Author: Marcus Trimble
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Lighting in L4D
On designing the lighting in Valve’s Left 4 Dead: “Left 4 Dead’s setting is a post-apocalyptic wasteland just before nightfall … this meant constraints in terms of the light sources we could use without hurting the gameplay, fiction or aesthetics. This forced us to get creative: what lighting would you realistically see in an abandoned…
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Quinta Monroy Housing – Elemental
Some excellent social housing in Chile by Elemental. The housing consists of a series of row houses with open space adjacent to each dwelling. While in its virgin state the housing is appealingly porous and upright, importantly, the strategy here embeds opportunity into the housing, pre-empting and encouraging an entrepreneurial policy of its occupants. The…
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Low Bandwidth Cricket Commentary
Given the ridiculously cluttered flash scoreboard that ninemsn is offering up for the cricket these days, it is good to see how it was done back when bandwidth was a little more, shall we say, limited.
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Seattle Public Binder Library
Seattle Public Binder Library.
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Suburban regeneration
Suburban regeneration by skaters utilising the abandoned pools of foreclosed homes: “Across the nation, the ultimate symbol of suburban success has become one more reminder of the economic meltdown, with builders going under, pools going to seed and skaters finding a surplus of deserted pools in which to perfect their acrobatic aerials.” NYT
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Tabakalera
Ex-pat architect Ross Langdon and his new office Langdon Reis Architects have been awarded a special mention in the competition for the renovation of Tabakalera in San Sebastian. Nice work guys. + More info on the comp and the winners, Jon Montero and Naiara Montero, at Bustler.