So I’m finally back from good old Belgium. We almost had a private flight back to Berlin, there were only 14 passengers in total. It was quite bumpy due to some thunderstorms over Germany, it was still 29° C when we walked over the tarmac of Tempelhof International. Maybe it was my last flight from Tempelhof, they plan to close it by October 31st 2008. A big mistake! It’s the best airport I know.
I also visited Hasselt where I saw ‘Bridge’ by Michael Cross at Z33.
The Bridge is a series of steps which rise up out of the water in front of you as you walk from one to the next, and then disappear back underneath behind you as you go, leaving you stranded with only one step visible in front of you, and one behind. The bridge ends in the middle of the water, where you find yourself totally isolated and cut off from the shore. You return the way you came. The mixed feelings of peace, isolation, relaxation and fear that the piece elicits are powerful. The project is on-going will ultimately lead to a permanent installation in a lake.
It’s again that time of the year … I have to go in zen mode. I have to go and see the North Sea … the beach … sand. So it will be quiet here over the next few days.
Speaking of sand, see what Jean-Pierre Hebért does with a mac and sand. ‘Mac-Controlled Algorithmic Art’ it’s called. The steel ball is moved by mac, I guess with a magnet. Just watch the videos in his profile on apple.com. Let’s see if I’m zen enough to do something like that without a mac.
This is probably one of the smallest houses I know, it is located in Antwerp (Belgium) and was designed by Sculp(It) Architecten. It is actually their own house and office at the same time. The front side is only 2,4 meters wide and it is 5,5 meters deep. So they only have around 60 square meters to live; divided over 4 floors. The ground floor is their office, first is the kitchen / dining room, second the living room and third is the bedroom / bathroom. They acually even have a bathtub on the roof. I don’t know if I could on such a small space …
Photos by Luc Roymans.
Comcast has this little website called TripleSlanguage to promote their triple-play offer (internet, telephone and TV). They invented some new words like ‘Quizjacking’ and ‘Tomphonery’. I guess I’m guilty to several …
‘What’s the capital of Belgium? Waffles.’
Adidas is going to release a Stan Smith City Series, one of them is Brussels! It has the Atomium on it! Let’s hope that my local dealer next doors, the adidas originals store, is going to carry them too!
This video, “The Information Machine: Creative Man And The Data Processor”, was written, produced and directed by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM Pavillion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. It shows the history of storing and analyzing information from the days of the cavemen to today’s age of electronic brains. You can read more on it at Cartoon Modern.
found @ information aesthetics
I’ll take one in grey.