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WARNING:
SOME MAY FIND THE VIDEO DISTURBING
(wonder what the peta people would think about it)

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Buckminster Fuller - Live Your Life as an Experiment

Manufacturing Consent

The classic Canadian documentary Manufacturing Consent based on the Noam Chomsky/Edward Herman book by the same name. Explores the the propaganda model of the media and the structure of power. A must see.

return of the lingo kid

i bow you

Role of Design Education in a prospering India: need for caution.

Indian economy is having a good time now. Much of the credit would go to the IT boom that India had in the recent times. Today, design as a new field has emerged as a consultancy job which is equally leading the way of the Indian economy, as engineering, medicine and recently IT had been successful in doing. But there is the other side of the coin too. Though it is not a big problem as of now, but down the line, there are two kinds of possible problems. One is brain drain. But this, as in the case of IT sector, may give Indian economy a boost. Second is saturation of quality and quantity of design education, service and thinking. But in the wake of globalization, this may be a remote possibility. It lies in the education system that Indian design fraternity follows. I would like to focus on this crucial aspect of design education in this article. In a recently held design conference in India, designers from all over the world shared their views on brand building and how to deal with the clients and being a successful designer. There were a few who focused their attention on design education, showed a healthy concern of young Indian designers losing their roots and aping the western way of design. But the people discussing these points were Dutch and the British. It’s not bad. But not inviting any Indian counterpart there to speak about the same is definitely bad. Its not that there has been no eminent design educator in these four decades of design education already been established in India. Education can be categorized into three different sectors. i) Academic or non-professional stream which includes, courses such as BA, MA, Bcom, Bsc, MSc, etc. ii) Professional or job oriented stream which includes courses such as B.Tech, MBBS, LLB, IT) Fine arts stream which has painting, sculpting, music, dance and theatre under it.Fields such as Architecture, Mass communication (including journalism), Design etc. fall under both the streams of fine arts and professional courses because they have both functional and aesthetic aspects involved in them. Design as a specialized field of learning is a product of the modern development of industrialization or mass production. Prof. Balaram in his book Thinking Design(1998) states that the industrial revolution changed the past methods of production and this led to the birth of architecture and design. Both architecture and design, together have changed the whole way of seeing things, combining both micro and macro views. Design existed even during early times. In traditional system of crafts, the knowledge, the investment, the goods, the products, design and manufacturing, everything is handled by the same person. Thus design is not a specialized field in this system. Artisans taught their crafts - carpentry, pottery, weaving etc to the next generation. Commodities were produced according to the need and the social structure of that particular society. Thus the quality and quantity of this education was naturally controlled. In modern system, you have different people to handle different sectors of the process. This is a result of large scale manufacturing. This lead to the emergence of design as a specialized skill separated from the linked aspects of manufacturing etc. In the modern system of education, you don’t have a hereditary occupation hence no hereditary learning and thus there is a scope of an occupational shift. Though these are some positive aspects of the modern system, there is one impending danger in it. It is the delinking of the job needs, from the educational planning.Design education has a great responsibility of not taking design profession to a point of saturation. Considered, every child is creative. The child must be creative in a certain field. Design boom happening in India should not make people believe that being in the design field will be the best for their child, this happened in the schools offering the knowledge. Eames in his report suggests maintaining the level and quality of education being imparted in the schools. Is the same being maintained? In view of all this, and after four plus decades since the first design school in India was established (keeping in mind the Eames report), a National Design policy has finally been given a green signal, in the aid of the design, designers and the society. As a final year design student, I now think, our predecessors did everything to come up with ways of dealing with the identity crisis design and designers had. Giving everything we would have wanted. Recognition, stardom status, and now a national design policy on our lap. We have nothing to do but learn the job and enter the market and sell the product which maintains/defines the best quality. We have been and the next generation of designers will definitely be brought up in a very cross cultural fashion, which should be made the best and most of without losing the grips on the reality and thus being a responsible designer and a human being.Annexure I Pupul Jayakars excerpts on The Eames report - on which NID was set up in 1961 The Eames report, a document familiar to most students of design in this country, unique in its insight, its demands for quality and the depth and width of its thinking. Commencing the report with the famous phrases of the Gita : ‘On man's right to work but never to the fruits thereof', the report sees the ‘change in India, a change in kind and not a change of degree'. Seeing the complexities of the revolution in communications that had struck India with terrific impact, ‘made more violent because of the nature of India's own complex situation, isolation and tradition', the report focuses on India's tradition and a philosophy that is familiar with the meaning of creative destruction and stresses the need to appraise and solve the problems of our times with tremendous service, dignity, and love'. ‘The search for form demands an investigation into values and qualities that Indians hold important to a good life', and that ‘there be close scrutiny of those elements that make up a standard of living'. Annexure II Excerpts from Eames’ report Security in India, lies in change and conscious selection and correction in relation to evolving needs. India stands to face the change with three great advantages : i) She has a tradition and a philosophy familiar with the meaning of creative destruction. ii) She need not make all the mistakes others have made in the transition. iii) Her immediate problems are well defined: food, shelter, distribution, population. guide Prof Nagaraj

function has an emotional impact

it has as a skin
it has a wink.

i love you

musalman

Perhaps the last remaining handwritten newspaper in the world


The Last Calligraphers from ilovetypography.com on Vimeo.

Art in War

The famous reconnaissance picture of Pak Army tank tracks in the sand around Longewala. The Pak Army T-59 MBTs were circling to avoid being hit by IAF Hunters and to raise dust to provide cover. This was taken from a PR Canberra flown by Wing Commander R.S. Benegal and now adorns the enclosure at the VIP entrance of Vayu Bhavan.

james victore on graphic design

Appliances as Architecture - ‘Habitat Machines’ by David Trautrimas (

(TREND HUNTER) Visual artist David Trautrimas’ latest solo exhibition titled ‘Habitat Machines’ opens at LE Galllery in Toronto this month. He creates these fantastic architectural images from dismantled household appliances.… [More]

hologram and holography

Giant aquatic creatures from the deep, snaking robots made from watches and one man submarines were among many other things never before seen on the catwalk, that stunned the audience in Florence, Italy last week as Diesel presented their show for the Spring Summer 2008 collection. The ‘liquid space’ concept for the collection was radically brought to life during the 17 minute show, which is the first time that holograms have been projected along a traditional catwalk, being visible from both sides, and the first to combine both real and holographic models in a fashion show. Alexander McQueen used a holographic effect Kate Moss last year at the end of the show, but here the show was entirely built around the holograms and certainly seems to have taken the concept of the fashion show to a new level.

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Reed Kroloff: Architecture critic

Reed Kroloff gives us a new lens for judging new architecture: is it modern, or is it romantic? Look for glorious images from two leading practices -- and a blistering critique of the 9/11 planning process.

war art

"So who's next you wonder...
Iran, North Korea, France, Britian?
None of us really matter to them."

one of the best motion graphics video art that's on youtube.

women in art

Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Nominated as Most Creative Video
2007 YouTube Awards

high & dry

chorus:
dont leave me high
dont leave me dry
dont leave me high
dont leave me dry

Radiohead

(c) 2008

Feeling sweet feeling

Manic depression is touching my soul
I know what I want but I just dont know
How to, go about gettin it
Feeling sweet feeling,
Drops from my fingers, fingers
Manic depression is catchin my soul

jimi hendrix

(c) 2003.

Yugo Nakamura: The Craftsman

Nakamura’s personal site, www.yugop.com, works as a digital sketchbook, showcasing an extraordinary array of techniques. Shown here is OvalX3, from 2001.

scuba diving

when your ships sinking shift to a submarine
or
when you start sinking, go scuba diving

Yves Behar

Yves Behar has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child.

numb strings

Another day that I can't find my head
My feet don't look they're my own
I'll try and find the floor below to stand
And I hope I reach it once again

So many times I wonder where I've gone
And how I found my way back in
I'll look around awhile for something lost
Maybe I'll find it in the end.

Norah Jones

grey

The Brothers Creeggan

The Brothers Creeggan are a Canadian alternative rock/jazz band composed of Jim Creeggan (upright bass, guitar, bass guitar, vocals), Andy Creeggan (guitar, piano, accordion, percussion, vocals) and Ian McLauchlan (drums). Jim is a current member of Barenaked Ladies and Andy was a Barenaked Ladies member until February 1995. more...

[via FoxyTunes / The Brothers Creeggan]

&then on

the thing with &then is that one gets addicted to the dynamism and the room for experiments the space has to offer. learned a few things in the past one month of my stay here.


01. working on multiple assignments, gives you multiple chances of coming across multiple ideas and so helps cracking them in multiple ways.
02. if stuck, then get the help from aliens and fishes on your sketch book. getting to basics really helps. never stop at your first loved logo or artwork. make as many as possible. even if the first one is the one you are getting married to finally.
03. and if still stuck, then, just like sir paul arden suggests, try different tool. ;P
04. i strictly recommend sketching/scribbling/doodling (if drawing/painting is too tough) to everyone. everyone includes anyone who is not interested.
05. theres always a room on the loft. so its good. but one needs to keep your head low, cause if u rise above it without reason, u are bound to get a bump on head.
06. bop - back of pack, fop - front of pack,
07. packaging can be equally irritating as much as it is interesting.
08. and there goes sid's advice, always keep a buffer for the presentation with the client.
09. with great freedom comes greater responsibilities.
and
10. im quite good at tracing now on AI.
and
11. more importantly, respect the design process, which i have always preferred to rebel across (though not absolutely).

over all...working has been fun. though making love with the aliens was tiring, it did conceive after many misscarriages at last.

apart from that,
mumbai i m getting accustomed to. not that bad a picture as much i had thought of. in fact its not bad at all. for all those who haven't been here, should try for some reason i guess.


the copyright of this piece of art lies with the owner on facebook for whom its been made.

rain has started, and has not stopped yet. went to buy the first umbrella of my life with the team, don't know why i m making such a hype of it. whatever... was not able to, since i was missing something.

still left with one month to go. lots of things to do since deadlines never die.

cheers to all ;)
&then i think, i need to write simple english.

http://inandthen.wordpress.com/

THE DAY I WAS BORN

Korean Air Lines Flight 007, also known as KAL 007, was a Korean Air Lines civilian airliner shot down by Soviet Interceptors on September 1st, 1983 just west of Sakhalin island. 269 passengers and crew aboard KAL 007; there were no known survivors.

The aircraft had violated Soviet airspace the Soviet Union stated it did not believe the aircraft was civilian and said that it believed it had entered Soviet airspace as a deliberate provocation by the United States.

la la le la le la la aa ra re la le lale

first try on facebook

my baby strongest

&then

&then bombay

bombay, never was on my career radar… but then, ‘&then’ happened…

day one i was quite anxious. was excited and at the same time terrified with the hangout i had. literally hanging from the train clinging onto another guy..never held a guy so close. and never would like to repeat it unless its a matter of life and death… and my backpack was hanging from my back…was counting every electric poles that i was having a close shave with.. goregaon to ville parle, total number of electric poles = 57. after ville parle somehow squeezed myself inside the train.

reached ‘&then’, and was amazed to see a play field amidst an industrial setting. the entrance of ‘&then’ was painted with a true poster/calendar pop-art style. carrying forward the dynamic identity of ‘&then’ and coming up with as many concepts as possible was one of the assignment of mine, apart from conceptualizing an invite for a video art, by ‘haywire’ synchronized with a DJ Riz performance. the projection was to be in house in the weekend.
meeting the people was good. soham i knew already, vikram, meera and esha were the other comrades, including the team from 180, which included sid, bhavin, shagz, and shubhda… apparently absent bhakti isn’t happy with me using her pc…snehali and soeb are regular visitors…
lunch on foozball table, and playing dart was part of the day, which was fun. even cricket with a baseball bat…

anyways, day one ended with a performance of mine while getting back to goregaon. a brand new local, with brand new seats and brand new steel seduced me enough to enter it with a bang. it started moving before i could realize. i felt sorry for my bones. now its ok but. i slept with relispray…whatever u make of it.

bombay &then

next morning was painful, hidden pains and hidden sprains…all of them came together…
but was ok in the office… the poster was made and e-invites were sent..prints were made and stuck too. .the night was spent having veg rolls and then in ‘bademiyan’, on the way sid having some client meet with his pandu friends.
the week went by with some of the concepts being really liked by the team…

&then asymmetry

antisocial element i proved myself to be in the event. people being pissed off for the not so much of dancing done by me. but pictures i did take. few good ones. and two shots of brain damage by vikram, helped me carry the fishes to appear on the projector.
the best part was meeting suresh (long lost neighbour friend of mine, prashant i knew him as). never in my dreams thought i would bump into him in such a place and that too in such a situation after 12 long years. met some other people too.. soeb, manjari, rahul and rizwan were the other ones i can recall of…

4:30 am the art show /party got over, and with that, a very experimental and experiential week too…
peace and chaos

http://inandthen.wordpress.com/