Given the geometric design of Jardine House, Sugarman said, the facade has potential to host other games-board, video, or otherwise. Sugarman is working on getting the piece ready for the upcoming Digital Art Fair, where his photography will be displayed alongside other artists. “This piece uses a combination of drone photography, compositing and Python coding to turn one of Hong Kong’s most iconic buildings into a classic game of Tetris,” Sugarman wrote on Instagram. With those composites, Markezana programmed a playable version of Tetris on the skyscraper. Sugarman took numerous drone shots of Jardine House with as many of the windows’ lights on as possible, then played with Photoshop to create variations of images, including one with all the lights off. But reimagining Jardine House as a game of Connect 4 would be more complicated-there’d need to be two colors of tiles as it’s multiplayer, for one-so Tetris it was. “I actually work in the building next to Jardine House, so for the past few years it’s really driven me crazy to look out the window and be reminded of a vision that I hadn’t yet completed.”Īmid the pandemic inertia of being stuck in Hong Kong, Sugarman got cracking. “Every time I walk past it, I’ve always imagined what it would be like if the lights were coordinated in a way that shows the game being played,” Sugarman, who is from London, said. A post shared by Blair Sugarman told Coconuts that he had always thought Jardine House-with its round, recessed windows-looked like a Connect 4 board.
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