SCAPES [MUSIC]

Can machines create original music? 

Scape is the answer to that question.
Scape makes music that thinks for itself. From Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers, creators of Bloom, Scape is a new form of album which offers users deep access to its musical elements. These can be endlessly recombined to behave intelligently: reacting to each other, changing mood together, making new sonic spaces.
It employs some of the sounds, processes and compositional rules that have been used by Brian and Chilvers for many years and it applies them in fresh combinations, to create new music. 
Scape makes music that thinks for itself.

- Brian Eno, Peter Chilvers

Includes 15 original scapes
Scapes can be saved into a gallery and added to a playlist
Plays in background of other apps (excluding iPad 1)
Generates random scapes
Scapes can be shared by email
Supports AirPlay and Retina display

Headphones or external speakers recommended

Brian Eno
Synthesiser, found sound, bells, bass guitar, strategies, images, art direction

Peter Chilvers
Synthesiser, chapman stick, structures, probability networks, additional images, software design.

http: generative music

Here's an example of a Cape / iPad / User / Composer

PATTERNED FURNITURE

Drawn onto a 122x244 board like a pattern for a piece of clothes...

Sheets of plywood overprinted with a network of coloured lines are the basis of 2440x1220 Saw, Assemble: an ingeniously simple do-it-yourself furniture range by Swedish designer Pål Rodenius. The lines correspond to a set of shapes that can be cut around with a jigsaw to create seven pieces of basic home furniture.

Rodenius, a graduate of Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, explains: "If you use your jigsaw to follow the green line you get a chair and a table, the red line gives a bench and a shelf and following the blue line gives you a bed, bedside table and clothes stand. To do the complete collection you need three sheets of plywood."

The idea for Rodenius' playful project emerged from studying clothing patterns published in the German magazine Burda. Inspired by their simplicity, he was compelled to adopt the pattern system for furniture production. "The challenge for me has been to make furniture that is as simple as possible to inspire people to build things on their own," says Rodenius. "I developed this project as a starting point for people who want to get into furniture design and carpentry."

With this aim, every aspect of cutting and assembling the pieces has been designed to be child's play. Like a model aeroplane or scaled-up version of something you'd find in a Kinder Egg, the rounded parts slot together without the need for glue or screws. Like Philippe Nigro's cardboard chair and table range for Skitsch (2009), it's a neat study in standard sizes, economical layouts and the possibilities of flatpack. Decorated only with the traces of redundant lines, the finished furniture brings to mind the marks of tailors' chalk on raw fabric, no doubt the graphic influence of the Burda clothes patterns.

2440x1220 Saw, Assemble comes out of an established school of counter-consumerist philosophy. In 1974, Italian designer Enzo Mari (Icon 078) gave away instruction books for his Autoprogettazione, self-design furniture that could be made using pieces of pre-cut pine and a few nails. In 2006, embracing the open-source potential of the internet and desire for sustainable design, Studiomama made a success of its celebrated Pallet Chairs – offering cheap downloadable instructions for creating furniture from reclaimed wood pallets.

Rodenius says: "People are starting to question what they consume and what role designers have these days. And that's a good thing. I think the gesture of doing things yourself makes things more personal. I love to see that happen."

GARDENING [1] PATRICK DOUGHERTY

Sculptor Patrick Dougherty has been creating stick-work since 1982. He has exhibited all over the world, from the swamps of Ireland to American city centres. The scale and beauty of his work has kept him in constant demanD. There are films of his works op both YouTube and Vimeo.

Present absences: A peripatetic video of a temporary site-specific sculpture by Patrick Dougherty from Ian Russell on Vimeo.

THINK INTO THE BOX

The Parisian architect Stéphane Malka turned an empty room into a gorgeous minimalist landscape by filling it with the humblest of humble objects, the cardboard box.

 

 

 

The Parisian architect Stéphane Malka turned an empty room into a gorgeous minimalist landscape by filling it with the humblest of humble objects, the cardboard box.
The installation, Rue Sans Frontieres (No Limits in the Streets), was made up of hundreds of boxes painted semi-gloss white, then glued together and thrown up around 2,045-square-foot gallery in Moscow. Like a happy Cubist explosion, they littered the walls, the floor, and the ceiling. It's what you might've gotten had you put Picasso and Kengo Kuma in a Mail Boxes Etc. together.

The exhibit was designed for a Moscow arts fair, and unfortunately, it isn't up any more. Check more photos and Malka's artist's statement here.
[Images courtesy of Stéphane Malka]

CARDBOARD SAFARI & MORE

Inspiration for holiday season. Let's make a deal, no waste, no environmental damage, use inspiration and creativity... and preferably some recycled stuff...
Look at: http://www.recyclart.org/2010/11/diy-wine-cork-wreath-video-tutorial/ for a boozers wreath.

See the site Cardboard Safari for some fun in these cold and dark days before Christmas...





Cardboard Safari started of with a good substitute for hunters trophies, but widened its range. They for promise each design:

• laser-cut for precision fit
• a snap to assemble
• packed flat for efficient shipping
• looks stellar in native brown or white
• can be painted to match your style
• recycled and non-toxic
• made locally - we love the planet

Below you find a collection of wooden Christmas trees of which one is also made by Cardboard Safari.