Research for Home of the Future.

Research for Home of the Future.

Article:

What will your future look like in 2030?

http://www.wwf.org.au/articles/what-will-your-future-look-like-in-2030/

Petrol costs $4 a litre but it only costs you $25 to fill up your car for the week. Electricity costs three times the current price but you're still paying the same as you were 30 years ago.

You're shouting at the kids to get off the 3D holographic 'play cube' and to stop drinking soft drink. Dexter, your household nanny-bot, interjects:

"But I paid the extra one cent for green aluminium - I thought you'd be pleased!"

The one cent is neither here nor there, you explain. There's plenty of money in your account for computer games or sustainable snack foods. Australia's GDP has grown steadily to twice what it was in 2006, but sadly, so have our waist lines.

"I've told you to stop feeding them junk food, Dexter!"

If this sounds like a cute scene out of Buck Rogers, think again. A major new report from WWF has proposed a realistic and sustainable picture of Australia's future - minus the robot of course - that's far from the gloomy scenario we've come to expect from watching the news or the latest sci-fi thriller, if we act now.

This article is just how i've always imagined the future to be. I've always dreamt that there will one day be a gadget that you can ask to make you any meal in the world, press a button and magically it would appear right there in front of you. I guess I got all these strange ideas from tv shows like the Jetsons. I've always imagined robots in our future, similar to what they are like in the movie Bicentennial man . I picture children playing will all sorts of newly invented computer/virtual games. I think that kitchens will become rare, and unfortunately more people will become overweight.

I think the conditions in houses will become very simple and plain and will revolve around squared shapes. Houses will be decorate in colours ranging through whites, blacks, silvers and greys, and every house will always be spotless. Clean clean clean. We are a lot more organised.

When it comes to electricity, i believe there will be no cords. Everything will be wireless, or powered by another energy source, wind or solar, for example.

Outside, i believe there will a lot less greenery, and less animals due to climate change. The weather is going to create the biggest changes of all.

There are less objects inside our homes due to the fact that device will be able to be use for more than one function. So instead of having a television, radio, mp3 player, playstation, ect.. They will all be located in one mechanism.

I think more artifical resources will be used to create things, rather than natural resources like wood ect. I do believe however, that we will become more energy efficient, and recycle more.

Bulidings are a lot more sophisticated and interesting. The shapes range from all sorts, they are not just rectangular, like they are now.

Insipration of my ideas have come from articles including:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18664322/

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/09/7816.ars

Psychedelic Art

The Psychedelic Movement:

Psychedelic work is inspired by Psychedelic experience which originate and are induced by certain drugs. This movement began in the 1960's counterculture. The art was displayed through music posters, festival posters, light shows, album covers, comic books and underground newspapers. It was said that the art looked like "kaleidoscopically swirling patterns of LSD hallucinations, but also revolutionary political, social and spiritual sentiments inspired by insights derived from these psychedelic states of consciousness." The digital age has expanded the horizon of Psychedelic Art.

Artist from the Psychedelic Movement:

Robert Venosa:

Carlos Santana says that Venosa's work "truly captures the imprint of a spiritual force, each painting so alive, seeming to breathe, pulsate and stare back at you, challenging the viewer to also reach their highest potential."

The colours that Venosa uses contrast strongly creating a strong statement.
His use of line is experimental and vigorous. Smooth edges, and some sharp. Instantly your eyes move to the centre of the piece focusing on the main lady in the middle, after that your eyes wonder all around.

Pablo Amaringo:

Amaringo's work is inspired from the ayahuasca visions that he has.
He uses a lot of colours, ranging from blues and purples to yellows and bright pinks. His work is very specific and detailed. The line is quite thin and smooth.
















Rick Griffin

The late Rick Griffin was an American artist, a comic and psychedelic artist, and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. This is a poster that he created for a Greatful Dead Concert. His art has almost a dark side to it, it's grungy. Red is the most dominate colour in this piece, which reflects passion, heat, and anger. The hierachy begins at the yellow centre, then gradually moves through out the poster.

John Van Hamersveld

John Van Hamersveld was a great artist and helped give the phychedelic era a vocabulary, a voice. I love his style, the colours he uses, the bold statements he makes. He ranks amongst one of the great illustrators of pop culture. Due to the fact that his work is so popular, his work was printed on t-shirts and worn by fans.

Work in Progress:

Work in progress:

Postmodernism

Postmodernism literally means the movement after the modernist movement. It's hard to locate when postmodernism actually began due to the fact that there are so many varieties of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, fashion, and technology.

Artist from the Postmodernism Movement:

Neville Brody:

Brody is a qualified Graphic Designer, and in the 1980's became the art director at Fetish Records. He experiments with new type faces and mixed fonts, ignored typeface sizes and standard distances between lines, interspersing fonts with decorative elements.






David Carson is the founder, principle and chief designer for David Carson Design, Inc. with offices in New York City and Charleston, SC. He likes to experiment in way to communicate using different mediums. His unique style has constantly been defined as illegible. He is a rule breaker when it comes to the design principles. His work is probably my favourite.




Barbara Kruger


Barbara Kruger is an American artist known for her controversial art pieces. Kruger uses existing photographs and layers them with aggressive text. All of her pieces are very powerful and allow for her viewers to commit to great thought when pondering what her pieces symbolize. Her instantly recognizable photographs explore the dynamics or power, representation, sexuality, and identity. She constantly challenges the question of stereotypes and cliches using phrases such as 'i shop, therefore i am," and "Your body is a battleground". She manly uses simple colours including black, white, grey and red. She then adds the words to provoke emotion in the audience.