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!

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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