Kin Dza Dza!
October 18, 2009
Russian low budget high impact Science Fiction Film. One of my favourites.
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Tokyo’s Mega-Sewers
June 11, 2009
The Touch of Sound – Evelyn Glennie
June 2, 2009
electro^plankton: The Future via 1930
May 26, 2009
Water Solids
May 25, 2009
Another brilliant bit of chemical engineering- shame about the giggity soundtrack:
Harads Tree Hotel
May 22, 2009
The Swedish Architects Tham and Videgard Hansonns amazing concept for a small but perfectly formed getaway in the woods. Stylish.
http://www.tvh.se/main.php
Magnetic Liquid/Ferrofluid
May 22, 2009
This is just cool.
Are you a budding chemist?? Make your own!
http://chemistry.about.com/od/demonstrationsexperiments/ss/liquidmagnet.htm
Filip Dujardin
May 21, 2009
This is a collection of photographs which I stumbled upon during one of my many expeditions across the pixellated nether-regions of the hyper-terminal. The minimalist architectural forms and the stark colouration of these images make for some beautiful compositions. The Belgian Photographer Filip Dujardin ‘combines photographs of parts of buildings into new, fictional, architectonic structures’ (Mark Magazine).
The idea of ‘reconstitution’ in Art is something I find perpetually fascinating. It is heard in music in the processes of sampling and remixing anothers work into a new and original work. The artist samples pieces of three dimensional architecture which he then combines into the most wonderful 2-D images.
From Mark Magazine:
Every montage, says Dujardin, is one project. It begins with an idea for a specific image. Often he starts off by building a model of the form he is trying to achieve – at first in cardboard, but he has recently discovered SketchUp. He then goes on a photo safari, often just around the corner, to find suitable buildings ‘with a lot of the same things,’ so that they can be cut and pasted and serve as building material. In fact most of the fictional structures are buildings in Ghent, just resampled.
He works outside the confines of physics, a problem which architects cannot avoid. In doing so he does not take away from the ‘reality’ of the architecture- at first glance these images may easily be mistaken as actual buildings-instead he seems to incorporate a common visual language that we all possess, just without the boring mathematical formulae needed in order for buildings to ‘stand up’.
‘Perhaps the works come out of frustration. That I actually want to play at being an architect, instead of only recording the buildings of others.’ (Mark Magazine)
http://www.filipdujardin.be/
Hello.
This is my very first attempt at the phenomenally popular activity known as web-logging, or ‘blogging’, which to me sounds like something that might involve a toilet, but who am I to argue with at least ten(?) years of the development of meme generated portmanteaus? No-one, that’s who. ( Although..if I had my way this phrase would lie deeply buried under the entire lexicon of the English language.)
So having tried to steer clear of the term ‘blog’, I have, up until this exact moment, restrained from such activity…and also to distance myself from that most intolerable of words – ‘blogger’. It is somehow extremely offensive. I imagine walking down a street and being approached by a group of young delinquents shouting ‘BLOGGER!’ at me. How rude.
But I digress. Enough whimsy. Back to the matter at hand.
This will not be a ‘blog’. This, dear reader, shall hence forward be known as the general ramblings and critique of one Holly McGowan. And I hope you find it worthy of your attention!
H
