This is what I have drafted to be the sole words we speak at the presentation before allowing our news print to literally speak for itself. Feel free to leave comments and critiques.
Capital Chronicle, the Opening
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to a time portal, this day, twenty nine years into the future; Monday, 20th of June 2040, Wellington City, City Gallery. A place distanced greatly by time and space, but where our wants and needs have remained intriguingly similar to those of twenty nine years ago.
From the turn of the Century we entered into a phase of digital immersion, our interactions with others became apparently more accessible, but actually became more distanced. We gradually shut ourselves off to the world around us, and substituted it with a synergy of pixel, code, and an eye straining square glow.
We so heavily culled three of our five senses that they were near extinction. Sight and sound became almighty, and we actively denied our desire to utilise our most primitive of senses; those of touch, smell, and taste.
However, here in 2040 we have reached an inflection point. We have come to realise the value of the diverse sensory experiences available to us. We have begun to liberate ourselves from the self imposed shackles of the digital world, and are beginning to re-introduce ourselves to a more sensory world; one that engages all five of the senses available to us.
Against many odds but with great appreciation, the founding media of Wellington lives on. The Dominion Post has survived the digital plague, and today we are here to celebrate this fact with the introduction of the Capital Chronicle which you hold here in your hands; safe, honest and reliable.
I now offer you a gift. The knowledge that it is in fact 2011, twenty nine years of digital invasion have not yet forced our senses to grow stale; that we have the ability to perceive the world through five different avenues. We can experience our world directly, and appreciate the subtleties of you often didn’t realise that you in fact missed; the gentle crinkle of the pages, that mild aroma of fresh print, and the knowledge that what you hold in your hands is undoubtedly there.
Without further ado, I now offer you the opportunity to sit down, make yourself comfortable and enjoy this edition of the Capital Chronicle as our wait staff serves refreshments.
Thank you.
Wednesday 25 May 2011
Monday 23 May 2011
ART + FILM STILLS
Collection of stills taken from Rob and Elle's Art + Film video
King of the Rodeo: Sensecaptive user Alex Matson experiences a vintage Western, one of the first 20th Century films to be rereleased in the new format.
SPORT - The Non-Discriminatory Games come to Wellington
A Leg Up: The Non-Discriminatory Games will be held by Wellington in early 2041, with athletes encouraged to enhance their natural abilities by any means available.
It has been a long time coming for a completely open entry sporting event, The Non-Discriminatory Games (The NDG) will be held in Wellington for the first time next January and is planned to be a yearly event.
The huge increase in people with bionic implants which far surpass normal human capabilities, the genetically superior designer humans who are born with a distinct advantage; and the constant arrival of new advanced forms of steroids and supplements has left traditional events running short of legal athletes.
In previous sporting events athletes would normally be disqualified for taking advantage of such enhancements, but this event welcomes them and encourages participants to test their capabilities against the best of the best.
Officials say that it is a brilliant opportunity to advance research in all human athleticism due to the large amount of funding that goes into training athletes already. The extra competition is expected to force further advances year after year.
Sunday 22 May 2011
Sensory City Remake
Whatever the caption was for Touchy Feely - It's the same article just different images
Couture Textile Collection Released
Couture textile collection released
I caught up with Jono Watkins, He has been getting his new collection ready to show to the public. He states that “this is undoubtedly the best textile collection in the world” showcasing genetically engineered fabrics to the public for the first time in wellington city. He is calling for all fashion designers to enter his competition of “Wellingtons future fashion garment” his final handin for this is the 20th of June so get your ideas cracking and start thinking of ways to use his five great fabrics of the forties. He gave me a list of them and what they do...
StructraCol uses structural colour like that found on the wings of morpho butterflies. The Idea behind this fabric is that the structure of the cells are made in such a way that when ambient light hits the fabric it will reflect only one of the colours in the light spectrum and absorb the others. Therefore it will shine brighter on a sunny day and never fade.
HydrOuterwear uses the same principle as a Namib Desert beetle that collects due from the fog on its wings and filters it down to its mouth. These wings are a hydrophobic surface. In hydrOuterwear there will be Hydrophilic (water loving) cells amongst the hydrophobic surface to store the water. Later this stored water can be used for drinking if in extreme conditions and also used to create the chemical reaction with calcium chloride in our HeataChem Textile.
HeataChem uses the same principles as a hot cold heat pack, but we have incorporated it into a material which can be activated by water, once the material has dried out again it restores its state and is ready to be used as a heating textile again.
KineticHair can capture the winds energy in its genetically engineered hair follicles. Each hair is its own battery cell and can hold up to 0.005v and 0.001ma, when hair cells are linked together 500mm x 500mm square of KineticHair can charge a cell phone or other handheld device. At full charge.
StankStop is made from Active carbon; Active carbon is a naturally occurring substance which can soak up body smells and doesn’t need washing. It is antibacterial, antimicrobial and antifungal.
These textiles open a whole new window of opportunity to fashion designers. Jono left us with one last quote “to design Wellington fashion for the future you must embrace textiles”.
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‘THE TEXTILES WORK SEAMLESSLY TOGETHER BREATHING A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ERA TO TEXTILES’
I caught up with Jono Watkins, He has been getting his new collection ready to show to the public. He states that “this is undoubtedly the best textile collection in the world” showcasing genetically engineered fabrics to the public for the first time in wellington city. He is calling for all fashion designers to enter his competition of “Wellingtons future fashion garment” his final handin for this is the 20th of June so get your ideas cracking and start thinking of ways to use his five great fabrics of the forties. He gave me a list of them and what they do...
StructraCol uses structural colour like that found on the wings of morpho butterflies. The Idea behind this fabric is that the structure of the cells are made in such a way that when ambient light hits the fabric it will reflect only one of the colours in the light spectrum and absorb the others. Therefore it will shine brighter on a sunny day and never fade.
HydrOuterwear uses the same principle as a Namib Desert beetle that collects due from the fog on its wings and filters it down to its mouth. These wings are a hydrophobic surface. In hydrOuterwear there will be Hydrophilic (water loving) cells amongst the hydrophobic surface to store the water. Later this stored water can be used for drinking if in extreme conditions and also used to create the chemical reaction with calcium chloride in our HeataChem Textile.
HeataChem uses the same principles as a hot cold heat pack, but we have incorporated it into a material which can be activated by water, once the material has dried out again it restores its state and is ready to be used as a heating textile again.
KineticHair can capture the winds energy in its genetically engineered hair follicles. Each hair is its own battery cell and can hold up to 0.005v and 0.001ma, when hair cells are linked together 500mm x 500mm square of KineticHair can charge a cell phone or other handheld device. At full charge.
StankStop is made from Active carbon; Active carbon is a naturally occurring substance which can soak up body smells and doesn’t need washing. It is antibacterial, antimicrobial and antifungal.
These textiles open a whole new window of opportunity to fashion designers. Jono left us with one last quote “to design Wellington fashion for the future you must embrace textiles”.
(under image as below)
‘THE TEXTILES WORK SEAMLESSLY TOGETHER BREATHING A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ERA TO TEXTILES’
2040 COUTURE TEXTILE COLLECTION
THE 2040 COUTURE TEXTILE COLLECTION SHOWCASES THE BEST OF THE BEST IN THE TEXTILE WORLD. GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FABRICS ARE NOW A REALITY AND ARE READY TO BE USED TO BRING YOUR FASHION CREATIONS TO LIFE. THE TEXTILES WORK SEAMLESSLY TOGETHER BREATHING A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ERA TO TEXTILES.
Harvest
Harvest, the skin growing sticker has had extensive use than originally thoughout. Dancers have taken this technology and used it to advance their performance and expression. The seamless slipper-like skin has allowed dancers to dance for a greater time and have a improved movement rate. The skin acts as the shoe for the dancer. The skin is hardened to create different forms of grip like dancing in bare feet but without the blisters. The human skin is well protected while the Harvest skin is used to protect the foot giving the illusion of barefeet.
Harvest has allowed dancers have more interaction with the space they dance in with lowing the injury rate.
Add for online ticket to the Harvest skin Ballet performance.
Wind In A Box Article
Wind in a Box: The wind power prices are rising but people continue to pay. Photo: ASHLEY BETTS Story: ASHLEY BETTS
Weather To Pay?
The current hike in wind prices has caused Wellington’s exports to rise in value by 35%, making them the leader in natural wind sales. With summer round the corner, people are stocking up their wind power to be fully prepared for the lack of in the coming months. The price hike has not
dettered sales, but rather made people buy more, as wind becomes more scarce the price will continue to grow.
Wellington provides the most natural and strongest wind worldwide, with
Rejkjavik, Iceland and Cape Town, South Africa coming second and third respectively.
WindPower is the main provider in
Wellington with controlling 65% of the market share. CEO Jillian Keith stated that “Wind is becoming more essential but the resource is only natural in certain areas;
Wellington has utilized it’s once undesirable resource and converted it to a multi-billion dollar essential export.”
TableTiles
Tasty Treat: Alex Matson of the Aro Valley 'Tech Time-Out' group takes a sip, thanks to Wellington's new ceramic technology.
Something Old, Something New: Hayley Adams of 'Tech Time-Out' adds a traditional touch to her TableTile - an innovation in tableware.
Something Old, Something New: Hayley Adams of 'Tech Time-Out' adds a traditional touch to her TableTile - an innovation in tableware
Flat Pack: The progression of a TableTile from tile to bowl
Maybe turn the last photo around if you're going to use it so it does go from flat to bowl.
And yes, the middle two photos have the same caption.
Saturday 21 May 2011
Grow your own Leather
Rock climber, future Watkins climbs his way up the side of Wellingtons cliff faces.
Harness-free rock climbing has become extremely popular with the extreme generations since the invention of Harvest, the evolving skin body sticker. Rock climbers have been scaling the sides of cliffs since growing their own personal skin types. They replicate animal textures such as properties of crocodiles and spider grip to best cope with environmental factors of the extreme sport chosen. For the extreme sports fanatic, this new trend of skin stickers is something we highly recommend!
Friday 20 May 2011
Page one and two, semi done
Old projects
Sensory City. Elle - Nathan
With the expansion of the digital realm and the subsequent worldwide revolt against it, Wellington is moving towards a new future of physical interaction. The compact nature of the city, its pedestrian areas and vehement weather make it a perfect environment for tangible experiences.
Utilising new technologies such as memory metal and water-absorbing fabrics, the capitals designers are focusing on creating interactions in life. To supplement this return to reality, there are also plans to develop areas in the city and personal products that offer the public ways of removing themselves from the digital network and isolating them from the signals and connectivity which now dominate our daily life.
The Blood Powered Revolution – Niquita
From studies in 2011, ideas for the future showed technology was heading towards a wider network communication capital.
Research led to the development of a wireless connection through Blood Batteries. Technology the Capital Chronicle News researched in 2011 changed after the news of the extinction of the Tardigrada. The Tardigrades were couned to become the micro leaders of all communication networks. A new species of Tardigrade developed due to global warming which led to their extinction in the biological niche.
Capital C furthered to design a system while conversing with Canterbury Bio Chemist Honors Graduate Dylan Gifford for the possibility of creating a protein. This encased a certain blood battery that was currently being developed in 2011.
The protein housed a paper-thin battery allowing the future allowing the future digital citizens to have just one injection of the protein into their blood system.
The liquid designed is housed in it a special nutrience that once digested would alter the protein. This would turn the ions in the battery on within the protein, making a wireless connection. This carbon nano tube battery was thus turned on inside the protein which was fed from the bloodstream.
This system was designed to enhance a closer connection within Wellington’s digital community.
Once blood sugar levels drop, the liquid that was digested for the wireless connection turns off until more nutrience is consumed. This way Wellington, citizens can control the connectivity of the amount of wireless network they want available for daily use. We are now the connectors to our own digital lives.
Tribal Times – Elle
Following the side-effects blunder of the recent “water-connectivity” scheme, Wellington residents have come to terms with their new look. Those with similar skin discolourations have banded together into what sociologist Mike McRae of Auckland University has called “modern-day tribes”. These tribes have established territorial claims throughout the city, and now areas that were once seen as public domain are now home to cosmetically branded gangs. Interaction between the groups is lessening and people are wary of the growing social tension.
Harsh Truth of Logging off – Nathan
The seven year study which investigated the effects of constantly logging off from the Nyx Network has yielded haunting results. The study undertaken as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has revealed grave ramifications including skin discolouration, rash like effects, skin pigmentation and infection of the sweat glands. Dr John Goldstein who managed the study said that “while the effects of logging off are minor and vary between people ethnicities, we should still take caution while we log and off from the network”. Goldstein further recommended “rather than logging on and off as we use the network, maintaining a constant connection is the safest option until we discover a better way of disconnection from the network”.
Wellington weather provokes fashion designer -Jono Watkins
I caught up with Jono Watkins, he had a couple of things to say about his new collection: “Wellington; a city with character. A living and breathing city with a temper. A wild temper”. Wellington’s erratic weather is a paryt of this city something we cannot escape, the winter 2040 capital collection aims to force fashion and weather to work hand-in-hand. Collection in a literal sense, garments to complement a sensory city, Wild Wellington. Howling, sodden and bitterly cold.
“To emphasise the elements, to celebrate sensory fashion”
Newspaper Advert for website
Capital Chronicle News has a new space on The Network, this new design allows you to access up to date news and urgent stories more efficiently than the previous one. The entire space has been redesigned, you will find stories have been better organized and contain and better quality content. As always, we value your thoughts and opinions, please feel free to answer the personal survey next time you visit us (privacy is important to us, only your location and occupation will be saved).
Keeping your thoughts safe.
Caption for photo: "Keeping your thoughts safe - The new techno-fashion headpieces by designer "N.B" help to reduce external penetration by reflecting and absorbing radio-waves."
Long has privacy been a frontline issue for society, the updated Privacy Act of 2022 almost abolished any form of electronic privacy; the human body seemed to be under constant surveillance for our protection. An upcoming Wellington techno-fashion designer "N.B" has harnessed the power of water-absorbing materials and radio-wave repelling materials to create a range of fashionable headpieces that not only looking stunning, but help to log you off The Network.
The new ranges of headpieces are designed to cover the human antennae located in the left-front lobe, reflecting and absorbing incoming radio waves. The headpieces are most effective when wet – as water absorbs radio waves. Numerous panels are covered in a water-absorbing fabric, and layered in hydrogel; retaining water and keeping the head dry in wet weather.
In a recent interview, “N.B” told reporters he named the collection “Chengdu” and the collections aesthetic is based upon the Chinese Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter jet released in 2019.
“N.B” will be showcasing his “Chengdu” line Wednesday June 27th at the Auckland Hilton Hotel.
Weather Article
Solace of the Wind
The current hike in wind prices has caused Wellington’s exports to rise in value by 35%, making them the leader in natural wind sales. With summer round the corner, people are stocking up their wind power to be fully prepared for the lack of in the coming months. The price hike has not deterred sales, but rather made people buy more, as wind becomes scarcer.
Wellington provides the most natural and strongest wind worldwide, with Rejkjavik, Iceland and Cape Town, South Africa close behind. WindPower is the main provider in Wellington with controlling 65% of the market share. CEO Jillian Keith stated “Wind is becoming more essential but the resource is only natural in certain areas; Wellington has utilized its once undesirable resource and converted it to a multi-billion dollar essential export.”
Unfortunately, natural wind may be a thing of the past as the application for weather continues to expand. The new version of Solace 2.5 now shrinks weather down to a metre radius of the individual holding the hand held device. This also allows the person to expand the radius when concerning an area of land that is registered on the network to them.
With this new specified technology, the weather begins to revolve around the personal preference, which means the natural wind will become the unnatural wind. As time passes and technology evolves further, the atmosphere’s balance will begin to be tested and strained be human demand. We need to begin to be fair about our weather choices, before we lose control.
Travel Article
The Pathway to Galilee A new organism has developed from metal foam to allow people to be able to walk on water. “Jesus’ Trestle” is a new cross species creation designed to hold a person’s weight on the surface of the water. This organic material moves with the ocean’s surface but maintains its strength. Scientists discovered it while looking for a new way to travel through water. Wellington has taken advantage of the discovery being found in the harbour and have began to harvest it to create new walkways through Wellington Harbour.
The Wellington City Council has tamed the coral to create a path from Wellington’s lowest point to Eastbourne. They say the scenic route will encourage more people to experience the water through touch and allows them to explore Wellington in a new unique way.
The general public is very interested in this new organism and is eager to explore the coral’s capabilities once it has been fully tested by a team of experts. The experience of walking on water will be like nothing you can experience through the network; the touch, the smell and the look will lure you in.
Story: Ashley Betts
Photo: Ashley Betts
ART + FILM Article
OLD FILMS COME TO SENSECAPTIVE
Film technology has always progressed towards giving the user a complete experience, from its humble beginnings almost 250 years ago using light to project images onto screens, it progressed to the mainstream adoption of 4D cinema in 2020, and since 2036 has advanced enough to fully incorporate all of the senses with Sensecaptive Experience Technology (SET). A simple download from The Network allows users to experience a feature length film from a first person perspective in the comfort of their own head in less than 5 minutes. But because SET is a completely different media to traditional film it took a few years to develop the technology to convert between the two. On Tuesday pre-2036 films started being rereleased in SET capable cinemas worldwide. The Lord of the Rings is rereleased Thursday at the Embassy cinema in Wellington one week before its worldwide rerelease.
Edit: Rob and I will be filming so we will have a photo for you on Sunday asap, and then a film for presentation. Elle
Film technology has always progressed towards giving the user a complete experience, from its humble beginnings almost 250 years ago using light to project images onto screens, it progressed to the mainstream adoption of 4D cinema in 2020, and since 2036 has advanced enough to fully incorporate all of the senses with Sensecaptive Experience Technology (SET). A simple download from The Network allows users to experience a feature length film from a first person perspective in the comfort of their own head in less than 5 minutes. But because SET is a completely different media to traditional film it took a few years to develop the technology to convert between the two. On Tuesday pre-2036 films started being rereleased in SET capable cinemas worldwide. The Lord of the Rings is rereleased Thursday at the Embassy cinema in Wellington one week before its worldwide rerelease.
Edit: Rob and I will be filming so we will have a photo for you on Sunday asap, and then a film for presentation. Elle
TableTiles
There's No Plate Like Home
Put away your MakerBots, it's time for a tableware revolution!
Following the home-creation craze of the 'Thrifty Thirties', Wellington-based company Steven Smith Ceramics have come up with a new way of setting the table.
According to their makers, TableTiles are the innovative solution to the crowded cupboards of our kitchens. Stacking together as flat square tiles, these ceramics claim to allow for the machine-free creation of tableware in any size and shape, due to their unusual mode of expansion.
Created with the recently refined technology of memory-ceramics and pressure release, each tile recognises a user-drawn outline on it as a boundary for the base of the object. As the controlling corner of the tile is lifted, the area outside of the boundary is raised and shaped, and the sides of the tableware are produced.
As the height and shape of the object are completely customisable, a TableTile can be formed into any sort of vessel, and when it is no longer needed the process can be reversed for easy cleaning and storage.
TableTiles are a new and unusual addition to the ceramics company, which has been creating traditional ceramic pots in the capital for over 50 years. Simon Smith, son of company founder Steven Smith, says that TableTiles will "put Wellington on the map as an innovator in ceramic technology", and after taking on the role of sensory capital of the world, a return to traditional materials may be just the thing Wellington needs.
We asked Aro Valley local Hayley Adams, a member of the area's first 'Tech time-out' group, what she thought of the innovation. "It's an amazing thing for Wellington, that we can bring the past back into the future" Miss Adams states, "It's exciting to see real things again".
With such praise, it won't be long before we see TableTiles become a permanent fixture in the households of the Capital.
The Aro Valley 'Tech time-out' group meets weekly to enjoy an afternoon free from 21st Century technology.
Email hayley@adams.gr.nz for more information.
No Photos yet! There'll be one large one and a series of four little ones down the side I think
Put away your MakerBots, it's time for a tableware revolution!
Following the home-creation craze of the 'Thrifty Thirties', Wellington-based company Steven Smith Ceramics have come up with a new way of setting the table.
According to their makers, TableTiles are the innovative solution to the crowded cupboards of our kitchens. Stacking together as flat square tiles, these ceramics claim to allow for the machine-free creation of tableware in any size and shape, due to their unusual mode of expansion.
Created with the recently refined technology of memory-ceramics and pressure release, each tile recognises a user-drawn outline on it as a boundary for the base of the object. As the controlling corner of the tile is lifted, the area outside of the boundary is raised and shaped, and the sides of the tableware are produced.
As the height and shape of the object are completely customisable, a TableTile can be formed into any sort of vessel, and when it is no longer needed the process can be reversed for easy cleaning and storage.
TableTiles are a new and unusual addition to the ceramics company, which has been creating traditional ceramic pots in the capital for over 50 years. Simon Smith, son of company founder Steven Smith, says that TableTiles will "put Wellington on the map as an innovator in ceramic technology", and after taking on the role of sensory capital of the world, a return to traditional materials may be just the thing Wellington needs.
We asked Aro Valley local Hayley Adams, a member of the area's first 'Tech time-out' group, what she thought of the innovation. "It's an amazing thing for Wellington, that we can bring the past back into the future" Miss Adams states, "It's exciting to see real things again".
With such praise, it won't be long before we see TableTiles become a permanent fixture in the households of the Capital.
The Aro Valley 'Tech time-out' group meets weekly to enjoy an afternoon free from 21st Century technology.
Email hayley@adams.gr.nz for more information.
No Photos yet! There'll be one large one and a series of four little ones down the side I think
Thursday 19 May 2011
Sports limbs
The Small Price To Pay For A Bionic Limb?
Bionic limbs have become a popular occurrence this day in current society. In 2010, the hype started from an Australian man Patrick* opted to amputate his arm to be replaced by a bionic hand.
This was the first proven result of success for a greater range of movement. The limb turned on a 360 degree axis and moved forwards and back as well as each individual fingers having movement.
This movement was allowed through tapping into the nervous system of the user. The brain controls the thoughts and the robot limb responds as if a human hand was there. Quite a smart idea but the robot was still to become more fluid in its movement patterns.
Currently, 30 years later the bionic limb movement has flourished. Athlete’s and hospital amputees were the first to cotton on to this advancement. The development of the bionic limbs has become so fluid with the human body that one could almost mistake it for being human.
The bionic limb has become extremely controversial in sports however as the world knows, the Japanese lead the technology exponential curve. Rightly so their sports players lack physical advances to the rest of the world such as height, muscle built and strength. Japan in 2010 were not so good against teams such as New Zealand in rugby. The NZ team are almost double their size due to the genetic difference.
The first Japanese rugby player received a bionic leg in 2011 in time for the rugby world cup. This was an extreme uproar as it was kept a secret till 10years after the world cup and the Japanese team rose from coming last in the test to 2nd against NZ!
From then on then on the fight between NZ and Japan was traded for NZ against robots. The Japanese team traded almost all their knees and shoulders with bionic limbs making them superior in the sport. The fight still continues to exist between the united sports nation to whether it is illegitimate to own a bionic limb due to the vast number of people who have a robot limb now.
The argument continues!
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13378036 video link 2010. The Bionic limb, start of a new future body.
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