Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Personal Cards

I need everyone to send me
their name
their contact email
Project title
a few lines on their project (this being the only optional bit)

Example
SIMONE BREWSTER
simone.Brewster@rca.ac.uk

4 Legs Good 2 Legs Bad
4 Legs Good 2 Legs Bad is an investigation into a series of dependant seating devices, which encourage its user to find other bodies of stability in order to sit.

Beautiful Bamboo Building





You mean something like this, Finn?



It's getting even better with all the xmas lights now. Hong Kong harbour is turning into one big flashing light display.

Bamboo scaffolding is definitely a good thing. See you all soon.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Sign Overload Causes Negative Mental and Physical Effects

In too many places, main commuter roads are cluttered with strip malls, billboards and garish on-premise signs. A recent Texas A&M University study is the first to determine that this type of sprawl contributes to commuter stress. After being subjected to stressful situations, the subjects took simulated commutes along either of two kinds of roads: blighted by billboards, sprawl, and strip development, or unspoiled and rural in character. Stress levels declined quickly for those driving rural roads, but remained high for those exposed to strip developments. Stressed drivers experienced higher blood pressure, heart rate and respiration, and increased eye movements and facial muscle activity.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Brave New World / Platform8XL in Williamsburg

I have started talking to people about funding the exhibition. Ideally we get one big sponsor for it covering arifares, accommodation, PR material and, most importantly, shipping the stuff. What I ideally need from you is top quality work and a stunning display during the Work in Progress show.
Using the documentation of the show I am confident to put together a mint proposal over christmas, so that fundraising can start properly in January. Also from last years Berlin show I remember that you were incredibly quick to come up with good ideas where to get the money from. So if you come up with any please let me know! NYC isn't Berlin, so it won;t be easy, but then again time is on our side.

Please give a thought to Milan as well: Do you want to show there as well? I think you should, but it's going to put a hefty strain on the 2nd term and is likely to mean no easter holiday...

Next Platform Dinner (and P8 Christmas dinner? Should we have one?) is on the 14th of December in the evening. I'll try to get a Journalist and Paul Cocksedge in, but nothing confirmed yet.)

Also: Gabi and me are trying to get a studio visit to either Kapoor or Heatherwick before christmas, hopefully that day.

Good luck for the 30th, I'll be in touch through blog regarding the Brixton school project as I'm going to be away next week (in Las Vegas. If I manage to win against the damn slot machines I'll fund the NYC trip).

Monday, November 20, 2006

Party  Partij  partido  パーティ~ Partei udeleženec

Sound System designs


Fernando Brizio used a digital audio waveform of his voice uttering the words “vase” to create this spun aluminium vase.

This project was presented at the ExperimentaDesign Biennale 2003.


Sunday, November 19, 2006

Desing Idea

http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html?v=/ted/movies/ROSSLOVEGROVE&cid=/ted/movies

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Wednesday, November 15, 2006


How about something like this for the show?
From http://www.pixelsumo.com/

Monday, November 13, 2006

Need Atomic wapons!!

http://www.brotron.com/

Try this!!!


Paint on your screen and see a robot tho the same in real via a webcam, this is cool!!

http://pumapaint.rwu.edu/PumaPaint.html

Meeting Tuesday

We're meeting tomorrow, 10.30 AM in the studio for 1-1 tutorials. Can someone put up a list? At 5PM we have a meeting on 8th floor about the Interim Show. Many greetings

H

site exchange

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
http://www.extraversion.co.uk/projects/cylinder.html

opera and ballet

is anyone interested? there are some really cheap standby students tickets. sign in on www.roh.org.uk

Christoph Buchel at Hauser & Wirth Gallery

All I'll say is that you have to go. When you're there look at absolutley everything and IN absolutely everything. Also wear clothes that are ok to get a bit dusty.

HAUSER & WIRTH COPPERMILL
92 - 108 CHESHIRE STREET
LONDON E2 6EJ
TELEPHONE +44 207 287 23 00 FACSIMILE +44 207 287 66 00
london@hauserwirth.com


GALLERY HOURS Thursday to Sunday 12 - 7 pm

Try to avoid seeing images of the installation before you go. You can check them out afterwards to see if you missed anything.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Gattaca (1997)

Life swap in the future: A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/

celebrating 4000 hits!!!

3500 of which were finn's

Holocaust Memorial to Disabled People

http://www.outside-centre.com/thchair.html

Rubic's cube ROBOT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkft2qaKv_o

Monday, November 06, 2006

Swap cycle

SWAP presentation takes off 9AM RCA

Hey 8,

tomorrow isn't going to be as much of an odyssey as I thought, but still we have to start early and in time. Here is how it goes:

9AM RCA: Finn
Genta
Bas Kools

outside RCA Simone

Sheperds bush by bus 49: Sarah

Speakers Corner by bus 94: Tom

Trafalgar Sq 1pm: Babhak

Russel Sq: Nina

Guildhall school of music: Il hoon (please confirm)

Then towards east: Simon
Claudia
Benjamin
Then Brrrixton: Henny

Stockwell: Alex

Then pub i suppose.

See you all tomorrow at 9 in front of college, Jay Mews Entrance, greetings

Hannes

Everyone apreciates the long light evenings...

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/willett.html

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Real Role Play

http://www.great-murder-mystery-games.com/death-on-the-gambia.html

Alala alala

Friday, 8 December 2006

CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy)
At Kentish Town Forum, London
From 7:00pm
Price: £11.00 in advance

I like to go and see this, any of you interested?

Con text

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Hey Girls,

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In Contemporary art, context is often used to describe everything other than the content of the piece of work. For example the way in which a painting is hung within a gallery, the political situation at the time of viewing, the amount of wine consumed at the private view*

*Credit to Wikipedia for this definition of context, its funny but i don't agree,content can be context, exciting art for me is just changing the signs.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Hi

I heard I really had a nice time last night!! :P