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summery of thoughts regarding OMA internship, week 1

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 ...

forget that. forget you even saw it.

look away! nothing to see here! whatever you thought you read, you didn't. just look over there at the pretty pictures of our ultra-bland and non-eventful stay in Rotterdam, where we concentrate on a job we truly love to do:

the indispensable course of momentum

the time goes by so quickly. it's blinding, the speed of it all. i will attempt to summarize my experiences so far this season. how do i quantify the value of this last month? so soon the pang of summer will be upon us. as is in most states of change, this spring has been a torrential series of mountains and valleys; no doubt that ...

robot tattoo.. or .:|-=r0b07pr0n=-|:.

i asked what the bleep is it too when i first saw one. QR code is what's known as a two dimensional barcode, or matrix code dreamed up by Denso-Wave of Japan in 1994. they are used in Japan quite a bit, but you can also find QR code online. i first saw the code on cityofsound.com and became curious, so i did some research. QR ...

activating granary square through interaction

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 ...

Zeitgeist Heist Redux

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 ...

in anticipation of rotterdam

a few weeks ago i had a taste of life in rotterdam while working for the V2: Institute for Unstable Media. called in by my good friend and colleague danja, i had the opportunity to work in the "hack" department of the V2 Lab during this years DEAF07 and V2 25th anniversary events. most of the work i did was of a technical nature, and involved climbing up ...

the gamelan gang strikes again!

So as to follow up on the on-going antics of the gamelan gang, for the past few months the MACPNE department has been generating research and development that encompasses the design of a user experience and deployment of a pavilion to house the Indonesian instrument know as the gamelan. This commission is to coincide with the grand re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall and renewal of London's ...

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