Props to Beinghunted, for putting up their whole haute-streetwear features archive in a readily-accessible format! Happy new year...
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Thursday, 31 December 2009
Friday, 25 September 2009
Monday, 14 September 2009
Gerrit van Bakel
Gerrit van Bakel - on the recommendation of Theo Jansen, whose wonderful machines I'm currently reading about. Bakel's constructions are reminiscent of the devices conceived at the Bartlett, but years before and almost in isolation (not much of his work has been published in English).
Monday, 31 August 2009
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
music making
Flash toys for dabbling:
>>INFINITE WHEEL<<
easing in gently with a playful dub generator.
old skool rave generator
this is rough and ready as you like. despite its obvious shortcomings, I never fail to get way too exited playing with this...
hobnox audiotool
for those with a little more time on their hands - a whole load of units to wire together and make tunes.
>>INFINITE WHEEL<<
easing in gently with a playful dub generator.
old skool rave generator
this is rough and ready as you like. despite its obvious shortcomings, I never fail to get way too exited playing with this...
hobnox audiotool
for those with a little more time on their hands - a whole load of units to wire together and make tunes.
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Sunday, 16 August 2009
lostinparis
I really ought to put a little more effort into these posts.
Let me invite you to a secret alchemical house, by an architectural practice which continually changes its name - currently R&Sie(n). Alex, my partner in Team Belvedere, put me onto this saying that "It's like The Bartlett, but real life!"
And he's right: there's a lot of amazing stuff happening in architectural schools, particularly The Bartlett, which just isn't followed through in the real world. Of course it's possible to claim that the wider environment, and all the incidental processes which make up a built project, are manifestations of the things we like to discuss, but I often feel that's stretching it a bit. To see a building which genuinely is alchemical, or really does move, is a joy.
Alex originally referred me to the article in Icon magazine. Their print edition this month features discussion between the architect François Roche, Warren Ellis and Geoff Manaugh (cringe).
This prompted me to check Warren Ellis' story "Freakangels". He's an author of comics, including "Transmetropolitan", which until now was about the only western graphic novel I enjoyed aside from those Alan Moore has been involved with.
Freakangels is excellent. It's a web-comic you can read for free each Friday, about a group of friends who decide to end the world, and have to deal with the consequences. It's set in a flooded London, with some great Mancunian references too. It's beautifully drawn and has plenty of architectural merit for anybody interested in re-use and improvisation.
On similar topics, the drawing gets me excited like Aitor Throup's work does. Hopefully in the future the graph of the cost of his garments (currently I can only find one thing which is 1500 UKP) will cross the graph of my disposable income, and I'll be able to pick up something cool. And the liquid London reminds me of the dilapidated Detroit which James D Griffioen captures so stunningly. If anybody can show me round I'd love to go...
Let me invite you to a secret alchemical house, by an architectural practice which continually changes its name - currently R&Sie(n). Alex, my partner in Team Belvedere, put me onto this saying that "It's like The Bartlett, but real life!"
And he's right: there's a lot of amazing stuff happening in architectural schools, particularly The Bartlett, which just isn't followed through in the real world. Of course it's possible to claim that the wider environment, and all the incidental processes which make up a built project, are manifestations of the things we like to discuss, but I often feel that's stretching it a bit. To see a building which genuinely is alchemical, or really does move, is a joy.
Alex originally referred me to the article in Icon magazine. Their print edition this month features discussion between the architect François Roche, Warren Ellis and Geoff Manaugh (cringe).
This prompted me to check Warren Ellis' story "Freakangels". He's an author of comics, including "Transmetropolitan", which until now was about the only western graphic novel I enjoyed aside from those Alan Moore has been involved with.
Freakangels is excellent. It's a web-comic you can read for free each Friday, about a group of friends who decide to end the world, and have to deal with the consequences. It's set in a flooded London, with some great Mancunian references too. It's beautifully drawn and has plenty of architectural merit for anybody interested in re-use and improvisation.
On similar topics, the drawing gets me excited like Aitor Throup's work does. Hopefully in the future the graph of the cost of his garments (currently I can only find one thing which is 1500 UKP) will cross the graph of my disposable income, and I'll be able to pick up something cool. And the liquid London reminds me of the dilapidated Detroit which James D Griffioen captures so stunningly. If anybody can show me round I'd love to go...
Sunday, 14 June 2009
YouTube - The Folks Who Live on the Hill (Excerpt)
matthew bourne - absurdly good pianist. Not the choreographer of the same name. Was lucky enough to catch him outside of a capital city, in Whalley Range of all places.
But hark! He's back again in July at the RNCM.
But hark! He's back again in July at the RNCM.
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Prince stuck in past, says Rogers
Awesome clip of Richard Rogers venting about Prince Charles on BBC news
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Bartlett Summer Show 2009
Bartlett Summer Show - the last two years have been spectacular, so check this if you're anywhere near Euston from the end of the month!
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Saturday, 30 May 2009
speaking clock
Original master disc used by E J Wender in the design of the ‘TIM’ speaking clock, at the science museum's object wiki.
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Obituary: Isabella Blow Life and style | The Guardian
"At a lunch with Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Condé Nast, she wore a pair of antlers covered in a heavy black lace veil. When he asked how she would able to eat, she said: 'Nicholas, that is of no concern to me whatsoever.'"
Thursday, 7 May 2009
i bike polo mcr
Played bike polo for the first time today. For about five minutes, until it went too dark to see the ball, but great fun and soon to be repeated... Top blokes.
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
swimming cities of serenissima
Big up to the entire Swimming Cities crew. You are the best, and we're thinking about your continual grafting every single day!
Encounters At the End of the World
Absolutely incredible documentary put together by Werner Herzog. A collection of portraits of the motley crew who've been drawn to the South Pole, spectacular and touching despite it's sometimes rough and ready techniques. If you have the opportunity, I'd highly recommend catching this at the cinema.
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Monday, 27 April 2009
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