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Collective Animal Behaviour
January 20th, 2010 § 0
TED / Open_Sailing
December 14th, 2009 § 1
Open_Sailing is pleased to announce that our own dear Cesar Harada has been made a TED Research Fellow. This means that Open_Sailing will be one of the many glorious ideas being bandied around Long Beach between February 9-13 2010.
Needless to say, the whole team is excited – our large open source project will be open to a truly global audience. The more, the merrier!
Oh, and while I’m on the subject, we were interviewed for El Pais, the Spanish national newspaper the other day whilst running a workshop at the CCCB in Barcelona. Click here to see the article – scroll down for English.
Happy sailing!
Sending stuff to space
November 17th, 2009 § 0
Hmm, it’s getting cheaper to send things into space…
Project Icarus at MIT sent a camera to near space for $150 (more).
Toshiba made this film sending a chair to near-orbit (more).
Steve Truglia is planning to leap from a balloon at a silly height. He has lots more money, though.
He’s been inspired by Kittinger – whose jump can be seen in this video by the Boards of Canada…(you may also want to check out my earlier blog post)
Playing with space might be fun. Anyone agree?
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Burtynsky
November 17th, 2009 § 0
Amazing photographs / inspirational landscapes.
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Chris Ware
November 7th, 2009 § 1
One of my favourite graphic artists is Chris Ware. His books are fantastically intricate, poetic, and examine in miserly detail the mundanities of American life with referential nods towards ’20s Jazz artwork, typography and George Herriman. Its form is perfectly suited to the format it takes – namely beautiful books. So you can imagine how much I shuddered at the thought that the cartoons had been converted to an animated format.
Fortunately, however, I wasn’t disappointed by the first Quimby Mouse I managed to find online. Enjoy!
Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo.
Abi Palmer
September 26th, 2009 § 0
My dearest lil’ sis has just launched a new website. Keep up-to-date with one of London’s most innovative underground poets here, at this very link.
View her site in its full glory www.abipalmer.com
Want to use this image for publicity? Click here to download high-res.
ASBOs
May 18th, 2009 § 0
Seen at Piccadilly Circus Underground station, 29 April 2009.
Open_Sailing scale model
May 5th, 2009 § 0
Open_Sailing 1/3 model of skeleton from cesar harada on Vimeo.
We spent two days at Auto Italia South East making a scale skeletal model of the Open_Sailing craft prototype…it took the best part of twenty hours to build, two hours to photograph, and ten minutes to destroy.
Open_Sailing prototype
April 16th, 2009 § 0
Open_Sailing prototype 2 Paris from cesar harada on Vimeo.
We’ve got a finished mini prototype of Open_Sailing_01! It is stable, secure, cheap to make, and self-righting. You’re watching the future…now
This model was tested in Paris. Production will start later this month in London. More photos here. Come to our launch event!
Open_Sailing video
April 5th, 2009 § 0
Woohoo! There’s a new video that explains the whole Open_Sailing project online!
Click here to download or watch in other formats
From Cesar Harada on Vimeo.