mirror/drink by maia love

Riddle: What am I? Transparent in a tipped glass, glistening on your lower lip before cascading down your throat, nourishing your cells. Melting off a mountain ice-block, somersaulting over stones, pooling in a mirror form before streaming down your pipes to land splash into your glass. As wealthy as diamonds, precious as platinum, rare as air. Escaping skyward as we gently slowly heat our globe-shaped home . . .

Dance piece by Maia Love.
Filmography by Hans Christian Berger.
Video edit by Moira Simpson.

Performed at the Vancouver Design Nerd's Jam at Recollective, April 2009.

Feeling tiny, yet connected

Well.  

Here we are coming around the southern tip of San Juan Island druing the first leg of Round the County 2008.  Can't get much closer to weather than this, for now.

Far away, however, I read about the Asian skies.  Poisoned with soot, smog and toxic chemicals, the by product of massive developments in all industry categories - transportation, agriculture, building, cooking, and general mass production and export to the west.

''The imperative to act has never been clearer,'' said Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, in Beijing, where the report, titled ''Atmospheric Brown Clouds: Regional Assessment Report With Focus on Asia,'' was released.

Story via World Business Council on Sustainable Development.  Link here.

Eep.

raftacular

It was always my intention to keep the RAFT project going after school. It was always my intention to develop a simple design that could be scalable, adaptable, modular and work with materials at hand. I am so grateful for having met the fantastic people at eatART who are now supporting (and storing) this project at the hangar. Our mutual love for the sea as well as things like civil disobedience, energy awareness, creativity, invention, and general mayhem brought us all together this weekend, dressed like pirates, armed with a potato canon and ready for adventure. ( : So fun!!!

RAFT :: being held hostage in gallery

Conceived as a floating structure, built mostly of salvaged materials, the project component of my thesis (RAFT) is used as a way to test and work through the creative possibilities that surround slow design. I use RAFT as a research tool – a conceptual and physical sounding board to uncover and develop a template for practicing slow design. The method was conceived primarily for industrial designers, and therefore more often than not includes a physical product output. It has the ability to transfer to other forms of sustainable design and production.

RAFT- test launch

moon rise

RAFT as platform

Updated sketches coming soon to a scanner near you. and who is YOU? aha I get a kick out that question. It's very Modest Mouse.

sketches

on lasers, surrealism, jets, and XYZcorp

dear walid,

i know you know.. . but. today at Ci, i'm sifting through magazines.. ID january 07 has some great features on design collectives. Pleix and Plan01 are 2 of them that stuck out at me. also.. i really hope stuff like the eco-jet keeps developing. notice the underline.

re: XYZ corporation... i don't know about you but anything like corporation combined with philanthropic (word of the day) housing projects combined with branding it makes me uneasy.
have a nice day ( :

and he writes back: Hey this is good stuff!

So..... you know .... floating. The sea is salty and flat as a rug. and crystal clear. I practiced floating. After a while you're breathing become slow and you practically fall asleep...

oh ya. easy jet. i love it. "come on, let's fly"! ha! cooooooooooooooooooooome on!!!

re: XYZ corp. I don't know! Maybe they're trying to play grown up ... reinier is coming next month. good stuff, somebody will witness this insanity. you know what's its like? Its like everybody is a fish here. fish!!! like the driving for example. picture NO rules. people just drive where its open. right way. wrong way. reverse on the highway. if its clear, you go, until a bigger fish clear the way...



ummmmmmmmm. miss you!

parched and indulgent

Americans spent more money last year on bottled water than on ipods or movie tickets: $15 Billion. Journey into the economics--and psychology--of an unlikely business boom. Click.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html




Boom.

a is a

everything is changing again. i feel uneasy. lonely? maybe that's it. but how can that be? out on the water this weekend, i couldn't stop thinking about a is a. ayn rand. atlas shrugged. i'm thinking but i'm also just doing as i'm told. pit and that's about it. internally, i feel as though the weight of the world is on my shoulders as the huge freighter enters english bay carrying about 2ooo containers of ?? i phones and shoes? and yet i haven't really done anything, objectively speaking, to make an difference in the passionate quest I say I am on. towards sustainability. toward the enduring ability to sustain ourselves aka to not fuck things up for the future.

so. much. waste.

i want to send the madmax crew this link. on the bottled water industry. we go through so much of it.. and really why can't we just bring our own? why can't we recycle the bottles? why don't we want to? why must i fish through the garbage at the end of the race to sort the recyclables from the garbage. why do i find half a dozen half empty bottles hidden in all the pockets? why do i feel like its inappropriate to send the adults some intelligence?

energy

is one of those concepts I want to understand. because it is relevant in so many ways yet I have a tendency to avoid it. and I think most of us do. last semester, I gave a talk to the ECI 2nd year industrial design students on time wind water and energy. in preparing for the early morning, I learned heaps about BC Hydro, bill 30, micro hydro, wind power, and politics. powerpoint here.

watching A Valentine for Campbell by Waiting to Boil a Frog (via SWiG listserv) it's about coal, mercury and beautiful British Columbia. now, when I finally do tell people about this blog, it will be here. embedded and waiting.. .



for us to act.

the air is getting warmer.
spring is near.