Daily Poetics

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Link: Somersaults Life Archives.

Somersaults™ Life Archives
your life – full circle

"The genuine little details of everyday experiences when collected and curated add up to the eternal essence of our loved ones’ lives. Hand-me-down moments with the click of a shutter become frozen in time and our hearts. Sand between our toes. Tears of joy at the alter. That certain aroma from the back seat three days into the trip. The impossibly soft strip of satin on that tiny blanket. Fresh cut grass filling our every breath. The nervous first kiss and lingering last dance. Our dreams, loves, fears, triumphs and defeats captured in sights, sounds and words to be relived for generations. Somersaults™ Life Archives collects and protects all of your moments and memories in artfully produced products designed to make sure your loved ones’ lives come full circle." -somersaults

Design by Eric Kass, Funnel
Title Quote: Robert Aris Willmott

A lively understandable spirit / Once entertained you. / It will come again. / Be still. / Wait.

Link: flexibility - renewable clothing by fernando brízio.

"flexibility - design in a fast changing society
ex carceri 'le nuove', turin
june 29 - october12
http://www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it/

'flexibility - design in a fast-changing society'  is one of the many events taking place in turin this year in conjunction with the city being named the 'design world capital for 2008'. the show consists of nine projects by international designers installed at a former prison ex carceri 'le nuove'.

 

renewable clothing by fernando brízio

by placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time. within an hour - to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. the owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it."

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Link: naoko ogawa gathering jewelry recyclable.
Title Quote: Leonardo da Vinci

"I would like you to enjoy the jewelry by putting this silver plate on your body and crushing it together with your clothes to hold on. This enables you to change the look of your clothes by creating fluid folds on them.

This plate transforms the style of your clothes in many different ways depending on not only your everyday emotions but also the pattern or design of the plate, including the new patterns of the plate drawn by the crush as well as metal fatigue itself. You can basically enjoy an unlimited amount of designs on the silver plate and clothes since they never change in the same way.

It is my intention to make this jewelry enjoyably sensual, to let your hand touch and feel your body line (or silhouette of your clothes) with this plate and then to redefine it through crushing. By doing so, you could find the idea of your everyday clothes destroyed and / or turned into something new with the beautiful gathers which you could not imagine or predict. The gathers made by the redefinition of the crush would create a new body line (or silhouette of your clothes) and wrap you up for the day.

The key message or objective of this jewelry is that you can create a ‘today’ or a new you by destroying ‘your daily life’ or ‘the past’.

Since it is made of metal, this silver plate would be so cracked or broken that you won’t hold or even wear it permanently. In that case, I would like you to stop to use it and send it to me. I will remelt it up and remake it as new one. That is to say you can get new plate perpetually. That is because partially I am afraid of a sharp edge of the broken metal. But moreover, it is because I am afraid that the broken jewelry may end up becoming or being stagnant as ‘your daily life’ or ‘the past’ by keeping using it." -naoko agawa

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Link: Recycled Words via NotCot

"I rescue, salvage, and recycle other people’s words.

Browsing through garage sales, street markets and used bookstores I search for interesting, preferably discarded, old books. When I find a good candidate I explore every page.  Like an archeologist I hunt for the words that speak to me with new meaning. Intuitively, one word at a time, they turn into a kind of haiku or philosophical poetry that I can call my own.

At some unpredictable point along the way, in my mind, the images start to invent themselves. Using colored vellums, graphite and or India ink to highlight or obscure my words; I create the image of that invention. Though I strive to make each document visually engaging I find it is the words that I value most.

The majority of this work comes from several different copies of The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson printed from 1887 to 1927. Something about working with these pages quietly reminds me that a part of our culture is about recycling ideas."   -Will Ashford

Title Quote: Goethe

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. -EMERSON

Link: post secret on Flickr - Photo Sharing!.

"post a secret on the bathroom stall"

a lifetime ... by the yard

Link: Volksware. "a yard good - made by the cloth consumption of a persons' lifetime"

One Million Footnotes

Link: One Million Footnotes.

"Prospectus Footnotes to a nonexistent book, a series of observations, a novel without the plot, the autobiography of an imagination, linked poetry of the everyday world, an impossible goal."

We become what we behold. -mcluhan

Link: Monique Borsboom - Ontwerp || Voor ontwerp in de Product en Concept Vormgeving
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"McLuhan warned; ”We become what we behold.” Do we become what we behold? And how does that look like? Is it good or bad?

I tried to find examples of this statement. It looks like we all have an idol we look up to. A person (or thing) we would like to identify ourselves with. But how far can you go?

We accept a child who wants to be a football player, but Orlan transforming into Mona Lisa is still a point of discussion. Awareness in different levels. I like these examples of extremes, and the idea that we change our opinions about it all the time.

Tattoos were once a taboo. Now it is quite normal to have a tattoo. The same is happening with plastic surgery. The reason of who we are and what we all accept is an evolution. The reason we do certain things can also be seen in other places in this world. We decorate our body’s to give information about social status, gender, age, to mark a certain moment in life that is important to us or just for aesthetical reasons. This all is about things that fascinate me. And to reflect it back on me, I thought about how I see me in all of this in the future. (Keeping in mind that we accept more and more, and what seems strange to us is normal in other cultures.)

I chose scaring because it is not only communicating certain information to others, but it also marks an important moment in life. A scar can tell if I’m married or how many children I have. But to scar yourself, the pain you go through, stands for that important event in your life you got through. You entered another level of your life. You got stronger. I want this to be part of life. Something you carry with you. A tool you would use to scar with, like a knife or a piece of glass, which becomes an applicable jewel. Jewels are personal and keep their value all of your life (and even longer). Often there is a memory attached to the jewel. It stands for beauty, but can also tell more than that. The jewels I make consist of parts of material that you could scar with. Every time there is an important moment in life, you take away a part of the necklace. Not only the scar tells something, also every missing link in the jewel stands for a point in your life.

“Show me your jewellery and I’ll tell you who you are.” Monique Borsboom 2003"

we've been expecting you

Link: we've been expecting you.

‘Photos With MEaning’ at pearlfisher gallery

Pearlfisher has turned the spotlight on itself for this month’s exhibition with each Pearlfisher team member providing a favourite photograph they own.  Each photograph is supplemented by a short description to tell the story behind the still and to explain ‘why this has ME’aning’.

Custom reconciles us to everything. -Edmund Burke

Link: The Tune N Radio | Dexigner.

The Tune 'N Radio The Tune 'N Radio aims the stimulation of individual creativity and responsibility towards our everyday material environment.

The Tune 'N radio is a basic fm-radio which people have to finish themselves, in order to make the product functional within their own personal perception.

An antenna has to be "chosen" and attached, holes for the sound have to be drilled, sound- and tuning-button have to be made functional.

The basic radio becomes a canvas which people can decorate and by doing so bond with their product. A hundred different people create a hundred different radios.

Tune 'N Radio is part of the Little things, Raging thoughts Collection by wouter Geense Design Studio, a Dutch Design Studio based in Rotterdam focussing on consumer behaviour, ways people value their material surrounding and fill in their contemporary needs