Inspirations 8

 Yesterday was a clear-up day, not in terms of house, but computer. The book manuscript was finally loaded onto three CDs ready to go which left me the task of tidying up all the associated debris. Would I do it again? Probably not, but then no one has asked me so that's a bit of a redundant question. So as part of the clear up I took a few photos of the layout and wrote a very short piece for 009 News, possibly a bit near the knuckle, but very much in the style of the old 1960/70s articles with more about storyline than the construction. Not like the increasingly boring shopping list articles that seem so prevalent today. Which brings me to this...
The Far Twittering. Built by Mike Cook and subsequently passed around, the Emmett influenced layout has become an underground classic. This style of modelling is extremely hard to pull off (I know of only one other that's managed it) and very much of it's time. the problem with Emmett's stuff is that it was by and large in 2D sketches and while it's easy (!) to think out of the box in 2D, making that actually work is another thing. Even the artist himself must have struggled, but pull it off he did. Search for Festival of Britain to find more images like the one below. This 'drunken, but logical' is harder than it looks.

Now with things cleared a bit, maybe the enthusiasm will return.