just blogging

just posting random blogs

mocap and responsive architecture

there should be a link somewhere

magazine

at this time i have not done anything vis-a-vis working on the planning for this mag. went to two lectures though this weak, one was @ ubc about responsive architecture, one was @ artspeak. more details later.

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technology

would be really nice if i could remember how to smush a link into the blog, anyways check out " storefront for art and architecure" and @ that check out the new exhibition and paneldiscussion names sth with polis @ the end

look @ this

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somehow there has 2 exist a way 2 salvage the idea

watched the animation " the idea" in animationhistory, made me feel 4 all those ideas that vanish into oblivion, the film was totally weird though, pretty offensive in today's world

Augmented Architecture

pondring, pondering

hmm, just wondering what will happen with this idea, @ this point it has totally lost momentum, guess i will wait till the new year and see what will happen with this magazine idea, lets see where it will go

aftermath # 1.wmv

hmmm

reading under the gun

am sitting here in the emily carr library, it is raining outside (vancouver, vancouver), rummaging thru "the end" as fast as i can, have another class and this i took out of the archive in a backroom in the library. so i try to read fast and type fas and i stumble upon so many interesting facts. Vander Lans writes that he styled "emigre" on the example of a magazine called "hard werken", a dutch magazine. and he writes about lots of things that i learned in my "design for humanities class" this very semester, about lipton and abbott, about derrida, about post-structuralism, all kinds of things. but what i like most is his hands-on-description about the process of making this magazine.

emigre and perspecta

it is kind of funny that when i look thru the thank you's of the starting chapter of "the end" of "emigre' i noticed that he thanked michael bierut and "perspecta" is published at yale university ( a magazine about architecture that is published by the graphic design department at yale). michael bierut teaches at yale ( or used to),he is a graphic designer. what interests me here is the connection of writing about visual arts while only using text. both perspecta and emigre do that, their brand is writing about visual stuff while omitting images. and they are pretty successful. so we could do that at ecuad too. - ( one more thing, i think "perspecta" is student published, whereas "emigre" was not.

emigre, emigre

so i am sitting here in the library going thru the last 3 issues of "emigre". emigre is, well, was a graphic design magazine published in berkeley in conjunction with the princeton architectural press, it was published for 21 years until 2005, it used to have very different formats, so the issues were not identically in size. what is interesting for me is that it totally lacks text, at least issue 64, 66 and issue # 69, aptly called "the end". in this last issue the publisher Rudy Vanderlans desribes how he started the magazine, what a learningcurve it was and, basically, how he made it happen. anyways, because i was criticized in my presentation for havng no images in the prototype for : on animation and architecture" i was looking for magazines that totally lack image and are about visual stuff, in this case graphic design. i am trying to get hold of " perspecta" too, i think it lacks images, too. of course, in the case of emigre maybe the lack of pretty pictures was its downfall, and i am not quite sure if it had images in the beginning. i guess it is all about who the targetaudience is.

museum plaza proposal

nice, huh

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

hope this goes thru

uploading gone wrong

tried to upload this really good 7-minute film, but it did not work, have to do it again, did some research on different sites that are about art and architecture, one is Uk-based and is affiliated with the university of london, the other one is a blog by a denmark-based architect, then there is blu-films-org. which is brazilian, i have to find the URLs and put it in here, i looked into pyramid power which is a magazine here in vancouver, one of the students mentioned it, i actually came uopon it in the animationlab and checked out their website- am debating whether i should make more animations, have to do one for the design class anyways, one named xyz, so all the axes can have buildings coming out of them, morph into buildings, at this time i am not really working on the magazine anymore, am kind of on hiatus, only this blog is slowly snailing on, am not quite sure when the report is due

check this out

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what now?

so the presentation is over, am debating what 2 do next. am not quite sure whether this blog would suffice for the "report part" of the class or if i have to type it up and hand it in, and i am not even quite sure if it is due on december 4th or december 11th, it was kind of in a blur, because i was getting ready to present, have to type up all the comments that were made sfter the presentation, am not quite sure where to go after this, if i want to go through with this and turn this into a viable magazine or whether it should end here, anyways i typed up a table of contents yesterday (actually 2 versions, one with date and volume1- # 1 and date, the other one just plain saying "on animation and architecture 1), i made another two copies with the table of contents, am trying to figure out how to make an online version - am not quite sure whether i want an online version - kind of trying to figure out WHAT NOW????? guess i just keep chiseling away @ this project, though i have to concentrate on my other classes too

presentation is over

ditto

images, images

just wanted to upload the images of the architecture BC magazinecover and images from the clip/stamp/fold 6 exhibition at the cag