I revere learning because it is a fundamental inspiration. It isn't just something that has to do with duty; it is born into us. The will to learn, the desire to learn, is one of the greatest of inspirations. -- Luis I. Kahn

church.com

Posted: January 23rd, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Thoughts | No Comments »

Katolicka cirkev, Jako nejvlivnejsi Organizace v novodobych dejinach si zacina uvedomovat ubytek svych klientu. Citelne ztraty ve svych radach, ktere nastaly v tomto stoleti musi zacit dohanet ucinnym marketingem. Nutno podotknout ze po cela stoleti byla vpodstate hnaci silou veskereho znameho evropskeho umeni – jako hlavni zadavatel a klient (architektura, socharstvi, malirstvi, hudba …) 

Pope Benedict XVI: embracing the digital world. Photograph: Max Rossi/Reuters

Pouzivala toto tvoreni “nadzemske krasy” jako hlavni marketingovy tah pro sve pravidelne platici ovecky – nutno podotknout ze velice uspesne.

Hlavne v nasich zemich byly tyto zdobne obdobi, kdy prevladala cirkev jako investor, (gotika, baroko, secese..) mnohem silnejsi nez slohy racionalni (renesance, klasicismus..) a nutno podotknout ze tento trend u nas prevlada az doposud. Ikdyz paradoxne investorem jiz neni jednotliva instituce ktera potrebuje ochromovat “krasou” ale prosty lid, ktery by logicky mel hledat jine hodnoty (funkcnost, narocnost,…)

Velice me proto prekvapili tyto dve zpravy:

  1. muslimu je letos poprve od sveho rozdeleni vice nez Krestanskych katoliku (myslel jsem, ze je muslimu mnohem vice pod tlakem medialni masaze poslednich let, takze spolu s pravoslavnymi maji katolici stale navrch)
  2. PAPEZ JE ONLINE ZKRZE  PRAVIDELNE YOUTUBE CHANNELU YOUTUBE VATICAN ! 

Myslim ze tento prulomovy marketingovy tah stoji za okomentovani, nestava se mnohokrate za stoleti ze by cirkev zmenila marketingove postupy. Zvlaste s vyuzitim tak novatorskeho media jakym internet je (v horizontu existenci).

Doufam ze si silu tohoto media jednou cirkev oblibi natolik, ze by mohla byt hnaci silou jeho zkraslovani a zefektivnovani tak jako v jinych sferach. 

ihned.cz - guardian.co.uk - youtube channel

 

PS. Jsem verici clovek, nevyznavam “vereni” organizovane a institucionarni


Audi – Rendersession 3

Posted: January 18th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: My works, Personal | 2 Comments »

Audi “Adworld sucks”

Just for fun – personal project made in 2 days (cca 4 hours of pure time). This is the third result of render sessions i started to play with 3 weeks ago. Thanks for postproduction help – Honza Rambousek.

This is the first of serie of Automotive somehow deformed i plan to do.

With Postproduction

With Postproduction (thanks Jan Rambousek)

3D Without postproduction

3D Without postproduction

Audi Adworld sucks

Audi Adworld sucks - wip render


Liv Ducci – projekt Future

Posted: January 10th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Thoughts | No Comments »

Krasny pocin ma na starosti Liv Ducci Lab,

Jedna se o online generator futuristickeho nabytku pro Koncepti je k testovani na tehle strance:

http://livducci.com/future/

  1. Kazdy si muze tvorit svuj vlastni – pro spusteni si zvolite jen nickname a potrebujete Flash player 10
  2. Hrajete si s online krivkama a volite si tvary a barvicky
  3. vygeneruje vam PDF nebo posle do galerie

galerie uzivatelskych vytvoru je k vzhlednuti tady.

http://livducci.com/future/gallery.php


Red Eames and Face – rendersession 2

Posted: January 8th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: My works, Personal | No Comments »

After the last bed rendersession, I got bored again, setup my projector and started to play with more creative tools – google models and sketchup

I really start to like this way of working, its so comfortable and fast in fact.  Here are results after 1.5 hour of this symphony while listening to music…

Red Eames and Face #1

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Red Eames and Face #2

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Red Eames and Face #3

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Red Eames and Face #4

o21


PF 2009

Posted: January 5th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Thoughts | 1,812 Comments »

jeden zajimavy videoklip ktery stoji za vzhlednuti ;)


Studiolight quick render setup

Posted: January 3rd, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: My works, Personal | 37 Comments »

I had a free day off last week to play with some 3D renderings. Actually I was sick and lying in the bed the whole last week so:

  1. Projector on wall closer to bed
  2. Started 3D with bluetooth mouse and keyboard
  3. While laying in the bed, I played with my renderings

Here are the results of this one day session – old Russian VAZ car .3ds model and some testing of studio lighting. I was more playing with the visual results than with technical detail of 3D image.

Actually the whole session took about 3 hours, and I enjoyed how average home computers nowadays are becoming usefull tools more and more … what do you think ?

Simple HDRI reflections and Simple enviro – average rendertime for 1500×1000 image was 12minutes each

http://blog.pavelroder.com/upload/lada1.jpg

I really enjoyed this little rendersession on the wall, will try some more soon…


Architects ?

Posted: December 16th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Thoughts | 3 Comments »

Frank Gehry

Althought i must admit I disagree with formalism of Gehry’s buildings, I find this statement the most important thing about architecture. Especially here in Czech republic and actual situation about architecture as service.

Think about it.


ZunaVision – testovani

Posted: December 12th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Thoughts | No Comments »

Rikal jsem si ze vyzkousim ZunaVision a rozhodl se kontaktovat vyvojare.

Po dvou dnech mi do mailu prisly od ZunaVision testovaci prihlasovaci udaje. Spustil jsem natesene webovou aplikaci, vybral videa, nahral content, zvolil kde se ma objevit a pak jsem 6 minut koukal na tohle:

Processing…

Vysledek byl podle ocekavani, ale 6 minut na serveru mi prijde jeste hodne daleko od realne aplikace pro reklamni kampane v realtime na youtube, nevim jak moc je to o optimalizaci procesu nebo o hardwarove narocnosti (ktera musi byt enormni pro realtime trackovani a klicovani)

Celkova delka videa byla v radu par vterin – prvne jsem si blahove myslel ze to nejprve musi cele prehrat a proces trva dlouho kvuli tomu (prehrani videa).  To by i v praxi znamenalo ze musi nejprve video zprocesovat a o uplnem on-air v realnem case asi nemuze byt rec z tohoto duvodu.

Takze je to v podstate offline zprocesovani videa, ktere je ovsem rychlejsi nez otevreni videa v nejakem video softu a prohnanim klicovatka.

Doufam ze proces kluci odladi k dokonalosti a nevzdaji to. Myslim ze vysledne video uspokojilo co se kvality a casu procesu tyce.


ZunaVision – budoucnost user-generated reklamy

Posted: December 11th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Thoughts | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Zajimavy pocin dvou indu ze Stanfordu. Do amaterskych videi dokaze automaticky vkladat reklamni content -- primo do videa muze vkladat billboardovou kampan nebo dalsi videa ktera se mohou menit.

Nadhera -- nova generace reklamnich nosicu, ktere jsou prirozene jako by tam byly vzdy.

To co se muselo delat s drahymi softy ve specialnich postprodukcnich studiich je mozne pomoci tohoto nastroje delat realtime se zadnymi specialnimi znalostmi uzivatele. Podle videi zvlada bravurne pocitat perpektivu a hlavne klicovat, coz se jen tak nevidi. 

Uvidime nakolik je to pouze prani vyvojaru a jejich PR a nakolik se to stane praxi. 

Imho si myslim ze banerum a kontextove reklamne zacina pomalu zvonit ve 2 letem horizontu. Ikdyz aplikace do realneho prostredi techto reklamnich nosicu bude v nasi kotlince jeste peknou radku let trvat -- nyni musime v CR objevit user-generated blogging a videoblogging a az se pomalu prokouseme viralama a bannerama na portalech a digital nebude znamenat pouze flashovy web s firemni prezentaci :] 

Muzete si to sami vyzkouset na:

http://zunavision.stanford.edu/

Prezentacni video:

Par prikladu aplikace:

http://www.zunavision.com/advertisers.html


Cteni na dlouhe zimni vecery

Posted: November 28th, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Thoughts | No Comments »

Proportions – Richard Padovan (*****)

Tak tohle cteni stoji za to. Ctivou formou popsane zaklady kompozice od jednoduchych geometrickych principu pythagorejske skoly pres renesanci, zlaty rez az po Plasticke cislo Van Der Laana (50. Leta 20 stoleti)
Van der Laan (*1904 +1991) byl holandsky mnich-architekt ktery zlatemu cislu vdechl dalsi rozmer – v zavislosti na prijemci a jeho atributech (vzdalenost od pozorovatele a dane veci…)
Coz dokonale naplnuje vsechny ruzne dalsi principy (superpozice radu na fasade z rimske architektury az po skladani obrazu okem od Hildebranda).
Van der Laan povznesl Le corbusierovsky modulor zase do jine roviny!

Jedna z velice mala knizek ktera se timto velice mladym systemem a Van der Laanem zabyva.

Doporucuji. Da se jeste sehnat na amazon.com

 

K čemu je grafický design ? – Alice Twemlow (**…)

Hmm tak tohle me spise zklamalo. Read the rest of this entry »