Richard Hamilton 3 March - 25 April 2010 at the serpentine Gallery

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2010/03/richard_hamilton23_february_18.html

Bobble

Home and Housewares 2010: Karim Rashid on Bobble from Core77 on Vimeo.

I am not actually a massive fan of Karin Rashid, but, it looks like a good idea.

makets to the Oh MADM show

This are the final results of the makets that will be shown on Oh MADM.

8 match






Layers chair

Sketch from makets

This is a scratch from how the idea of this chair started. I was since the beginning the color effect that I could have with many layers of fabrics. That I may say was were it all started.



This is a rough of the 8 match pieces that can help people build any kind of furniture.
I realized that there are some numbers and some angles that always appears to build chairs, beds, tables and etc... Pure geometry and human proportion. Therefore based on it I started to develop some pieces that come together to build things.

The Mona Lisa Curse

As the critics exercise Jee Young Talked about Damien Hist, It make me remember this tv series because it mentions him many times once this series is about money and art and he is the most expensive artist at the moment. If you already saw it, please disconsider this post.

The Mona Lisa Curse, the first film in Channel 4's three-part Art and Money season, is a timely polemic by internationally renowned art critic Robert Hughes which examines how the world's most famous painting came to influence the art world.

It starts with Mona Lisa but in the end, in my opinion, it is a big ego trip of Robert Hughes with images of his house, his bathroom, dramatic soundtrack and he always playing the guardian of the truth character. However it has a good theme, important artists and memorable moments. Moreover, it is unbelievable how people behave in the art world and sometimes it is never about a good piece of art or talent but about vain, fame, greed, capitalism and power. Things that are attached with money. Because if one already have money, it will make look for other values that make the person noticeable, as culture, intellectuality, elegance, class. Things that are attached with art. For instance, Guy Mograbi is looking for immortality as a rich and intellectual man with his collection, once his eyes sparks with the idea of his collection become a part of a museum. In addition, there are other characters as Robert Skull who is seen as cruker but at the same time he was the first who find out that art is a real business, and he played very well this game since he knew how to deal with vain and fame. The artist didn't like that he was making more money that them, even though their pieces were becoming famous, maybe more famous than them.
The series also has some real art lovers as the modest couple Herb (worked at the post office) and Dorothy (librarian) who used to buy art pieces and with any vain just say that they bought the pieces that they thought it was beautiful. Nowadays Herb says that he can not afford art anymore and also lucid says "but that's ok. It is progress".

Well, there are 12 videos, it is 80 min series. If you have time enjoy.

Ceramics Workshop

This is the Rosa's Ceramics Workshop. Rosa gave a lot of attention to every detail in this tutorial. If you check the video you are going to notice that it is easy to follow. It is almost a food recipe show (kidding). Well, the thing that I thought the most different from the way I used to do molds for stop motion dummies is that she started from the upper part. Better explaining it, she full fill the bottom half part with clay to do the plaster mold of the top half part, a complete different way of doing it! However, in the end everything finish with two pieces mould.

Untitled from lu madm on Vimeo.

DM/3DD joint practitioner lecture

Ben Wilson

Ben is a 3D Industrial designer working with mass produced products and one off hand made commissions. He studied in Manchester for his undergraduate degree and went on to the Royal College of Art for his postgraduate studies in design products. Ben works from his Design studio in East London on projects for many major global brands. (tooke from his site www.benwilsondesign.co.uk/)

The designer developed many pieces, one of them is showed below:
link to the article


This is a monowheel – The cycle was commissioned for the XXIst Century Man exhibition at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo.

He also developed projects for major brands such as nike:

But to tell you the truth what I really thought was more valid in his lecture was the fact that when he finished his masters at the Royal College of Art and found himself unemployed. Then, he told that one of his projects that he developed at the RCA received some media attention and from that everything started.

He also said that he is not too much into do bicycles but many of his projects are related with bicycles and transportation because it was the opportunities that was offered at that time and was a way to start. Even projects which seems good to do as nike projects, he is conscious that they are not sustainable and has just visual appeal, but sometimes it may be done in order to do some great projects as bikes for disabled children which he also developed. His speech looks very reasonable and close to and how things works in the real world.

First Workshop

Hey, finally our first workshop!
It was very good, I did not knew how to work with foundry but some concepts are the same of molding with plaster, so it was not so like walking in the dark. Although it do uses a lot of gas to heat the bronze, this technique looks very economic, because the sand, the wood boxes and the bronze can be reused. It was the main advantage that I could see, in addition with the advantages of working with metal witch allows to polish.

Untitled from lu madm on Vimeo.

Research Methods Lectures

After been in some Research Methods Lectures, I decided to do a parallel between this two postmodern directors: Gondry and Tarantino.
I have chosen them because I really like the creative line that they do, sometimes naive and really personal. Not only that but I consider them two icons of creativeness and also good examples of postmodern artists.
This video is how they get inspired and how they get in to a concept and it is very curious how similar is this process to them.





The video below shows how inspiration can come from anywhere and different fields can communicate with each other because the concept may be the same.
Talking about Gondry, there is a Brazilian journalist who says a line that illustrates his kind of mind :

" Some people gonna see the prism and some gonna see just a triangle."

To this post not look like so out of the "artistical world" I am gonna cite Yayoi kusama, she is an artist who I do like and also see some similar points with both of directors above. Yayoi is inspired by something very unusual and personal : her illnesss. She has experienced hallucinations and severe obsessive thoughts since childhood and though that she did paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations. She as Tarantino and Gondry also created her own world and it also reminds me childhood.