Making It Live
Ok, I’ve been talking to the void for too long. I just made a few little stylistic tweaks, and now the Garage door has been opened. This is what it looked like the day it went live.
Sounds of the City
This is my dream come true. The dopest intersection of technologies. Put on a good set of headphones and go directly here: youarelistening.to/newyork
Stasis Net from Shipbreakers
Okay, this post is for a different project all together. But it’s dope and relevant – when you start reading The Shipbreakers you’ll get it. But peep this article.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nitto Seimo Co aim to tackle the increasingly hazardous problem of debris damaging space shuttles and satellites.
The new system involves launching a satellite attached to a thin metal net spanning several kilometers into space, before the net is detached and begins to capture space waste while orbiting earth.
During its rubbish collecting journey, the net will become charged with electricity and eventually be drawn back towards earth by magnetic fields – before both the net and its contents will burn upon entering the atmosphere.
Inspired by a basic fishing net concept, the super-strong space nets have been the subject of extensive research by Nitto Seimo for the past six years and consist of three layered metal threads, each measuring 1mm diameter and intertwined with fibres as thin as human hair.
The company, which became famous for inventing the world’s first machine to make strong knotless fishing nets in 1925, is aiming for the fuel-free system to be completed within two years. Keep Reading on their Site.
a design question
We’ve been working on a pitch book for Gatecrashers. The bulk of it is in the style of the Palomar Observer, then some of it is presented as if on the monitor of a STRC team dash-mounted display. But from there we have to get into the business of the business a bit and that’s where it gets a bit tricky. Here’s a background element I created. We’ll see if it makes it to the final. ps. in the studio this morning listening to Ill Street Lounge
K&R
Working on the District outlines and history right now. Which lead to an exploration of how the Culture Clashes started. I certainly think that some of the Skynests resemble refugee camps, though they’re probably closer to the communities of laborers who flock to places like Mumbai in search of work and to send money home to families. As I was writing today I came across an earlier entry about KR Teams. Kidnapping and Ransom units. The most likely scenario for KR:STRC teams would be extraction, with little regard for the kidnappers.
A New Year
Ok, my producer has been hounding me to get to work on this. We’ve only been talking about it forever. So I’m hitting it with a renewed vigor, in between producing a lot of motion pictures (day job) and raising a family (6 month old baby) and renovating a new apartment (yep, pretty dope, the kitchen is gonna blow your mind). That’s my computer’s view of the back of my studio wall in Soho, NYC.
I’ve finally started working on some visuals, not just text. That’s always fun. Peep this first pass on a logo for STRC the Palomar City special police force. Think Hercules Team in NYC.
As I was working on this, I started piecing together the STRC teams, The main positions are Bulldog Unit, which is two cops in a wheeled vehicle. Then you’ve got STRC Street Hornets. These are single man patrols. They don’t venture far from STRC Forts which are located in every District in Palomar City.
(Oh shit, has it really been just about a year since I started this fucking blog?)
On Transmedia
“Happy Halloween Ladies…” (name that quote?)
Ok, the branding has gone too far. We need not try to redefine the contemporary media-scape by defining it as a new way of telling stories. Stories will be told. I found this set of articles interesting at first, then a bit confounding. b/c of items like this:
I used to make myself crazy with one more qualifier — the character would have to know how to put up sites and profiles of that complexity. But I believe it’s an emerging convention not to overthink personal websites with production values exceeding the plausible skill of the character in question. (And if it’s not, then it should be!) Don’t let realism trip you into weakening your story.
I was going to trash it, but on reflection, go give these a read, they are interesting.
Show and Tell – Deus Ex Machinatio
Conveying Action in Transmedia – Deus Ex Machinatio
Characterizations for Transmedia – Deus Ex Machinatio
[and yes, those are monogrammed pajamas and I’m drinking a delicious cup of coffee brewed in a cheap black and decker with beans from La Colombe]
Chicago
Alright, I’m sitting in a hotel room in Chicago. The Orrington Hotel. It’s a pretty dope, deco modern sort of joint, with dark red walls and cool round mirror in the room. I’m on MTV’s dime, not my own, so the rooms a bit bigger than usual. I’m on the road for 3 weeks with another project. (peep refresheverything.com it’s very cool, very worth seeing, very worth voting for, and very worth coming up with an idea of your own.)
So I’ve got the day off tomorrow (That’s why i’m drinking wine). And I hope to both by a book [Maximum City] and also take a bit of time to write some TGC. I’ll send an update then.
zach
Treatments and Ambient Jams.
Cleaning up the ‘bible’ and hitting some larger story treatments today. I’m taking it a bit slower in the headphones with a more ambient thing. www.paxahau.com Ambient / Electonic LIVE from Detroit. Streaming on iTunes here.
One of the most fun aspects of this world is the body mods, but I’m still tied up in the city politics. I’m reading equal parts medical journal and the business pages for research.
more to come…
ztm
Organization
How to keep all the stories in line? I started the world wiki for myself, but that quickly became a public wiki. Now I need to find a tool for organizing all the story threads. Maybe I’ll make another wiki.
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