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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

Are you a budding chemist?? Make your own!

http://chemistry.about.com/od/demonstrationsexperiments/ss/liquidmagnet.htm

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/

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!

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