Starry Dynamo
For my LITR class, our final assignment is rightly referred to as The Paper of Many Parts. The paper focuses on a poem of our own choosing, and I chose ‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg. For those of you who have seen the horribly inaccurate 1995 classic, ‘Hackers’, you have already be introduced to the poem. At one point towards the beginning of the movie, the protagonist and his high school teacher have a short conversation, in which the protagonist used a line from ‘Howl’ as his in class assignment. The line reads as follows:
Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.
This is by far my favorite line of poetry that I have ever come across. So, upon finding out that one of the six ‘parts’ of the assignment requires us to come up with a creative visual work to be included with our paper, I couldn’t help but turn to Blender for all my imaging needs.
This sequence depicts, quite literally, a starry dynamo in the machinery of the night. The star field was created using Blender’s built in stars functionality, and the object’s vertices were made into ‘stars’ by turning on the halo setting in the render pipeline.
–Lace