tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12098681921534171302012-02-04T19:45:05.586+13:00Creative Collision is a blog which brings together all things creative. Art, architecture, photography, street, fashion, travel...Bobby Shenhttps://profiles.google.com/118144188164463705766noreply@blogger.comBlogger1721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209868192153417130.post-10935008750245766492012-02-01T21:00:00.004+13:002012-02-01T21:00:59.587+13:00

Found at the Jasmax Auckland office, apparently courtesy of their barista.

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Books and the ideas contained within them are powerful. So is CNC technology, it seems.

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What did Warhol see in the world? Polaroids can be seen as the eyes of an artist - they can be really everyday objects but it transcends into the minds of the artist to someday become inspiration or perhaps subject matter. The spontaneity of the shots lend a classic quality, unlike the endless tweaking as per usual photography. See some more of Warhol's polaroids, currently displayed at the

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This rehash of Rihanna is possibly the best thing that's happened to the song and the dancing is just extraordinary. Seems inspired by the Roaring Twenties. Choreography and dancing by Keone Madrid and Mari Martin. Song performed by James Cullum.

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He who loves not his country can love nothing.    - Samuel Johnson Having had a quick look at my blog statistics (which I've never looked into before), I was surprised to see a lot more info than I expected. Although it felt a bit like Facebook treasuring away bits of your life into it's enormous database, I found it quite useful to see the readership on my blog. Blogging is yet still a

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NZ = "HELP, STUCK ON THIS CRAZY ISLAND"  Askew One

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Nobuhiro Nakanishi's Layered Drawings series attempts to capture the subtle changes that occur with passing time. I've seen something like this before - laser cut panels of clear acrylic overlaid, but never at this scale or with the eerie floating composition. It's alike to something in a digital space or augmented reality which seems to be a new fad these days with smartphones.

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A strange data plotting strategy - representing stats through 3D elevation of a map - reminds me a bit of Sim City when you go crazy with the terrain. However, it does highlight the severity of problems (in this case, crime) by creating a severe landscape.

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Having wanted to explore different parts of the world someday, videos such as this intrigue me to no end. What a great concept. I always find people travelling are acting the 'tourist' and end up taking 10 pictures of exactly the same scene - whilst concentrating on that, I don't see how people travelling are actually getting what is important about experiencing new places. A good rule of thumb

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In recent times war has been lingering in shreds around the world, leaving parts of the world in shreds - the latest news from Iraq being that US troops have pulled out after nine years of battle. 9 years? Where did it all go? Every once in a while we see it on the news but the constant flashing of images bears no true meaning anymore; a banality hangs over a thing that affects entire countries,

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@MoataTamaira: I love #eqnz sympathetic street art of a morning. Would be great to see more. #youpoorthing http://twitpic.com/5pongb

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Ever so slightly reminiscent of hot summer afternoons when the ants swarm out from under out brick pathway, here's this. Not more need be said other than these fibreglass ants are overtaking government buildings and think what you want to think. This intriguing installation is by Rafael Gomez Barros.

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After having not blogged for about a month, it takes something really intriguing to get things going again. I'm always a sucker for shadow puppets, and having done an entire project on that theme before, Limbo really reminded me of what I really love about dark atmospheric sets. The IGN reviewer writes: Videogames are an art form made up of visuals, sound, and a mysterious little

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Yesterday I spent the whole day filming and photographing a good friend's beautiful product design project. Created by Kate Ramsay, it is a knitted light fitting and is intriguing at every angle so in a way it was really hard to capture; you were spoiled for choice for shots.  Once we get past the painful post production process I'll be sure to put up the video but here's a photo of our set

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Now that is how space is made where space doesn't exist. Sure it's new age trompe-l'œil (aka optical illusion) but it has a real presence in a space which seems to be a good squatting place. Go TSF Crew.

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How is ink made? I didn't quite believe a description of this video, that ink making had a very personal touch to it. Were they going to crush up pigment on a stone by hand for industrial purposes? But the mesmerising quality of the process captures something that really makes our printed world the vibrant, textured brilliance that it is today. A long video, but worth the incredible effort

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Some street art on the fence of a rugby venue in Bath in the UK, delineated by the absence of mold. Just goes to show, no matter where you go, you can't escape the rugby. Since the finals and NZ's victory, the whole thing is being dissected bit by bit, under a microscope with analysis. I feel it's time to move on.

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"DUMP NO WASTE FLOWS TO THE SEA" says the placard over just about every stormwater drain in the city. Yet from the picture, it looks as if the sea can't get enough - the Maltesers, Coke, L&P and, dare I mention it, coffee. As humanity force feeds the seas around us, the semi-sunken ship of Rena comes to remind us of truly how much crap flows to the sea.

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On an intense 2 day run around Paris, my brain is saturated with the stuff of creative dreaming. How did Monet come to paint the series of Water Lilies? How did Le Corbusier  and his cousin Jeanneret come up with the innovatively planned Maison La Roche when nothing of it's kind had ever been done before? The Musée de l'Orangerie houses the famous Water Lilies (Nymphéas) series by Claude

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The Tate Modern in London is a total orgy of art for art fanatics like me. After spending pretty much the whole day there and going on all the enlightening art talks, I'm buzzing with inspiration. Pictured above is Do Ho Suh's Stairs 3, an amazing installation made out of light polyester - every lightswitch, stair molding and even the stair lightbulb is perfectly replicated in the fabric.

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Edinburgh is such a spectacular city. The place is full of drama - tall pointed towers, sheer cliffs, sandstone blackened with age. Walking around the hilly city centre, I was reminded of Auckland save for the sublime extravagance. A huge valley carves its way through the city, bridges crossing from side to side, and several prominent hills are laden with monuments. As well as the dramatic

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So far, the UK has been an incredible experience. Without really planning the dates to be so, I happened to arrive the day the Open House London tours were happening. Apparently this well attended city-wide event happens annually in mid-September, one weekend after the country-wide version. A must do for any creative, especially if you are passionate about architecture, art or history (of

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Tomorrow I'll be embarking on my travels to the UK. I'll come back with loads of inspiration! Will try to keep the blogging up while I'm there too.

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'Poses' (2011) by Yolunda Dominguez highlights the absurdity and artificiality of posing in the fashion industry. Whilst touching on some serious consideration into modelling, it's also a hilarious video!

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First impressions of the new Auckland Art Gallery: fantastic. I really think they put out the silverware this time, if not gold. It's a design that speaks of many things at many levels - since seeing the scale model of it I was impressed at the complexity of the spaces, the exhibitionary and public use factors. At life size, you can see how the architecture frames the park and city beyond,

Bobby Shenhttps://profiles.google.com/118144188164463705766noreply@blogger.com1Auckland Art Gallery, 2 Lorne St, Auckland 1010, New Zealand-36.8495174 174.7660877-36.862223900000004 174.7463467 -36.8368109 174.78582870000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209868192153417130.post-16736857653839653662011-08-28T21:18:00.004+12:002011-08-28T21:51:29.539+12:00

The first thing you might think of when 'absinthe' comes to mind is a one-off shot of blue and a nasty burning of the throat. Brandished as one of the strongest of alcohol drinks, it is often a tacky bubblegum gulp that is drunk then forgotten. In some places, it has even warranted an outright ban and a bad reputation from people abusing its high alcohol content. But for alcohol of any sort to

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The Auckland Art Gallery complex seems to be shaping up nicely, right on time for its debut to the public on the 3rd September. I had a very productive day out and about in the city - I had coffee with an international Architecture for Humanity director, Nathaniel Corum, and met various other architecture people, splurged at the Borders in its last throes and even found what I think will be a

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One Tree Hill against the morning sun.

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Auckland central is a weird place in that in the middle of towering buildings or bustling streets, there would be a park. Not a tiny 'reserve' found like an obnoxious weed throughout suburbs, but actual nicely matured parks. Albert Park being probably the largest ones, Myers Park bordered by K Road, the dark and damp, countless parks as transitional areas - there's always somewhere to lay on the

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As the more dense cities/countries run out of fresh new space for well meaning development, that leaves little wriggle room for anyone designing a house. There is basically no equivalent here in NZ where the wide majority of houses are all so sparsely situated that with house shifted to one side, we could probably fit two more residences in the same plot of land.This is not the case in Tokyo, for

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When you first look at the painting above, what do you think? Do you see the real life 3D person there posing? Alexa Meade's hyper-realistic acrylic body painting plays with making real life people into the realm of painterly expression. There are amazing possibilities for this technique - reportedly Meade wants to experiment more with video and other media. I can't wait to see where this

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Very much looking forward to this! When the Auckland Art Gallery received the collection, they held a small preview of the Matisse, Dali and Picasso pieces. I missed out on that but I'm determined to see the full collection when the gallery reopens after its long makeover and improvement. What a fitting way to reintroduce that key art building. Spearheaded by the legacy of famous artists and

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Street art on Colombo Street, Christchurch, have popped up commemorating the compassion shown by a police officer when Japanese mourners came to the site of disaster. Unfortunately someone has defaced the street art, showing just how fragile, tactile and public street art can be. Somehow the modifications are reading as street art - it is a purely organic move, although it slightly ruins the

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Today was a crisp (read cold) winter's day, perfect weather to briskly walk around, taking advantage of heating in each spot of the urban environment. I decided to visit the Art Precinct down around the Auckland Art Gallery. For the third visit in a row, the blessed Goldie & Lindauer: Approaching Portraiture exhibition was still up and so was the Local Revolutionaries: Art & Change 1965 – 1986

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What creative person hasn't "reappropriated" something before? Some fancy facade, or a fascinating composition? Whole paintings even - that was how young painters used to learn the art of art, sheer copying. Now someone is being sued for it, by the copying of various poses in photography. One photographer pitted against another.Artist Janine “Jah Jah” Gordon has filed a lawsuit in the U.S.

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Think hydroelectric dam and very little precedence comes forth to imagination. Block wall, stops water, lets a bit fall out in a big cascade, useful. The very aesthetic of most hydroelectric dams read as just that; one can read exactly how it works from how it's built.Becker Architekten begs to differ. Somehow they have twisted utilitarianism to a thing of beauty and, what I think it is more

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In this day and age of plastic gadgets and sleek chic design, a wooden thing is practically a rare thing. All those hours of milling, sanding and drilling hardly makes it worth the instant plastic moulding technologies out there. So here is iPhone + wooden dock:And this is not the only one. Retro mini TV, old school radio box - Jonas Damon draws his inspiration from that which is not today. The

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Nanna van Blaaderen

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Motoi Yamamoto uses more than a tonne of salt to create exquisitely detailed mazes. These 'sculptures', akin to sand painting, creep through existing spaces, invading, flaunting the nature of salt itself. In a Co.Design article, it was reported that one of these pieces in Cologne were deconstructed by its viewers and they were allowed to redistribute the salt to where ever they wanted, be it sea

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Blog community projects are increasingly popular and the anonymity of the net is harbouring the voices of thousands. The Postsecret community is a project of epic, international proportions where anyone can send in their deepest secrets written on self-designed postcards. Often the ones featured are witty manifestations of an individual's darkest, most unspeakable secret. PostSecret has surely

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Christina K

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There's no such thing as distance in our globalised society, only the distance we put between ourselves.

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Aelita Andre has somehow made it to international fame as the youngest of 'great' painters, an abstract expressionist no less. But sorry, wasn't the abstract expressionist ideology so mid 1900s? Why the rebirth? Why a child?I do have suspicions that hype and some incredibly PR savvy supporters (ie parents) behind the girl made this happen. I do think she is having the time of her life and a fun

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Lunch at Vue, top of Mercure Hotel, Customs Street East, Auckland. It had some wonderful service, although expected of a place like this, especially since there weren't that many patrons during high lunchtime. Nice light lunches without being skimpy - the food itself was quite regular (wish it had some more X-factor). A wonderful view if you sit in the right place (sea view is great minus the

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In talking to others about the various disasters, I stumbled across what I think is a really strange gut reflex. These people, who weren't directly affected by the disaster, said that not only did they feel sorry for the people in disaster zones, but they felt remorse that they were fine whilst others were in torment, trauma and struggle.Snap out of it. If you're one of those people, there is no

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Debacle after debacle, after controversies and conspiratorial agendas, the Waterfront of Auckland at least has a vision now. A few colourful albeit stark and 'frozen time' shots of what the Waterfront Auckland have finally come up with. How about we get a move on with a bit more efficiency?

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DSLRs can look like some intimidating weaponry at the best of times, and this humorous mock battle pulls fun at the the battlesque forms of this creative tool. It also brings up a theme that has lingered through creativity since ages ago. Didn't a whole pile of painters pose with their brushes as the sword? Jacqueline Fahey, for example (couldn't find it on the web but it does exist! - brush

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So apparently this is what our cities would look like if they floated. I beg to differ, they'd probably be much less Second Life and way more messy, like human ball of fur that we manage to defiantly suspend somewhere. But we can dream!It's crazy how a simple mirror filter can transform a video into something else. from Craig Shimala on Vimeo.

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The other day I attended TEDxEQChCh, which, as said by it's curator Kaila Colbin, is possibly one of the clunkiest event acronyms/hashtags out there. Just try saying it. Despite the unfortunate name, a hugely inspiring conference was put together and executed without a hitch. The theme of the day long event was Re-imagining Christchurch and was a fine mixture of international and local speakers

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... Or not. Banksy has been one of the most mysterious of artists in recent times and by mysterious I mean evasive and secretive: no one really knows much about him. In this way, chatter has been generated, from critique to mockery. The picture shows a trivial stab at this quality of Banksy not as an artist, but a person. So it's statement art?This is where this commentator (read: illegally wall

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For some reason I once did a post on a chair sofa made out of chopsticks and I thought that was pretty stellar, but then I found this elaborate toothpick sculpture of San Francisco. Both use an extremely commonplace product. The result though is very different. Whereas the chopstick chair is utilitarian and systematic, this toothpick sculpture is an organic manifestation likened to the vibrant

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I can't believe MOCA curated an exhibition on street art. Street art is a phenomenon. It is a wonderful temporal thing - the next day it might be painted over or changed afresh with a new work by another artist. Instead, they reel those pieces and the very concept of street art into a contemporary art gallery. One word from me. Outrage.I believe that one should have to seek the most obscure

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Right now I'm at a fundraising event for Architecture for Humanity. Only it's no regular event because I'm watching the charity concert with nearly a thousand people all over New Zealand and possibly the world. Imogen Heap has spontaneously come over to Christchurch to help with raising funds. 700 people have packed the live venue in Christchurch. A great turnout watches the livestream event at

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I love how these models depict the 'post-human' phase of environments. No people are present in the scenes but every imprint of our messy little existences is left behind. Our spaces are our afterthoughts, the wax imposed on our personal histories. Our cities the accumulated cells of civilisation. If only urban spaces could be created so easily as these miniature sculptures by Alan Wolfson.

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I haven't posted for quite a while because I've been working on the Christchurch campaign with Architecture for Humanity. It was pretty intense. Flew down there on Saturday, back up on Sunday; 29 hours of getting into the situation, catching the prominent 5.3 aftershock as a sampler of what the Cantabrians have been going through these past months. We did a Pecha Kucha presentation on what AFH

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Watch the skating video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2bvozq-KK8The city, bludgeoned by the earth from below, with debris scattered = awesomely creative skate park. Danger seeking yes, but through this video, see how the constrained environment we make as a society is so different from this disturbed playground for willing skaters. Humans are so bound to this false pretence of absolute

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Meekyoung Shin is an artificer of sorts - this Korean sculptor creates convincing 'translations' of actual artifacts. The only difference to that of a replicating craftsman (which is a whole industry in its own right) is that she uses soap instead of fine ceramics and burly stones.The visual illusion created by this art is also a feast to be seen. Flawlessly created, including the rustic details

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A few months after the first main set of earthquakes in Christchurch, I went down to document the damage to the architecture around the region. On one of my breaks, I took a photo of this smart looking statue that overlooked a gardened square. There were quite a few sculptures like this around. In the news today, I saw the same sculpture and it's ill fate after the earthquake. And this can

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A while back there was an exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery which was all about food. It seemed like a bit of a frivolous topic, but then who is to judge art for it's frivolities? Can it not be a powerful medium? Lee Price uses the most charming of desserts to highlight over-indulgence and the sheer gluttony of human existence, with a more minimalistic approach compared to Jacquey Fahey.

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The other day I was talking with some people about drama llamas (and how they stalk us). Then I saw Philip-Lorca diCorcia's photography. It fit.

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A little while ago I went to see the joint exhibition by Kentaro Taki and Ko Nakajima at AUT's St Paul Street Gallery. They work with the digital media along with installations. I was initially looking forward to seeing Bild:Muell (2008) but upon getting to the gallery, I couldn't find it. I still wonder if it is there in the gallery somewhere but seeing that work on the promotional material

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Watching Masterchef is one of my favourite reality TV past times since it is the competitive cut throat of any on-screen competition without the bitchy over-drama that often plagues the genre. And it is creative cooking. Fine cuisine no less, the painstaking kitchen of the likes of Euro come to keen New Zealand eyes. It leaves me, the foodie that I am, pondering what that tiny droplet which,

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Corporates are fast catching onto the idea of using creative mapping and tracking techniques to essentially 'brand' their product. Nike, an innovator of the sports industry, shows us with their GRID programme that technology can act to gather data on the trivialities of life. How far did you run? How fast did you jog? How does this data even get used without seeming silly?A while ago I tried

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I recently read a book that explained (in a really American cultural domination sort of way) the significance of manga in Japan. Manga, which is sort of like comics without the Western comic stereotype, serves as a form of wider social communication in Japanese society with a kick of entertainment value.Anime, what the Japanese call cartoons, is just as large a world in all its variations. Dark,

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Carrying on from the themes of Constrain, here is an interesting project that tries to draw out the invisible Wifi landscape. Immaterials: light painting WiFi uses a rod of pulsating LEDs with long exposure photography to detect and map Wifi presence. This concept is obviously a mere budding technology, but imagine the practical/aesthetic based awareness-of-Wifi systems such a technology could

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I was having a lengthy creative discussion with a friend the other day at a party (I seem to always attract such discussion...) and we were talking about art in two categories: the ridiculous and the serious. Without trying to draw a distinct dichotomy between the two, I do believe that art tends to be one over the other. For instance, Rachel Whiteread's sculptures brings a sombre pondering that

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It's been a good few weeks since I went down to Christchurch to survey and document the earthquake damage. Now, to the devastation of New Zealanders, a more severe earthquake has hit the Garden City. It's icon, the great Cathedral now exists in ruins. The stability of the citizens, already shaken by the quakes of the past year, have been traumatised by the earth once more. In the week-long

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The urban environment of the 21st century is not only boxed in by walls and cut up by water features. Look at what the Auckland city has turned into without freely available Wifi. People sit outside of the public library after hours, using their laptops in jandals on the grimy floor. They literally sit on a floor drain with tiny insects swirling around them.They sit in this badly designed

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The Tate Gallery in Britain is having an exhibition dedicated to watercolour, the traditional and the more contemporary. Although I really want to go, I am stuck on an island called New Zealand. What an extraordinary insight it must be to visit this beautiful medium, full-fledgedly curated. The image is a photo of Karla Black's 'Opportunity for Girls'.

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Please see video at http://vimeo.com/19789693Pixar is an enormous creative being which has exponentially grown to it's current domination in the animation industry. It was interesting to see the environment which all of this creative energy takes place.Any creative being thrives in their personal studio environment. Sometimes, without even having a formal space for such activity, one can be

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Following an instinctive urge to read a full fledged novel, I detoured to the public library and scanned, as you do, the 'returned books' shelf. I see it as an excellent filter. There, I found my latest read, Sashenka by Simon Montefiore. A single morning later, I am a nearly a quarter way through this slab of a book.This certainly did not happen with the Victor Hugo novel that I gave a stab at.

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I didn't see it myself but a good friend of mine told be about it since she went to a few of these events. Gapfiller is a movement where, in the midst of a post-disaster environment, creatives get together and fill the spaces left behind my demolished lots and the life, creating culture in the absence of urban strongholds. Great effort! That is exactly what the citizens (as opposed to the city/

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OK, cute thing of the week. Over-sized rubber ducky in Auckland! Unfortunately for Auckland, it seems that the only "public art" that are formed in our city are enlarged versions of common objects (eg enormous baubles, enormous rubber duckies...)

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This is the 100th post! To be honest, this point should have been past ages ago, but alas, life and all it's speedbumps. Nevertheless, it is a time for consideration, and what better than to reassess the state of one's creativity.BennettRecently I came across a collection of doodles by a handful of authors. Now, I greatly respect writing as a creative vessel - nothing has been such a intricate

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Whenever I see scaffolding around the city, whichever city in the world this may be, I get quite excited (see posts Cocoon and Cocoon2). Whether it be for new construction or refurbishment, scaffolding has become the universal indication of architectural and urban renewal. But some pose this phenomenon as a problematic one, deeming the efficiency/economy of scaffolding as a problem worth

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parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.Parkour is such an awesome (if a bit dangerous, possibly illegal) activity. People using the urban landscape and inducing freedom of movement, instead of bowing down to the constraints of urban design, is a brilliant concept. See District 13 for some rather staged parkour.

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SFMOMA have a new show called "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870" which pans on a historical tradition where photography was, and still is, an innately invasive medium. In the above picture, a photographer sneakily snap the moment of a murderer's execution. What was the photographer's purpose in this?Somehow the human condition yearns for the image of significant events

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Here's a bit of resourceful creativity, by a typically poor architectural graduate in China. Building a rather nifty egg-shaped abode out of cheap materials, the built project emanates vibes of the eco. And here is the question that this project raises. How public is public space in an urban environment? The egg home fits on the corner of a bit of sidewalk, but the composition of it spatially

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The world of CGI is often used to replicate that which cannot to plausibly created in a real world environment. So it is without a surprise that the methods are used to great filmic effect. This advertisement was created using CGI instead of live footage with Vray, a popular renderer with architects.More on CGI and realism in past CC post Digitals.

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Leap over your deepest fears.Walk through the fire.Be selfish once in a while.Break the mould you emerged from.Change you; Love you; Get lost in you.Who am I to tell you what to do? Society!!!Just dare to be you.Poem by Ediri EwhrudjakpoA young actress, listed as the third richest Brit star, at the young age of 20, has truly shown an enormous transformation to the world. This is Emma Watson.The

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Nike, being the dynamic sports enterprise that it is, has sparked many initiatives that are effectively pushing out their brand and also the agenda of sport/an active population. Nike Gamechangers, a grant for sport initiatives all over the world, has received a flock of proposals and in due course, some really great projects will hopefully come to fruition. In London, there was a fun programme

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Some call it photography without a camera, but really, it's merely using parts of the traditional photographic development process and making something really great. Pierre Cordier pioneered the chemigram over 50 years ago and when someone told him he should keep the process a secret for himself, he refused. Now the technique is an open-source phenomenon and even today, chemigram artists share

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'Dead Drops', an art project by Aram Bartholl, has resulted in an array of digital/physical engagement. USB flash drives poke out inquisitively throughout a digitally saavy New York City, barely revealing the metallic port which defines what it is. It is also the only part of the device which does the connecting. So essentially, within our physical environment, pools of data is up for grabs, or

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Here's a bit of urban metamorphosis for you all. In the Cocoon post I did earlier this year, I showed the Christo-like membrane that beautifully screened off an architectural transformation process. Now the addition has come out to be a true butterfly! Or at least an elegant moth...

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Yesterday afternoon, as I headed through city up last the Skytower complex, there was a strange atmosphere to be felt. Traffic lights weren't working in various parts of the area and parts of the road were being cordoned off. Little did I know, the historic Palace Hotel building, which I have thoughtlessly walked underneath many a time, would soon be demolished. Within a short hour, the Palace

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Marilyn Monroe as a childBorn as Norma Jeane Mortenson, who would have known the girl captured within this photograph would become one of the most well known pop culture icons in the world? The transformation of this creative being throughout her life was enormous. Physically, the façade of Monroe could be seen clearly, but internally, she was noted to be shy, sweet and intelligent.

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Yuken Teruya

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Upstairs along the super cultural K Road, lives a teashop that houses a gallery and a radio station amongst other things. The tea blend of culture can be felt within it's walls and, as exhibitions come and go, the environment morphs to meet it. The other night, the room was packed with people. It was a night of storytelling, where writer's performed their own pieces before an eager audience.

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After the posts about gaming and how the creative artists behind those worlds craft the details of virtual reality, I thought it might be fun to write about a playful approach to virtual reality within our real world environment.iButterfly from DentsuAsia on Vimeo. iButterfly allows iPhone users to use their devices to 'capture' virtual butterflies. Each butterfly is unique, and what's more, it

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Paul Mutant, 2010 Acrylic on canvas12" x 10"The familiar face of being banned from creative products on the internet, just because you are not in the right country never seemed like the best way to deal with the situation/bureaucracy/borderline censorship. Paul Mutant touched upon something very personal to all of us who have once been banned from ABC or BBC videos, but I must say, in a rather

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I love writing about outrage. The passion of anger rivals any other sensation. Ripples surge through us. In the case of Takashi Murakami's latest body of work, a great rift in time has been created. Murakami's distinctive manga-like sculptures and patterns have invaded the spaces of Versaille Palace. A space that has been placed on the pedestal of high art traditions and worshipped daily by the

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DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo.

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With mankind exploring deep into the subterranean opportunities of our planet, there are a lot of cave-like networks that have been made over the course of building out cities and whatnot. And undoubtedly, where ever mankind dwells, waste can be found. One example is the London Underground, and with the adventurous spirit of Urban Ghosts Media, we are allowed a peek into these forbidden and

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Haven't done a book review since... April. So it's about time for another!My Year of Meats by Ruth L. OzekiWhen a writer holds the task of writing a full blown novel in their hands, it is within their control to create whatever world they want. Whether it be a Tolkien forest, or a futuristic Westerfeld, their creativity is the mould in which the concept is formed. In Ruth L. Ozeki's award winning

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