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.

Werner Herzog inspiration help

Ok ok, I confess I am writing this post because I am ordinary like anyone else and want to say that I saw Herzog in person this weekend in a lecture at Royal Festival Hall.

Well, besides it, I think this part of the lecture is a good example to show that we get inspired by anything even if it is something really really stupid.

It is good to see someone so respected like him saying something like that.





Of course I do not want to compare myself with him, but there are some images that I capture and I though it may be a good inspiration.

The below one is the image which first called my attention. I saw it and it was so colorful, so great, so very well done and so delicious, that I had to take a picture of it.



And as Leonard Cohen says:

“Everybody wants a box of chocolate”.

So, why not be inspired by candy?



The next one is a pattern that I really liked. Therefore, It may be something that I will work on my project as a graphic reference. This picture was taken at the Lacoste Store as you can check.

Quick view of the project proposal:

I check Jessica’s Blog and I thought her idea to do a diagram about the Project Proposal clever and clear. So, I did one too. Sorry if I was not so original, but I thought it was very easy way to understand. This is a diagram about how I believe my Project Proposal is going to work.

Molo lamp

This is a lamp that I saw during the London Design Festival at Londonewcastle Project Space (28 Redchurch St, Shoreditch). The lady who appears in this movie is the designer who created the lamp Stephanie Forsythe. Molo design is a Canadian company behind this project of products made with paper, and the lamp is part of a line that Stephanie created.

Related with my project, I believe the whole line is a good example of versatility and interaction between product and consumer. That is a great point in the prosumer behavior.

check the hole line on http://www.molodesign.com

http://blog.ponoko.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/molo1.jpg
here a image with some products

Getting started

First of all, I am sorry about my English. As I am not writing in my mother language, it is possible that I make some mistakes.


This is my first post, so, to start I would like to say that although my project proposal needs to be fixed because what I was proposing was to open and it could not really explain what I wanted to do , it is almost decided that in some point the subject of my research is going to be the "prosumer".

So what the hell is prosumer?

I found it on wikipedia:

Prosumer is a portmanteau formed by contracting either the word professional or producer with the word consumer. The term has taken on multiple conflicting meanings: the business sector sees the prosumer (professional–consumer) as a market segment, whereas economists see the prosumer (producer–consumer) as having greater independence from the mainstream economy. It can also be thought of as converse to the consumer with a passive role, denoting an active role as the individual gets more involved in the process. More recently, in the mental health field, the word "'prosumer'" has come to mean "consumer/provider," also known as a "peer provider," such as a Peer support specialist or other mental health consumer who also provides peer support mental health services.

read more on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosumer