Construction site two houses down, where they're building an apartment block. Interesting to see it shoot up from a mound of rubble so fast. I'm going to see if I can take their enormousnessly tall crane for a ride.

I feel 3:30-itis approaching!

"Maybe it means art is a bit of a joke."

I first heard about the Banksy film, Exit Through The Gift Shop through a blog around a month ago? Or maybe not that long ago, built up anticipation, as always with these movie trailers, but it never came out. Totally forgot about it, until someone told me it was out in was only showing in Dendy cinemas! (thanks for Dendy card lending! :) ) It was pretty funny, Banksy is some sorta genius really, and a small insight into the whole street art culture for the artists point of view. It explores the whole notion of "what is art": the artists that slap anything onto a canvas and call it art vs. the artists who have the whole artist's practice of thinking everything through and executing it to perfection. By mocking the main character, Thierry Guetta aka Mr Brainwash, who has zero art experience, and out of nowhere creates an exhibition in a year or so, that he wants to be loud and basically just to capture people's attention, which people buy into and buyers start requesting to purchase his work for thousands of dollars, even though, his work is clearly....a joke, Banksy says that maybe it is all a joke. If we didn't know all that went on with Thierry, and his background, that he's had no experience, and that he just rips stuff off other artists, would his art appear to be legit??

After returning said Dendy card, i was told that there are rumors that the person "Thierry Guetta" is actually non-existant, and Thierry Guetta is actually Banksy's fictional character, and even rumors that Thierry Guetta's character is played by Banksy! Anyways, this probably doesn't make much sense unless you've seen it, but it's definitely doing my head in. Basically, people believe Mr Brainwash and Banksy to be the same artist and are buying Brainwash's art just in case.

...buyers forking out $50,000 to $200,000 a canvas. “It doesn’t matter if he is good or bad,” one said. “He has the right connections, and that’s why I am buying...

- Extracted from the Sunday Times, UK

to get you hyped....

ello

Britta Jaschinski

Pamela Love

Just stumbled across Pamela Love's, raw, delicate details...
Human Heart necklace

Root earrings

Birds Claw Pendant necklace


The jewellery designer is the daughter of an orthopedic surgeon and granddaughter of a dentist, which shows how bizarre a child's upbringing and influences can turn out to be, on an artist's practice.

Evan Hecox

I'd buy that

Researching garden communities for Systems assignment

and came across..............


One crazy afro.

A reflection on 'The Story of Cap ''N' Trade' by Annie Leonard

Industrial designers can design products and systems that will help us reduce our carbon emissions. For example, teach people who do not already know how, to ride a bicycle. Currently, adults who do not know how, are embarrassed that they cannot. Others feel unsafe when cycling on the roads, alongside cars, buses and other vehicles, because these have not been designed to help watch out for cyclists.

The solution of putting a cap on factories and businesses on yearly carbon emissions is clever, as are the permits given out to pollute. It is like highlighting that all that they release into the atmosphere is a bad thing for the environment, and they would more likely take notice of this issue. I also like how they are charging companies their carbon pollution "points", so ultimately, they would strive towards minimal pollution. Industrial designers could design products that would help these large corporations to minimize their pollution, such as the machines that release these emissions, or reducing the number of parts in a product, hence reducing the amount of energy needed to create these parts. There needs to be a system implemented that could measure the offsets and emissions that corporations emit, so that they can be charged accordingly.

Systems and products already existing that encourage the reduction of carbon pollution in the general public sphere, would be the shared bicycle system in Europe. Now, we need more products in the industrial world to encourage the reduction of carbon polluting. The industrial sector has many opportunities to make them use less energy and emit less carbon dioxide. Products should be designed so that they use less material, and have longer life spans by being stronger and to manufacture goods that consume less energy when used. This way, we can also reduce "consumerism", in peoples constant buying compulsion.