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http://desket.stfi.re/blogs/news/geometric-beasts-collection?sf=nadawba#aa

I just stumbled on this architecture series from Al Jazeera. I haven’t watched them all, but it’s on my list. ArchDaily also has more information about the series: http://www.archdaily.com/tag/rebel-architecture/

#rebelarchitecture #informalcity #activist architecture

my previous title

do. make. design. learn. educate. communicate. go outside. practice makes perfect.

I’ve decided to change my subtitle. Though it might not seem like much, it’s important because for me it defines what I post about. I’ve decided to focus on creativity in the workshop and the outdoors. That doesn’t mean outdoor products, though there might be some, it means sharing/showing/re-posting/liking things creativity of craft in the workshop and beauty of nature.

Ice Video of Lake Superior from http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a19477/lake-superior-ice-video/

Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; embrace serendipity; write everything down...; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle, reinvent.

second to last sentence of Steven Johnson in Where Good Ideas Come From (2010) p. 246

#innovation goodideas create

city air is free air

unknown. Steven Johnson in Where Good Ideas Come From (2010) uses this quote to describe the ideas ‘air’ floating around cities.

We feel surprise when travelers tell us of the bast dimension of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals. This is a wonder which does not at first strike the eye of the body, but, after refleciton, the eye of reason

Darwin in The Voyage of the Beagle

I want to make one of these.

#fablab

I wrote this down today while watching Tim Brown: Designers --- think big! with my students. I’m not sure what it means or why I did it, but it’s something worth sharing.

luz-natural

We are too many here already, please Katya draw us some more space @katyanngilmore

I conducted an independent project, which evidently turned into a social experiment halfway through, regarding beauty at my performing arts high school in Chicago. I want to clarify that my intentions were not to get a reaction out of people. I was simply filming beauty and this is the result. Here it is.

source: http://www.boredpanda.com/people-told-you-are-beautiful-video-shea-glover/

#happy beauty

Artist and machine. Artist builds a system and the machine follows the system to create the piece (see the cricket in ‘bugs draw for me’ at 2:19). Playing with time as well (see the bus in ‘double decker 2′ at 5:10.

#drawing #ink #arduino #time