Ball of Destruction
I decided to use Bryce’s side program, Daz Studio, to manipulate the “Victoria” model to create this rendering. With Bryce 5.5, you can click on an icon that brings you to the Studio where you can import complex models (aka posers) and manipulate their poses, and once finished moving their body parts, you can import them back into the Bryce scene you are working on.
This is first time I’ve sat around and actually tried to figure out how to use this program. While it’s somewhat intuitive, (the neck bone is connected to the shoulder bone is connected to arm bone is connected to the hand bone is connected to the finger bone etc.) I had some trouble getting the body parts to move exactly to the positions I wanted them. It ended being a trial and error process, where I started with the vision of making her pray, but being unable to get the hands to move exactly how I wanted them, I ended up making her wrists touch nicely and I realized I could add an object to make them appear to be holding something.
When I imported her back, I realized that I wanted to continue using the hurricane motif that I’ve been using lately. The sphere I placed in her hands is a NOAA satellite image of hurricane Katrina, the background to the left is the first derivative of the Superdome Quilt (aka the hurricane’s destruction), and on her body I used a USGS aerial photo of downtown Washington, DC, specifically featuring the White House.
I chose the White House because the inferred blame of the hurricane’s cause and aftermath lies squarely on those in the White House. I’d love to use the Capitol for a rendering (some blame goes there as well), but like the U.S. Naval Observatory, it’s visually redacted and doesn’t look that great when rendered.
Regardless, whenever I use the female model in my renderings, she has nearly always been of the aerial photograph of the White House. I guess this is because I’ve kept the notion alive in my head that she is supposed to be Mother Earth and all the power in the world is located there.
Up next I have new style of quilt in the pipeline. For the last 12 hours it’s been rendering and I am very excited about how it will turn out. Let’s just say I’m going to start using more than one fabric in my quilts!
View close-up detail of the face:
Related Miscellaneous Maps:
- Madison Offset
- Washington Circle Parallelogram
- The Eye of Philadelphia
- Malfunction Junction Offset
- A Navy Yard Perspective
- A Gigapan of Erie Coke Corporation Eye
- Erie Coke Corporation Eye
- Eye 670 - A perspective of Interstate 670 in downtown Kansas City
- The National Archives Cross
- Meridian Hill Park Hexagon Tessellation
- QR Code Tessellation
- another QR Code mistake
- Memphis Cross
- Vassar Quilt Refraction
- Scott + Dupont Circle Quilt
- Brownsville Spheres
- White House Peace
- ordered last week: New Blaeu
- Federal Triangle Refraction
- Washington + Dupont Circle Quilt
- The Mount Pleasant Cross
- Charlotte Spheres
- The Grand Design Lenz Quilt
- Clayton Quilt #3
- A New Map of the Pentagon
- The Pentagon Spheres
- A Wrinkle in Chicago
- The Shanghai Map
- Society is Enriched by Labor :: Socio Ditata Labore
- Vermont Avenue Sprocket
- San Antonio Sprocket #2
- San Antonio Sprocket
- Temporal Stereography of Schiller Park, Illinois
- Meridian Hill Park Mask
- A Degraded Mask of Meridian Hill Park
- UCLA Quilt #3
- Blue Marble Beauty #2
- Blue Marble Beauty
- Jefferson Sparks
- Boxes of Jefferson
- Knot the National Mall
- Washington Monument Zoom
- DC Stencil
- N Prague (or Z Prague)
- Minneapolis Sunrise
- Boston Volcano
- Mall Mountain
- White House Sunset
- Lady Liberty on a quilt of the Pearl River Delta
- String of DC
- Bush's Bitch stands up to be heard
- Baltimore World Trade Center...
- More Bush than you ever want to see...
- Mississippi Delta Reflection Balls
- Spherish
Related New Orleans Maps:
- ordered today: Superdome Quilt #2 & Charlotte Spheres
- Imagekind Curator's Pick
- Polar Coordinates of the Super Dome in New Orleans, Louisiana [hexagon]
- NewOrLincoln
- Ball of Destruction
- Superdome Quilt 1st Derivative #2
- Superdome Quilt - 1st Derivative
- Superdome Quilt
- Abstract Katrina
- Katrina Quilt
Related White House Maps:
- Photograph of the Vigil for the 40 Year Anniversary of America's War on Drugs
- GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place
- President Andrew Johnson’s Veto Message to Congress Concerning A Bill to Regulate the Elective Franchise in the District of Columbia - January 5, 1867
- Nixon Sends GIs Into Cambodia And An Inverted 1970 Map of Communist Controlled Laos and Cambodia
- A roundup of videos from yesterday's shoe demonstration outside of the White House
- First Amendment Violation in Lafayette Park yesterday; ACLU contacted
- White House Peace
- Within Sight of the White House [Overlay of Hooker's Division]
- The White House is Off-Limits to the Public: An Exploration of Censorship's Perimeter
- Blue Marble Beauty
- Abstract George W. Bush
- White House Mandala
- Adams Morgan - White House Quilt
- Ball of Destruction
- DC Stencil
- White House Warp - geospatial animation
- White House Sunset
- Lady Liberty on a quilt of the Pearl River Delta
- String of DC
- DC Lenz #4
- Bush's Bitch stands up to be heard
- DC Memory
- The Modern Geographer
- Mother Earth #4
- Star of DC
- Abstract DC
- DC Lenz #2
[…] describing (and linking to) the 26-year-old’s work that I’ll just quote a little bit: “Ball of Destruction” [above] shows the Mall and Capitol Hill in the figure of a woman. For security reasons, the feds […]
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