Showing posts with label Focus 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Focus 2. Show all posts
Talks at the Bartlett:
Global Cities
Mumbai is the most densley populated in the city has a powerful physical divide between rich and poor.
It is more sustainable to live in a highrise city environment than to live a twee life in the country. Manhattan was called a 'Green Machine?', just imagine how green it could be if everybody became more responsible for their existence.
Fractals
'Fractal geometry and cellular automata in urban design' lecture by Dr Michael Batty. The structure of everything, it is basically the repitition of a triangle overlapping itself. Natural forms like a leaf or the shore line and and why they work, they are not organic shapes, though on the human scale they may seem it. Batty suggested the same structural theory should be applied to town planning, to create forms that work and to look at natures complex system for inspiration. I now look at trees in totally different light!
Edaw on the Olympics
London a city on a string, a string of villages- what is their individual identity? It was refreshing to see some really creative conceptual work produced by such a big practice.
Mumbai is the most densley populated in the city has a powerful physical divide between rich and poor.
It is more sustainable to live in a highrise city environment than to live a twee life in the country. Manhattan was called a 'Green Machine?', just imagine how green it could be if everybody became more responsible for their existence.
Fractals
Image take from Bill Mollison's book 'Permaculture. A Designers Manual'
'Fractal geometry and cellular automata in urban design' lecture by Dr Michael Batty. The structure of everything, it is basically the repitition of a triangle overlapping itself. Natural forms like a leaf or the shore line and and why they work, they are not organic shapes, though on the human scale they may seem it. Batty suggested the same structural theory should be applied to town planning, to create forms that work and to look at natures complex system for inspiration. I now look at trees in totally different light!
Edaw on the Olympics
London a city on a string, a string of villages- what is their individual identity? It was refreshing to see some really creative conceptual work produced by such a big practice.
Sketch
Click for a fab flash website
'sketch is pleased to present the first of two screening programmes conceptually focused around the films of Charles & Ray Eames from the 1950s to the 1980s. A New Stance for Tomorrow: Part 1 will concentrate on imaginings and innovations in architecture and the built environment and will explore the relationship of these disciplines to how space is designated and inhabited. The artists, designers and filmmakers included in the exhibition span from the 1950's to now and in different ways dissolve the boundaries between art, architecture and design whilst creating experimental imaginings and explorations for positive propositions for the future.'
The exhibition room is laid out with 20 comfortable white leather sofas- perfect for a gallery day! A film about the plastic spaceship house like a spider and a butterfly- inthat it was stable and could be transported to any landscape via helicopter. I liked the design- despite the implications of living in plastic and sreeing a spaceship as home, however it did not take off according to the video because the ladies of the 1960's wanted more storage space!
“Futuro represents the modern, comfortable way of housing–practical coziness. Futuro is the dwelling of the future.” (1968 brochure)
The toilets at Sketch are an exhibition!
'sketch is pleased to present the first of two screening programmes conceptually focused around the films of Charles & Ray Eames from the 1950s to the 1980s. A New Stance for Tomorrow: Part 1 will concentrate on imaginings and innovations in architecture and the built environment and will explore the relationship of these disciplines to how space is designated and inhabited. The artists, designers and filmmakers included in the exhibition span from the 1950's to now and in different ways dissolve the boundaries between art, architecture and design whilst creating experimental imaginings and explorations for positive propositions for the future.'
The exhibition room is laid out with 20 comfortable white leather sofas- perfect for a gallery day! A film about the plastic spaceship house like a spider and a butterfly- inthat it was stable and could be transported to any landscape via helicopter. I liked the design- despite the implications of living in plastic and sreeing a spaceship as home, however it did not take off according to the video because the ladies of the 1960's wanted more storage space!
“Futuro represents the modern, comfortable way of housing–practical coziness. Futuro is the dwelling of the future.” (1968 brochure)
The toilets at Sketch are an exhibition!
Nottingham, Easter 08
Gustafson Porter’s transformation of Old Market Square in Nottingham has stormed this year’s Civic Trust Awards, taking three of the coveted awards.
'Our intention was to create an elegant, multi-functional space that will stand the test of time. Our aim was to provide a relaxing space for informal daily activity as well as an exciting destination for events and local markets.'
Neil Porter
I experienced the Market square as welcoming to sit alone and eat in or to sit in a group and be relaxed. It is the center of the city and stands out as a meeting point.
Along with the average highstreet array of shops Nottingham has a historical heart, with snippets of architecture from days past around every corner.
'Our intention was to create an elegant, multi-functional space that will stand the test of time. Our aim was to provide a relaxing space for informal daily activity as well as an exciting destination for events and local markets.'
Neil Porter
I experienced the Market square as welcoming to sit alone and eat in or to sit in a group and be relaxed. It is the center of the city and stands out as a meeting point.
Along with the average highstreet array of shops Nottingham has a historical heart, with snippets of architecture from days past around every corner.
FAT Architects Fashion Art Taste
31st Jan 2008 at
interesting architecture! layering of space with large features, mirrors alike an infinity wall+ continue into floor. Surreal, architecture that is almost normal with a strange twist. Games of scale
click for FAT website
FAT is working alongside architects such as Will Alsop, Nigel Coates to design the CIAC 'Community in a Cube'! A brand new Minniture Town in Middlesborough containing everything and incorporating sustainability- its 350 car park spaces will be painted green! The project is made through a seried of 'Sugar Cubes' each one designed by a different architect/ practice, the FAT Cube has a terraced south facing garden space as an optional entrance to building.
I like their architecture as it is playful and entertainaing (however it seems only rich clients will do!)
interesting architecture! layering of space with large features, mirrors alike an infinity wall+ continue into floor. Surreal, architecture that is almost normal with a strange twist. Games of scale
click for FAT website
FAT is working alongside architects such as Will Alsop, Nigel Coates to design the CIAC 'Community in a Cube'! A brand new Minniture Town in Middlesborough containing everything and incorporating sustainability- its 350 car park spaces will be painted green! The project is made through a seried of 'Sugar Cubes' each one designed by a different architect/ practice, the FAT Cube has a terraced south facing garden space as an optional entrance to building.
I like their architecture as it is playful and entertainaing (however it seems only rich clients will do!)
Waterfront London+ NLA
30th Jan 2008
Mark Bensted , London Director of Canals gave a breakfast talk this morning as part of the Waterfront London Exhibition.
The canal system connects to the Thames in 4 places, a number of canal villages have sprung up around the water network, to name a few Kentish town, Camden, Kings cross etc. Once for Trade, now for leisure and recreation the canal villages are undergoing regeneration continuously. Within this regeneration Mark Bensted calls for quality integration, the residential apartments should connect to the river systems and people who live there should be involve the water and its many uses in everyday life, he is against developments which simply gaze over the water.
Argent are establishing an eight million sq ft mixed use development along Kings Cross Regents canal and have agreed to improve networks from Camden to Islington encouraging use of the towpaths. Linking the new development with locals and bringing everybody to the attention of the canal.
Interestingly transport for London operates and manages 8 piers on the Thames, there is a subsidised multi stop commuter service. The problem with this is that the 4mph speed limit in central London is a similar speed to walking, I know I would usually opt for the free exorcise!
Though Elephants were brought to London Zoo via Regents canal, the system is not currently adequate to transport large vessels continuously. However headway is being made with a new lock at The lower lea valley Olympic site.The Prescott Lock which will control water levels allowing 1.75m tonnes of construction materials to be brought via barge, potentially taking 170,000 lorry journeys off local roads. The Olympic site is surrounded by water and the event has catalyst for the development of a Major new park for London. The transformation of a working landscape into a new public realm. The park will finally be developed into a 26mile linear park between Hertfordshire and the River Thames at Blackwell! The park will reflect the areas provisioning identity whilst using sustainable cycles. It will be refreshing and is necessary as the next decade will see a new 20,000 dwellings being built in the area.
Mark Bensted , London Director of Canals gave a breakfast talk this morning as part of the Waterfront London Exhibition.
The canal system connects to the Thames in 4 places, a number of canal villages have sprung up around the water network, to name a few Kentish town, Camden, Kings cross etc. Once for Trade, now for leisure and recreation the canal villages are undergoing regeneration continuously. Within this regeneration Mark Bensted calls for quality integration, the residential apartments should connect to the river systems and people who live there should be involve the water and its many uses in everyday life, he is against developments which simply gaze over the water.
Argent are establishing an eight million sq ft mixed use development along Kings Cross Regents canal and have agreed to improve networks from Camden to Islington encouraging use of the towpaths. Linking the new development with locals and bringing everybody to the attention of the canal.
Interestingly transport for London operates and manages 8 piers on the Thames, there is a subsidised multi stop commuter service. The problem with this is that the 4mph speed limit in central London is a similar speed to walking, I know I would usually opt for the free exorcise!
Though Elephants were brought to London Zoo via Regents canal, the system is not currently adequate to transport large vessels continuously. However headway is being made with a new lock at The lower lea valley Olympic site.The Prescott Lock which will control water levels allowing 1.75m tonnes of construction materials to be brought via barge, potentially taking 170,000 lorry journeys off local roads. The Olympic site is surrounded by water and the event has catalyst for the development of a Major new park for London. The transformation of a working landscape into a new public realm. The park will finally be developed into a 26mile linear park between Hertfordshire and the River Thames at Blackwell! The park will reflect the areas provisioning identity whilst using sustainable cycles. It will be refreshing and is necessary as the next decade will see a new 20,000 dwellings being built in the area.
Henri Moore at Kew gardens
Kew Gardens is always a pleasure. Its South Eastern corner, Victoria gate entrance, is formal in the landscape gradually relaxes towards the North Western corner where a wild conservation area lies behind protective 'do not enter signs'. There are many attractions en route, including
Stag beetle loggery, Rhododendron Dell, Bamboo garden, badger sett- this is an interactive 'be a badger installation', its fun and gets everybody interested and engaged.
as . The woods here are managed as a nature reserve and native plants and animals are encouraged, using traditional methods and management techniques such as coppicing. Kew also grows many non native species including Sweet Chestnut coppice's. Bluebells flourish in the spring and among the birds that can be seen are tawny owls, blue and great tits, sparrowhawks and green woodpeckers. The area also supports many insects, including rare hover flies.
the redwood grove is striking in age (Many of the redwoods are 150 years old) and colour and attracts the most beautiful exotic birds.
Ancient, dwindling specimens conserved with railings, the railings are ugly but strangely increase interest
The current Henri Moore exhibition is a bonus
click this link
I feel the sculptures sat in the Bretton Hills of the Yorkshire Sculpture park more fittingly, where they have more space. The large sculptures at Kew seem a crammed and plonked in, as do some of the attraction landscapes. I think the sculptures should have been placed further apart across the entire site rather than being bunched togeather in a formal area near the Victoria gate.
However the exhibition attracted people to Kew who might not have gone otherwise whilst offering Londoners and tourists a unique opportunity to see the world famous work in a world famous botanical setting. The combination is enticing.
Stag beetle loggery, Rhododendron Dell, Bamboo garden, badger sett- this is an interactive 'be a badger installation', its fun and gets everybody interested and engaged.
as . The woods here are managed as a nature reserve and native plants and animals are encouraged, using traditional methods and management techniques such as coppicing. Kew also grows many non native species including Sweet Chestnut coppice's. Bluebells flourish in the spring and among the birds that can be seen are tawny owls, blue and great tits, sparrowhawks and green woodpeckers. The area also supports many insects, including rare hover flies.
the redwood grove is striking in age (Many of the redwoods are 150 years old) and colour and attracts the most beautiful exotic birds.
Ancient, dwindling specimens conserved with railings, the railings are ugly but strangely increase interest
The current Henri Moore exhibition is a bonus
click this link
I feel the sculptures sat in the Bretton Hills of the Yorkshire Sculpture park more fittingly, where they have more space. The large sculptures at Kew seem a crammed and plonked in, as do some of the attraction landscapes. I think the sculptures should have been placed further apart across the entire site rather than being bunched togeather in a formal area near the Victoria gate.
However the exhibition attracted people to Kew who might not have gone otherwise whilst offering Londoners and tourists a unique opportunity to see the world famous work in a world famous botanical setting. The combination is enticing.
Focus on FILM
After the trials of making a mini food movie I am hungry to know more about moving image. The experiment proved that sharing knowledge is vital- editing software is quite simple, but alike Photoshop & illustrator- there are things you need to be told about. A Tripod is useful too!
History of Film:
The Kingston museum hosts an exhibition about Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904). Mugbridge invented the zoopraxiscope in 1879 which was one of the earliest movie projecters. The Zoopraxiscope works in a similar to todays Stop motion technique of film making, or even the Flick book. In that a series of still images are lined up to create the illusion of movement.
Click for the 'Walking as Art' website Fabulous!
click for wikipidia's history of Film
Film As Art
In the 1920's Artists began to experiment with the medium as an extention to their paintings.
The four short films on show at the Avant Gard exhibition at the British Library are fantastic & vivid, they are soundless so one concentrates fully on the "paintings" the use of tone is so considered & vivid, startling white against deep black. The films experiment with Slow motion, overlaying images, distortion of object &orientation . They are also documentations of the world at that time. Ballet Mechanique byLa Fernand Leger & Dudley Murphey - enquires into weight, gravity what should be is not. Entr'acte by Rene Clair remained me of Top Gear- it was about a race though the city of Paris & displayed the transport used to get around- it was a race between runners, beautiful cars, cyclists, planes boats, a man in a cart & trains. The Video Medium gave artists the opportunity to convey speed
The original Avant Gard movement was put to an end in the 1930's due to Nazi & Stalanist persecution. Film & broadcasting replaced the dominant medium for communication film became solely a means of education, indoctrination, cultural expression & communication.
Film is now used for all of these things & is once again considered as art.
The Avant Gard exhibition was mainly about the printed medium . 'In 1900b 14% of the worlds poopulation lived in Cities- they provided an escape from the illiteracy & traditional hierarchy's of the countryside, leisure, money, film, exhibition, theatre & printing Presses & publishers.' quoted from a display board at the exhibition. Visual poetry was a n idea not only of choosing the brimming words, but by writing them in expressive ways, beautiful.
must see
In the 1970's Avant Gaurd had a second wind
The Serpentine is showcasing the work of Anthony McCall.
He experiments with light & in the 1970's he created videos exploring film & the landscape, the movement of the landscape & through it with materials such as fire.
'Originally, McCall saw the work as means of deconstructing film by breaking the medium down to its basic components of time and light. Those who first saw it would certainly have placed it with the minimalist art of the period,'......
Because of the demand & popularity of his ideas McCall came back recently to experiment further
'A mesmerising 'sculpture' made of light provides one of the most sublime experiences of the year,' says Richard Dorment in the Telegraph 'Though these responses are of course still valid, nowadays it will also be experienced sensuously, as a spectacle and as an environment, much as British audiences were swept away by the glass chamber lit by fluorescent light and filled with thick clouds of steam that Anthony Gormley showed at the Hayward Gallery last summer.'
I couldn't have put it better myself, the Blind Light exhibition & McCalls light beams give an unprecedented (to my mind) sensory experience, one cannot take a picture of the experience, however one will never forget it.
A quote from sounds of London at Avant Guard exhibition:
'Never eaten a meal thats dramatic without the rest being problematic'
applies to the fantastic tantalising films:
( If you watch Tompopo- highly recommended- have some noodles in the cupboard!)
History of Film:
The Kingston museum hosts an exhibition about Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904). Mugbridge invented the zoopraxiscope in 1879 which was one of the earliest movie projecters. The Zoopraxiscope works in a similar to todays Stop motion technique of film making, or even the Flick book. In that a series of still images are lined up to create the illusion of movement.
Click for the 'Walking as Art' website Fabulous!
click for wikipidia's history of Film
Film As Art
In the 1920's Artists began to experiment with the medium as an extention to their paintings.
The four short films on show at the Avant Gard exhibition at the British Library are fantastic & vivid, they are soundless so one concentrates fully on the "paintings" the use of tone is so considered & vivid, startling white against deep black. The films experiment with Slow motion, overlaying images, distortion of object &orientation . They are also documentations of the world at that time. Ballet Mechanique byLa Fernand Leger & Dudley Murphey - enquires into weight, gravity what should be is not. Entr'acte by Rene Clair remained me of Top Gear- it was about a race though the city of Paris & displayed the transport used to get around- it was a race between runners, beautiful cars, cyclists, planes boats, a man in a cart & trains. The Video Medium gave artists the opportunity to convey speed
The original Avant Gard movement was put to an end in the 1930's due to Nazi & Stalanist persecution. Film & broadcasting replaced the dominant medium for communication film became solely a means of education, indoctrination, cultural expression & communication.
Film is now used for all of these things & is once again considered as art.
The Avant Gard exhibition was mainly about the printed medium . 'In 1900b 14% of the worlds poopulation lived in Cities- they provided an escape from the illiteracy & traditional hierarchy's of the countryside, leisure, money, film, exhibition, theatre & printing Presses & publishers.' quoted from a display board at the exhibition. Visual poetry was a n idea not only of choosing the brimming words, but by writing them in expressive ways, beautiful.
must see
In the 1970's Avant Gaurd had a second windThe Serpentine is showcasing the work of Anthony McCall.
He experiments with light & in the 1970's he created videos exploring film & the landscape, the movement of the landscape & through it with materials such as fire.
'Originally, McCall saw the work as means of deconstructing film by breaking the medium down to its basic components of time and light. Those who first saw it would certainly have placed it with the minimalist art of the period,'......
Because of the demand & popularity of his ideas McCall came back recently to experiment further
'A mesmerising 'sculpture' made of light provides one of the most sublime experiences of the year,' says Richard Dorment in the Telegraph 'Though these responses are of course still valid, nowadays it will also be experienced sensuously, as a spectacle and as an environment, much as British audiences were swept away by the glass chamber lit by fluorescent light and filled with thick clouds of steam that Anthony Gormley showed at the Hayward Gallery last summer.'
I couldn't have put it better myself, the Blind Light exhibition & McCalls light beams give an unprecedented (to my mind) sensory experience, one cannot take a picture of the experience, however one will never forget it.
A quote from sounds of London at Avant Guard exhibition:
'Never eaten a meal thats dramatic without the rest being problematic'
applies to the fantastic tantalising films:
( If you watch Tompopo- highly recommended- have some noodles in the cupboard!) love food making
Words to describe the thought of food: tantalise, adore, entice, aroma, tingle, burn, full
Words to describe the thought of food: tantalise, adore, entice, aroma, tingle, burn, full
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