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Katya’s Card

Card Example

The first business cards for Curiosity Collective members have been designed by Katya Popova.

Get in touch with me (Cefn) if you want to have your own cards with the text replaced by your own details.

I’ll gather together all the info and we can populate the cards for members and others.

If you want any other personalisation, then I’ll gather this info as well, and we can think how to do it.

The idea of t-shirts was mentioned as a promotional thing, maybe pay off various costs for the exhibition. Perhaps could base it on the same motif, with personalisation (labelled with Curious Dave).

Anyone can be curious!

Exhibition announcement and Meeting today (weds)

The long-awaited exhibition of Curiosity Collective’s work is now scheduled for 29th July until 6th August at St-Mary-At-The-Quay, Key St, Ipwich. It will be running evenings (except Monday and Tuesday) from 4pm til 9pm. 

See the Press Release

So far we’re confident of the following pieces, and more are likely

  • Swollenballs
  • Echo
  • Quilt
  • Pipedreams
  • Handcar
  • Angry and Calm
  • PD, JJack, Basic Stamp and Puppet Workshop
  • Everywhere In Between : Film

But more are invited if there are insightful quick things which could be built and intrigue our visitors.

Braincandy Tonight

Braincandy Promo

For those who missed the Faster Than Sound event, you can catch up with the latest art installations, music and fancy film funky stuff at Braincandy tonight.

See the BBC Article

Visit the IP1Zine Website where you can follow the Braincandy link for tickets

**UPDATE** You have to book by phone today - doesn’t work online on the same day).

I have bought one extra just to be sure, they’re only £4.00!

rope drawings

Hi everyone,

I made some rope drawings. Wanted to share with you. They are just sketches. I thought it is a very good idea for a children’s book, or animation. I am sure it was done, but I HAVEN’T SEEN IT.

See urls below.

Katya

The Way Things Go

In German.. Der Lauf Der Dinger (the way of things)

Inside a warehouse, artists Peter Fischli and David Wiess build an enourmous, precarious structure 100 feet long made out of common household items - teac kettles, tires, old shoes balloons, wooden ramps etc. Then, with fire, water, gravity and chemistry, they create a spectacular chain reaction, a self-destructiong performance of physical interactions, chemical reaction, and precisely crafted chaos worthy of Rube Goldberg of Alfred Hitchcock.

From the DVD cover recording of the original work by First Run Features

This has also been credited as the inspiration for the Honda Advert, known as Cog.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094300/

Inspirations

Take a look at The Way Things Go and the blog of inspiring links

The Art of Science

Princeton’s ‘Art of Science‘ is amazing. Take a look at the accidental 45 micrometer Easter Bonnet which was featured on BoingBoing

a microscopic easter bonnet

Digital Dressing Up Box

Talking about augmented reality. We’ve discussed adding hats to people, and doing silly holiday snap gags with overlaid character elements. Turns out you just have to buy the Logitech Orbit camera. It’s out of the box. Check out this coverage on Makezine, or the video below.

The world’s largest 3D-display

Found this interesting 3d display, consisting of 8 blocks of 2x2x2 meters

One display moduleThe display consists of 8 blocks of 2x2x2 meters

One display module is shown on its own in the picture above.

Electrical engineering students at Delft create the world’s largest 3D-display
The “Electrotechnische Vereeniging”, the association for students of electrical engineering from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), will reveal the world’s largest 3D-display Sunday 23rd of April.

The display measures 8 metres in width, 4 metres in height and 2 metres in depth and consists of a matrix of 8.000 LEDs with table tennis balls around them. This stunt is being organised because of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the “Electrotechnische Vereeniging” (ETV). The display will be revealed on Sunday at 9.00 pm local time on the ‘Markt’ in Delft.

Applications on the MatriXX display will be:

3D snake
3D pong
3D duckhunt
SMS (short message service/text messaging) display
Various animations/movies
The next Monday evening and Tuesday evening the display will be shown next to the faculty of electrical engineering (Mekelweg 4, Delft).

It will be possible to send text messages to the MatriXX during the times it is operating. Send your sms/text to +31 (0) 6 24 171 797 . It will be displayed during the next sms display time slot. Threats, rude language etc will be filtered.

This is based on an idea of James Clarr

See more on the website
Here’s the link

Tichy Camera

I was tempted to go along to this on Sunday, but it’s shut.

Here’s an extract from the notice on Boingboing

picture of home made camera

Tichý wandered his small town in rags, pursuing his obsession as an artist with the female form by photographing in the streets, shops and parks with cameras he made from tin cans, childrens spectacle lenses and other junk he found on the street. He would return home each day to make prints on equally primitive equipment, making only one print from the negatives he selected.

here’s the link to the gallery

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