Creative Collision

Highrise

When I first came across this project, which in fact was a very long time ago, I was astounded by the beauty of the presentation through the browser. Just imagine the early day websurfers of, say, 1998, how they would react to this window of opportunity that the browser has become.

'Out My Window' presents itself as an interactive collection of stories and presents to us the palette of urbanity. It talks of highrises, that by face value as a piece of architecture, might be of a developer aesthetic, lifeless and banal, but with inhabitation, transforms into vessels of home, neighbourhood and survival.

Visit 'Out My Window' for a surprising twist on highrise culture.

Chopsticks

Saw this and was amazed by cleanness of this design. I have to say, I've seen more than my fair share of skewers/chopsticks/ice block stick designs in person and they all seemed so banal that I feel they need that extra polish and usability to make it work.

Also, in honour of one of my best ex-archi friends, you know who you are KR, who got into a brill product design course, this post is the first specifically about product design! Enjoy the vid, but feel free to skip to the last quarter where the action happens.

SOFA_XXXX created by yuya ushida from yuya ushida on Vimeo.

Mueck

Oh, did I tell you I saw the Ron Mueck exhibition?? AMAZING. Sculpture like I have never seen before. The detail was meticulous, the attention to detail made me catch my breathe. The exhibition closes in Christchurch tomorrow, but what a ride for New Zealand (or shaken up Christchurch, anyway) it has been.

I think part of the reason why so many people (even the non-arties) were able to connect with it was because it was so tangibly human. Art became indiscriminate. It was an exhibition full of familiarity, yet at the same time, peculiarity. Little children started to soak in the truths of human form. Adults improved on their perception of nuance. Such an exhibition, even the marketing behind it (the wild man's eye stares at you from every pamphlet booth) reminds us of how human we really are.

Stallion

Some of you might have noticed my holiday season hiatus... no posts and all there was on the front page was that ugly rendering of a scaffolding thing. My apologies!

So here's a bit of street art I picked up from Christchurch:

I was down there documenting the earthquake damage to the heritage buildings. So much loss and urban regeneration is so slow due to a dizzying array of factors (mostly bureaucracy). The saddest thing is, the citizens I talked to feel a bit stunned in their tracks; the earthquake has stolen their stability.

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Highrise

Chopsticks

Mueck

Stallion