tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72495964704639615542024-03-13T23:31:01.537-07:00Kayo NoteKayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-56328404571263917002013-02-24T08:20:00.002-08:002013-02-24T08:22:41.916-08:00Art work jumps to Life on the iPhone<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="252" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/50747223" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="448"></iframe>KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-76993376773815233022013-01-27T13:31:00.001-08:002013-01-27T13:31:08.966-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Flash MobKayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-46687722320232911002012-11-20T19:13:00.000-08:002012-11-29T19:37:50.984-08:008mm scratch film workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-78173424558088397462012-10-18T01:55:00.001-07:002012-10-18T01:55:37.659-07:00New year, new termSorry for being absent from this blog for a long time.<br />
I will start blogging again this year and will try to update it as much as I can.<br />
Best regards.KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-55815499157504454972011-11-30T18:45:00.000-08:002011-11-30T18:45:33.993-08:00Important Nordic Design<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PiD0KSXrc3s/Ttbi1rd4zuI/AAAAAAAAAhA/BGaNldqfn2c/s1600/PB178592.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PiD0KSXrc3s/Ttbi1rd4zuI/AAAAAAAAAhA/BGaNldqfn2c/s400/PB178592.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A few weeks ago, for the first time I went to see an auction of furniture held near Victoria station. It was an auction for Nordic furniture including world's famous designers such as Arne Jacobsen and Poul Henningsen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All the furnitures sold on the auction were placed in the space around the auction room.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Use of spaces in between each furniture and lighting was very nice that never bothers each other and also evokes beauty of itself. Simple and beautiful, but also charming Nordic design always fascinates me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vkY3SnFT3DE/Ttbil7jd6TI/AAAAAAAAAg4/WKh-2nxIW1Q/s1600/PB178635.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vkY3SnFT3DE/Ttbil7jd6TI/AAAAAAAAAg4/WKh-2nxIW1Q/s400/PB178635.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-46741602911652126192011-11-28T16:36:00.000-08:002011-11-30T18:46:22.310-08:00Framing Workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ldO_kC0Z-UA/TtQm2eKEtTI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/pIHJCkaqcvE/s1600/PB118482_effected.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ldO_kC0Z-UA/TtQm2eKEtTI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/pIHJCkaqcvE/s400/PB118482_effected.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aId_fhjozJA/TtQm5vibtMI/AAAAAAAAAgY/_d2huoTw-AA/s1600/PB118480_effected.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aId_fhjozJA/TtQm5vibtMI/AAAAAAAAAgY/_d2huoTw-AA/s400/PB118480_effected.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rMOGYRjD_SI/TtQm8E6BmQI/AAAAAAAAAgg/D2GBlE24qO4/s1600/PB118492_effected.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rMOGYRjD_SI/TtQm8E6BmQI/AAAAAAAAAgg/D2GBlE24qO4/s400/PB118492_effected.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>With Sharon, a woman works at framing workshop, we made our own frames for prints done at Old Street on the other day. Since I was in Japan, I was not familiar to making these frames just for art works. I always bought frames already made for particular sizes. Therefore it was a bit surprising for me that making a frame just for an art work is very common thing here. I've learnt very basic but at same time very important thing that day.<br />
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<i>'Making a frame suits to the art work instead of making an art work suits to the frame.'</i>KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-8275332531994755092011-11-16T19:04:00.000-08:002011-11-16T19:10:44.756-08:00Shoes for Beauty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NrDB8l7VAFQ/TsRwH0Qx84I/AAAAAAAAAfA/WcCqlYP29sw/s1600/PB088303_effected.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NrDB8l7VAFQ/TsRwH0Qx84I/AAAAAAAAAfA/WcCqlYP29sw/s400/PB088303_effected.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>About two weeks ago, I went to see a mini-exhibition of the sculptural art of high heels to The Loading Bay Gallery at Brick Lane.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Although it was a free-entry exhibition, it was such a interesting show that gave me an opportunity to see all different kinds of high heels from archaic to nowadays. It realized me that high heels are not just one kind of items for fashion, but also they could be sculptural art. Some of the high heels didn't even have function to walk, they were just high-heel-shaped objects. Looking at all the details of those shoes, I could feel strong passion of each designers. It might seemed strange to some people yet I believe high heels have something that addict people deeply.</div>KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-50360659349647736442011-11-14T15:51:00.000-08:002011-11-15T03:17:39.596-08:00Parasol Unit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oUKMHxpUhCs/TsGGBfLZBbI/AAAAAAAAAX8/ld55pUQyaVk/s1600/RIMG4231.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oUKMHxpUhCs/TsGGBfLZBbI/AAAAAAAAAX8/ld55pUQyaVk/s400/RIMG4231.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-URWKKIWoRA0/TsGGNAFj4aI/AAAAAAAAAYM/Pu_POYkOEDk/s1600/RIMG4233.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-URWKKIWoRA0/TsGGNAFj4aI/AAAAAAAAAYM/Pu_POYkOEDk/s400/RIMG4233.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z3L4bTJmmwQ/TsGGE-CVOVI/AAAAAAAAAYE/OEQxzXYJ7gI/s1600/RIMG4232.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z3L4bTJmmwQ/TsGGE-CVOVI/AAAAAAAAAYE/OEQxzXYJ7gI/s400/RIMG4232.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Fifth Night</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Last Sunday, I went to Parasol Unit near Angel station. Current exhibition held there was Yang Fudong's short film installations called '<i>One half of August</i>' presents his three new works.<br />
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It was first time for me to see his work. All of his films have no lines but only sound and they were also filmed in black and white. For <i>Fifth Night</i>, I think his way of projecting few synchronized films together is very unique that lets the viewers decide which one to see. And it also lets them more focus on an actor or actress's action and think about what is happening in the film. Actually there was nothing happen in the film even the actors didn't seem to be interested in one another and it had no clear beginning or end. Everything was left to the viewers. I think it was hard to understand what the artist tried to do in this installation at first sight if the description I got at the entrance didn't help me. But I quite like how he use the gallery space to show his work, such as <i>Fifth Night</i> had seven films projected straightly on a long wall or <i>One half of August</i> had eight films projected randomly on walls of a square room.<br />
It was a pity that I couldn't go into the gallery next to Parasol Unit which is closed on every Sunday. Besides that, I enjoyed the gallery space and would like to come back for next exhibition.KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-16314061073993984762011-11-13T07:26:00.000-08:002011-11-13T07:26:06.622-08:00What I'm Nuts AboutIt was such a funny presentation day ever. Everyone in our class had to present thing that they are crazy or passionate about. Some brought homemade cakes, a funny sheep costume, vintage maps, crisp sandwiches, or her lovely dog. It was embarrassing to do presentation in front of everyone, but after all it was a good opportunity to break out wall and know more about my colleagues.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GK72W2O_xqs/Tr_dokjKG5I/AAAAAAAAAVs/jVwyVkuqpuo/s1600/madabout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GK72W2O_xqs/Tr_dokjKG5I/AAAAAAAAAVs/jVwyVkuqpuo/s400/madabout.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lovely classmates all in mustache!</div>KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-8376005329609491672011-11-12T17:44:00.000-08:002011-11-12T17:44:38.907-08:00Logo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It started with creating 100 logos. The purpose of this project was creating a new logo that represents our design ethos. My ethos was 'be open minded'. This project was first project that we worked as individuals. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</i></div>When I was researching on different types of logos, I found that this field is so vast and has various ways of approaching. If there is a next trial for making logos, I would combine images and types together to find out the other possibilities of logos.KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-32586315639398779372011-11-10T13:56:00.000-08:002011-11-14T16:23:54.674-08:00Letter Press<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As a workshop for GDC student, I went to Old Street to do letter press last week.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MeZ3WJVSqoI/TsGvOSzGg_I/AAAAAAAAAYU/gLslpsM1qQI/s1600/PB048263.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MeZ3WJVSqoI/TsGvOSzGg_I/AAAAAAAAAYU/gLslpsM1qQI/s400/PB048263.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UC5f9gDg-Sc/TsGv63k_THI/AAAAAAAAAYk/tDb5DNMYG3c/s1600/PB048276.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UC5f9gDg-Sc/TsGv63k_THI/AAAAAAAAAYk/tDb5DNMYG3c/s400/PB048276.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uXjbPZ3xr6A/TsGvgLhNxaI/AAAAAAAAAYc/VqA7uVoe3V4/s1600/PB048265.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uXjbPZ3xr6A/TsGvgLhNxaI/AAAAAAAAAYc/VqA7uVoe3V4/s400/PB048265.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>We were given quotes from novels and making them to be ready to print was the day's aim. In the studio, the smell of ink and old letter press machine made me feel exciting. It was very stimulating to touch little wood letter pieces and place them into a flame tightly. I had a knowledge of how to do letter press before but it was different when I actually did it. Thinking about composition of the letters and filling spaces with tiny steel blocks was extremely hard.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It took a whole day to finish my line even if it was that simple. Above all, I really enjoyed playing with different types and making my hands dirty. Also it was a good way of understanding layout of letters in analogue way. I wish I could come to the studio again to do some work for my course.</div>KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-88607895599237064992011-11-05T19:14:00.000-07:002011-11-11T14:27:17.812-08:00Camden Art CentreLast Saturday, I went to Camden Art Centre in Finchley Road for the first time. An exhibition called 'A World of Glass' by swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg was held at the time.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The show space was filled with glass like objects and four claymation films were played in two rooms. The glass like objects were so beautiful under lighting in the dark rooms. By contrast, the claymation films seemed eerie even if there were animal shaped characters in the film. I think it was because of the films' subjects, maybe sexuality, violence, and brutality, and the sound composed by artist's collaborator Hans Berg, which evoke strange atmosphere in the whole space. It was an unusual moment as if I was lost in unknown world.</div>KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-151592148882168442011-11-01T17:24:00.000-07:002011-11-10T17:01:13.337-08:00Chelsea Map ProjectHuge map of area around Chelsea College:)<br />
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First one was Real Venice, photography exhibition held at Somerset House.<br />
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</div>I have been to Venice once. Some of the photos at the exhibition remind me of the beautiful city, but some of them showed me different aspects of it such as ordinal people living there or modern offices. I personally like the photos by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe used as a main image for the exhibition. His black and white photos of people wearing traditional carnival masks were striking to represent Venice yet very elegance and even have divine beauty compared to commercial photos. The carnival mask of Venice is known for its vivid colour and decoration, but by reducing them, I think the photo succeeded in discovering its own beauty in simplest form.<br />
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The next one was a contemporary show of The Museum of Everything at Selfridge.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C0kNIr_ZMkA/TqNX_3I9jPI/AAAAAAAAATM/B8FHIuuMiPo/s1600/RIMG4040.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C0kNIr_ZMkA/TqNX_3I9jPI/AAAAAAAAATM/B8FHIuuMiPo/s400/RIMG4040.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Museum of Everything is a museum for works done by people who suffer a variety of psychological, neurological, or physical problems from all over the world. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At first I found it really interesting that how they built the show space. The space was parted into several small rooms and the works were fully hanged on every wall exactly like the museum itself. To be honest, it might make audience hard to see each work, but also make them feel like if they are in the museum at the moment. Each work was very energetic and had a strong character reflecting each artist. Some of them had remarkable colouring and some were seriously detailed by persevering which I can hardly imitate.</div><br />
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For the last, there was a huge structure, the Monument to the Third International, designed by Russian and Soviet architect Tatlin Vladimir in front of Royal Academy of Art for upcoming exhibition. Although this tower is not as high as his original plan, which was as tall as Eiffel tower in Paris, it has a worth-seeing strong impact just being there.<br />
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</div>It was really hard to find the place and the showspace was quite small, yet the watches were worth seeing. <br />
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</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The idea to put people on each minute hand and second hand was absolutely wonderful. As the vintage watches are working, the people on each hands keep moving, sometime coming closer and sometime farther. Wilcox's work reminds me this proper thing that "time is continuous moments". In the glass domes above watches, there are different worlds of people inside and they are living in their own moments of time. I love the artist because he always uses everyday objects but represents them in unexpected way. I also like his charming sense of naming each watches. Wilcox's magic to change watches into tiny worlds was really enjoyable!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, because I'm a big fan of Dominic Wilcox, I asked for price of the watch(it wasn't shown in the space), and it was.......more than £600!!!! I shed tears on the way home....... (joking!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Descriptions of watches were from:<br />
Moments in Time: Watch Sculptures by Dominic Wilcox<br />
http://www.dominicwilcox.com/watchsculptures.htm<br />
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Dezeen Space<br />
54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN<br />
www.dezeenspace.comKayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-51801172923430561192011-10-09T18:51:00.000-07:002011-11-11T14:28:20.827-08:00FailureA week past since I started my new course at Chelsea College. In the end of the first week, there was a project which my group failed to do it. We were given a huge sheet of plain white paper and had to make people interact with it.<br />
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We started the project with brain storming about what can we do with the sheet of paper. We got several ideas we like such as free hi-five, free candy, finger printing, huge picture flame, information paper.... Finally we end up with making a poster which attracts people to see it. However we all believed that our poster could be interactive for people, we completely failed.<br />
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The basic idea of our poster is that if there is something you can't see from a distance, people would come closer to see what is there. So we went to Vauxhall station where should be a lot of people there and especially at bus station, people standing and waiting for bus coming. In fact, there was no one who comes closer to the poster to see the secret message.<br />
I think there are several reasons why our poster defeat our expectation. One is the location. Since other groups went to more tourist places such as Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar square, or Oxford circus where there are hundreds of tourists there. Compared to these places, Vauxhall station was not a place to find friendly people who will be curious about our project. Secondly, we had to work on people to focus on the poster, not just waiting from a faraway. Thirdly, I think we had to keep our idea much more simple rather than making a 'designer-like' piece. For example, the other group did 'free-moustache' at Trafalgar square and it was really successful. It was like an information paper that people can take a contact address in the bottom, but hand-drawn moustaches instead of contact address. People like free things especially if it makes people happy and if it is easy to take. The idea of free-moustache definitely enjoyable for people and the location was also perfect for that. If we have done free-candy poster, sticking candies on paper and people can take them, it would attract many people even if we done it at Vauxhall station because it is so simple and people like candies.<br />
I think this project was a good try for me that I could learn many things from it.KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-75513473611054112442011-10-08T08:21:00.000-07:002011-11-11T14:25:33.706-08:00Serpentine Gallery Pavilion On 29th of September, I went to Kensington Garden to see this year's Serpentine Gallery pavilion designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.<br />
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The garden was a bit too wild compared to general English garden, but I think it goes well with the surrounded building. The building looks like very artificial because of its shape, rectangle, and its colour, black. But when you look closely, it is covered by organic net. I think this wild garden and organic surface related to each other to make the space more comfortable to feel the nature for the viewers.<br />
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The building has no window or modern technique, but it was still a place for people to relax and have a rest. I really enjoyed reading a book and having tea while sitting beside the secret garden.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I personally really like Degas' paintings of ballet dancers because of the beautiful soft colour, excellent composition, and the subject of painting itself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This exhibition was not only just features Degas' paintings but also it explores Degas' figure of ballet dancers as accurate figure of motion capture. The interest thing I thought was that the way of how Degas observed his subject is related to the scientific study of motion capture. Before high-speed continuance photography invented, Degas tried to trace each action of dancers in his rough drawings. And he even he drew a girl from more than 20 different angles turning around to understand the girl as a 3 dimensional figure when he tried to make a statue. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I found that Degas was not just a genius but a person based on lots of lots of study by himself. I think his idea and skill of observation were beyond technology at that time. It realized me that a great idea sometimes goes over technology.</div>KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-47868997699880905942011-10-05T16:42:00.000-07:002011-10-05T16:44:16.728-07:00V&A London Design FestivalAfter I saw 100% design festival, I moved to V&A museum to see some exhibitions written in a booklet of London Design Festival I got at the show.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hh3NgLvbFhg/Tozceyd8YwI/AAAAAAAAAQI/qv7hUMAIDng/s1600/P9248124.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hh3NgLvbFhg/Tozceyd8YwI/AAAAAAAAAQI/qv7hUMAIDng/s320/P9248124.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Huge timber wave structure by AL_A.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It perfectly fits to the arch of the entrance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FA4dkqbK4-8/TozdiIJbCwI/AAAAAAAAAQY/s06vQ5o1vew/s1600/P9258179.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FA4dkqbK4-8/TozdiIJbCwI/AAAAAAAAAQY/s06vQ5o1vew/s320/P9258179.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There was a display of bookbinding.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x6zachEYSpo/TozkaEJKwcI/AAAAAAAAAQc/H9xt6bMtKYI/s1600/PA068239.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x6zachEYSpo/TozkaEJKwcI/AAAAAAAAAQc/H9xt6bMtKYI/s320/PA068239.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The thing I really interested in was these maps.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are museum guides created by different artists showing their recommended places in the museum.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The shape, reminds me scarves wore by old victorian people, really fits to V&A </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and it also attracts people to have it by showing fragments of pictures inside.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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It was a good opportunity to see many latest designs from various fields at once.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Most of the spaces were for interior and home designs so there were not so many graphic designs, but it was still very exciting for me to see many things and even talk to artists themselves.</div>KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-79553875823843739772011-10-03T17:17:00.000-07:002011-10-03T17:17:13.038-07:00New courseMy new course at Chelsea College just started.<br />
Graphic Design Communication........excited!KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-46186644424995935302011-03-15T18:57:00.000-07:002011-03-15T18:57:56.948-07:00ABC3D book<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wnZr0wiG1Hg?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><div>each page is brilliant! using so many tricks in one book</div>KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-22590016746155373642011-03-13T19:06:00.000-07:002011-03-13T19:06:39.033-07:00What can I do?Few days since the disaster hit Japan.<br />
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A lot of people dead and there're so many people waiting for help under the cold night.<br />
People there lost their town, houses, friends, family and their smiles.<br />
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I'm thinking what I can do for them from here...from London.<br />
If there is something I can do, to give them some energy to confront the tragedy....<br />
If I could do something with art, it would be really fantastic....KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-17977912527676655482011-03-03T19:03:00.000-08:002011-03-03T19:03:19.700-08:00PeepshowToday I went to National Gallery because I remember that there was a illusion box using same idea as 'specific view point' and some tricky paintings there.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-C33v68FG7ms/TXBOIzceC1I/AAAAAAAAAPY/Pln-kx7SbFs/s1600/van-hoogstraten012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-C33v68FG7ms/TXBOIzceC1I/AAAAAAAAAPY/Pln-kx7SbFs/s320/van-hoogstraten012.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'A peepshow with views of the interior of a Dutch house'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This painted box done by Samuel van Hoogstraten was made in 17th century. There are two peepholes on each side of the box and the view from the holes gives an illusion of a three dimensional image of interiors in the painted room inside.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Using box to give people specific view...humm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>This is other really famous painted illusion using the same idea.<br />
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A problem is I have no skill to realize these kinds of illusion. It could be possible of I use photoshop, but I don't really want to depend on technology...<br />
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Anyway, there was one more purpose to come here, to see Turner's paintings.<br />
I love paintings of Turner because of its use of colour and subjects in paintings, sky and sea.<br />
They just make me feel relaxed deeply. I used to go to National Gallery just to look at them.<br />
They made me relaxed as always for these busy days.<br />
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Finally I got offers from all 4 colleges I applied to, surprisingly.<br />
I got into Chelsea, Camberwell, LCC, and Kingston.<br />
In my mind, a present order is this: Chelsea > Kingston > LCC > Camberwell.<br />
Chelsea, I like the atmosphere here. The only problem is that they don't have print press.<br />
And this is for all the UAL colleges, I feel like they just let me in because I'm international.<br />
I'm not really sure if they liked my works and thought they want me in.<br />
This is the reason why I put Kingston for the second place.<br />
Well, the dead line is <b>5th of May</b>. I still have time to think about my final choice.KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249596470463961554.post-70351485321477971582011-03-02T19:07:00.000-08:002011-03-02T19:10:44.811-08:00Antony Gormley, "One and Other"In today's English class, I studied about "The 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square."<br />
The space on the plinth was empty for long periods but now it is a location for contemporary art works of leading London artists.<br />
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In 2009, Antony Gormley, a sculptor, took a place for the show on the plinth.<br />
At that time I visited London for the second time by chance, and had taken photos of the show.<br />
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It was called "One and Other." Gormley's proposal for the show was that the plinth was occupied 24 hours a day by the general public who volunteer to stand on it for one hour. The show lasted 12 months, had 8,000 people stood on the plinth. When I saw it, the person on the plinth was doing nothing, but basically people who stand on the plinth could do anything they want, so some had speech to the audience and the other dressed fancy dress. He said it was about "diversity, vulnerability and the individual in modern society" because of the place, Trafalgar Square's military history and statues which honour specific war heroes.<br />
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Because I'm now working on FMP, I got it little bit differently.<br />
The idea of placing real-life people instead of statues is reversing of general idea.<br />
What I meant general is that people make statues of people, so normally people came first then statues were made after that. But in this case, Statues came first and then people were placed after that.<br />
I think it is related to the idea of Alexa Meada that making real-life people into painting instead of making realistic painting, reversing idea.<br />
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Well, even if he didn't think in that way(probably not), today's study gave me an idea of doing reversing, doing something opposite makes it more interesting.KayoTakahashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16308157638263076363noreply@blogger.com0