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Surprise!

Here's another creative gem I found on the street. Although it's kind of hidden away... within the public toilet of High Street on the corner carpark building there's these really interesting tiles. I know, tiles in a public toilet? Hardly the thing to blog about, but some of the tiles in the rather filthy toilet (feels like it should be full of used needles and condoms) have bits of textiles cast into the tile. I think it's resin work, but it reminds me of those body parts suspended in preservative at med school. Only its the remains of a piece of clothing - a few buttons on some funky hippy material, or a zipper still joined to where it used to be.

Too bad I didn't take a photo. I'll have to do so next time I'm around, but for those adventurous creatives out there I recommend you check it out. Public amenities aren't what they used to be.

Sleepeater


OK, you gotta check this out. Shihad's Sleepeater has one of the funkiest website designs. Slow mo video capture and an almost psychedelic treatment of it all + great music. Yes.

Exposition

The Italian Pavilion at the Shanghai World Exposition. Night shot from the Holland Pavilion.

Three days of looking at the World Expo 2010 and what have I got from it all? The expo was big, a culmination of the world distilled to the essence of that nation/city, or at least, what the pavilion's designer wanted you to think. In this way, the world expo was alike to a mammoth advertisement for the world. What about creativity, did this massive event pull its weight in our creative knowledge?

I think it did, in some ways better than others. In most of the pavilions I saw, a specific desire to show a nation's best in design, architecture, or culture were brought to the table. Only through well thought through design was that even possible - the spaces all reminded me of exhibition spaces but combined with performance and areas where you could experience some aspect of that country.

Also of note was all the different ways the pavilions used projection and LED screens. I have never seen such a range of presentation methods in one go before and some of the effects were genuinely breathtaking. Gone are the days of a simple screen projection layout. To gather more attention, one had to do more. Back projection, the so called 4D effects, 360 degree projection clips... as much as the content was a creative endeavor, it goes to show that the way in which it is presented can be just as important to create the desired result.

More about specific pavilions when I have the time to post them :)

Exit

So as if the theme of danger and adventure (something along those lines anyway..) for the AUT fashion exhibition wasn't enough, I found a bit of 'emergency' fashion designed by Stuart Sproule who is based in Canada. Creating pieces from safety harnesses and buckles, these pieces are supposed to challenge the typical way we peruse the way architecture is used.


Architecture is designed as a controlling edifice that ushers people this way and that, circulating them through entrances, allowing and denying visual connections. So what if you leaped off a balcony to get down to the street? This is one of the ideas that drive Sproule's work. In a way, he creates fantastical situations in which the conventions in both architecture and fashion are made unclear.