Assignment 3 Submission - Part 1 - Mashup of Three News Articles

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the concept of Power as the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events. The in-text examples predominantly pertain to political or military strength. This ignores the growing might of corporations, the wealth and reach of which now extend well past those of conventional governments.

This is necessarily a bad thing. Like governments, these corporations are devot[ing] resources to cultivating a corporate image focused on global social responsibility. This leads to mass humanitarian aid efforts which are widely publicised in an attempt to garner market interest and sales.

In this manner, corporations work to increase their global influence wherever they can. If a company can be seen as a powerful platform… for targeting consumers it is more likely to attract investment and through that investment further grow its product and consumer base.

Vastness for the sake of vastness also has its attractions for executives: size is [becoming] increasingly important [in an industry where] scale helps firms spread costs and risk. With greater size comes greater economic might and thus greater industrial power, and firms are merging and splitting just as the political units of Europe did in the days of the industrial revolution.

In a world where multinational corporations have the economic might to generate the political clout which in the past cold only be afforded to economic powers (in the national sense), the balance of power shifts to the individual – without whom corporations cannot exist.

Coca Cola related information from The Economist, Cola Wars, continued, March 17th 2012, print edition.
Full text here. 

Facebook related information from The Economist, Valuing Facebook:Zuckerberg's Rocket, Ready foor Liftoff, May 12th 2012, Print edition.
Full text here. 

Take Two Interactive related information from The Economist, Video Games: Attempted Carjack, February 28th 2008, print edition. 
Full text here.  

I used The Economist as the source of all of my articles as it is the only source of valuable information with regard to corporations and their exploits. Not to mention the escapades of anyone with any variety of societal power. 

A Moose

And so, did Aurelie create a moose from the Cityrail map.

My choice of valley

The valley I have chosen is located within the Queen Elizabeth Islands (the great big islands in the northern parts of the North-West Territory and Nunavut).

Some images of the landform are below (these are for atmosphere more than anything).

Devon Island

Ellesmere Island and the surrounds

More of Ellesmere Island

The valley I am using - an ice lake between two mountains on Ellesmere Island

News Article Amalgamation

The impending acquisition by the Coca-Cola Amatil corporation of the entirety of South Pacific beer production, combined with Facebook’s IPO and acquisition of Instagram and Take Two Interactive’s implementation of gang warfare in video games lend themselves to the question of when does wanton acquisition of power become the plotting of world domination.

CCA expects PNG and Indonesia to act much in the manner of a subsidiary in return for infrastructure and technology growth. When the point is reached wherein a corporation is engaging in more development work than the majority of developed nations in the region, one wonders whether connections to the company could lead to potential ethical dilemmas in the future.

With Facebook poised to raise more than ten times as much as Google when it hits the market, building alliances and rivalries as it goes forth to dominate the ever expanding realm of the internet, all it needs to do is strike deals with global corporations before its sway exceeds that of Google, and a monopoly begins to be established.

More concerningly, when over-priveliged upper-middle class teenage boys can engage in dynamically branching rounds of gang wars, it instils in them the idea that they won’t be taking any more orders from potential sources of authority, at which point anarchy reigns.

The question remains as to when capitalism ends and world domination begins, with these three corporations blurring the line separating the two.

Green text comes from The Herald Sun (Author Neil Wilson)

Red text comes from The Australian (Courtesy of Associated Press)

Blue text comes from 4 Traders (Author unstated)

Assignment 2 Submission - An Addendum

As requested, I have uploaded the requisite files (or at least I think I uploaded all of them) to GameFront.
In essence, I uploaded each and every file within the level folder. 
They can all be found here.

Assignment 2 Submission - Part 5 - Links

The link to my model in the 3d workshop can be found here.

My Crysis folder is on Dropbox.
The login details are as follows:
Username: adelagreenbaum@gmail.com
Password: arch1101

Assessment 2 Submission - Part 4 - Images of the Environment with Monument

As the midday sun shines on the monument, it filters the light to create shadows for the students to sit and mingle in.

The sunrise over the horizon draws attention to the use of a single texture over the major sections.

The electroliqid aggregation pertains to the filtration of light, but being a monument for architecture students, it also needed to be suitable for viewing in the middle of the night, after a 72 hour work day. As a result, the environment acts as the filter of light as it absorbs the radiant light from the moon.