Unreal Engine
This week we covered OSC control with Max8 in Unreal. The effect is very cool!
Then I tried to call OSC outside of the object blueprint to control sequences, like this:
Pretty Cool!
Awe Walk
The object I found on my awe walk is an object I’ve always found quite intriguing since I first came here: the alligator coming out of the sewer in suit eating a little money-bag-head man. Yeah, even the description sounds like an exerpt from Alice in Wonderland New York edition.
Turns out it was a sculpture shown in 14th St./Eighth Ave. station in an exhibition called “Life Underground”, the political cartoon-inspired project commissioned in the 90s along with the station’s renovation. NYU apparantly doesn’t own the scupture, but it mentioned on its website that it is a good place to view the sculpture.
The sculpture, titled “Aligator” was based on a New York urban legend about the giant reptiles that patrolled the city sewers. It was first mentioned in Mr. Daley’s 1959 book “The World Beneath the City.”:
Alligators serenely paddling around in his sewers. The beam of his own flashlight had spotlighted alligators whose length, on the average, was about two feet. Some may have been longer. Avoiding the swift current of the trunk lines under major avenues, the beasts had wormed up the smaller pipes under less important neighborhoods, and there Teddy had found them. The colony appeared to have settled contentedly under the very streets of the busiest city in the world.
The story says that these alligators were once pets until the state bans them and their relatives from being kept as pets. After that, multiple news stories have been out centering around these underground predators, and while zoologists say the environemnt in the sewer is simply too bad for alligators to survive, the occasional discovery of above-ground alligators in New York — on Staten Island, in Central Park or in Queens — refreshes the story.
A link to a really fun article recounting these happenings: https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/the-book-behind-the-sewer-alligator-legend/
I feel that this could certainly be made into a Disney movie about Alligators in New York.