Stonehenge

Today, only 40 percent of the original stonehenge rocks remain... after vandalists attacked Stonehenge.

Haptic: Awakening the five senses

The packaging is so easy to understand, u dont have to understand English.. in a way, its multilingual

Haptic: Awakening the five senses

In this exhibition, objects were designed such that the primary target was sense of touch. The product designer in this case is Naoto Fukasawa and his design is called Juice Skin.His initial idea was to design a rectangular juice package with hairs similar to those of peach. "That idea developed into ...kiwi ... banana...soy milk paper package...", he states.






The exhibition is really enlightening, entertaining and straight to the point. I like the idea of a juice that relates directly to the fruit. But of course, they might not be sustainable, but theay are better than glass bottles (environmentally) and they would help to close the gap between languages of this world, where every country thrives to grab tourists' attention. Imagine year 2050, you walk into a shop... in a foreign country, you are probably aged 90 or somewhere and cant read properly, then you see a banana-like-package, it would be easy to just grab the box and pay at the counter before drnking your juice.









Even the display and the way they are arranged is quite effective and eye-catching. The wires bordering the perimeter of the table keep viewers away from touching this amazingly beautiful designs.

Curve Art Drawings

Well, atleast the seating plan looks "normal". But the other images shows that Schabus explored about not only aircrafts' seatings, but also about rollercoasters and maybe "wheel-theatre". He really intersect between architecture and sculture in a humorous way, yet making one to question and look at every day things differently.

landscapeiszane: Curve art defying laws of gravity?#links

landscapeiszane: Curve art defying laws of gravity?#links

Curve art defying laws of gravity?

Barbican arts centre is supposedly the largest in UK to have all arts under one roof, so it was not a suprise to find chairs defying laws of gravity. Hans Schabus's Curve art is arguably one of those ideas he could have got from the kids playing around and might have overheard them fantasising about a vertical theatre or something. This might have been long coming, considering that his previous monumental installations include a flooded gallery filled with boats (The Rendezvous Problem, 2004)and some other crazy ideas like a mountain constructed over an existing building.


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His new commission NEXT TIME I'M HERE, I'LL BE THERE, Schabus has mounted 461 chairs onto the wall, (not floor) and to make it even more interesting, the wall is curving. According to the leaflet published on occasion of the exhibition, by Margit Emesz, The 80-metre semi-circular wall reflect that of a large aeroplane's floor, so i guess in the gallery, it showed the plane turning, hence the vertical bolting of chairs, which were borrowed from all over the Barbican's offices, stores, art spaces and backrooms. Teh arrangement is quite pleasing to the eye, with similar chairs arranged together with respect to colour and type, to imitate the seating of an aircraft.

Most likely answer to oil crisis:fuel cells

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According to the London Lite newspaper of Thurs 8 May 2008, oil production is expected to peak 2030, and its price is already on the rise.So as a brief look into the future, the newspaper's science and technology centre see th only solution as fuel cells.Whats sustainably amazing about this small power houses is that when they run out, they are topped-up by introducing more fuel:hydrogen, methanol or even water (As seen in this picture). But currently, when batteries run out, one goes to buy new ones, or recharge them with electricity which is mostly generated from carbondioxide-producing fossil fuels.

"London besieged by limescale"

I moved to London in 2004 from Botswana. In Botswana I had lovely soft water from the standpipes or taps at home, unless of course i went to the cattle post. No need to clean the inside of my kettle, and the shower only needed a quick wipe after use.DAround here, it is really a huge fight against hard water. Evryone is running for bottled water. Londoners need to scrub taps and stuff in the shower with wirewool every day to get rid of the limescale buildup.
Recently i came across the above advert in the London Lite Newspaper and it reminded me of the how amazed i was to see such ornamentation and beautiful designs of London buildings when i first came here. Then on closer look, i realised they were covered by some kind of soot, which gave them a cloudy look. (But not as exagerated by the images above) I guess waste-air producing industries and air pollution in general might have contributed, and maybe a slight impact of acid rain could have resulted in those.

"Britain's largest public art commission"

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A winner is to be chosen among five designers bidding to win the £2m Ebbsfleet Landmark commission, to sit near the Ebbsfleet International station between Dartford and and Gravesend (North Kent).The five contenders are artist Mark Wallinger's giant white horse, Racher Whiteread's craggy mountain, Daniel Buren's tower of cubes, Richard Deacon's nect of steel latticework and Christopher Le Brun's monumental wing and disc.

"Britain's largest public art commission"

Skin + Bones: Parallel practices in fashion and architecture

Well, i must admit the minute i saw the title, skin and bones, i thought its all about bony models and exposed skins to promote some expensive designer clothes, and accessories like colognes, but guess what, i was wrong!


Somerset house is the final venue on the Skin + Bones international exhibition tour.
Both fashion and architecture share the main basic need of man of providing shelter and protection for the body, and what the exhibition shows is how both can be used to create space and volume out of flat, 2D materials.