EMAIL: becks@ucsu.colorado.edu
NAME: Joshua Beck
TOPIC: Performance Arts
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITON COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: House for a Bluesman
COUNTRY: US citizen
WEBPAGE: None
RENDER USED: Algorithms afforded by the hand.
TOOLS USED: FormZ, Xerox machine, color pencil and water color.
RENDER TIME: six hours.
HARDWARE USED: PowerComputing 120 with 24 megs of RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
House of Blues
Boulder, Colorado

Funded by the people of Boulder as a place for traveling musicians to
stay, this house pays homage to Robert Johnson.  Nightly performances
open
the city to the stories told by the blues - stories of universal human
significance.  Weekly voting would determine the musician(s) and his or
her length of stay.  This folly becomes an identifiable
image-sound-story-event for the isolated residents of Boulder to rally
around.

The house raises and lowers depending upon the intensity of the
musician's
artistic fervor.  The architecture takes its order from the A-A-B rhythm
of blues music: the house exists in a rhythmic displacement of elements.
Six guitar strings weave through the house, displacing the main
performance space from the house.  The roof is poised backwards in a
manner similar to the moment when a full breathed singer belts out the
next line.  The steel constructed roof  is transformed with the
malleable
fluidity of the sound originating from the slide guitar into a static
element that looks to the sky with the resonance of a displaced note.
The
architecture (idea) of the house seeks to take the residents of Boulder
out of the ordinary in much the same way that the blues took its
listeners
out of the tenant shack and out of their own problems.

---thanks for hosting this great forum encouraging new ideas in computer
imagery. ----josh beck

IMAGE ENTRY COMMENTS:  In the true spirit of the IRTC competition I
created this image not using fancy tools or expensive hardware.  This
image is for a theoretical architecture house designed for the late
great
slide guitar player Robert Johnson.  

DESCPRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:  
Model constructed in FormZ, printed out in wireframe mode, enlarged on
a
Xerox machine, color-pencil and watercolor media applied, text is placed
on drawing via clear sticky back Xerox copies, photographed then
scanned.