Bray's Studio

Circuit Bending

2007-11-01T11:23:00.000+11:00

Well, i've had a bit of a disaster in the last week of class and completely fried my circuit bending project. I hadnt had a chance to record or video it either...
So instead, ive make a little ziney thing you can print out and fold into a little book and an animation of how to construct the thing...

Speaker Module

CasingCase with Speaker attached
This grid allow you to link the different control modules in series by connecting the press studs up in different combinations
Zine. Print up and fold into a booklet. Requires one horizontal cut between the 1st and third vertical folds. (hope that makes sense...)

You can see the animation here

Enjoy

Office Scene

2007-05-12T14:01:00.000+10:00

Heres the bosses office in our puppet show so far...

Book of Nothing

2006-08-03T09:59:00.000+10:00

Reviving my blog... again

2006-07-25T18:29:00.000+10:00

So iv decided to try and get my blog started again for this semester, but judging by my track record this might not last long. We'll see.
It first week of classes this week and ive already cocked things up. All three of my classes clash with each other. I have CAiD and Studio (Silence and other sounds) on thursdays at the same time. And then studies and studio on fridays at the same time. I guess im going too have to change tech classes with is pretty annoying as none of the other 'toolkits' sound particually appealing. I'll probably have to go into sand casting too as i think its the only one that isnt full. Fiddle sticks! I was looking forwards to learning rhino. Oh well, what can ya do...

In other news i was thinking about starting another comic competition like the one i ran last year. iv had a few requests from people lately. So i'll try and get that up this week.

I'll also try and put up a couple of pictures of some projects iv worked on these holidays.

Thats all for now, see you all at workshop on friday.

My very late brief...

2006-05-01T22:42:00.000+10:00

Braden Keir S3107876

Dining Experience Brief - Communal Kitchen

Background

A few weeks ago, I attended an alternative lifestyle festival called ‘Confest’. At this festival there was system of cooking and dining in which a kitchen and pantry were set up where everyone could come together and with or for their friends and also complete strangers. The pantry was stocked with food that donated by people at the festival or bought with donated money. This allowed for a very diverse range of food available that reflected the tastes of the people using the kitchen.

By cooking with a bunch of strangers, you are able to relate those people in a way that you wouldn’t usually experience, and through collaborating with other people with different backgrounds and experiences, all parties are able to learn from each other and add their influence to the meal.

Concept

For this project I hope to design a communal kitchen for inner Melbourne. This would be a space where people could come together to prepare and share food. Anyone arriving at the kitchen would be able to start a new meal, assist in preparing someone else’s meal, or share a meal that someone else has prepared. Anyone starting a meal would be asked to cook more than enough for people they arrived with so that other people could share their meal as well.

Ideally it would be free to use, and all food would be donated by participants (however probably isn’t feasible and there may need to be either an entry free or a compulsory donation).

The target audience for this kitchen would be just about everyone from kids making themselves afternoon tea after school, to families going out to lunch, young adults out to meet new people. With help from the local council it could also play the role of a soup kitchen for the homeless.

Possibly Difficulties

When placed in the city, this communal kitchen concept runs into serval problems which will need to be designed around.

Firstly, there’s hygiene. There are currently very strict standards that must be adhered to when preparing food. When you allow the general public into the kitchen, its very difficult to make sure these standards are maintained.

Next there’s the issue of trust. Outside of a festival context, you can no longer assume that everyone is friendly. Some kind of security measures would be necessary to prevent the possibility of intentional poisoning.

Then there are finances. While it would be lovely if this project was run and maintained by the good will of the local community, this probably isn’t feasible. Staff would be necessary to assure the kitchen is run safely responsible and respectfully. There is also the likely situation that not enough people would donate food or money to the kitchen.

New Feature: BLOGLINES!

2006-02-24T13:09:00.000+11:00

I've been off on camp with the 1st years and i must d lair ay, i had a ball. Overscaled projects that spiral out of control are always good fun. Highlight of the camp? Building a giant effigy of a pregnant teddy bear to hang and then burn. This thing was MASSIVE! Like 7 or 8 metres. I'll post up some pics later. Unfortuately I had to leave before the actual burning, but hopefully Andrew got some good footage of it. My hands are so hacked up from working with that cane and wire. It was good fun having minions i could set to work on different tasks.

In other news, iv set myself up a 'bloglines'. The days of stalking round this massive web of blogs hunting for new posts are finally over. Now all i have to do is wait as they are they unwittingly drawn from all corners of design:dissent into my lair where i sit ready to .... errr ... read them.

Rev 1: Heres a photo of the bear.

Memoirs of a Geisha

2006-02-15T10:33:00.000+11:00

I went out and saw 'Memoirs of a Geisha' last night at Melbourne Central. Over all it was a decent film. The cinematography was beautiful and there was some absolutely majestic scenery, like one scene where they are walking down narrow path with towering bamboo forest on either side.
I did find the story line a little disappointing however. It felt like just another love story. I would have like to see much more of the japanese culture and less of the girl pining for some old man. But thats just me. I was also a little disapointed to find that theyd used chinese actresses for the 2 leading roles. Surely japan has some acting talent to offer? Oh well.
After that i went round to Robot for a drink, but they were only playing Spirited Away which I'd already seen several times before. Still, it was a very nice little place to sit and chat.

Renovations

2006-02-13T18:20:00.000+11:00

I picked up a large peice of laminated partical board from uni last week when i was in there painting. The plan is to use it as a new bench cos at the moment i can hardly fit the monitor of my computer on my desk let alone have my keyboard infront of it.
At the moment iv just got the new desktop sitting on top of the old one to get an idea of how it'll work. Heres a photo.

I got to more matching peice that i might use for shelves. They're about 300x500 each.

For those of you who havent seen the new paint jop in B87 , here it is...

Yet another stupid quiz to kill the time... Take that time!

2006-02-12T12:14:00.000+11:00

You fit in with:
Spiritualism

Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.

80% spiritual.
100% reason-oriented.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Older sister has an older brother you know?

2006-02-09T00:50:00.000+11:00

When in to uni to day for the working bee today. i arrived at 10:30 half expecting to walk into a corridor filled with activity. I really should have know better. Half an hour later another student arrive (Nasa i think his name was), and then a further half hour later liam turned up and we were able to start. I was a little dissapointed to find that we were just going to be painting the wall white, but i must admit it does look alot better. Its abit sad to be loosing the freedom we had to just do whatever we wanted with the walls, not that we ever really used it. It was just nice having that freedom there. Oh well. Raph and Liam turned up later on and we ended up getting quite a lot of work down. Oh and John an Paul from the workshop too.
I found a nice piece of laminated partical board in a pile of stuff to be thrown out in building 87, with i plan on using to extend my desk so that i can actually fit my computer in it properly. This setup is doing horrible things for my spine. It was a lot of fun getting that home on the train...
I had quite a character to keep me company on the ride home. A complete nutjob arguing with a whole host of invisible beings. The one he seemed to have the most to say to was named "Older sister". Every 10-15 minutes he'd hobble over to me and very earnistly tell me that 'Older sister has an older brother' several times untill he was satisfied that i'd understood then hobble back to his side of the train. Only to come back and tell me the same thing a few stops later. God bless public transport crazies.

Mars Volta

2006-02-03T01:26:00.000+11:00

I've just got home from the Mars Volta concert at the palace. My God those guys are animals! The played for 2 and a hlaf hours and rocked out like men possessed the whole time. My back and legs were exhausted just standing there! For now I need my bed. Ill try and post about my weekend at Rainbow serpent festival sometime tomorrow. I couldnt be bothered right now. Goodnight.

2006-01-25T17:26:00.000+11:00

Hmmm, so much for all my good intentions of keeping this blog going over the holidays. I keep thinking of things i want to post about, but i never quite seem to get round to actually posting... oh well.
Yesterday, my mate Alex and I headed into the botanical gardens with a video camera to try and scope out some good setting for a little film project we want to try. However, we found the gardens to be much to landscaped and clean cut for what we're after so we ended up going home empty handed. Still, it we had a very pleasent stroll in the park so its wasnt a complete waste of time.

Check out this beast i found in the vegie patch. Its about the size of my lower leg, maybe even a bit bigger. You really gotta keep an eye on zuccinis. If you dont pick them when theyr a senisible size they just keep on growing, and end up tasting like wood. That small zook at the back is about the size you'd usually buy at a supper market. Iv also got a lot of pumpkins growing and im tempted to try slipping a milk carton or something a round one to make a square pumpkin. Could make a pretty cool looking jack-0-lantern.

Heres a little trial stop motion i did with Lego.

Curse you flu germs!

2005-11-22T10:49:00.000+11:00

I woke up this morning with a bit of a scratchy throat and it seems to be quickly escilating into full fledged flu. Anyone know any miracle cures? anti-flu spells? appropiate deities to sacrifice some cattle to? I'll take anything. Earthcore is in 3 days and i need to be in peek condition.
On an unrelated topic, i'll try and post a pic of that harvey birdman mask tonight when i get home from work.

Costume completed!

2005-11-20T13:11:00.000+11:00

I actually finished this project over a week ago, but iv been to lazy to post to. But im on holidays now so i make no apologies, so there. Anyway, here's what i did...

once the wire frames have been completely covered in 'feathers', i used a heat gun to bend shape 2 pieces of ridged PVC conduet and attached them to the top of the frames.

... Then i got a $5 op shop suit jacket onto which mum kindly sewed 2 button holes for the wings to slide into (she wont let me touch the sewing machine after last time)...

... Next I got my broken old school back pack and cut it in half so that it was only the straps connected to a rectangle of fabric. I got mum to sew on some loops and pockets for the pvc pipes to slide into. this would go under the jacket so that the wings slide through the holes in the jacket into the back pack.

Here how it looked when i put it all together. Having the pack on underneath meant that the jacket didnt quite fit, so i was unable to button it up with out looking like i was wearing a corset.

I also made a mask to go with the outfit but it looked so trashy that im not going to post it here. The wings were a hit at the party though. It was a small hall party so wear these giant wings made it particularly difficult to manuver around the place with out taking any one out. Luckly my friends were more than happy to make the occasional trip to the bar from me so it all worked out (thanks fellas!).

Look alike?

2005-11-07T18:44:00.000+11:00

You scored as Beyonce. You're not stick-thin, but you're gorgeous and proud of it.

Beyonce

44%

Avril Lavigne

44%

Paris Hilton

19%

Gwen Stefani

19%

Lindsay Lohan

19%

Ashlee Simpson

19%

Who is your celebrity look-alike?
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Personally, i cant see the resemblance...

A late night quotation

2005-11-07T00:12:00.000+11:00

"there was a man who said 'though,
it seems that i know that i know.
What i'd like to see, is the i that sees me,
when i know that i know that i know"
- Alan Watts.

How wierd?

2005-11-06T13:49:00.000+11:00

You Are 90% Weird

You're more than quirky, you're downright strange.
But you're also strangely compelling, like a cult leader.

How Weird Are You?

Jesus, i never realised...

Harvey birdman attorney of law

2005-11-05T19:34:00.000+11:00

I probably should have showed you all who Harvey birdman actually is, since hes not all that well know...

Huzzah!

Costume Stage 1

2005-11-05T19:14:00.000+11:00

This week iv been busy building a costumefor my mates 21st birthday party which has a 'dress as a film or tv character' theme. I decided ill to go as Harvey Birdman.
At the moment im working on making a set of wings...
I got the idea for the feathers from Carls lamp. Theyr just piece of rice paper folded around a length of wire, stuck with spray adhesive and then cut to shape.

Next I build a wire frame a little bit taller than me, and stared attaching the feathers...

...And kept on attaching feathers...

One down (almost), and one to go. I still have to put feathers on the other side to, to hide the wire.

Happy Birthday Julzy!

2005-10-23T00:15:00.000+10:00

Last night was a blast! Sorry i coundnt make it to the ID outing thingy, but it was one of my good mates birthday and she decided to celebrate it in a storm water drain in South Yarra.
I met up with some friends to go and help set everything up at about 6 oclock last night, by which time it was really starting to pour so we were quite nervous about herding 20 - 30 people down an abandoned drain to the point that we were concidering calling everyone up and moving the party else where. But when we actually got down there, we found that the water level wasn't too bad and we had hear from a friend in cave clan that there was a manhole was could get out from at the far end so we decided to press ahead. The enterance to the tunnel is about the width of a road lane with a river of water about a metre wide running down the centre. Inside it was pitch black and seemed to go on for about 2 or 3 blocks before it opened up into a wider chamber with lendges along all the walls complete with couches and rugs. All the walls were painted in awsome murals and all sorts of posters. There was absolutely no light in there but we brought bags of candles with us and we lined the ledges with them creating an awsome eery feel to the place. That combined with the bjork playing out of the portable sterio we brought with us was quite spectacular.
A little while later friends started turning up and a the whole party in a drain thing when done surprisingly well and it ended up bring an absolutely fantastic night. Muddy cuffs and big grins all round.

Two brave adventures head into the unknown.

Flash photography really does do this place justice. You really have to see it in the candle light...

Here's a big grin from the birthday girl :D

hmmm

2005-10-03T01:15:00.000+10:00

I had quite the interesting day today...
After sleeping in too late to go draining with Oliva and co., I decided to go and check out Mayaproject at C.E.R.E.S with some friends.
Mayaproject is kind of a hippy fair/dance party/spiritual gathering that is aparently going to be monthly affair from now on.
So i rocked up there at about 3ish after many a hassel with the trains not running between boxhill and camberwell for some reason... Anyway, it seemed to a very small, subdued affair with a handfull of people lounging around in the sun listening to some nice dub, not really worth the $10 entry fee, but id come all this way...
It didnt take us long find some people we knew and their were some pretty nice tunes playing so it was all good.
Being a hippy gathering, there were serveral workshops going on around the place including lucid dreaming, yoga and dance and other forms of new age healing. I was pretty interested in trying kundalini yoga as id read quite abit about it, so some friend and i turned up at the place and time allocated for the workshop. It didnt take long for us to realise some thing was wrong. This was kundalini, but it wasnt yoga... it was kundalini dance, completely with chanting and other strange noises. Too late to back out now. Two of the things im probably least comfortable with are singing and dancing and now is doing both of them in the wierdest possible way infront of a somewhat amused crowd. I couldnt even see my comfort zone from here.
I did feel good to have done it though, and the actual workshop proved have some interesting effects (although it probably would have been a bit more effective in a more relaxed environment. Not an experience ill be repeating in a hurry though.

Geez, its been a week since i last posted...

2005-09-30T00:34:00.000+10:00

Sorry i havent been posting at all this week, Ive been feeling very busy and quite uninspired. I havent been acting very busy tho unfortunately. An may i also apoligies few not coming through with my promise of comics. I think im going to put that idea off till the holidays when i have a little more time for it.
I'd been feeling a bit glum this week being cooped up in front of my computer doing my flash (And not just any old flash. Ive been rotascoping. THE DEVILS WORK!) I think ive drewn myself in 40 frames so far, and it only comes to 8.5 seconds. Why oh why did i choose to do it in 25 FPS?
Anyway, last night i finally got out of the house and went to 'Lental as anything' with 2 of my chums. What a fantastic restuarant! The way the place works is, you order a meal, you enjoy the meal, and then you decide what you think the experience was worth and thats what you pay. Awsome! Such trust! Its like listening to a busker. Your not obliged to pay him/her, but you do anyway because its the right thing to do. So we turned up to this place at around 8 o'clock. It was a really nice warm night and i was in great mode cos i hadnt seen those 2 in ages (damn you RMIT!). When we got there the place was full which was a bit of a surprise although it probably shouldnt have been as it was in Acklind street (sp?).
So we left a phone number with them and took a strole down to the beach. By this time it had started to rain a little, and by the we got to the beach it had brewed into quite a spectacular thunder storm with the whole sky lighting up neon purple with every lighting strike. After enjoying the storm for a little while, we got a call to say there was a free table for us (how conciderate) and we headed back and just got in the door when the rain kicked in it up a gear or two and started pelting down monsoon style.
We sat down at table near the front window so that we could watch the weather and we had a read through the menu and page describing the restuarants philisophy. The music was great. It was all exotic instruments and in a language i dont speak so my mind did keep trying to follow the lyrics which was a plus.
We ended up ordering a curry sampler and a japanese udonyaki to share between the 3 of us (a bit strange mixing japanese and indian, but what the hell) and also a cup of bumbu each which is coffee substitute. The bumbu tasted abit like weak coffee flavoured with toffee and nuts. Quite nice. A ondunyaki is quite tasty too, but the currys were awsome. They actually managed to cook eggplant (AKA the devils vegetable!) in a palitable manner. So palitable infact that in was my flavour food there. If your ever in st kilda and looking for a good feed, check out lental as anything. It get the "Bray's tick of approval".
On the way home, the 3 of us were discussing the possibility of moving out into an partment together, with maybe 1 or 2 other people. Me and reuben both dont have jobs and have never really had to fend for our selves before, so we decided that the best way to go into this was to aproach it as an experiemental project. We would all sit down a plan out all the finacial issues and find a place we can aford, but go into it accepting that it may all fail miserably. As long as we're careful not pay for anything in credit we would have nothing to loose and if thing do go pear shaped we can just go back to how we are now. This also means we can be as crazy and idealistic as we want with the way the place is run which is prospect i find particually exciting after all my research on anarchism for studies.

Before i go i should probably speak my peace about this new magazine project for studio. I wasnt in a great mood on the day we were planning it having missed lunch and i had a nasty headache, so i kept quiet. I really wasnt in the mood for starting fights, but i wasnt too happy with where the mag was headed.
I was excited about making a publication of what we'd done when the idea first came up and we were talking about how it would documentation of our process, rather than a major project in itself. I loved the idea of compiling snipets of everyones blogs to show the change in how we thought about studio over the semester.
But last sessions discusion seemed to be about producing something else entirely. Instead of compiling what we've done already people seemed to want to do and produced a huge quanitity of new material purely to make this magazine. And the blogs seemed be taking the back seat in the mag when they are really the most valuable documentation we have as they were actually writen during the semester rather than all this writing reviews afterwards which is a bit pointless in many cases as most of us look at this studio completely differently than we did 2 months ago.
Bah! Anyway, ive had my little rant and got that off my chest. I realise its far too late as we're putting this thing together in a few day and im sorry i didnt bring any of this up earlier.
Hopefully this offering of a post will be enough to opease the blogger gods for now. Im off to get my self some sleep and hopefully regain a little sainity. Nighty night.

More fun than a hat full of boxes

2005-09-22T23:54:00.000+10:00

After playing the 6 hat game in Kate's playgroup, I've decided to try and incorporate the hats into my blog. So I've gone and writen a little flash program that randomly chooses a hat. The idea was that to have it in the side bar of my blog some that everytime some visits my blog they are alocated a hat (either one of De Bono's ones, or one of my own) so that if they are commenting on something on blog they have the option of using the hat to influence their comment. i havent figured how to put it in the sidebar yet, so ill just put it here for now...
Box of hats
Damn, it cant even put it in a post properly... Raff suggested turning it into java. Anyone know how to do that?
Anyway, if you do you a hat, write which hat your using at the start of your comment so that i can observe this little experiment.

Kates Playgroup

2005-09-22T00:27:00.000+10:00

today at around lunchtime up with Kate, Britney and Haley (plus some other who turned up later) for the first of Kate's Edward De Bono Playgroup sessions. It was fantastic! We basically sat around discussing randomly selected senerios using one of the 6 thinking hats. For thoe of you who are unfimiliar with the hats, they are....

White - What do you no about the problem, and what other information do you need?
Black - What are the dangers associated with this problem?
Yellow - What are the Pros?
Green - Creative/unusual response
Red - First reaction/thought
Blue - The crap hat (im sorry blue hat, i dont really think your crap. I just dont really understand you...) Something about planning a thought process for the problem. We just ignored this one...

The session went really well and it was great doing creative thinking just for the joy of it istead of working to resolve a problem or or produce something. I left with a head dancing with images of crazy possibilities...

Ive been toying with the idea of starting up a journal style comic here. Iv seen a few resently that have worked really well and i think i might like to give it a go. Im not gonna commit to weekly comics or anything like that though. I've got one ready from yesterday, but its gonna take some stuffing around to get it up here. ill do it tomorrow.

I had so many posts planned out in my head, but i never seem to get round to putting them up here. I have a natural aversion to writing and i find it exceedingly difficult to communicate my thoughts here, which is one reason for the comic i guess. Maybe this blogging will do me good if i can just force myself to keep doing it.

Anyway, thats enough out of me for now. Im off to bed.
Layla tov

Photobucket

2005-09-20T22:24:00.000+10:00

This is a test post from Photobucket.com

My lamp is finished at last

2005-09-19T01:26:00.000+10:00

Well its finally finished.
I had a few stability issues so i went out and bought some quick set concrete and 6 feet of steel tubing. So now i have a concrete block with the tube set in the middle of it and the paper fixed to it at the top with wire hooks. This is gonna be fun trying to bring this in in the morning...

Last weeks studio

2005-09-18T01:14:00.000+10:00

Last week in studio we were assigned the task of redesigning our studio course from scratch. So we broke up into groups and started discussing the pros and cons of current course and things we'd like to get out it. In terms of redesigning the course we failed miserably. We were all to caught up in the way things are at the moment to see any possiblities (at least thats how it felt to me). I found this quite frustrating at really helped show me how far i have to go as a designer. On the positive side, this exercise was a great opportunity to reflect on course so far and on my own growth along the way. As we went through pointing out what we want out of a studio class and what we get from soumitri, it started to sink in just how valueable this course is.
Lots of people were very frustrated with this course at the start of the semester and some still are (i was quite confused about what was going on at the start of sememster too). I've come to the conclusion that altho its much fun being confused and frustrated, in order to make any major shift in the way you think, and make that change quickly, a period confusion and resistence is pretty much inevitable. Because when we started out we had one way of looking at things which we conciders to be the right way of doing things, this "new way" naturally wouldnt sit well with us as we'd be judging it using our old "vce" way of thinking as the benchmark. So i process like this is always going to be a bit challenging but thats ok. its all part of the learning .
Soumitris teaching process is very different than any i have encounted during my education. It reminds me very much of the buddhist master approach of "a fool who persists in his folly will become wise." i.e. He gives us a task that we will inevitably fail, and we keep failing untill we see the folly of our approach. A frustrating process, but very freshing change from spoon feeding.
Anyway, its approaching 2 in the morning so ill leave it there for now. Ill try and elaborate a bit tomorrow. Goodnight

CAiD

2005-09-11T18:30:00.000+10:00

I finally started my solid works this weekend...
heres what i've got so far

I keep the wolf from the door

2005-09-11T16:53:00.000+10:00

Finally i got round to uploading the video of my burning lamp. Here it is!
Burning Lamp

And some pics of the aftermath for your viewing pleasure

Comic comp entries

2005-09-02T17:21:00.000+10:00

Ok, this comps been running for a week now and so far i've only had 6 entries and only two of those were from ID students. Is it worth continuing? I'll leave it up for another week and if noone else enters I guess i'll just put it down as failure. Maybe ill try again when everyone is a little less busy...
Anyway, heres the entries so far...
Raph's Comic (1st year ID student)
Daimith's Comic (1st year ID student)
Benks Comic (Friend of mine)
Jona's Comic (Friend of mine)
Timmy's Comic (Friend of a friend)
Osmo R's Comic (Friend of a friend)

Ill add entries to this post as they come. If they come....

Haley's Comic (1st yeat ID student)
Jeremy's Comic
Test-Pilot's Comic

Comic Competition

2005-08-27T21:20:00.000+10:00

I've been having a look at this webcomic called Wispered Apologies where people send in comics with out the captions and then other people put there own captions in. I was thinking this might be a fun little student project, so I've wipped up a little comic strip and now its your jobs to fill it in. All ID students are welcome to join in. Just down load the pic, add in captions, stick it on the net some where and put the url here in comments. Once a few people have done it ill post them up here. The comics a bit crappy, but its my first try at this kinda thing so cut me some slack. As well as added captions, you can also make alterations to the drawing. Anyway, here it is...

Round 1 closes in around two weeks. If anyone's interested in doing the drawing for the next round that would be cool, other wise i'll just do it again. It would be better if some else had a shot though.

Also, check out A lesson is learned but the damage is irreversable

Chinstroker

2005-08-27T20:42:00.000+10:00

Thanks for putting that template coding tutorial on your blog nick. I used it to stick in the gif of my face, just so that any one who hasnt met me yet can put a face to my name, or name to my face depending on which you know already. If you dont know either my names Braden and my face is down bottom left of the page.

Shirt Idea 1

2005-08-26T22:51:00.000+10:00

Here's just one idea i came up with for Raph's shirt...

Fiddling with Html

2005-08-26T18:56:00.000+10:00

Ill been playing around with the template of my blog and amazingly nothings crashed, broken or burst into flames. I think ill quit while im a head. For now. So i've changed the ground colour, scrapped that ugly border from around the title and made a bit more space for the posts. Is it easy enough to read with the longer lines? What was is Joey said, 50-80 characters to a line or something like that...? Oh well.
On an unrelated note, who wasnt to go to this stiener spring fair thingy. I recon it sounds interesting, but it'd be more fun if we had a bounce of us going. In suits :P (just kidding Soumitri)

Raph's T-shirt Sucks

2005-08-26T16:00:00.000+10:00

Here's the shirt Raph's give me for the 'my t-shirt sucks' project. Its gonna be a tricky one due to all the text, but im thinking i might be able to have a bit of fun with the young lady photo montage style.

Mid-Semester Exibition

2005-08-25T21:39:00.000+10:00

Hello again my old blog, its been a while.
This monday the Corporation Game and Bodylab came together for a bit of an exibition and to test drive our games.
It was great seeing all our work set up around the room as most of it people had done at home so noone else had really had a chance to see it. Some of the lamps were fantastic.

This Lamp of Haleys reminds me of the flower pot from the old kid's show "Lift Off"

Sorry i can't get seem to rotate this photo. Its quite amazing how something so simple as some crumpled paper on a rectangular frame could look so good.

Here are some photos of the games and some of the design that came out of them.

It was interesting seeing the 2 different takes on the Wok idea. Julian and i think Andrew (im sorry if ive got this wrong) both made a poster for the wok and both there final designs turned out very differently. I also got to see Haleys take on it in drawing class because she's using the design for her rendering project.

I can't wait till Raph makes the resin dices. They should look great. I didnt get to find out what that Paap's game was... Anyone got any clue?

After lunch we all had to play our games with the folks from Scott's studio. This happened with limited success. Haley, Kelly, Anara and I played the game with the badges ( i think Soumitri named it Mushroom). The game wasnt played terrible enthusiastically by our guest players, but this really didnt surprise me. When we first came into Soumitri's studio, we were all a bit reluctant to step out side our comfort zones too. Also, it was the end of the day and i think most people just wanted to go home. Lots of people have been suggesting that we have all learned a new and better way of thinking that the others couldnt appreiciate our games because they are still suck thinking in 'redesign' mode. While i think we have learned a lot from Soumitri about about aproaching design, I dont think we suddenly learned the secret to being great designers or anything. We've only just started to change our way of thinking. We have had 6 weeks to get used to The Corporate Game, so playing these games is now inside our comfort zones. I think this was the main difference between the 2 groups on monday. The BodyLab folks werent comfortable with the games so they were less willing to take risks. And so the Games were a useless exercise. Weren't they? The failure of these games has given us a great opportunaty to reflect on how we have grown and how much further we have to go. I agree with Raph in that the fact we werent able to teach what we've learn to the other shows that we still have much to learn. Oh well, at least we seem to be on the right track. Kelly did do a great job of running the game however. She was able to hold in all together and improvise the rules when circumstances didnt allow the game to run properly. Kudos to you Kelly. While the games were played some what half-heartedly, so good stuff did come out of them. Steve and Austin's Crack pack was great idea. Our game produced a tangle of wire and mesh for the SeaArt competition, but I think with a lot of refinement it may have potential. I'll have a bit of a play with it this weekend.

Sorry about the photo Haley ;)

Up late

2005-08-01T00:15:00.000+10:00

Well its midnight and this damn lamp isnt looking like it'll be finnished any time soon. Looks like i'll be turning up to studio half dead yet again. Sorry soumitri, I'll make it to class awake one day...

Wire frame

2005-07-31T23:40:00.000+10:00

Hmmm, i have a wire sculpure of a giant sperm.... what now?

Living lamps

2005-07-31T20:49:00.000+10:00

Just looking at animals with built in lights, to try and stir up some ideas...

Scribbles

2005-07-31T15:39:00.000+10:00

During art history class last year, i learn that some artists like Miro came up with biomorphic shpes for their paintings buy continuously drawning the same shape over and over on a sheet of paper, and picking shapes out of the mess they ended up with. I thought i might have a go at this to try and drag myself out of this hole ive got my self into.

Here are the 2 shapes I came up with.

I then gave played around with making them into 3-d forms.

We I dont think its something I'll use, but it was an interesting exercise.

Spider Diagram

2005-07-31T14:23:00.000+10:00

Here are my 8 catagories for designing a paper lamp.

Paper!

2005-07-31T14:04:00.000+10:00

Ive just been having a little bit of a play that glorious substance we have come to know as paper.

Here are some photos of my adventures...
By scoring paper while it was wet, i was able to make it form a ribbed texture as it dryed. Also, check out the surface of the paper. When you wet it and dry it again, it gets a nice linty texture.

I tryed getting paper to set in a 3-d form be wetting it then squashing it over this bbq tong thingy. not terribly successful, but still interesting.

This is leave glued between to sheets of paper. I dont really notice it.....

...untill you put a light behind it.

This is my first atempt at making paper.

This is a photo of it lit front behind, with the camera flash on.

But check out what it looks like without the flash!

A Lantern is 10 feet of paper....

2005-07-25T10:09:00.000+10:00

Ok, the Lamp/Lantern/Paper project... well... i've created SOMETHING... It didnt come out quite as planned, but then again my plan was fairly vague to begin with...

"Propose the ridiculous and take it seriously."
Hmmm, dont mind if i do.

I began by exploring ways in which a person could be INSIDE the lamp/paper, and playing round do a few sketches. I quite liked the aesthetic of this kinda thing...

So i decided to run with it. However, the brief called for my lamp/paper to be 7feet high...

I started looking at how a 7 foot structure could be worn on the arm,
I could just imagine some uppety aristocrats strolling around a ballroom sporting the latest fasion, the wearable lamp... see what lack of sleep can do to a man?

Anyway... this is what i came up with ...

Ladies and gentlemen, may i please introduce...

2005-07-22T00:24:00.000+10:00

...my new blog! This Blog will be dedicated my Industrial Design Study class and i shall be posting my ideas, activities and strange tangents here. Stay tuned.