Collisions is a great 6-track album by Simon Pyke/Freeform (brother of Universal Everything’s Matt Pyke) – he also makes music for brands including SONY, Nike, MTV, Nokia, WARP, London 2012 and the BBC. More information is on the Freefarm website http://www.freefarm.co.uk …Buy/Download here >
A day at The Curwen Studio yesterday printing Improvised Structures. The print is a series of vignettes from pen and ink drawings made in the late Summer and Autumn. Children’s camps, rope swings, fencing and barriers built from materials to hand. Read More >
Evening at The Junction with Richard Legge to see The Fall perform their new album Ersatz G.B. Read More >
This is genuinely amazing – a computer for $25! The Raspberry Pi Foundation have developed, and are soon to launch, an ultra-low cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. Read More >
Over the Summer I started researching a personal project around non-designer forced invention – constructions and objects made to fulfill a need using only those materials immediately to hand. For example, a shelter or den created by kids in a wood using branches and sticks. Read More >
Earlier this year Wallpaper* magazine gave Reebok a design award for their ZigTech trainer – a new shoe with a distinctive graphic zig-zag sole that transfers energy back to the wearer. This lead to the curation of a show in which designers, architects and artists were invited to create works inspired by Reebok’s ZigTech, Toning and Flex technologies. Read More >
On way to the Reebok / Wallpaper* show I nipped round the corner to Channel 4 offices on Horseferry Road to see their latest “Big 4″. “Time to Breathe” was designed by fashion graduate and competition winner Hannah Gourlay – silver metalic fabric stretched over sub-frame which gently inhales and exhales in the breeze.
Treated Sam the work-experiencer to a gallery day in London. First stop the Barbican for Watch Me Move covering the 150 year history of animation. The show “brings together for the first time, over one hundred films by contemporary artists, cut-out, collage, puppet, clay and stop-motion animators, auteur filmmakers and exponents of experimental film alongside the creative output of the commercial studios. “ Read More >
Evening performance by Andy Holden, held in the mezzanine extension of the house at Kettle’s Yard:
“The culmination of series of pieces investigating the relationship between sculptural objects and duration, Six Short Works in Time incorporates projected film, a live camera feed, spoken word, and a string quartet performing music by Johnny Parry and The Grubby Mitts. Read More >
Made it to Andy Holden’s lunch time talk with Tyler Woolcott on the laws that exist in the animated world (part of his “Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time” show at Kettle’s Yard). With examples from Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Wile E Coyote, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Betty Boop, Charlie Brown and Itchy & Scratchy. Read More >