Mar 26, 2008
last wednesday marked a milestone in my pursuit of a graduate degree in creative practice for narrative environments at central saint martins. the entire graduating class was required to hand in and defend their final project. it was a challenging final presentation as the external examiner, all tutors and the entire class were present to bear witness.
what was most interesting to me was the paths of development undertaken ...
Feb 11, 2008
in the span of just a few days, 2 places that are close to me will never be the same.
after coming back from a friends' birthday, karin, adam and i found ourselves standing outside camden station, just beyond the camden lock, watching blooms of smoke hit the sky. we had to make a lengthy detour to get home. looking at my phone when i reached my bed, ...
Feb 4, 2008
Once again proving the need for good, free parties in east London, kesselskramer stirred it up nicely this past friday night with nothing less then an old school house party at the opening event of KK OUTLET. What could be described as the "victorian cottage" to the agency's deconsecrated church headquarters in Amsterdam (no seriously, it's a church, which is why it's not in parenthesis), KK OUTLET is ...
Jan 13, 2008
Lighting
Seoul already pays much attention to lighting within the city, although projects seem to be lucid and playful now, a citywide plan or theme could provide continuity and strong identity. the first example of program for city lighting is alexanderplatz in berlin, where the ccc has been known to do their blinkenlights project:
next up is the SPOTS media facade in berlin, potsdamerplatz:
also on continental europe, rotterdam's kpn ...
Jul 20, 2007
welcome to Europe, buddy!
Jun 25, 2007
it's hard to draw lines. no, i don't mean lines that make drawings. i am talking about the virtual lines and psycho-geographical boundaries we make for ourselves and the world around us. now that kairn and alex have joined me in rotterdam, our internship is in full swing. it seems like we have been working on this together for months already...
on order for us ...
May 10, 2007
fitting that the final project for the first year of my MA degree involves working with fellow worshippers of the mightiest of all the of pantheon of gods, King Pendopoo. joining karin, alex and i on this final project is violeta and niki; video artist and scenographer, respectively.
the brief for this particular project involved generating sustainable and lasting dwell time within Granary Square, which happens to ...
May 7, 2007
shit fuck god damn.
it has taken me three months to reflect upon the recent quasi-disaster that was the abake prescribed, three part project, the zeitgeist heist.
since posting about the first two elements of the project, team dynamics have run-a-muck, and the last group dinner/brainstorming session ended up in a... shall we say, heated discussion, at best. after a particularly critical reaction from the panel during ...