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Collective Animal Behaviour

Ollie Palmer — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:03:05 +0000

A pre-release copy of David Sumpter's book Collective Behaviour is available to download for free at www.collective-behavior.com – I have a collated version, if anybody wants it…

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TED / Open_Sailing

Ollie Palmer — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:44:52 +0000

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!

Official press release

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

Ollie Palmer — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:24:52 +0000

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

Ollie Palmer — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:08:40 +0000

Amazing photographs / inspirational landscapes.

We used Burtynsky as part of Perry Kulper’s workshop at the Bartlett earlier this year.

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Chris Ware

Ollie Palmer — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:01:04 +0000

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

Ollie Palmer — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:41:14 +0000

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

Ollie Palmer — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:27:11 +0000

Seen at Piccadilly Circus Underground station, 29 April 2009.

Open_Sailing scale model

Ollie Palmer — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:53:48 +0000

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

Ollie Palmer — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:07:02 +0000

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

Ollie Palmer — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:17:24 +0000

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.