Stereoscopic Streetview
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Monday, January 25, 2010
Thursday, December 17, 2009
wonderful wonderment
my new favourite blog- Neon Tights. A group of four friends pick a new theme every week and draw it. I wish I was that devoted and disciplined (maybe after grad?)
above is a theme from last month: childhood pets and how they died
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Switzerland, we have a problem
An ideas competition and a continuation of our conversation about Switzerland's banning of minarets.
from bustler.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
P.S. He threw himself out a window, eventually.
Friday, November 27, 2009
People in glass apartments- visual clutter?
"Just curiously bored"
from a review of Cooper Union at the always wonderful but awfully distracting, The Design Observer Group
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I know what I know, I'll sing what I said,
Oslo skate park/opera
Cooper Union
Monday, November 23, 2009
ah-ha
-Gertrude Stein
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Relection, refraction, light, water, brilliance!
Glazed ceramic in Gaudí 's architecture
Gaudí 's architecture is characterised by colour. The master used to say that colour is the sign of life. It is for this reason that all of his architecture is intensely chromatic. Gaudí understood that colour is the effect of reflection of light on objects but that light has another property too: it is refractive. In other words, when rays of light hit a shiny surface, or water, the effect of refraction occurs causing brilliance or iridescence.
This led Gaudí to use glazed ceramic, which provided very bright colours as well as allowing him to incorporate iridescence. He then took his three-dimensional twisted surfaces and covered them with ceramic tiles.
Finding of course that it was impossible to lay tiles on a curved surface, Gaudí responded by coming up with one of his major inventions: "trencadís". He asked for the tiles to be broken and, with the pieces, created mosaic that was Byzantine in style yet had one peculiarity: it mixed fragments from different pieces, thereby achieving the surprising effect of a new, more lively and interesting composition completely unrelated to the original tiles.