CTIN 542 Assignment 1: Examples of local and far away interactive media in public spaces (Update)

Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, an important base in Shanghai for science education and spiritual civilization construction, is dedicated to science education with "Nature · Mankind · Technology" as its theme. By integrating display and participation, education and scientific research, cooperation and exchange, collection and execution, leisure and tourism, the Museum is to popularize the scientific and technological education for the visitors by means of knowledge integration and learning through play, who will enjoy edification of the modern technology and scientific spirit through various amusing activities in the Museum.

six exhibition sections and one branch museum to the public in the first phase:
1)Earth Exploration Section
brings experience of all kinds of geological change to visitors.

2)Wide Spectrum of Life Section
showcases the topography in the rain forest, tropical plants and wonderful species, and displays the mystery of being.

3)Children's Technoland
where children can observe the outside world and participate in the scientific activities.

4)Light of Wisdom Section
demonstrates many scientific phenomena and unveils the order of nature

5)Audio and Video Paradise
displays the modern information and movie technology

6)The Museum of Natural History
exhibits more than three thousand pieces of precious specimen of human being, animals and ancient creatures, telling the legend of life.

http://www.sstm.org.cn/howyi/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Map
http://www.sstm.org.cn/cgjs/dxyc.jsp?t=xcty

California Science Center
West Coast's largest hands-on science center

The Science Center's Mission Statement
We aspire to stimulate curiosity and inspire science learning in everyone by creating fun, memorable experiences, because we value science as an indispensable tool for understanding our world, accessibility and inclusiveness, and enriching people's lives.

1)Creative World
2)World of Life
3)Science Plaza
4)IMAX Theater
5)ExploraStore

http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/GenInfo/GenInfo.php

Daily 90 min Sketches

I went to my old friend's house yesterday. He shew me lots of their works and the collection of concpet art he found. Both of us are very concerned about concept while we both did tons of works on techniques in the early days. We finally drop our attentions to those very sketchy styled concept drawing. Not too much detailed rendering, no elegant line works. But blocks of colors, which tells the idea, lighting and composition. It's fast and ambigious, which left you more imaginations. Anyway, here's my impression of that kind of style. I'd like to do more drawing like this in the future.

It has been raining for a week. LA is not suppose to have that much rain. The rain reminded me of my hometown, Shanghai. So here's what I did today, shanghai impression. Too many stuff to draw...... can't keep them in detail in 90min. I decide to put it here as it is . What do you think?

Not too much time is left, I'll draw more stuff before I become too busy to do it. After doodled for an hour, I decide to do something related to the cloud game. Maybe it will be useful in the future. So, here it is, a sketch with cloud and the cloud boy. Hmm, a forest fire, maybe. Could be......

Okay, what I'm gonna do today. Hmm, I want do a character. Because the previous works are more about environtment. So I want to do some character centric piece.

At the beginning, I'm thinking doing some exaggerated camera angle. But I'm just too lazy to do research like taking photos or finding reference. I googled for about 20 min, man, there is nothing exetreme. Well, my laziness started beating me again when I saw a kongfu picture. I was a karate master, why not draw something about karate practicer? Hopefully I can imbue the karate soul into this character.

So I started sketch. I got this pose which is one of my best two kicks. Axe kick? I'm not sure what do you call it in English To me my memory about my college is all about karate. I remember the early days when I was a newbie, I like to watch older members pratice, admire and envy at the same time. Therefore, I added another character in the background.