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.