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Diarysimply stunning. the best architecture i’ve experienced in the year, probably years. postcard from a distance, it simply gets better the closer you get into and through it.
simply stunning. the best architecture i’ve experienced in the year, probably years. postcard from a distance, it simply gets better the closer you get into and through it.
diary | 05 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · photo · beijing paralympics
kelly and steve just having got their tickets - we’re going to the paralympic opening ceremony, school trip style.
diary | 05 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · teaching · beijing paralympics
mmm. trying to eat a mould coloured lollypop with anonymous black goo in the middle, which was kinda funny until there was suddenly raw sewage in the air despite being in the vicinity of embassies.
diary | 04 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · beijing paralympics
…so how you going to take those ones back on the plane, eh nick?
diary | 04 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · beijing paralympics
30 desks… not quite filling the room. not your average digital media workshop venue, this.
diary | 04 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · teaching · beijing paralympics
well, who said car parks have to have their sections numbered
diary | 04 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · beijing paralympics
…which is (to oversimplify) a british council project working with young people, hosted as part of the paralympics here in beijing.
young advocates programme: http://www.yaponline.org/index.jsp
yap youth forum in beijing: http://www.yaponline.org/youth-forum.jsp
oh - and just when you’d appreciated the scale of the beijing airport terminal, you take a shuttle train out and under a few more identical and identically sized terminals, eventually walk out into what you think is the outside, just to find yourself in another cavernous hall. scale… scale…
diary | 04 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · teaching · beijing paralympics · yeast
beijing airport, on the other hand, doesn’t fail to impress with its sense of space and flowing roof, largely because its footprint is simply massive: no need to stack football pitches upon football pitches as in terminal 5. here is james, known for his work with the light surgeons, tasked with documenting the programme thats brought us out here…
diary | 04 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · beijing paralympics
heathrow terminal 5 isn’t the celebration of modern british design it could have been, but oh my is the structure impressive. these joints really elegantly buttress the arching span of the terminal[1], and they’re HUGE: thats a simply massive wedge of metal the pylons are bolted to. that, and the last time i saw them, they were bright pink prototypes in the foster associates exhibition at the pompidou…
not that you can see it so much, much like stanstead the overall effect is often lost behind the cubicle-land at eye height ↩︎
diary | 03 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · beijing paralympics
the pavillion is a day, park, outside thing. strange to see it misty at night as we walked away, project over.
diary | 30 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching
and on performance day, the sun comes out. aaaah.
diary | 30 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching · yeast
i’d happily forgotten about things like this in an age of solid state. managed to rescue what was needed, but the last minute stress quite apart from the glitches wasn’t welcome at all.
diary | 28 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching
i came to fully test all sorts of interactive patches, but the old classic had to be tried blatted up around the dome.
diary | 24 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · rbn_esc · shambala · dome · live cinema
the destroyers on top form, even expanding their allready impressive line-up with the dhol blasters. got them some lovely shots. such a good gig.
diary | 23 aug 2008 | tagged: vj · shambala
yep, thats a crowd
diary | 23 aug 2008 | tagged: vj · shambala
if there were a central force to the destroyers, it would be louis
diary | 23 aug 2008 | tagged: vj · shambala
after arriving well after dark to a dome in full swing, emerged the next morning to find a wedding taking place in there. the vows were brilliant: “if she has, like, all her limbs broken and is needing the toilet, will you wipe her…”
diary | 23 aug 2008 | tagged: vj · shambala
instant supercool visuals for young people #1: ride the dlr, apply mirror effect. ref cityscan to see it taken the highest level, and arrive as the piece that started it all.
diary | 21 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching
not just playing with a live camera feed and kaos pad, but shaping the dance through the control of graphic elements: a simple cross can become a character, a circle shape the movement
diary | 20 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching
