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littleBits

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Today we had a really inspirational guest lecture/seminar/workshop run by Mark Lochrie, who introduced us to a new gizmo called littleBits.

“Bits snap together with magnets to create instant circuits for foolproof inventing.”

This is us coming up with ‘cool’ concepts and ideas, some more successful then others. We started of by building concepts according to instructions but we quickly took what we learned and made our own things. LittleBits is really intuitive and easy to play with. The only problem that I have ist that it’s quite expensive. Maybe it’ll have to ask for it for my Birthday. All in all there is not much to say other then: Try it out yourself!

 

Nick Cage Art

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 Whilst doing research for my R&D project I came across the artist Nick Cave (not the musician). His work isn’t relevant to any of the projects I’m working on but just too good to not mention it. And who knows, one day my discovery might be useful.
 
Nick Cave is an artist, educator and foremost a messenger, working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. He says of himself “I have found my middle and now am working toward what I am leaving behind.” Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body. Soundsuits camouflage the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender, and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgment.

His work reminds me a lot of the “Triadisches Ballett” by Oskar Schlemmer.

Final countdown

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You have reached your destination, well almost.

One final year left – a frightening thought – but hey, time flies when you’re having fun, right? And the last 2years have definitely been fun. Even though I’m slightly freaking out about the amount of work that is still to tackle, I’m sure third year will be the best year of all of them.

To make sure that that is the case I’ll be putting EVERYTHING on this blog. Everything uni related that is. It’ll help me know what I have already done and what is still to do, look back at early stages of projects and keep links to sources and ideas.

The blog post will be sorted by categories. So if you are only interested in my reserch for my dissertation, just click the link on the right. Or maybe you only want to know how far along I am with my stop motion project? Easy, just a click to the right.

But for now fingers crossed. This year is gonna be awesome!