Looking at: Philip Beesley

My professor at school recommended I look at the work of Philip Beesley as a reference for a project we are doing in our advanced computing/digital fabrication/parametric design class, which you can read more about here.  He is an architect working in Toronto, but more interesting to me are his sculptures and installations, which are large scale interactive environments that incorporate programming and lighting to react to their surroundings.  (see video at bottom)  Philip, I'm coming to work for you!

 These first few images are of one of my favorite projects, entitled Endothelium, which is described as

"an automated geotextile, a lightweight sculptural field housing arrays of organic batteries housed within a lattice system that might reinforce new growth...The sculpture acts in the tradition of the marginalized mid-century American medical doctorWilhelm Reich, who said, 'all plasmatic matter perceives, with or without sensory nerves.  The amoeba has no sensory nerves, and still it perceives...The terror of the total convulsion, of involuntary movement, and spontaneous excitation is joined to the splitting up of organs and organ sensations. This terror is the real stumbling block.'"

Read more here.

Looking at: Milton Becerra

I am completely in love with how Milton Becerra uses delicate thread, stretched in different directions, to suspend a heavy rock in the air.  Another student at my school recommended I look at his work as a reference for something I'm working on at school, and it has been very inspirational to me so far. 

The Jumbletron

Knot Studies

R.I.P. Model

There comes a time in everyone's life where you realize that you have to let go of something that you put lots of love and care and time into.  Sometimes you just have to move on, like in the case of this mural from a previous post, and in the case of this model I made in my first semester of architecture school depicted below in the trash room in the basement of my building.  Don't worry, I recycled it.

Old, Hidden, Crumbling

Goodbye Summer of '11

Its Labor Day weekend, and I'm sad to say that a wonderful, dreamy, lazy summer is over. 

Get back to work!