blanc

Tao's white converse :)

j'ai lu

this is what i just finished reading...

dehors, il fait froid

little birdy was tired, it rested on the lamp post right outside my bedroom...

stuck joystick

cement joystick
saw it on the pavement somewhere between spitalfields market and bricklane

3D workshop inductions

[green card] wood induction
we did a little boat a few weeks ago using mdf. (wore the green apron)


this is what we looked like!



plastic induction - molding with pvc using mdf wood.


pvc thingy.


[yellow card] metal and plastic induction
today we worked with steel, aluminum, and copper.. using different methods of bending, cutting, welding, drilling, filing, etc...

now we get to wear the yellow apron and use all the workshops on our own..!

[day4] noticeboard stationary

[day3] scourer sponges

[day2] multiscarf

[day1] lollilamp

"Material is the stuff that you touch, smell, hear and experience as a living person. Materials permeate every aspect of our existence, from our own skin to our planet and beyond. The System project aims to look at the Design Process by working through and responding to materials."

Themes:

Monday: Food (any) as long as we can eat it!

Tuesday: Material & Fabrics (cotton, string & woven structures)

Wednesday: Utensils & Hardware (objects in your home & fixings)

Thursday: Throw-away (Packaging and recycled materials)

7am alarm

.. the fire alarm rings at 7am this morning, i head outside like everyone else,
but instead i walk to the train station to get the free newspaper
[reason: context module project] and this is what i get ..

language of power

"So Mr Obama will always be remembered as a symbol of change, but he wants to be remembered as an agent of change too -
and that won't be easy."

-- Kevin Connolly; BBC News, Chicago

being comfortable with the unknown

"Negative capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,
without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."

-- John Keats (1817)

fishes

- How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves!

• You are not a fish, how do u know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?

- You are not myself, how do you know, that i do not know, that the fishes are enjoying themselves?

--Taoist dialogue

ALOHA

shou?