Augmented Reality Giant Hands Art Installations /  by Mirena Rhee

I created these Augmented Reality Art Installations using Maya, Unity 3D with AR foundation. This is an app that runs on Android phones where the user places art objects on real surfaces in real time. I will soon post a completed app that will run on supported Android devices. Apple devices are currently supporting very interesting and sophisticated features and it is possible I will develop the apps for Apple devices in the future. Apple devices feature human occlusion so when people walk in the real space they are able to walk “in front of” or ”behind” the art.

I have always been fascinated with digital landscapes, entirely artificial ephemeral constructs which I used to inhabit as a commercial video games artist for many years. What is even more fascinating is the overlap of digital constructs over the megapolis reality of New York City. A very exciting combination in my mind.

It really is funny that I use the uber constructs of hyper capitalism like these skinny skyscrapers and make them almost two-dimensional background of my art, they are like stick figures of the city lego organization. I imagine little figures inhabit them like doll houses. I like how Augmented Reality fakes the city scape.

Augmented Reality Hands Art Installations over Sheep Meadow in Central Park

Augmented Reality Hands over the Great Lawn in Central Park

Augmented Reality Hands in Central Park over Joggers

Augmented Reality Hands over Bethesda Terrace in Central Park

Augmented Reality Hands over Bow Bridge in Central Park

Valles Marineris Canyon System on Mars as captures by The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter /  by Mirena Rhee

What a wonder. Even more wondrous I get to see it.

Valles Marineris by ESA.

Valles Marineris, seen at an angle of 45 degrees to the surface in near-true colour and with four times vertical exaggeration. The image covers an area of 630 000 sq km with a ground resolution of 100 m per pixel.

The digital terrain model was created from 20 individual HRSC orbits, and the colour data were generated from 12 orbit swaths.

The largest portion of the canyon, which spans right across the image, is known as Melas Chasma. Candor Chasma is the connecting trough immediately to the north, with the small trough Ophir Chasma beyond. Hebes Chasma can be seen in the far top left of the image.

The image was first published in 2009 in the ESA science monograph Mars Express: The Scientific Investigations.

We are the only operating system that can influence the hardware /  by Mirena Rhee

Zen Master Bankei Yōtaku and his unborn, major religions, contemporary physics and cosmology - all speak to the fact that our hardware, at least a portion of our atoms(in the human body) predate everything, all the stars and everything in the universe.

Our hardware is ancient.

Free will, consciousness, self - awareness is the operating system. We can influence our own matter and matter around us. We can construct and self-construct.

Blog post about Peter Beck, Star Wars, Royal BS, chrome experiment, and the Moon Gateway /  by Mirena Rhee

I spent some time online, so it's either cats or mice. Just kidding.

I spent some time watching videos about the rockets that Peter Beck’s making out of New Zealand and now the US and had an awesome fun trying to understand and follow all the intricacies of his design decisions.

He's brilliant.

It is just really awesome to think about rockets and devices that go to space and the engineers or non-engineers that make it happen.

On the other hand I saw in passing some BS about royals and Royal family and people cheering about somebody's or other person's reign… I'm like who the fuck wants to be ruled in the 21st century, we just had our lids opened and you want to close them back up, and growel at the feet of a self-appointed grandma.

Great conversations with Peter Beck about his electron and neutron rockets.

By the way Peter never swears. Great guy.

Saw the latest Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars show and of course I'm still in raptured with the characters as I was many years ago when I was seven. But no one can do it the way George Lucas used to do it, he did it from the heart not for the bank. In here a really nice actor spends a lot of time yelling at a little girl, actually a lot of people do it which really distracts from the story.

So if you have been dining on royalty bullshit in the news here is some hungry news about the moon gateway, and how NASA envisions it, directly from NASA's mouth.

I accidentally landed on the YouTube channel of a British sounding YouTuber who had the nerve to criticize the Apolo program having never done anything notable themselves.

I never listen to people who bullshit about smart people.

In fact never listen to people who have never done anything with their lives, royals, ball players, actors entertainers and people who shop for jewelry, and of course news media, because news media is not even an opinion but rather a directive, and all journalist are tasked by whoever pays them and their advertisers, and all of this is directed at the weak-minded.

Here's a little diversion to keep you in perspective to always think for yourself because we're basically out in the middle of nowhere totally naked in the eternal darkness so we're very used to hell so we have one job is to come up with a heaven right here today

https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/

Spontaneous installation in Williamsburg /  by Mirena Rhee

#nyc #art just had a typical New York City interaction I saw someone taking pictures of this yard and stopped to take pictures and videos and then we started talking and then we almost simultaneously started talking about Richard Serra and his show in Chelsea that we both saw the opening of. as the sun was setting over the towers of Manhattan and the overgrown yards of Williamsburg, and us the people of New York City, walking biking strolling eating freaking frolicking eating drinking by the East River