October 2010
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from true panther
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MY FAVORITE THING RIGHT NOW
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Watchproposed project #3: flock of type
This project falls into category three of my three thesis categories/chapters. While projects one and two serve to illustrate the previous two categories, they exist merely as a counter-point to category three, which will hopefully comprise the bulk of my thesis experimentation.
As stated in ID Magazine’s article on the Edna Lawrence Nature Lab (Feb....
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PROPOSED PROJECT #1: GROW
This project is the embodiment of one of the examples I continue to turn to to illustrate the breakdown of my three thesis categories/chapters. This particular project will serve to illustrate category number one, and consists of the growing of crystalline type. In this experiment I will allow a word to develop/grow crystals in a bath or sugar or salt, utilizing the natural process of accumulation...
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THINKING AHEAD AMBITIOUSLY
I’ve been thinking about what types of design projects I want to comprise my thesis/body of work. Ideally, I would like my body of work to contain (at least) one each of:
surface design &/or textile (pattern) design
concrete poem/sculptural work
classic printed matter (poster, book, booklet, etc.)
interactive installation
iphone &/or ipad app
exhibit design
web
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THESIS (RE)VISION PROJECT: BIO-CURIOUS
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HAIKU RESPONSE NUMBER ONE
Array of textures
Nature provides everything
A new way to see
(for context please visit this post)
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INFORMATION ECOLOGY
THE NATURE OF INFORMATION
Information, like matter and energy, is a primary ecological constituent.
Information requires life, and it endows life.
Information is universal, with qualities and properties varying according to scale.
Information at human-earth scale may in part be thought of as a complex dynamic environment, which all life interacts with.
Information is the difference in the...
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Listen
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Listen
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PUTTING IT OUT THERE PT. 2
A (second) excerpt from an (un-edited) in-class writing exercise with Anne West, “seeing the doubleness of your work”:
I want my work to be a contemplative adventure through the liminal landscapes created by the overlapping of nature’s systematic and highly ordered modes of design and my own intuitive design processes.
Alternatively, I want my work to be a soft explosion—a...
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“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Anaïs Nin (via elizafitzhugh)
one of my favorite quotations of all time, which, hilariously i first encountered in a sonic the hedgehog comic as a child
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HAS THE HONEYBEE MYSTERY BEEN SOLVED? →
Evidendly a fungus tag-teaming with a virus have interacted to cause the colony collapse disorder.
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“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are...”
– Lewis Hyde
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“Think what it would be to have a work conceived from outside the self, a work...”
– Italo Calvino (via elizafitzhugh)
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“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences,...”
– Italo Calvino
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“Systems can be envisaged which consist of some minimum inventory of component...”
– Peter Pearce, Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design
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THREE TIERS OF BIOMIMETICS
Over the past week I have realized that I can break my biomimetic work into three categories (chapters or acts) that will comprise my thesis:
1. Utilizing natural processes as aids in design (putting nature to work for me)
2. Taking design inspiration from natural objects (abstracting inspiration from nature’s final products)
3. Mimicking natural systems (abstracting nature’s...
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TELEPORT YOURSELF →
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“Una red creciente y vertiginosa de tiempos divergentes, convergentes y...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via elizafitzhugh)
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“life’s too short to make ugly stuff”
-Doug Scott
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“Poetry matters. Poetry is what elevates a banal and neglected object to a form of art.”
-Aimee Mullins
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how to make removable fabric wallpaper →
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Watchmolly the owl and her chicks are back!
(live streaming video of a barn-owls nest in california)
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Audubon's "Band-tailed Pigeon" on display at John... →
A volume of John James Audubon’s master work, The Birds of America, is on display on the main floor of the John Hay Library. Each plate will be on display for only one month. This month’s bird is the “Band-tailed Pigeon”. This elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, bound in six volumes, was presented by Albert E. Lownes to the Library on the occasion of his 50th class reunion in 1970....
