Francoise Gamma
The animated .gif has certainly carved out its place in the internet community as an easily-digested piece of media; it quickly delivers a set of images to create a sequence, often on an endless loop. Blogging communities have popularized this format because of its ability…
Art & Science Journal: Francoise Gamma The animated .gif has certainly carved out its place...
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Jul
09
Circumsolar by Sruli Recht
Futuristic/almost sci-fi patchwork jacket by Icelandic design studio Sruli Recht. This new vision of fashion design was shown at the Palais Brongniart, Paris as part of the “Circumsolar and Fragments of Dying Light” performance. Very proud to mention my good friend Kuda Kapuyanyika who was heavily involved in the project.
A living Cemetery by Tim Zihong Yue
Interesting proposal and great use of concrete - crude but elegant.
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Jun
16
Hand Drawn Map of London y Jenni Sparks
Jenni Sparks has collaborated with Evermade to create the definitive culture map of London.
This amazingly detailed hand drawn map of London meticulously highlights the London boroughs and neighbourhoods complete with the quirky in-the-know hallmarks and landmarks that make the city so unique.
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Jun
12
Field of Light by Bruce Munro
Words: “The field of light was originally conceived fifteen years ago during a trip through central Australia. The red desert had an incredible feeling of energy; ideas seemed to radiate from it along with the heat. The field of light installation was one idea that landed in my sketch book and kept on nagging at me… it just had to be done.”
Paul Redman, the Director. “His imaginative works will enchant and amaze our guests with their beauty and ingenuity, but also inspire them to see and experience gardens in a whole new way.”
Light: Installations’ at the Longwood Gardens includes: Forest of Light is a serene forest of 20,000 illuminated stems scattered along a forest walk. Water-Towers is a monumental maze of 69 towers in the water meadow, which seem to move in a monumental glowing dance as they change color in synchronization with music. In Waterlilies, Munro pays homage to Longwood’s iconic water lily by floating platters of shimmering CDs onto the Large Lake. Nearby on the banks, the 7,000-stem Field of Light beckons visitors toward its enchanting glow. Arrow Spring artfully mixes the horticultural splendor of Salvia plants and sparkling LEDs to create a meandering hillside stream.
For Candlelight, in Longwood’s tree house, Munro has placed ceramic candles lit with xenon along the beams and angled mirrors to refract their glowing light. Inside the Conservatory, the Orangery is hung with six Snowballs suspended from the ceiling. Each chandelier is more than nine feet in diameter and encircles 127 glass balls. Light Shower rains more than 1,600 drops of twinkling light over the flooded Fern Floor, creating a magical reflection that intensifies the luminous shower. Finally, the Music Room features a collection of 6 smaller sculptures by Munro – Beach without Sand, Restless Fakir, Gnasher’s Big Raspberry, Boogie Woogie Tower, Rapunzel’s Towers and Mettabhavana.
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Jun
05
Gas Station by Atelier SAD
Service area – a reinforced – concrete structure featuring three funnel – shaped columns that support a melded trio of curvy horizontal discs. Overhead lighting – built into the surface where columns meet discs and lining their undulating edges.
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Jun
04
Day of the Dead by Alexander Korzer-Robinson
Just one of his many examples of book transformations. Seen a few examples like this but doesnt stop them from being stunning!
Statement:
“Through my work in the tradition of collage I am pursuing a very personal obsession of creating narrative scenarios in small format. By using antiquarian books, it makes the work simultaneously an exploration and a deconstruction of nostalgia.
We create our own past from fragments of reality in a process that combines the willful aspects of remembering and forgetting with the coincidental and unconscious.
On a general level, I aim to illustrate this process that forms our inner landscape.
By using pre-existing media as a starting point, certain boundaries are set by the material, which I aim to transform through my process. Thus, an encyclopedia can become a window into an alternate world, much like lived reality becomes its alternate in remembered experience. These books, having been stripped of their utilitarian value by the passage of time, regain new purpose. They are no longer tools to learn about the world, but rather a means to gain insight about oneself.
I make book sculptures / cut books by working through a book, page by page, cutting around some of the illustrations while removing others. In this way, I build my composition using only the images found in the book.”
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Jun
03
Leeds School of Architecture Yearbook 2012
Always an exciting time to see the end of an academic year. All the hard work culminates into an array of thoughtful responses, and no less does that relate to the work produced by this years graduates from the Leeds School of Architecture.
THE IMMORTAL - REVITAL COHEN
A series of life support machines connected to one another to mimic a biological system.
Objects III & IX - Stasus
Authors of the latest Pamphlet Architecture 32
“Animate Landscapes Is the culmination of two years work based on Warsaw and is the beginning of the collaborative work that led to Stasus. Incorporating a proposal for a film and animation studio; the Warsaw Institute of Experimental Film, the project developed programme and forms from an amalgamation of the physical context of the site in Warsaw and the material context of the studio in Edinburgh.
The buildings both work with the train tracks on the site, tethered and held above them and in response to their continuous motion. While the studios channel vibrations from the tracks into the film editing process, the hotel sits inaccessible and skeletal above the station platforms, opening up and coming to life when the film festival begins.”
