"Walking city" vestido cinético

Ying Gao desenhos esse vestido que reage ao som do microfone (sopro). O vestido cria um movimento bem orgânico e bonito. Imagino que deva ter usado "memory alloy" para isso. ou entao um pequeno servo funciona... Bonito ;-)

Dandelion

Dandelion é um projeto dos designers mary Huang e Jennifer Kay que transforma vento em energia elétrica. Nesse acessório que você coloca no ombro estão fixados alguns cata-ventos que geram energia.

Dandelion from Mary Huang on Vimeo.

Inspirações

Vestido de metal do Pacco Rabane. 

Outro do Paco R.

Eu gosto desses quadrados saindo do vestido, mas ainda me parece muito futurista.

Nao lembro o nome do designer, mas gosto muito desse vestido estruturado.

talvez uma capa de tecido leve sobre o vestido pode evidenciar o vento... Jean Paul Gaultier

Outra capa. Jean Paul Gaultier

De novo um belo vestido estruturado com formas geométricas. O que me chama atenção é que pode ser mais fácil para colocar os componentes eletrônicos...

Dior. Gostei da saia. Talvez possa fazer algo assim.

Chanel. Gosto desse vestido de duas partes. Pode funcionar...

Chanel. quadrados...

Chanel. Idem

McQueen. Gosto dessa saia abrindo na perna.

McQueen. Outro vestido estruturado. 

Acho que estou um pouco obsecado...

Dior Lens: labeling all

I found that Galliano designed a labeled lens. First I found very odd but actually is great. The idea of puting stamps in lens comes from before. I remember to saw lens in stars, balls and geometric shapes. But first time a logo ;-)

I am wondering how far we are to put electronics on it...

Paper bag

The collaborative project between Saskia and Stefan Diez amazed us with this amazing paper bag. It is made of Tyvek®, a synthetic paper that is extremely lightweight – 135g for the bigger and 115g for the smaller bag – but at the same time exceptionally robust, both water- and tear-proof. The material is completely recyclable.

It is always nice to see new materials around ;-)

you can buy from their website and also in Berlin.

http://www.saskia-diez.com

World cup and technology

I was watching a game Netherlands against Uruguay in my friend’s house in Rotterdam when I was wondering how it would like the images if we put a camera inside the ball. As soon as I told this idea to my friends they laugh. Well… it is not a very useful thought but it made me think how technology is used in the football and how it could improve.

For the first time ever FIFA excuse itself for the mistakes of the judges and considered using technology to avoid such mistakes. However it did not say witch kind of technology they were talking about: cameras? Sensors? Microphones?

This also brings another question: How people inside the football field will deal with these new inputs? Technology could disturb instead of help?

During the competition were many complaining about the Jabulani ball. Adidas spent lots of money and research in wind tunnels and robots to test the new ball and afterwards the players were very unhappy with the result. The Brazilian goalkeeper Julio César compared it to a ball you could buy at a “grocery store”. David James of England said it is “dreadful.” It seems that in this case the technology used to develop Jabulani was not so efficient.

Intrigued with this question I start to look for projects that involve football and technology and I found a nice project that Senselab MIT [1] developed together with the Italian soccer team A. C. Milan. In this project the researchers from MIT tracked the movement of the players during a match in the field in order to analyse their movements and maybe improve their training. What they want is to identify and develop new real-time tracking systems and to interpret from a strategic point of view the data they provide. Many problems were found on the project but it points, in my opinion, a way that technology could be used in football.

Bringing the discussion a bit closer to fashion I was wondering it could be effective the use of sensors embedded on the players clothe. Maybe the sensors could catch information that helps to decide if a player committed a fault or not. And besides of the sensor in the players’ cloths the judge would need a “gadget” to collect and present this information in a useful way. Otherwise it is an over information witch could be a disinformation. Would be the development of such technology a good path to follow? Maybe yes. Maybe it is just too much and the old and traditional system is enough. All this technology would take part of the magic of football out? Maybe.

Technology is not always good. Going back to the South Africa world cup the U. S. goalie Mr. Hahnemann said during a news conference that technology is not everything. “ Scientists came up with the atom bomb, doesn’t mean we should have invented it.” Definitively he has a point.

[1] http://senseable.mit.edu/milan/

Green Summer @ Verbeke Foundation

I had the pleasure to be in verbeke foundation for a quick residence of 4 days. Actually, I was mounting the installation "Plantas Parlantes" that I made together with the mexican artist Gilberto Sparza and Recycle-x team.

The foundation is a quite impressive place. It reminded me a lot a place in Brazil called Inhotim. However, despite of the amazing work of its founder the place encounter some difficulties in maintaining its pieces and also providing infra structure for the residents artists.

I was there together with Javier Busturia, Jelle Decker, Jnigni Wang and Roel. We slept in a truck (!). The experience that could be interested was a bit challenging due to the arctic cold that was at night, not to mention the dust everywhere. Speaking with other artists I figured out that their living conditions at Verbeke foundation was not actually better.

Walking in the almost 6.000 m2 of the foundation you can find many sculptures, some of them in big size. Some really good, others not so much. I had the impression that the curatorial line is quite weak, not to say nonexistent. Also it is possible to perceive a fascination about dead animals on the place. Almost 60% o the installations has something to do with death or dead animals. Freak!

I would say that this time was good but not really totally enjoyable. I have to confess that I was in a really bad mood also. Despite of all of this I could see some nice artworks and had a good time with my friends. if you are in Antwerp a visit is high recommended, if you are an artist and look for a residence you might want to think twice. Unless you really like contact with nature at all cost ;-)

more info: www.verbekefoundation.com