Monday 11 May 2009

PRIVATE VIEW

TOMORROW!!!!!!

Sunday 10 May 2009

ha! nice find chloe. glad we're not doing that anymore. it's very nice though.

damn.

who made it? where's it from?

Saturday 9 May 2009

Monday 4 May 2009

den drawing

BLOCKS

FAILED BLOCKS:
1. PAPER MACHE WITH WALL PAPER PASTE. (The better of the two but takes an age to dry.)




2. PAPER MACHE WITH PVA AND WATER:


As Miriam said, these blocks need to man up (bit like mr. frankenstein).
The blocks from today are much better at supporting themselves. score. go team.

BRICKS

i made the gelatin bricks earlier and left them to set outside of the fridge to see if that would work and within about 4 hours they have gone totally solid and brick shaped. i used three packets of gelatin and two packets of sainsburys basic jelly (for colour).

i have also saved loads of takeaway containers for moulds and will bring the bricks (in their moulds) in tomorow to see what you think.i think potentially we could make really big ones - maybe in a bin or something?? i lost my camera so i can't put any pics up at the moment........

see you tomorow at the meeting at half ten avec jelly, xx

Sunday 3 May 2009

"Our good mates corbusier and gaston" (Miriam Elgon, 2009)

LE CORBUSIER (TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE(1927))


"THE HOUSE IS A MACHINE FOR LIVING IN"

"THE BUSINESS OF ARCHITECTURE IS TO ESTABLISH EMOTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS BY MEANS OF RAW MATERIALS."

"PASSION CAN CREATE DRAMA OUT OF INERT STONE."

"THE PLAN PROCEEDS FROM WITHIN TO WITHOUT- THE EXTERIOR IS THE RESULT OF AN INTERIOR."

"THE PRIMORDIAL INSTINCT OF EVERY HUMAN BEING IS TO ASSURE HIMSELF OF A SHELTER."

"THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF WORKERS IN SOCIETY TO-DAY NO LONGER HAVE DWELLINGS ADAPTED TO THEIR NEEDS. NEITHER THE ARTIZAN OR THE INTELLECTUAL."

"BUT MEN LIVE IN OLD HOUSES AND THEY HAVE NOT YET THOUGHT OF BUILDING HOUSES ADAPTED TO THEMSELVES."

"BY IMPOSING THE ORDER OF HIS FOOT OR ARM, HE HAS CREATED A UNIT WHICH REGULATES THE WHOLEWORK; AND THIS WORK IS ON HIS OWN SCALE...TO HIS OWN PROPORTION...COMFORTABLE FOR HIM...TO HIS MEASURE...INHARMONY WITH HIM."


(All the poetics of space stuff is on here already.xx)

Saturday 2 May 2009

CANNOT GET THIS OUT OF MY HEAD

JELLO

hello,

i can't make it to the practise on Monday. like Chloe, i'm sorry i haven't been able to make it to as many things as most people but after Monday i and totally good to go every day etc.

i have though, been looking up ways of making bricks//blocks//etc for the block structure and one of the things i was looking at was the idea of making GELATIN blocks - similar to the resin idea, but more organic and abit more gross.

the great thing about it is that you can make it as weak or as strong as you like by adding more or less gelatin powder but basically you can make pretty sturdy blocks that you can see through to an extent. the other really cool thing about it is, that by adding other types of normal jelly you can make different colours - pink, red, yellow, orange. also like in the clip below you can set stuff in them and they only take a night to set...

i think it would be really interesting to see what would happen to them in an out doors situation and over an extended amount of time. they might just melt away to nothing but it could still be pretty exciting. i am going to try and get some gelatin today or definatley over the weekend and have a go and i will report back on tuesday.

the videos below show how to make two different kinds - the stapeler one is the most simple and i think the most sturdy. also you can see that it can be made on a large scale.
the other one is called 'ballistic gel' - which is what the FBI make to test out how lethal firearms are. it is supposed to react in the same way as a human, so they can measure how far a bullet would go into you and what effect it would have. this seems pretty sturdy too though.

the only thing is whether or not it could withstand the outside, but it is worth a try...

JELLY ONE:


BALLISTIC GEL:


this video shows the process of making real bricks - it looks alot simpler than i thought it would be but we don't have a kiln so we wouldhave to try and find clay that dried in the air or some other material..

HAND MADE BRICKS:

Friday 1 May 2009

RIGHT OK.

Can i just apologies for being shit the past few day's.
like literally, sorry i haven't been attending building/etc days, as wednesday & yesterday i was sorreling it up & doing research for my essay, & today i'm doing the same.
I come into the book room for like a second earlier,some of you where there, & the stuff looks so so amazing. Also NICE ONE EM, on your knitting skills, theyre so cool. once i get this essay out the way i'm all yours.

sorry again & please don't hate me.
p.s the flyers so nice. 
our external projects the best. THE END X