{"id":10831,"date":"2014-12-24T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T09:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.joomexp.com\/wordpress\/wp-suarez\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2014-12-24T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T09:23:22","slug":"the-book-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/2014\/12\/24\/the-book-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"An Artful Rearrangement of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post yesterday over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun described a new game called &#8220;Kieru,&#8221; in which monochromatic ninjas lost in a monochromatic landscape alternately blend in with and radically stand out from their architectural surroundings.<br \/>\nAs Rock, Paper, Shotgun explains, the design of the game is such that &#8220;you\u2019ll be trained to react to colour and shadow\u2014two things that are traditionally irrelevant for most games\u2014in completely new ways.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis statement combined with the aesthetic of the game itself also brought to mind an undergraduate thesis project that we looked at last week, by Anthony Morey at SCI-Arc, where a rotating, monochromatic exploration of architectural space plays havoc with your sense of volume, shadow, and massing.<br \/>\nIs it a neoclassical temple casting shadows in all directions at once, or some other explosion of architectural representation to suggest new ways of drawing space?<br \/>\nOne of many things I like about this project is how it suggests architecture is, in a sense, the art of interrupting shadows, not playing with light but an artful rearrangement of darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post yesterday over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun described a new game called &#8220;Kieru,&#8221; in which monochromatic ninjas lost in a monochromatic landscape alternately blend in with and radically stand out from their architectural surroundings. As Rock, Paper, Shotgun explains, the design of the game is such that &#8220;you\u2019ll be trained to react to colour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/suarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}