H8ppy New Year

A good hop into 2007 to all of you! Many greetings from Hannes

Official Happy New Year Message

from Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad

No one wants to look at ugly people

http://www.campaignagainstreallife.com/campaign_vid.htm

best dutch banksy

Found a few meters from Anne Frank house in Amsterdam.

Festive guide to a successful hangover

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Hello dear platformers,

Time is flying here in Italy. I have the feeling we just started but it will be finished this friday at noon after the last presentation with a turkey dinner.

Today we had a presentation of our second brief which was titled; Democratic Design. I worked with David Artuffo on this project. He is one of the four students of the MA at the Design Academy who joined us for the second week of this workshop. We proposed a project that will run on the lago blog from the beginning till the end and the visitors will be able to comment and vote on the design (decisions). It can be really exciting to do this with this company and being aware of the amount of visitors their blog has in a day.

Our presentation opened up a discussion and we are asked to develop this further in order to get this project really running. The interest is there and it's now up to us to deal with the questions and dificulties that are now there. We have to make it ready to get it running.

So much to do and so less time. I will be in the Netherlands on saturday for christmas but I wont see myself rest much. The much food i'm looking forward to will be a necessary power source.

Henny

PS. the image shows David and my laptop around and on top of a Dell print/copy/scan station. Due to difficulties with sending a file to print we tried to copy the file from my laptopscreen. This process did not result in a succes.

the Spritz (3)

ingredients:
- Campari or Aperol
- Vino Bianco (dry)
- Soda
- Ice
- slice of Lemon

Fill a glas with ice,
put 1/3 of Campari (or Aperol)in,
1/3 of dry white wine
finish it with soda and a piece of lemon.

Homecoming

Somebody asked me recently what constituted a traditional Irish meal, well check this out from my friend Pierce's blog, i shall hopefully be sampling it very soon....

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Friday 15th

Last night I worked till late and this morning I started early. My curiousness drives me to develop some ideas to products. The models of yesterday were a good start and now I have to go further into the details of things, the connections, edges, materials etc. To keep myself fresh I also started working on a chair and the funniest thing happened. During the process I had one chair constantly in my mind; chair 1 by Constantin Grcic. The honeycomb model started looking much like this chair. At a given moment I just wanted to check this chair again because it was getting frustrating. The image made clear that developing the chair like I did was of no use. The result wouldn’t be anything else then something that would be compared with chair 1 and I have to say that that’’s such a high quality chair that I stopped working on mine. Constantin; you did a very fine job there.

The posts on the our platform blog were picked up by Lago and now they linked their blog to ours, to my site, Design Products’ site and the college site. Nicola who runs the Lago blog asked to post writings and photo’s on their blog and I think that would be a very good thing to do. The blog principle works really well when it comes to sharing information. It’s good to be updated with developments and news from London. In return we post the work done here.

We also had a talk about blogs in general and how they work for students and the importance of a blog for a company. This was very interesting and thought me some things I wasn’t aware of before. It’s really great that the people here are so open to share their knowledge with us. I experience Lago as a friendly company that offer us a lot of a lot of things. In return we work our guts off to give them nice projects. I think this is quite a good deal for now.

Soon Danielle will be here and we will present our developments on the future of sleeping brief. After that there will be a presentation of our previous work to the people from Lago and friends here in the studio. This will be done in Italian style with nice food and wine.

Henny

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Wednesday 13th

Today we have met Danielle Lago, one of the six siblings that run Lago. He and the Juan Paolo (sales) reviewed our ideas so far. The morning and afternoon were dedicated to make a short presentation of the work so far. Nevertheless the work that I was showing was done with down to the bone sketches. I didn’t really worry too much about them understanding these. I use pen and paper and from the beginning I tried to make sketches that express ideas rather then give an impression of a finished product with the details on edges and colours.

The presentation was very interesting because they looked at the ideas if they would fit Lago and if they could be easily produced and sold. The feedback was completely different from a college crit. Discussions about materials, techniques and dimensions, all direct to how the finished object would be instead of expanding ideas and pushing limits. They were really impressed with the work and ideas we all have come up with and this is very pleasing to hear. I do think my personal goals are far from reached while for them some concepts are already there. I think there is still a load of work to be done.

After the presentation we went to Bassano, the city where Grappa is made. It’s at the bottom of Grappa Mountain and we drunk spritzer and some good Grappa. I love Italy.

Henny

so cute

so dead

walking table

here

Last day b4 Christmas br8k

Dear all

tomorrow we meet as scheduled at 10.30AM in college; as far as I am concerned everyone apart from Ben and Bahbak will be there (Sarah?).
Then we'll have a classic Platform 8 gallery day-out in London. Towards the very late afternoon I suggest we gravitate towards the studio for our Platform 8 christmas dinner, to which I also invited Jurgen.
For this I need to gauge attendance figures, so I suggest everyone who wants to contribute to the dinner emails back to me later today or we figure it out tomorrow;
You all will receive this per mail now simoultaneously as well. Regards
Hannes

blog.lago.it

http://blog.lago.it

Hello dear platformers,

I hope you all are doing well. I want to give you a short update about what I am doing at this moment in Italy. As you most of you know I participate in a two week workshop set up by furniture company Lago here in San Giorgio in Bosco (near Treviso). I keep a detailed diary about the experience and take loads of images. My original idea of posting everything on the blog has changed to some short updates for now and I think I can present you a well structured story about these two weeks in beginning january.

What I do want to let you know is that i enjoy my time here, the facilities are great and we work in a very open and friendly environment. The company is young and motivated (like me), their goals are clear and this provides a clear structure to work in (a good experience).

ciao,

Henny

Defensive Spaces

when there's a will, there's a way

1 hour earlier tomorrow

Hey all

we're scheduled in at St Martins in the field tomorrow at 12 lunchtime. I suggest we meet at 11.40 at Brixton Tube station. From there we take number 2 or 432 bus to the school. Will email this tomorrow or get in touch via phone if I don;t reach you all! Many greetings and a nice rest of sunday,

Hannes


http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=SW23UP

i wish ...

Interactive architecture graffity

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=32

Urilift

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=77254577907948095&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en-CA

photos on the web

Ok here are a bunch of pics taken by that lovely lady from that site
I can imagine a small article appearing soon.

yummy

http://www.swamp.nu

Itiner8ary

Friday, December 8 from 19.00hrs: rAndom vs Troika Studio Christmas Party.

Monday, December 11: 13.00hrs meeting in St Martins in the Fields School with the Brixton Kids with introduction from Phil Watson.

Please get back to me who can make it! I need to know to plan.

Thursday, December 14: 10.30 AM meeting at RCA, Gallery day. Then:

"Bye bye London" Platform8 Christmas Dinner (with guests to be confirmed)

MAKE IT UP: WHat are we eating for this? Any suggestions? Please get back to me. Our studio grill works, oven is out of service...so only cold turkey.

Edward Bernays

"News is any overt act which juts out of the routine of circumstance. A good public relations man advises his client... to carry out an overt act... interrupting the continuity of life in some way to bring about a response."

http://www.beyond-the-pale.co.uk/bernays.htm

stupid , immature and occasionally very funny

http://www.fuckthiswebsite.com/

twilight

this looks amazing. i am going this week. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm light
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/twilight/crewdson/index.html

Metalosis Maligna

http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=2353

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.

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.
?

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).

Canteen Meeting

6:30 Thursday at the "usual spot".
bring your ideas and your lovely selves.

Big up

http://www.icff.com/pages/content.asp?AnID=home

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.

Desing Idea

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

This is core of prototyping

For those that want to take it further...

people as movement

arrows

types of movement

last years show

How things move?

Have you had further thoughts about what machines you could use to move your work? Keep us posted, looking forward to tomorrow at this blog!

Animal motor (Jacques Carelman)

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

star polygon

norm

go to this site: www.norm.to and try the sign generator

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.

Cockroach Robot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZD59Ic9T8&mode=related&search=

Can't work out if they're more or less freaky like this.

Performing water design

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9LQHazTRg

Does your house run on gas?

Performing architecture?

Taken from rather a nice blog:
http://butwhatsgoingoninlondon.blogspot.com/

finn you are the man

it works.

Amazing short movies

http://www.microbia.nl/

police arrest on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=William+Cardenas&search=Search

FBI started an investigation after this video material was published on youtube.

Interim Show Dates, T minus 20 days

28th/ space available, start of build up

30th/ 6pm private view

5th Dec. / open studio-day 2-6pm

9th Dec./ take down of show

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

testing

DSC00043.JPG
Originally uploaded by platform8_rca.

in the words of madeline

flickr

platform 8 is on flickr now! check your email for the details.

by the way, search bahbak on flickr, its fun.

cheers, henny

SWAP preview

Hair Larious PERFORMANCE

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4786182587672514384&q=stefane+monzon

visual music mixer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPG-LYoW27E

Think?

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/neurobotics/control/114.asp

numbers to think

http://www.worldometers.info/

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

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

Hey Girls,

Happy holidays! Since we couldn’t send you all a Christmas gift, we thought we’d create a special issue of Total Girl for you to read over your summer break. We call it a holiday handbook because it’s packed with great stories, advice, fashion, competitions, quizzes and games to keep you entertained for as long as your summer holiday lasts!

We hope you like this special issue as much as the we enjoyed putting all 180 pages together! Just remember your holiday is what you make of it!

Lots of luv and summer fun,
Sah xx

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.

Hi

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

pump swap

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5351116.stm

a ballon to meet brigit bardot

http://www.panamarenko.org/home.php

HOI!!!

Welcome

Hello there 8r's. Any problems witht logging in passwords etc let me know and il try and do something bout it. Check out our archives in the menu on the right hand side. Patuculary march, april and may the blog was pretty mental round then

Somehow I am into drawing these days

I code therefore I am

WHAT IF

YOU DONT WANT TO SWAP BACK?

[platform8 are doing a lifeswap project]

PLEASE

link your posts. its so easy and makes the blog much nicer to use. And mac users have no excuse iv just posted this from a mac. its the button in the create posts tool bar with the chain link logo on it. DO IT.

Wife Swap from the 'Dawk Side'

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5464505634137914176&q=life+swap

obvious

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Calle

Swap swap

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/woman/story/0,,1683914,00.html

10+2... with something to laugh about

Sure i will catch up with you guys in the studio... but one for the arsenal lovers (even van nistelrooy)
http://arseblog.com/podcasts/episode2.mp3
go to half way through and wait to hear from arsen wenger hawkins. its the best thing ever.
oh!and the number in the title adds up to the amount of shots of rum i had when i found out i wouldnt be spending another great year with you guys. enjoy it!

Awesome, it's Marcus / memory drawing on steroids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95L-zmIBGd4&mode=related&search

ten minus two

Hey all, really impressive work yesterday across all years and platforms. Prepare for a tough ride in 8 this year... And get yourself a valid passport. See you all on Monday, then it's our turn to impress you, greetings

Hannes

8 is a do-tank

Guess what....

This 'unique' building is home to a basket weaving company.

Van Persie - the new Bergkamp?: Discuss

Henny, you'd be proud.
Check out this amazing volley from the goal against charlton the other day!

http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=arsenal++charlton

The Man of Scrap

He is fighting terrorism and his name is Arie.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/carstenholler/
this looks like the best fucking art iv seen in ages. any parallels with public / private here?

the White Stripes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO5I_Fe0BbA&eurl=

Some info for the Artemide light

Tom are you feeling this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KfTcCjlyao&eurl=

Stockwell - Brighton

Nice ride to the sun. (IDE) Ben, Alex and Henny.

nearly there

Interactive Architecture

This is a great piece of interactive building graffiti.

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=32#video

Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow

http://www.evsc.net/proj/magnets/

Nice little project!

Video Description

A dynamic system with magnetic interaction between its parts visualizes the increasing difficulty of prediction the farther into the future we attempt to look.

dnf.evsc.net

Interactive Installation
by Eva Schindling and Daniel J. Wilson

Cut Killer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FG4hacQjWU&mode=related&search=

Mc Luhan '62

Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside. So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and superimposed co-existence. [...] Terror is the normal state of any oral society, for in it everything affects everything all the time. [...] In our long striving to recover for the Western world a unity of sensibility and of thought and feeling we have no more been prepared to accept the tribal consequences of such unity than we were ready for the fragmentation of the human psyche by print culture.

had to blog this

Aah, sweet!

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=151931508083111702

and here's another one

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5752494390378871865

As you may be able to guess I'm getting very skilled at dissertation avoidance techniques!

U2 Bomber

Check out this fantastic piece of editing. Not the greatest U2 fan but the Bomber-Bush version makes it all ok.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6805063692754011230

My God

THe lead singer of this band is very sexy. theyre playing on

Nov 14 2006 8:00P

Scala

London

im going to try and woo her. she is very woo able.

http://www.myspace.com/canseidesersexy
check it out.
and there music is good.
the name of the band translates as tired of being sexy. well im not tired yet so keep going ladies.
ok im not posting till im finsihed my poxy dissertation so bye!!!!!

dublin-oddities

things i have found in recent wanderings

instant art refreshment!!

the vending machine project kicked off this week as part of dublin fringe festival.
60 artists.
10 - 20 pieces each
€5 a piece
3 vending machines

Here's to buying art in a train station!!