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Valentine’s Night Pecha Kucha at the Embassy of Japan
Embassy of
6:30pm Thursday 14 February 2008This event is FREE but booking is ESSENTIAL (see below for details)Join us for a very special Valentine’s Night as Pecha Kucha returns to the Embassy of Japan in London! With plenty on offer to eat and drink, lots of engaging and intimate conversation, this looks set to be the hottest, most romantic Valentine’s date in town!Celebrating the fusion of Japanese and British culture, this evening’s speakers come from a variety of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, design, film and many more and have been chosen for their knowledge of working and living both in Japan and the UK.
Speakers include: Jonathan Barnbrook – graphic designer; Kenichi Iwasa – filmmaker; Julia Lohmann – designer; Maria Marshall – artist; Claire Merry - Japanesey; Emi Miyashita – artist; Emiko Oki – designer/ceramicist; Sachiko Paris – vision Hairdressers; Christopher Purvis – Japan Society; Fenna Haakma Wagenaar – architect Continue reading ‘Pecha Kucha at the Embassy of Japan’
Following images have been passing for a while via architectural collegue’s e-mails. I got it from Xingyu Tong who got it from a friend who is from KPF company……
Anyway, below are the entries for an art contest at the Hirshorn Modern Art Gallery in DC, USA.
The rule was that the artist could use only one sheet of paper.
I remember people always said;” If you do what you always do, you will always get what you have.” So sometimes, I did break out my rhythm and try something I don’t usually do. I think because last year I have been stretched too much……so tired this morning,…..lying on the bed, I just want to do nothing…….so browsing youtube a bit……found this wonderful voice from Ningyoko………
Interestingly, her selfintroduction reminds me the character in French film of ‘Amelie’. Not sure it is film infulences people or abstracted character from the real life…..Who is the first? chicken or egg?
Amelie Trailer
Coming back from China after Christmas break, surprisingly I received Gwangju Biennale book which I have requested for a copy as my collaboration project ResoNet won the first prize on Bright LED competition. I thought they won’t give me any copy. Actually, because the book was quite heavy so it toke more than 3 months to arrive by ship mailing. I will say it is quite a good resource for light design. Funny thing is some of projects are not really about light at all. Hani Rashid (asymptote architecture studio, USA) has wrote a forward for the book. He is also one of jurors for Bright LED competition. Unfortunately, by the time book was published, the competition result has not been released yet. Therefore, you can only see ResoNet project among 200 shortlists projects inside the book. For more about Reso-Net project, see post http://www.whchen.com/blog/?p=563
Leal Bao has recommended a gift wrapping CD case when I were talking about origami object. Following his e-mail, I have done a bit research and found out following interesting projects. I am also an origami lover.
The Spiral Data Tato — A Curiously Complex Origami CD Case
http://www.instructables.com/id/SJSED86F9053XK0/
Japan Origami Academic Society
http://www.origami.gr.jp/index0.html
http://www.origami.gr.jp/New/joas-e.html
Origami Makers
Yuko Nishimura
http://yukonishimura.com/index.php
Tactom/Tomohiro Tachi
http://www.tsg.ne.jp/TT/software/index.html#rigid_origami
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tactom/
A graduate student interested in origami, architecture, computer graphics, and anything that interests me.www.tsg.ne.jp/TT/
d.hatena.ne.jp/tactom/
www.youtube.com/profile?user=tactom
Full 3D origami bunny designed using 3D origami design software.
For “Stanford Bunny” refer graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/
This is the unfolded Stanford-bunny. Quite amazing!
Just found out another Origami website blog:
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