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...
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