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Mark on Operation Void Deck
Thank you, very fascinating to read, you should follow impressive of your blog. I was very reveling to control your contents from prison term to sentence. We are depending forward to your future situations.
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Sernhong on re:ACT at 7th mAAN Conference, New Delhi (23-25 Feb)
There were a total of about 80-100 people at the whole conference. Very interesting meeting eveyone.
France on re:ACT at 7th mAAN Conference, New Delhi (23-25 Feb)
Looks very interesting. How many people were there?
Pecha Kucha Beijing 2008
nk on Mon, April 28, 2008
Thanks Jan for the cover! Pecha Kucha Beijing will be held on May 18, 2008 for those who are interested.
PECHA KUCHA IN ROTTERDAM
Janita Han on Sun, April 27, 2008
Friend Ren Horng Yee, who presented at Pecha Kucha, with me and Ilmar Hurkxkens
View from the front row
Lesley Moore
Pecha Kucha in Rotterdam! There I was, yesterday night. (Yoda like…)
Having been to Rojak’s and having been very impressed with jing’s photograph’s and boo jun feng’s the changi murals, i must say pecha kucha rotterdam came across as quite a disappointment.
The evening had a foreboding start, and went on with a sequence of designers/artists who were either not able or not keen to share their work in a passionate and meaningful way. Some designers were downright bad. The selection of presenters could have been more stringent.
All was not gloom and doom however. The evening had its nice bits that overall, made the night worth it. The casual dutch atmosphere (as you can see in the photo) was one thing I thoroughly enjoyed. You can’t find a more “bo chap” attitude in Singapore. The Rojak session that I attended was super-charged in quite a heady manner, what with the hosts making innuendos throughout the session; Pecha Kucha Rotterdam on the other hand felt like a really casual gathering of people with two less-than-competent-but-still-heartwarming hosts speaking in their second language, English.
The saving grace of the night was-besides my good friend Ren Horng Yee’s presentation of his final project, and no this is not just a disclaimer- the works of a two-person design firm Lesley Moore. It puzzled me for some time where the name came from, since their names were not Lesley and Moore. The name of the firm is actually a pun on the phrase “Less is More”! They told me that Goethe was the one who first said it, so let’s remember that, and not attribute it solely to Mies.
I was already immediately impressed by the fact that they do the layout of Mark magazine. They spoke about a series of really respectable works- a font inspired by escher’s multidimensional staircase, a huge digital clock that was lit up in an analog fashion by friends turning the fluorescent lights on and off, a stencil typography that was formed by two basic shapes. A fantastic piece of work was a short clip they did for Dave Clark called White Noise. The concept is white powder exploding and arranging to form text, the white substance being an allusion to the white noise we see on screen. Conceptually very fierce!
Had a discussion with Ilmar during the break. I asked him what makes Dutch design Dutch. He observed that Dutch design has 3 characteristics:
1. Couldn’t-care-less attitude
2. You have to make a joke out of everything
3. There has to be some subliminal message in the design
4. No sense of aesthetics (my addition)
I find these points really befitting Dutch designers.
The day ended with a nice chat with Karin and Alex from Lesley Moore.
Netherlands 1.06pm, signing out!
Frank Gehry asks “Then what?”
Joshua Teo on Mon, April 14, 2008
Who would think that an interview with Frank Gehry could be so entertaining? I like what he says about the Architect having to bring something of this own to the table in terms of aesthetics. He also speaks about collaboration, and I thought what was interesting from that was the people the person that he chose to collaborate with. While we often talk about collaboration with the community, with people from different disciplines, what was intriguing about this collaboration was it was between 2 brilliant people. I hope that motivates us to be brilliant at what we do. I believe, only then, can collaboration reach its fullest potential. Ganbante!
The ArchRecord Interview: Sir Peter Cook, Page 2 | Features | Architectural Record
oomoo on Thu, April 3, 2008
The ArchRecord Interview: Sir Peter Cook, Page 2 | Features | Architectural Record: “But the architect at best has a wonderful mandate to create and dabble in almost anything. And I hope it will long be so. As long as you can say, “Look, the person sitting behind me is actually much more interested in sociology, and the guy sitting in front of me is into studying hedgehogs, and they both have something to offer architecture,” it’s a wonderful mandate for indulgence and speculation and creativity, if you make it so.”
A Burj Too Far…
hann on Wed, April 2, 2008
...or too high, for that matter.
A Saudi billionaire prince is keen on giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “joining the mile high club”, if this is anything to go by.
Yes, a mile-high building. Dwarfing the under-construction Burj Dubai (585 m high) and a good two-thirds taller the upcoming Burj Mubarak in Kuwait (1001 m)... Might we have to coin the term spacescraper soon?
Well it seems to me like tall buildings in the Middle East is very much a burj-eoning trend.
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