Hey....I spot an Eames Lounge!

Also these old Encyclopedia Britannica commercials are awesome.

It was done with a combo of stop motion and CGI. Very nice.

Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.

All the origami parts are real, not CGI created. Excellent...

THE MAKING OF AN ORIGAMI KOI from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.

Stop motion, this one is particularly gorgeous. It seems to flow very naturally.

Just for fun

If you're having a lousy rainy day in Portland, visiting this site can make you pretty happy.

http://www.andieandmike.org/bubblecam-push.stm

They wrote their own code and built their own unit to make this run.

A little sad though, I found out those plants are all fake.

I'm reading some books on stop motion animation, It's something I'd like to work on for at least a project or two this year.

This animation is totally awesome, and something I'd like to try myself. Perhaps a slight NSFW on the 25-30 secondish mark? Hilarity.

VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli - Sound Design on Vimeo.

Male Pattern Baldness, or Male Baldness Pattern?

Etched wood smells really nice

oh my goodness i made a thing

I was trained on the laser cutter today! That machine is my new best friend. These rings were fun to design and make. Much less expensive than a real rock, these were made with scrap acrylic!

I like the juxtaposition between an expensive object made with cheap materials. And the stereotypical wedding ring shape is hilarious for me, since people are always bugging me about "why aren't you engaged yet". Well thhhppppt! I make my own ring.

Misinformation

I didn't read the whole article yet, but the section on Misinformation Studies was particularly interesting to me.

http://cogprints.org/599/0/199802009.html

Childhood memories falsified. Being from a large family, and having lots of childhood stories told to me over and over again, I know that some things that I remember are not wholly my own memories. Some things I remember almost photographically never really happened at all. Memories of relatives that died when I was very young, do I truly remember them, or does my brain just cobble something together out of the stories that I heard?

Stacking

I'm gonna start taking a log of things that I like that stack, because that one of the things I think is essential about the TC-100 Tableware that I'm going to remix. The tableware is all about the stackability.

This is a set of rings, sold separately, that you can stack on your finger to create a scene. They cost 12 bucks a piece! That is crazy. I mean, it's cute design and all, but I seriously wouldn't want to drop $48 just so that I have a complete set to work with. And what if I want more trees? I dislike the squirrel being the same color as the fox! I will just make my own, thank you drive through!

I think this has potential outside the design remix as well. What other kinds of things do I want to stack...

Hello Kids

Since my main wordpress blog feed won't play nice with the UO Contemporary Design Blogroll, I'm moving my contemporary design posts over to here. You can still see my main blog on my home page, www.KateSessions.com. I'm going to revert that one back to a sketchblog.

Let the remix begin

So I've been assigned Nick Roerichts TC-100 Tableware

for my design remix project, where we take a very designed object and remix it. It's kind of ambiguous as to how. And that's on purpose, they don't really want to push us in any direction. The output requirement is a 2D representation of the new object, but many people construct the final project in miniature.

It seemed like everybody was drawing really cool stuff. Stuff with real complexity and potential. Like a kitchen-aid mixer, or Air Jordans. I was kind of disappointed in my draw.

This stuff has some awesome potential. It was designed with conservation of space in mind, secure stack-ability. I think Zara said that it was all over the place, and especially used on trains. I already have some remixes in mind.

Links For Steven

So these are some things that I came up with for Steven to look at.

For some interesting processes and techniques, I suggested http://nathanielstern.com/2009/night-work/
It's a really cool integration of traditional print techniques and more modern tech like video and digital frames. Not so much in the look of Steven's work, but for sure a process I'd like him to look at.

Always a favorite of mine, Jim Mahfood's work http://www.40ozcomics.com/ . He's a comic/skater/punk/etc. artist who does really great illustrations and illustration installations. A lot of his stuff has a clean, vector look to it that Steven has in a lot of his work. I love the illustration work he does on the female body