Alan Gordie

Mardini 2025 – Completion Recap
Iron Heart Qualifier

What a month. I'm grateful to have had the chance to swim in the same creative waters as so many brilliant minds -- this challenge was a joyful gauntlet of curiosity, discipline, and procedural jazz. From toy ducks to seahorses, chrome arthropods skittering across tiled slither pads, to quantum-radio disco dancers emerging from some elsewhen... from molten memory mud and honey flowing from faraway lands to plastic puffy stickers -- each prompt offered a story, and I did my best to listen. Sometimes that worked out. Sometimes it didn’t. Here’s a look back.

This is the contact sheet for my Mardini Iron Heart journey: thirty-one entries, each a signal, each a step toward better craft. I’m thankful for all the inspiration and camaraderie. Here’s hoping we do it again sometime.

With respect and love,
–alan / @OrganicComputer

Mardini 2025 – Day 24: CRASH (Late Entry)

Sometimes collapse is a celebration. The tower had it coming ... rigid, overbuilt, a holdout from some prior geometry regime.

Enter our skittering kinetic-launcher friend: part missile platform, part creature of intent, IK-posed and KineFX puppeted into purpose. When the moment ripened, the launcher bloomed ... unpacking from its captured geo to fire a volley, each missile guided by POP logic and a well-timed attraction force. At impact, the structure didn’t just break, it transformed -- ignited by inherited velocity and crowned in a pyro aerial burst demo like digital confetti from the grid.

This was always meant to be a liberation.

see you soon,
–alan/organic

Mardini 2025 – Day 17: DANCE (Late Entry for Iron Heart consideration)

A bit of a backfill boogie... better late than never when you’re bringing the groove. This one's built on SOPs, animated with KineFX skeleton blends, and guided by a quantum radio whisper that said: “let them dance.”
Each pose along the curve is a signal, every chrome body a receiver—tuned to joy, streaming live from the procedural beyond, and frozen mid-beat by the strobe of a multiversal photographer.

see you soon,
–alan/organic