Saturday, July 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland featuring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. Also included are three more pieces of concept art.
The article explains that the March 5, 2010 release, co-starring Michael Sheen, Mia Wasikowska, Matt Lucas, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman, is almost like a sequel to the original story:
The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). Alice, 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. Off she runs, following a white rabbit into a hole and ending up in Wonderland, a place she visited 10 years before yet doesn't remember.
Source http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56475
The article explains that the March 5, 2010 release, co-starring Michael Sheen, Mia Wasikowska, Matt Lucas, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman, is almost like a sequel to the original story:
The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). Alice, 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. Off she runs, following a white rabbit into a hole and ending up in Wonderland, a place she visited 10 years before yet doesn't remember.
Source http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56475
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Bri(n)ck
Bri(n)ck at Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
I don't really like brick.. It's generally so solid and boring. I do like the uniformity of it... That sense of order. And it's warm. This particular design shows how damn CAD can help.. I think this will be an area I'd love and loathe to explore.
Love the curves lines, the play of light and the materiality of it.
Go to http://www.dezeen.com/2009/05/11/on-the-brinck-at-graduate-school-of-design-harvard-university/
I don't really like brick.. It's generally so solid and boring. I do like the uniformity of it... That sense of order. And it's warm. This particular design shows how damn CAD can help.. I think this will be an area I'd love and loathe to explore.
Love the curves lines, the play of light and the materiality of it.
Go to http://www.dezeen.com/2009/05/11/on-the-brinck-at-graduate-school-of-design-harvard-university/
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Sydney, May 09
So, my 50% assignment was over on Wednesday. Big load off my shoulders. Prasad was in Sydney so I thought why not go visit - I really wanted the break.
In case you don't already know the train ride to Sydney is a bum-breaking three hours. I get bored. I patch up the holes in my clothes, sew back the buttons that have come off from my clothes... And then take random photos. Like this one: It's not just of my thumb, it's of my thumb that was stumped. Lol. Well, I kinda injured it a couple of many weeks ago... And basically that whole area that is discoloured is hollow! There's actually hair that got in there! (I don't know how.) So I basically spent a good deal of my time inserting a safety pin into that crevice to try and get the hair out. I didn't succeed. Yeeaash.
Ok, I'll skip all the small details about the arrival and all that, but I really had a good time on this trip.
I spent the whole Saturday afternoon in the Art Gallery of NSW, the Fern Garden at the Botanic Gardens (which weren't much, but I got to see the largest bats in the world nesting.) and the Power House Museum, with most of my time at the art gallery.
I was blown away at the art gallery, and there's the Archibald Prize going on right now. Wiki says it "is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia... first awarded in 1921." But anyway, the main point of this is that I came across last year's finalist, Vincent Fantauzzo, and his triple portrait of Heath Ledger.
http://www.nydailynews.cojavascript:void(0)m/gossip/2008/05/08/2008-05-08_portrait_of_heath_ledger_wins_australian.html
I simply love it and If I had $115 to blow I'd spend it on the framed print of this. In case I wasn't clear, this is a painting. So since I couldn't afford a framed print I bought 5 postcard instead. I would have bought the print alone since it was ony $25, but then I would crease it and then there'd be bo point...
Go to http://www.thearchibaldprize.com.au/home to see this years' finalist.
Also I was at Martin's Place just off George St, right at the fountain where The
Matrix was filmed. That's right! It's in the first Matrix, the scene with the Woman in the Red Dress. I compared my pics and the scene in the movie.. And realise the flooring was different. The amazing wiki tells me the fountain was redone after the film. Why would they want to redo it?! But still, you can identify the details of the columns in the adjacent building.
I did something I've not done in awhile too. I watched a movie on my own again. Was nice.
This trip has made me think more about archi and where I want to study in the future and I'm pretty sure I don't want it to be in Newcastle. I mean, Newcastle is awesome to build the foundation and ground yourself. But it's just too secluded, cut off from the whole art scene. Good place to lay the foundation, but not grow from there.
I did seem to want to type more.. At least more fluidly, but I am getting tired. And you will forgive me since it's 5am.
TTFN.
In case you don't already know the train ride to Sydney is a bum-breaking three hours. I get bored. I patch up the holes in my clothes, sew back the buttons that have come off from my clothes... And then take random photos. Like this one: It's not just of my thumb, it's of my thumb that was stumped. Lol. Well, I kinda injured it a couple of many weeks ago... And basically that whole area that is discoloured is hollow! There's actually hair that got in there! (I don't know how.) So I basically spent a good deal of my time inserting a safety pin into that crevice to try and get the hair out. I didn't succeed. Yeeaash.Ok, I'll skip all the small details about the arrival and all that, but I really had a good time on this trip.
I spent the whole Saturday afternoon in the Art Gallery of NSW, the Fern Garden at the Botanic Gardens (which weren't much, but I got to see the largest bats in the world nesting.) and the Power House Museum, with most of my time at the art gallery.
I was blown away at the art gallery, and there's the Archibald Prize going on right now. Wiki says it "is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia... first awarded in 1921." But anyway, the main point of this is that I came across last year's finalist, Vincent Fantauzzo, and his triple portrait of Heath Ledger.
http://www.nydailynews.cojavascript:void(0)m/gossip/2008/05/08/2008-05-08_portrait_of_heath_ledger_wins_australian.html
I simply love it and If I had $115 to blow I'd spend it on the framed print of this. In case I wasn't clear, this is a painting. So since I couldn't afford a framed print I bought 5 postcard instead. I would have bought the print alone since it was ony $25, but then I would crease it and then there'd be bo point...
Go to http://www.thearchibaldprize.com.au/home to see this years' finalist.
Also I was at Martin's Place just off George St, right at the fountain where The
Matrix was filmed. That's right! It's in the first Matrix, the scene with the Woman in the Red Dress. I compared my pics and the scene in the movie.. And realise the flooring was different. The amazing wiki tells me the fountain was redone after the film. Why would they want to redo it?! But still, you can identify the details of the columns in the adjacent building.I did something I've not done in awhile too. I watched a movie on my own again. Was nice.
This trip has made me think more about archi and where I want to study in the future and I'm pretty sure I don't want it to be in Newcastle. I mean, Newcastle is awesome to build the foundation and ground yourself. But it's just too secluded, cut off from the whole art scene. Good place to lay the foundation, but not grow from there.
I did seem to want to type more.. At least more fluidly, but I am getting tired. And you will forgive me since it's 5am.
TTFN.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Pictures that caught my attention.
"Misfits", Thomas Grünfeld
"Accident", Ricochet Studio
"Stalin + Mao", Peter Saul
"Poster Girl", Jasper Goodall
"Letterpress", Cameron Moll
Art for T.I. Papertrail, Ian Wright
All pics sourced from http://baxterfinley.typepad.com/baxter_finley/
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Inspiration
Just a few nice pics that I like.
New York-based Dror have designed residential villas for Nurai, a resort on a natural island off the coast of Abu Dhabi.
Lush Island, part of the residential villas of Nurai.
Dubai Opera House by Zaha Hadid
Power Unit Studio, Y House Aichi, 2005, Makoto Yokomizo Edition 1/15
New York-based Dror have designed residential villas for Nurai, a resort on a natural island off the coast of Abu Dhabi.
Lush Island, part of the residential villas of Nurai.
Dubai Opera House by Zaha Hadid
Power Unit Studio, Y House Aichi, 2005, Makoto Yokomizo Edition 1/15
Drowned World
A series of photographs, Flooded London series by Squint/Opera. Breathtaking, in my opinion.
Interested? Go to http://www.dezeen.com/2008/06/22/flooded-london-by-squintopera-2/
Food for thought
Rather late, but here's the entrants for the Architectural Jelly Competition -
http://www.lfa2008.org/event.php?id=130&name=Architectural+Jelly+Banquet
How cool is that? Visit http://www.dezeen.com/2008/07/22/architectural-jelly-competition-results/ for more.
Seven Deadly Glasses by Kacper Hamilton
London-based designer Kacper Hamilton has designed a set of wine glasses inspired by the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed (below), sloth, wrath (above), envy and pride.
Visit http://www.dezeen.com/2008/06/05/seven-deadly-glasses-by-kacper-hamilton/ to see the rest.
Asemic Scapes - Rehabilitation Center Rainberg by Sarah Schneider
The following from Sarah Schneider:
This project is a conceptual design for a rehabilitation center for trauma and post surgery patients with a capacity of 50 beds in the Austrian Alps, in Vorarlberg.
In general rehab centers like their predecessors the sanatoriums of the 19th and 20th century are based on a dualistic set of values: they embody the belief in the healing power of technology and the healing power of nature, which is why they are mostly situated in prestine landscapes.
Therefore my attempt was to develop a contemporary relationship to the landscape based on calligraphic ornamentation.
Calligraphy is adding an idea of creating variation through artistic expression to a technical matter of communication and is connected to ornamentation which generally uses natural motifs and often rules of natural growth.
The project develops an architecture that uses rules of natural growth and connects both growth and ornament, with a landscape environment, topologically and calligraphically.
The ornament creates a symbiotic relationship with the existing environment by framing existing topographic features and at the same time giving a feedback to the landscape by creating topographical irregularities.
In the landscape the ornament starts to organize the ground by subtle terracing and it creates paths that break the clear definition of an indoor ñ outdoor boundary by running through the building, widening up to create bigger platforms and shrinking back to paths when leaving the building again.
This ornamented landscape topography develops the roof structure transforming from a plan calligraphy into a complex volumetric condition of overlay and envelope.
This project is a conceptual design for a rehabilitation center for trauma and post surgery patients with a capacity of 50 beds in the Austrian Alps, in Vorarlberg.
In general rehab centers like their predecessors the sanatoriums of the 19th and 20th century are based on a dualistic set of values: they embody the belief in the healing power of technology and the healing power of nature, which is why they are mostly situated in prestine landscapes.
Therefore my attempt was to develop a contemporary relationship to the landscape based on calligraphic ornamentation.
Calligraphy is adding an idea of creating variation through artistic expression to a technical matter of communication and is connected to ornamentation which generally uses natural motifs and often rules of natural growth.
The project develops an architecture that uses rules of natural growth and connects both growth and ornament, with a landscape environment, topologically and calligraphically.
The ornament creates a symbiotic relationship with the existing environment by framing existing topographic features and at the same time giving a feedback to the landscape by creating topographical irregularities.
In the landscape the ornament starts to organize the ground by subtle terracing and it creates paths that break the clear definition of an indoor ñ outdoor boundary by running through the building, widening up to create bigger platforms and shrinking back to paths when leaving the building again.
This ornamented landscape topography develops the roof structure transforming from a plan calligraphy into a complex volumetric condition of overlay and envelope.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Cadbury Eyebrows
Oh my gosh, this is awesome lah. I wish I could do that.
Cadbury Eyebrows from Nils-Petter Lovgren on Vimeo.
Links: Nils-Petter Lovgren via vimeo http://vimeo.com/2944140
Cadbury Eyebrows from Nils-Petter Lovgren on Vimeo.
Links: Nils-Petter Lovgren via vimeo http://vimeo.com/2944140
Triflow tap by Zaha Hadid
Uber cool tap.
The new Triflow tap by Zaha Hadid takes inspiration from the fluid movement of water. The design is a formal expression of the continuous flow of liquid - merging the spout, body and handle of the tap in a seamless trajectory of curvilinear geometries. Already unique to the three-way Triflow tap is the technology woven effortlessly into its design – namely the extra internal tube that allows treated drinking water to be delivered through a separate waterway, avoiding contamination from the hot and cold tap water. While hot and cold water are controlled by the tap’s discrete handle, the drinking water element is activated by a touch sensitive electric button indicated by the Triflow logo. A green halo light ignites when operational, turning to red when the water treatment cartridge needs replacing and flashing red when the battery is running low. A battery provides back-up in case of failure of mains electricity failure.
Hidden within the Zaha Hadid design is a highly sophisticated manufacturing process that has never before been used for a tap. The revolutionary shape employs the latest methods of production and a unique ceramic coring process, resulting in a tap that is as much a piece of art as it is a kitchen or bathroom appliance.
Links: http://www.triflowconcepts.com/, http://www.dezeen.com/2009/01/30/triflow-tap-by-zaha-hadid/#more-24215
You Found Me
Amy Winehouse - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
The Fray - You Found Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obhdTlImFBo
The Fray - You Found Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obhdTlImFBo
Monday, February 9, 2009
One
"I mean, what is an un-birthday present?"
"A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course."
Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last.
"You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?"
"Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice.
"And how many birthdays have you?"
"One." - Lewis Carroll
"A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course."
Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last.
"You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?"
"Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice.
"And how many birthdays have you?"
"One." - Lewis Carroll
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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