Tag: inspiration

Involucrata Inspiration: The Dreams of Henri Rousseau (360 VR)

Rousseau thrilled the art world with his naive and almost psychedelic visions of exotic jungles. The artist, who never left Paris, drew his inspiration from the city’s botanical gardens. Experience a magical night in [les grandes serres du Jardin des Plantes] brought to life by the painter’s visions. Once the last visitors have left, the greenhouse reveals its secrets with the gradual emergence of a dream-like world of fantastic plants and imaginary animals.

Based on The Dream by Henri Rousseau

Writer and Director: Nicolas Autheman

Original Music: Fabien Bourdier

Coproduction: ARTE France, Les Films du Tambour de Soie

Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 1910, MoMA.  Audio description of the painting.

Les grandes serres du Jardins des Plantes

Involucrata Inspiration: Mountain Gorilla Diorama

Gorilla diorama in the Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in NY. Photo by Kathryn Carse.
Gorilla diorama in the Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in NY. Photo by Kathryn Carse.

Location: Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in NY.

Creator: Background by William R. Leigh, assisted by Robert Kane. Foreground by Albert E. Butler, assisted by Joseph Guerry, George Frederick Mason, Ushinosuke Narahara, George Petersen, and Fred Scherer. Taxidermy by Carl Akeley.

Created: 1936

Involucrata Inspiration: The Giant Houseplant Takeover at RHS Garden Wisley

The Giant Houseplant Takeover at RHS Garden Wisley. Credit: RHS / Joanna Kossak
Candide Gardening gives us a tour of the Giant Houseplant Takeover, a temporary exhibit inside the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley.

In Gardeners’ World 2020 episode 1, presenter Frances Tophill also visits the exhibition. Click here to watch the clip.

Giant Houseplant Takeover, a temporary exhibit inside the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley in 2020.
Gardeners’ World 2020 Episode 1 (26 March 2020). Screen grab.
Giant Houseplant Takeover, a temporary exhibit inside the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley in 2020.
Gardeners’ World 2020 Episode 1 (26 March 2020). Screen grab.
Giant Houseplant Takeover, a temporary exhibit inside the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley in 2020.
Gardeners’ World 2020 Episode 1 (26 March 2020). Screen grab.

Feature Photo Credit: RHS / Joanna Kossak.

Involucrata Inspiration: Las Pozas

Model: Grace Hartzel. Photos by Mikael Jansson. Location: Las Pozas. Vogue, March 2016.
Great Gardens: Las Pozas in Xilitla, Mexico [Nowness].

Las Pozas (“The Pools”) is a subtropical garden established by twentieth-century British poet Edward James. Soaring out of the Mexican jungle near the town of Xilitla, the gardens are home to enormous concrete works of art that live alongside the tropical landscape.

Director and Cinematographer: Toby Amies.

iNaturalist plant observations for Las Pozas.
Screenshot of plant observations submitted to iNaturalist for Las Pozas as of 8/13/2021.

One of my all time favorite Vogue photo stories at Las Pozas. Model: Grace Hartzel. Photos by Mikael Jansson.

Model: Grace Hartzel. Photos by Mikael Jansson. Location: Las Pozas. Vogue, March 2016.
Model: Grace Hartzel. Photos by Mikael Jansson. Location: Las Pozas. Vogue, March 2016.
Grace Hartzel on set with Vogue in Mexico’s Las Pozas.

Involucrata Inspiration: Spaceship Earth [Biosphere 2 Documentary]

Spaceship Earth(2020)

Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially reimagine a new world.

Runtime: 1 hr 53 min (113 min)

Director: Matt Wolf

Release Date (US): 2020

Distributor (US): Neon

Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2 [TED]

Inspiration: Tree

A VR journey from the perspective of a tree.

This virtual-reality project transforms you into a rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and your body as the trunk, you’ll experience the tree’s growth from a seedling into its fullest form and witness its fate firsthand.

The Multi-sensory VR setup for Tree. Credit: Xin Liu, Yedan Qian.
The Multi-sensory VR setup for Tree. Credit: Xin Liu, Yedan Qian.

Official Website: Tree.

MIT Media Lab Website.

Authors: Milica Zec, Winslow Porter
Team: Aleksandar Protic, Bruce Nussbaum, Devon Baur, Dimitri Loginowski, Jen Vitale, Marcie Jastrow, Mike Woods, Scott Gershin, Ted Schilowitz, Tim Dillon
Developers: Erik Anderson, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Konvrge, Mark Kleback, Milk VFX, Rewind Co., Todd Bryant
Designers: Droga5, Mark Klebeck, Milica Zec, Todd Bryant, Winslow Porter, Xin Liu, Yedan Qian
Technologies: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Subpac, Unreal Engine
Techniques: Multi-sensory, Room-Scale Virtual Reality, Virtual reality