the panic of creation

oh i understand this completely

from here

via here

midnight music

this is one of my favourite songs to listen to when I'm up late working on assignments
and yes this was posted at 1 in the a.m!

model making

I had a bit of a panic attack this morning, which inspired this graph. 

After spending countless hours labouring and stressing over a model I've made, I finish it and feel really relaxed and accomplished. Then I realise I still have to transport it to uni (on the bus!!) and start to stress out trying to find the right box because usually the options you have are just a little too small or a little too narrow.

Autumn

The autumn weather brings such beautiful colours and joy to my walks home.

Theo Jansen.

The first time I watched this video, I got to 0:17 and started shrieking, it's walking it's walking!

Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor who creates these amazing skeleton things out of plastic yellow tubing, that walk. by. themselves, powered by the wind! on the beach (and detect things to avoid, like water)!

AMAZING work!

I know this post contains terrible grammar but I wanted to articulate the amazing-ness of the work. I know, shame on me for ignoring basic English rules. But I can't help it!

The snow flakes.

I recently had an assignment at uni based on nature-inspired design, mine of course was inspired by snow, and used this photo to show the delicate, almost crystal-like aesthetic of freshly fallen snow.

a few random facts that i find interesting

animals that lay eggs don't have bellybuttons

flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp

there are one million ants to every human in the world

uni has started again, portrayed by my late nights staying up doing modelmaking. oh yay



love love

plastic

the final iteration of my staple model


using coreflute, that plastic board that politicians print their advertising on



i've changed the inside so it's more 'dynamic' but the most important part of it is the effect of the coreflute layers and how they create an almost optical illusion


so i've been using lots of materials this semester, coming up with some interesting results.
and then i'll be doing it all again next year. yay.

timber

to continue from what i showed ya'll a while back [here and here], here is the prequel to my metal frame of staple glory.



timber.


and yes, again an epic undertaking, but i used 600 cubes.
not as impressive, but i did cut them all on our dining room table with a scroll saw
[with help from various family members]




i heart sawdust

for you, anonymous

so let's just say, that that awesome staple cube i had been
working on, had, oh i don't know, broken..

maybe it would look like this:


my hand inside
because i can put it there
because it broke
:(


i also have a nice collection of all the super glue i used.

it was a grand total of twelve tubes.


huzzah!

flight of the conchords.

and this is another video that popped up in a lecture.



gotta love flight of the conchord's, they never cease to make me laugh :)

BIG 8 house

i love that this is what i watch in class





can i just point out how epic this is?
it's an absolutely amazing housing project in denmark by BIG
but the awesome thing about it, is the way it's inspired by program, by what functions it needs to fulfill and developing those into a building.

check out the info here

staples.

for a uni assignment,
i glued 1900 staples together.

this is a little teaser of the making of, whilst i get around to photographing the final product.

bus stops

as i am lucky enough to spend a significant amount of time commuting, i get to put in my daily amount of people-watching on busses and at bus stops.

from this very favourite pasttime, i have noticed something that renders me even more lazy*, but particularly handy when you're at my bus stop, which has a bench undercover that has no view of the street.

there is a certain step that 90% of people at the stop take, and that is either forwards to indicate a bus they want is coming and are planning to get on board, or backwards as a public show of the fact that it is not their bus.
this way, if you can't see the street, because, say, the bench you and your concrete cube are sitting on is conveniently hidden behind a large covering, just watch the other people at the stop.

albeit a tad creepy, you won't have to stand whilst waiting.


* disclaimer!
i'm a design student, which means my daily luggage could consist of anything from a large drawing board to an even larger (sometimes larger than myself) piece of box board, to a giant box full of models, to a super heavy concrete cube.
so my want need for a seat is quite justified, okay?!