Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

Some tiles’art for the year to come…

If you remember the “tiles” (see below), you’ll probably like this cal­endar for 2009 where beau­tiful imageries have been put together around this concept, with pho­tog­raphy and 3D renders by Jib.

Tiles were intro­duced early in the col­lab­o­rative story (Circle of Eights, p.229) in this entry, where Midora, a char­acter in our future, uses her favourite handbook of symbols:

[…] So she had found a compass… Now, she would have to learn how to use it. The intro­duction of the book said:

The tiles pre­sented in this book all have dif­ferent func­tions; they can be pri­marily under­stood as focal points which enhance spe­cific uses of energy. […] As far as we know, they can be dis­covered in many sit­u­a­tions, either objective events (e.g. some­thing that catches your gaze in the street) or in the sub­jective (dreams, visions, inspi­ra­tions etc.). In both cases, the recog­nition is instan­ta­neous, as each tile carries a dis­tinctive ener­getic sig­nature which is the essence of its “function”, so to speak.
As such, it can be used the­o­ret­i­cally in both sit­u­a­tions (sub­jective and objective), though, as far as we have explored, sub­jective inter­action with them seem to be the easiest and most quickly rewarding way of accessing them.

It was inserted in April 2008 without really any fore­thought about which book it could actually come from — that’s the greatest fun in writing works of fiction and fantasy! And only later (November) it became the intro­duction of a little book we’ve been putting together on a whim with Jib, to present with more details than on the website the sig­nif­i­cance and also the advice each of the tiles can give to you when you are pre­sented with these symbols (while keeping it a rea­sonable size: 42 pages, instead of the whopping 350 of Circle of Eights ) .

The book has been called “Some Tiles Of The City” (can be ordered from Lulu at the link).

We’ve been ordering a few books for our­selves, and have sent per­son­alized ver­sions to a few people who were acquainted with the tiles concept. The feedback has been great; it has been a very inter­esting expe­rience to see that most of them also con­nected in various ways with the symbols.

These tiles are really funny to play with, and can pop up at very unex­pected moments.

For instance, when we were trav­eling in NYC recently, we were waiting for the opening of the locker room where we had put our luggage for the night, and I was beginning to become worry the people would be late for the opening and that we may miss our bus.
And right after that, as if to reassure me, one of tiles seemed to appear very clearly like carved into the cracks of the wall. Jib noticed it too. And it dawned on me that we con­nected this tile to “reunion after sep­a­ration, coming back as one”. So, it was like a con­fir­mation that we would be reunited soon with the luggage; and only a few seconds after that, the people came to open the room.
And of course, we didn’t miss our bus.

So, this cal­endar is also a good way to become adept at spotting them, and cre­ating one’s own symbols.

Enjoy!

written by Yuki \\ tags: art, fun, tiles

Zoetrope [zoh-ee-trope] also named “wheel of life”

written by Yuki \\ tags: animation, art, cg, fun, life, wheel, zoe

A little picture that I did a few days before, which had much sig­nif­i­cance for me.
It prompted a little con­ver­sation that I found very entertaining.

Here it is ; feel free to comment on the blog or the website (or both), as you prefer and find more comfortable

written by Yuki \\ tags: collaboration, fun, pictures, playfulness