The Diary of Tortov Roddle

Aru Tabibito no Nikki
The diary of Tortov Roddle

Accompanied by his estrange long-legged pig, Tortov is on a ongoing journey through a magical surreal picturesque landscapes.

Adventurous fantasy, Tortov meets new friends, "creatures " that can only be imagined as strange forms which only random clouds would form.

An lovely and peaceful animation that warms anyone's heart.

Gucci Flora

Donna Summer ft. Chris Cunningham



So Magical. constantly repeated during every advert break on every channel. Some how i prefer to watch this advert comparing to all the other rubbish adverts out there.. some how every time i see this advert i see something new?

Four Words

I AM, I Was

The last words of Jude Law's character in 'Artificial Intelligence' (The Film)As he was taken away by the machine patrols.

Absolutely NOTHING!

Congratulations!
you have recieved the gift of nothing. Absolutely nothing.
This is the ultimate in minimalism. Less is more, more is less.

Nothing is precious. Nothing is simple. Nothing is scared.

Open the pack and be enthralled when nothing happends.
Allow nothing to flow through your mind and calm your soul.
Savour the moment. Soon you'll discover that nothing really is so much better than somthing.


An product I found at the gadget section at Selfridges. Having and owning things gives us convienence, possibly happiness, feeling of fullness. Yet too much, can be a burden. At my flat in London i constantly buy to fill the gaps in my room, i ended up with the viscous cycle of finding objects to fill my room then finding resolution to contain these items, but when things are tuck nicely away, i would then go out again looking for things to make the room look cluttered.

why?

The September Issue

Anna Witour & the making of Vogue

The Legendary Editor-in-chief of Vogue

A film by R.J.Cutler

Taking the viewer to a world they think they know, the working process of famed Ice Queen, Anna Witour. Her notorious….ahem…strenuous work ethic…was captured in film.

Releasing the impenetrable glamour of Witours's couture, revealing behind the scenes of the magazine that reached an audience of 13million people, and impacting the $300Billion global fashion industry more than any other single publications.

THIS is the REAL 'Devil wears Prada.'

The mysterious body gestures
The gentle yet intimidating tone, sending shivers down your spine.
Her teams admirations and panicky attitude
Gaging designers by her every question.

A bit like my mom .....

Couldn't help but admire and the urge wanting to know more about her. The birth of a STALKER!!!!

"LaughOutLoud"

http://www.theseptemberissue.com/#/home
http://community.livejournal.com/foto_decadent/1580482.html

LEGO LOVERS!!!

The Architectural Uncanny

Anthony Vidler
"Not only is human being interpretation all the way down, so that our practices can never be grounded in human nature, God's will, or the structure of rationality, but this condition is one of such radical rootless that everyone feels fundamentally unsettled (unheimlich), that is, senses that human beings can never be at home in the world. this, according to Heidegger, is why we plunge into trying to make ourselves at home and secure. "

When i was a kid, i believe home is where you feel at ease. Home is where you 'return to' after school.

In 2002, along with my brother (2 yrs older) each hauling a jammed-packed suitcase. Flew across the sea to UK and studied at an boarding school. At that time home was across the sea in HK.
After a few years, I started referring the boarding house as "home" (parents were no pleased)
Did i say so because the contents in my room grew, have i simply "got used to the idea", is it my friends at school that made me feel at home?
(In the boarding house we would treat each other as sisters ; have fights, snuggle & watch tv, go shopping, have detention for makeup...etc)

At present times, refer every where home easily, my halls is home, my present address is home, my boyfriends place is home, my hk home is home...

Does it mean that we don't only have one "main" home. Home is where our loved one is, where our belongings are, and most of all where we feel accepted, relaxed and at ease.As we grow up the term in our idea about home changes along with the changes of our needs and demands.

Therefore home is where our mind think it is, even if you live in a rubbish pit, if you feel at home, your at home.

Stop Frame Animationa "Swing"

Combination of photos taken from Zoe,
Resizing photos using photoshop, black and white mask, brightness contrast
Combine with premier pro + Channel blur effect

Made for injecting into film as intervals effect etc....

City Illusion

Video Naree and I came up with last night, adding motion effects on different layers of images that we pre-photoshoped. Using Adobe Premier Pro.

This particular footage is made for projecting on the fabric screening for illusion effects, and also possible for using in the film...

This footage is of buildings manipulating and moving about because, the subject of our film is about schizophrenia, one of the possible symptom is illusions. And therefore this scene is about how the subject imagine the city collapsing and rotating around here.etc

Labyrinth

Almost in every book, article, artist, architect's research I have done, the word "labyrinth" always pop up. Some how in my mind a myth character with sharp pointed ears pop up every time.. some sort of a creature or idea of a creature... i have no idea why, that's why i've decided to do some research into it.

Wiki Explanation:
"Mazelike structure from Greek mythology"
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.^[1] Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a skein of thread, literally the "clew", or "clue", so he could find his way out again.

Vertical Farms + Robotic Arms

Bostonian architecture firm Höweler + Yoon took a look at some of the stalled construction projects around town and decided to not only gussy them up, but make them useful as well. The solution? Eco-Pods, or algae garden capsules attached to the skeletal, halted construction projects.

Designed in cooperation with LA's Squared Design Lab, the capsule would be rotated and repositioned by robotic arms to maximize efficiency, and the end product would be biofuel. It's all a bit sci-fi, but — hey — it'd be sweet if it ever came to see the light of day.

As a female and individual, normally i would be all for these impractical useless psychotic designs. Although this time, I'm not too sure, first, simply use fuel to power these "handy arms" would itself cause polllution. Second, such large condensed space packed with plants, would attract lots of insects. In my mind machinery and plants+water+soil+insects, doesn't mix well, it could cause alot of accidents with the connection of the building ie mould growing on surfaces and the buildings might not fix together as well causing it to collapse... But the whole idea of bringing green into the city is overall good, but the idea of growing plants like buildings, creative but not so practical, it would be like Hundertwassers building . But i like Hundertwassers idea about man living underneath green more... and it is also more simple than this.

Aesthetically interesting though.

3 Meter-Cubed Space

Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka and the Schemata Architecture Office have come up with a home design that rethinks just how much space one person needs. 6,000 square feet? 600? Well, try 30 square feet.

The Paco home has a hammock to sleep on, a Japanese-style recessed desk, and a sink, toilet and shower all in a crate that's a 3-meter-cube. It's not intended to replace where you live now, but rather to supplement it. It could be a beach house, a portable office — anything, really, as long as you find a way to lug it into place and hook up the water. Trying to open that hatch-like roof to get in doesn't look like the most comfortable solution, either, though maybe that's a doggy door on the side.

Still, toss some posters on the wall, maybe put a rug down, and you've got yourself a happy little home. Check out the gallery below for more of the Paco house.

On the website there were alot of negative comments and feedback about this design;

It looks like a dumpster.....

Once again, there is no thought spared to those above six foot two hundred pounds. Not only do I have stress my back just to get in my car of the future, but my hamster cage of the future as well

As a whole abruptly, but how such thing in the plane to transport?
It seems to me it is a little bit left unfinished variant...

Although i actually quite like it, its like a transportable studio flat. The fact that every thing about this design is sooooo Japanese like.. "WABI SABI" simple, clean, sharp, hidden away. All essential about living is compacted in there toilet, shower, sleeping space, kitchen...etc. It almost seem like an blank canvas with the initial starts for you... like a coloring book... "here is the pattern/grid now decorate the way you want to".

They even solved the problem of air ventilation without breaking the perfect cube... by making the roof adjustable to open up like a cigarette box. Ingenious... Although i like the idea of such a simple house, I personally would never be able to live inside one, as i prefer cosy messy houses... houses with a history, with its on characters... nothing new... some where other people have once been and left their existence on the walls, floors..etc sounds stalker like but ... a place that has a scar that shows it was once loved by somebody else.

Short video ideas :
How the blind natvigate through space.
What do they think the space they inhabit look like
Daily routines to get around
How they find their way about

(Ectopic nerve)



Ectopic Nerve (Random, unplanted signals which is or can be activated by axon fibre 'cross talk' or random photons of light) impulses is send to your brain (Visual Center) via the optic nerve.
As Blind people are usually not completely blind or at least not A:: the rods and cone cells in the retina are dead. This will create random green blobs which is images processed by the brain

30th September, 2009

29th October, 2009