stream plops downward in a waterfall. the giant tetris bricks rotate around their central axis and arrange themselves in a double helix which separates.

the neon green and black matrix screensaver is visualized. held at arms length, structures recede into the distance. rectangular prisms full of innards dazzle and react to the touchscreen.

a side scrolling video sequence -- angular lego bricks and vicious sharp tetris bricks zig zagging and colliding and moving down one unit at a time.

with eyes closed they look like this