Month: November 2015

  • Extrasoft | Sofas | Products | Living Divani

    Extrasoft | Sofas | Products | Living Divani homework: modular sofa, “Extrasoft” (2009) by Piero Lissoni for Living Divani of Italy. explore the idea of modular. stucture rumored to be of poplar and pine plywood. what of the cushions? compare and contrast to Filo Sofa. would extrasoft want to know what modules are networked? click through…

  • what does a sofa want to know?

    what does a sofa want to know?

    there are some questions we may ask as a we speculate about a sofa ontology: what does a sofa want to know? how does that sofa go about knowing? can we place into a metaphorical black box the questions that would speculate on a sofa’s self awareness? whence does a sofa derive its identity? what…

  • (via Barber & Osgerby) Filo Sofa from 2009 by Barber & Osgerby for Cappellini. homework

  • brightwalldarkroom: From the new issue: On Having Your Tarot Read by Alejandro Jodorowsky As a Jodorowsky fan, I’d read all about the Tarot readings he used to do for free in Paris, and about the “psychomagic” therapeutic sessions he performed during lectures, also for free. I dreamed about attending one of those sessions or readings,…

  • wallpapermag: Mario Bellini’s first monograph homework

  • Drop on by the casa, Rafael Fajardo

    wolfliving: *…though you might want to chill on the smart cockroaches. http://rafaelfajardo.tumblr.com IoOOOT the Internet of Object Oriented Ontology Things this is my fumbling misinterpretation of, mashup of, two ideas past their peak on the hype curve, trending toward the well of despair, it – the mashup – is a response to (@bruces) Bruce Sterling’s…

  • progress report

    progress report

    I updated the language in IoOOOT on gitHub.com/rafaelfajardo I posted a response to @bruces via rafaelfajardo.tumblr.com, but I think that might be a flawed channel. I almost missed his post. I watched videos on how people are making human-scale articulated wings for cosplay. I may incorporate some of the geometry into Arcacataca’s animations. The animations…

  • Casa Jasmina evite, I think

    Casa Jasmina evite, I think

    I posted the first draft of IoOOOT on ello.co/rafaelfajardo a little over a week ago. I had tagged Bruce Sterling in it, and he reblogged it right away. A week later I posted a link to the original on rafaelfajardo.tumblr.com, and yesterday morning Bruce Reblogged it with a new title. I’ve included a screenshot. I…

  • Aracataca first post

    Aracataca first post

    This is the first post for the project Aracataca, and the first post for the games category. I’ve envisioned creating an artist’s game based on the short story by Gabriel García Marquéz called A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes). I have been working on the drawings…

  • Both Alberses loved the vibrant colors of their acquisitions, as well as their repetitive, geometric forms. They also admired the ingenuity of pre-Columbian artisans in working with meager materials. Josef liked to paint on cheap wooden board, preferring its hard surface to canvas, while Anni incorporated paper and cellophane into her weaving, and made jewelry…