segunda-feira, 28 de abril de 2008

Para o Álvaro - um lugar no céu de NY




"Pulltab Design was retained to design a series of renovations to a loft space along with a new penthouse and garden area atop an existing roof, accessed through the fifth floor loft.
Designed as a space for both reading and entertaining, the East Village Penthouse is part of a larger private residence located on the top floor of an early 1900’s Manhattan walkup." (Visto no blog materialicio.us)

Sumptuosidade...



Em resposta: ainda não treinei o suficiente para me desembaraçar com um furoshiki no supermercado, mas quando vou ao Pingo Doce digo "não, obrigada".

quinta-feira, 24 de abril de 2008

Furoshiki


"Ms Yuriko Koike, Minister of the Environment, has created the "Mottainai Furoshiki" as a symbol of Japanese culture to reduce waste. Furoshiki is a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth which is used repeatedly in a stylish way. (The utilization of this "Mottainai Furoshiki" will contribute to reducing household waste from plastic bags.) The Minister presented the "Mottainai Furoshiki" at the Senior Officials Meeting on the 3R Initiative held in Tokyo, Japan on March 6-8, 2006.
The following is the message from Minister Koike:
I've created what you might call a "mottainai furoshiki". The Japanese word mottainai means it's a shame for something to go to waste without having made use of its potential in full. The furoshiki is made of a fiber manufactured from recycled PET bottles, and has a birds-and-flowers motif drawn by Itoh Jakuchu, a painter of the mid-Edo era.The Japanese wrapping cloth known as the furoshiki is said to have been first used in the Muromachi Period(1392-1573), when people spread it out in place of a bath mat or wrapped one's clothes with it.The furoshiki is so handy that you can wrap almost anything in it regardless of size or shape with a little ingenuity by simply folding it in a right way. It's much better than Plastic bags you receive at supermarkets or wrapping paper, since it's highly resistant, reusable and multipurpose. In fact, it's one of the symbols of traditional Japanese culture, and puts an accent on taking care of things and avoiding wastes.It would be wonderful if the furoshiki, as a symbol of traditional Japanese culture, could provide an opportunity for us to reconsider the possibilities of a sound-material cycle society. As my sincere wish, I would like to disseminate the culture of the furoshiki to the entire world."
Visto no site da NOTCOT.

segunda-feira, 21 de abril de 2008

O outro Tempo

Do mesmo atelier de design - Living World - onde descobri os LED's amigos do ambiente....

Numa aula de música, há muito tempo atrás, aprendi o que era a composição 4′33” do John Cage, acho que me tinha esquecido dela até tropeçar nestas ampulhetas mágicas... Para descobrir outros tempos carregar aqui.



“In this time” Living World sandglass series -
a series of sandglasses showing "other sorts of time"


In this time: 100kg of space dust falls to earth

Right at this very moment, dust falling from space is quietly accumulating on Earth. This sandglass represents the time taken for spacedust to fall and accumulate.



In this time: the silent musical work 4′33” was first performed


A sandglass of the composition 4′33” by John Cage

"On a day in 1952, Cage held a concert at Woodstock, at which he intended to unveil a new composition. The new work was to be performed by pianist David Tudor.

An enthusiastic audience filled the hall, eager to hear Cage’s latest composition. The lights dimmed, and the pianist appeared on stage.

Sitting down at the piano, he closed the lid (the lids on concert pianos are opened in readiness for the performance), then after four minutes and 33 seconds, returned the lid to its original position, and left the stage.
A silent composition, with no performance: this was Cage’s new work.

Cage’s Woodstock concert sent shockwaves through the musical world, and since then, 4′33” has been covered by many different artists.

So just what was so shocking about Cage’s composition, that reverberates even now?
Confronted with a pianist who simply sat there with the lid closed, the hearing of the people gathered in the concert hall that day must have immediately grown more acute.

The sound of someone coughing discreetly in the silent hall; the faint chirping of birds from outside; the sound of dishes being moved in the foyer; distant car horns, the buzz of bafflement that gradually grew inside the hall.
Cage did not create music, he created the experience of listening.He expanded sensory perception, without using drugs.

He succeeded in creating an open window on the world already here.
If music is the “enjoyment” of “sound”, then it must center on not just the side making the sound, but the side listening. In fact, really it is listening that is music.As we savor the sound of rain, music is being created within us.

4′33” demonstrated in the most extreme way the essence of the idea that music is all about listening, an idea that still has the power to shake musicians in the 21st century, and those of us who are not musicians."

sexta-feira, 18 de abril de 2008

Linguagem

O último desabafo do Bernardo (no grita-me ao ouvido) foi sobre o acordo ortográfico.
A linguagem é um tema fascinante, acredito que aquilo que somos se deve essencialmente à nossa capacidade de comunicarmos. É certo que a linguagem não se resume à palavra escrita, mas foi em livros - brilhantemente escritos - que encontrei as mais difíceis questões sobre a condição humana.
As diferentes línguas atraem-me pela capacidade que têm em tornar certas traduções impossíveis - as identidades de comunidades inteiras estão directamente relacionadas com palavras que exprimem ideias (sentimentos, percepções) que dificilmente encontram paralelo noutras línguas (Como não relacionar Portugal com a palavra "saudade"?). O desenvolvimento do vocabulário permitiu-nos apreender mais coisas, formar ideias mais complexas, fazer mais perguntas e encontrar respostas mais criativas.
E perguntam vocês, o que tem isto a ver com o acordo ortográfico... não sei, mas sempre que se fala em uniformizar, em facilitar, sinto um arrepio na espinha.

quinta-feira, 17 de abril de 2008

visão 360º




The ‘Ring House‘ (300 km outside of Tokyo) by TNA Architects, was this years winner in the annual Wallpaper* Design Awards in the category ‘Best new private house’.

azul eléctrico - Didden Village






"The first realization in MVRDV’s home town Rotterdam will be a rooftop house extension. On top of an existing monumental house and atelier, the bedrooms are positioned as separate houses, optimizing the privacy of every member of the family. The houses are distributed in such a way that a series of plazas, streets and alleys appear as a mini-village on top of the building.
Parapet walls with windows surround the new village. Trees, tables, open-air showers and benches are added, optimizing the rooftop life. By finishing all elements with a blue poly-urethane coating a new “heaven” appears. It creates a crown on top of the monument.The addition can be seen as a prototype for a further densification of the old and existing city. It adds a roof life to the city. It explores the costs for the beams, infrastructure, and extra finishes, and it ultimately aims to be lower than the equivalent ground price." (texto do site designws.com)

quarta-feira, 16 de abril de 2008

em experiências :/


O meu reflexo e a Holga, Abril 2008

e a grande surpresa...


esta é a minha preferida de todo o rolo... (desculpa filipa, foi a única foto de jeito que tirei da tua festa de anos)

A Agfa gosta mais do ar livre


Levei a Agfa ao Mercado Negro em Aveiro... a luz do fim do dia, as salas e os espelhos lembram-me o livro "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There", mas não a deixei absorver a luz necessária - resultado: alguns candeeiros suspensos no escuro... Ficam estas, ao ar livre, como prémio de consolação...

segunda-feira, 14 de abril de 2008

Os objectos são aquilo que queremos que sejam



Este chapéu também é uma mala
(carreguem na imagem)

Reutilizar

Cabana construída a partir de antigos contentores de navios.

Ver artigo na revista ReadyMade Digital.


O novo anúncio da Sony

terça-feira, 8 de abril de 2008

domingo, 6 de abril de 2008

I Know Where the Summer Goes





I Know Where the Summer Goes
Ryan McGinley

Team Gallery
April 3rd – May 3rd 2008
"The title of this exhibition, taken from an early B-side by Belle & Sebastian, is more than just a piece of poetic musing. McGinley does, in fact, know where his summers go. In the summer of 2007, for example, he traversed the United States with sixteen models and three assistants, shooting 4,000 rolls of film. From the resulting 150,000 photographs, he arduously narrowed down the body of work to some fifty images, the best of which are on display here at the gallery.
The inspirational images for the project were culled from the kinds of amateur photography that appeared in nudist magazines during the 60s and early 70s. McGinley would sit with his models and look through all of the ephemera of the period that he had collected, discussing with them the mood that he was hoping to capture that day. McGinley had chosen a very specific itinerary that would bring his troop through the incredible range of landscapes that are available across the US and carefully planned a battery of activities, sometimes orchestrating the use of special effects. He has always been quite fond of fireworks and fog machines and in this new work they play a major role."

LED's amigos do ambiente

"Powered by the sun, moved by the wind"




Yoshihiro Shimomura





"The light is composed of a glass, bell-shaped, vessel, that holds the LED light, circuitry, and solar panel. Wax holds the electronics inside the glass vessel and disperses the emitting light. Paper is suspended from the center of the circuitry, and as the strip of paper is blown, the light turns on. The light will burn depending on the weather that day – more sun charges the battery longer and stronger winds keep it on." (artigo publicado em Inhabitat, ver mais aqui)

Os espelhos de "La Pedrera"


Barcelona 2008