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Barbed wire fences. Charles Burki.  Prisoner of war camp drawings from occupied Dutch East Indies. 1942-1945.

The memory

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Fontana Luminosa (Luminous Fountain), 1930s sculpture by Nicola D’Antino, in L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy.

Sunlight through this fountain in L'Aquila, Italy, makes it look like it's pouring lava.

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Christophe Guinet aka  monsieur_plant In his latest project « TWIST » Monsieur Plant, highlights a series of sculptures representing tree trunks that come straight out of a fantastic and magical universe. This series of works consist of 5 tree trunks which connote through their shapes emotions that we can find in nature. Each of these hyper-realistic works have been modeled in unusual shapes with the aim of questioning the powers of nature and how far it is able to transform, adapt and what are its limits. if there has…

Not, Monsieur Plant

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'ROTGANZEN' is an artist collective based in Rotterdam and Schiedam. The initiators and main artists are Robin Stam, Mark van Wijk and Joeri Horstink.

ROTGANZEN melty disco balls…

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@rotganzen

Me, midweek, after spending the weekend at a festival. ・・・ Quelle Fête on a blue block with two cups of coffee. Artwork by @rotganzen … Follow @visual.fodder http://ift.tt/2vFg1kr

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Keiji Uematsu  - Wave Motion I, 1976

Keji Huematsu

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1. Grand Allée - Discovery Green - 2020 The Grand Allée welcomes visitors entering at the northwest corner of the park and features approximately 70 LED light fixtures of varying lengths suspended from the tree canopy, while projected lights create a lattice design onto the walkway below. The lights are designed to evoke memories of the childhood favorite game of pick-up sticks.

2.The wave / Estudio Vertigo -  2017 THE WAVE is an interactive journey through light and sound. The immersive medium allows the visitors to walk through and around the construction and thereby influencing the audible and visual content. The art piece stands 3,6 meters tall and 80 meters long, consisting of 40 motion sensitive light gates and ultimately forming The Wave. The content of the generative artwork is perpetually unique, consistently responding to the number, movement pace and patterns of the audience.

3.Tides / Estudio Nonotak - 2018 An illuminated square-shaped tunnel constructed by Nonotak, was located at the main entrance of the festival at Wynwood Arts District = Miami Art basel december.

4.Sensitive Star / Estudio Guto Requena - 2016 Heineken Up On The Roof.São Paulo, Brazil,  Visitors can remix the soundscape through their bodies' movements.  A temporary space, it was on the rooftop of the tallest buildings in Brazil, the installation reacts to the stimulus of moving people through a group of sensors, and responds with changing light and sound. As a larger-than-life musical instrument, it is set to input visitors’ body movements, mixing them with a soundscape, a collection of the building’s surroundings, such as street fairs, traffic, city market and the Monastery of São Bento

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Working with wood and metal, Jaehyo Lee produces immaculately formed, intricate sculptures that reveal a mastery of his materials and a winking, sophisticated wit. Lee eschews traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts and makes both functional and functionless works, presenting benches, stools, and tables alongside abstract, biomorphic forms. Burnt-black wood often serves as the sculptural ground into which Lee embeds discs of fresh wood or bent steel bolts and nails. His wood-on-wood combinations read as playful meditations on the multifaceted nature of wood itself, while the nails that often cover his wooden surfaces seem transformed into worms or spermatozoa—recalling a slithering, energetic galaxy of organisms.

Lee Jae Hyo’s stunning sculptures from discarded tree trunks.

Born in Hapchen, Korea, Lee Jae-Hyo produces immaculately formed, intricate sculptures that reveal his mastery over his materials. In the Gyeonggi Province, where he lives, in the south of Seoul, the forest and the Han River are never far away. The subject of nature is central to the art of Lee Jae Hyo.

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Spring Delivery  by  George Tyebcho

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Do You Chindogu?

Chindogu was created by Japanese artist Kenji Kawakami in the 1990s, who describes these inventions as "un-useless." He coined the term chindogu using a combination of the Japanese words chin, meaning "strange" or "odd," and dougu, which means "device" or "tool." But chindogu is more than a mashup of words (a portmanteau, if you will); it's a philosophy. There are 10 tenets of chindogu, according to the chindogu society:

A chindogu cannot be for real use. If you end up using your invention on the regular, you have failed.

A chindogu must exist. No thought experiments allowed.

There must be the spirit of anarchy. Build your invention free from the constraints of utility or cultural expectations.

Chindogu are tools for everyday life. Everyone everywhere must be able to understand how it works without any special technical or professional background info.

Chindogu are not tradeable commodities. Finally, something in your life that you just can't turn into a side hustle.

Humor must be the sole reason for creating chindogu. Creating an elaborate way to solve a tiny problem is just funny. Roll with it.

Chindogu is not propaganda. This is not the place for your clever commentary on the dumpster fire that is the current state of the world. As the tenet makes clear: "Make them instead with the best intentions."

Chindogu are never taboo. If you demand sexual innuendo, cruel jokes and sick humor, the International Chindogu Society would ask that you find it literally anywhere else on the internet. That's not chindogu's jam.

Chindogu cannot be patented. Consider chindogu the openest of open source. They're meant to be shared and delighted in, not owned and collected.

Chindogu are without prejudice. Race, religion, gender, age, ability — none of these matter to chindogu. These inventions should be equally (almost) useless to everyone who sees them.

If You Build It, They Will (Sort of) Come

Kawakami started with a few simple inventions to fill out the back pages of a magazine he edited. He hoped his Eye Drop Funnel Glasses and Solar-powered Flashlight would amuse readers. But if there's a chindogu evangelist, it would be Dan Papia, who worked at another magazine, the Tokyo Journal. He brought chindogu to the magazine's English-speaking audience and encouraged readers to create their own inventions. In 1995, Papia started the International Chindogu Society.

Others have taken up the banner in the decades since. Maker mecca Instructables ran a chindogu contest that yielded a toothbrush light, a food magnifier that perches on a pair of chopsticks, and scuba mask wiper blades, all classics of the form.

Design Thinking Workshop

For this workshop, we were introduced to the idea of design thinking. 

My notes from the workshop were as follows:

- Design thinking - designing stuff according to what people need. ie. making choices to create something as practical as possible for the customer. 

- Chindogu- An item that solves a very specific problem in a persons life. 

Examples of Chindogu ^ 

We were tasked with creating a piece of cindogu for a class-mate. I paired with Amara and interviewed her about the small problems in her life. 

- She struggles to get herself off the sofa and to bed in the evenings - Sofa-bed combo?

-Struggles to carry multiple plates/cups/mugs when cooking - crockery rack?

- Struggles to dry her hair without her arms aching - Hairdryer tripod?

To find a solution to Amara’s problem of drying her hair being exhausting, I need to invent a device that will save her arms from aching when she dries her hair. 

These were some of my initial ideas. 

I then played around with some card and came up with this mock-up design. It is made of card and headphone wire. 

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Buttoned Eye Blouse  by Élodie Antoine   85 x 42 cm - 2014

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Cnjpus Text (2011) by artist Ryo Shimizu. Living in Tokyo, The work is a series where he decided to create this installation based on the strokes borrowed from Japanese writing characters and then restructuring them into letters of the Roman alphabet.

This third version is a big wall 12.6 x 4.5 m but the 2010 version is a room w1.8 x d1.8 x h2.4 m

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Nendo +  Shigeya Miyata colaboration

An outdoor lighting collection designed for the Italian lighting brand Flos. With a combination of a thin frame and an illuminated sphere, the collection offers two configurations of objects; either as side tables or as floor lamps leaned against a wall. There are two types of tables; square and rectangular. Both types consist of two frames, one used for lighting and the other used to secure the tabletop in place. A shared leg connects the two together and serves as a concentric hinge that allows the user to adjust the angle between the frames. The same leg also conceals the electricity cords that connects between the light fixture and the battery hidden within the tabletop surface, enabling mobility and outdoor use. An intentional bending of the metal structure is designed to make the frame appear to softly sink under the “weight” of the illuminated sphere. This detail is also incorporated in the floor lamps that are made of thin frames slightly bending and sinking against the wall and around the spheres of light. The corner lamp type can be used in two directions and can be placed either vertically or horizontally. The soft shape of the frames, grants the objects a sense of character and creates a unique visual, as if capturing the weight of light itself.

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Side tables with a section of the cuboid frame cut out. Fitting a sheet glass into the grooves cut in the wooden frame not only gives the tabletop a rarefied presence, but also grants sufficient strength to fulfill its purpose as a side table. The collection features four pieces: two side tables with corners cut out, and a console table and coffee table with two cutouts along the side.

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Fly

A dupla vienense Katharina Mischer e Thomas Traxler encheu uma das salas do Museu V&A de Londres com 264 lâmpadas de vidro, cada uma contendo um modelo de inseto feito à mão.

Enquanto ninguém estiver próximo, nada acontece, mas quando os visitantes se aproximam as luzes se acendem e quando mais próximo chegam das lâmpadas, mais os insetos se movem com “medo”.

Referências

Conteúdo & Imagens: Curiosity Cloud.

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Most of Fischinger's filmmaking attempts in the U.S. failed in some way (or at least his attempts to earn money or recognition). In 1937, he composed an Optical Poem to accompany Franz Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody for MGM, however, he received no profits for his work The Cat Concerto - Tom & Jerry (1947) Oscar Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film   (1946) The Cat Concerto Frederic C. Quimby Music: Scott Bradley;   Franz Liszt

(via An Optical Poem - produced by Oskar Fischinger 1938)

Music by Franz Liszt 

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Takeshi Miyakawa - Infinity chair