Hello all. God i was just out in the hugh world that is bebo and myspace, looking at all the quality music blogs and seeing all the users connected and posting and promoting on each others blogs. so it was quite nice to return to the quiet cosy backwater that is platform8 blog.. Away from the gaze of the masses.
Other than that check out the pics from the irish match today. makes me pround to be irish
Check out this link to some amazing photos from the Burning Man festival in a desert in Reno – I wanna go :
http://www.ski-epic.com/burningman2005/
There are a lot of wierd and wonderful car-art things there too.
For the Tokyo Auto Show Mini produced a conecpt on the theme of the british picnic. Its amazing, complete with streamlined tea wicker picnic basket and strap on tea bags. Pure instanateous design excess. An immediate image hit.
Hi Platform 8 Berlin gang,
THIS WEEKEND THERE ARE TWO CARBOOT SALES
AND WE HAVE TO BE THERE;
– Saturday there is Killburn Park
– Sunday Battersea
Yota knows the details.
WHAT WE NEED TO DO FOR BERLIN;
– Arrange cardboard (delivered in Berlin!)
– Electricity
– Transport, a van for tool and other transport
(We need 2 or 3 drivers auf die autobahn)
– Book tickets everybody (think of two days of building our cars)
– Where do we stay (Hannes, is it the kindergarten again?)?
– Arrange tape (colours, length and prices)
– A printer and paper
– Tools (knives, hammers, drill/skrewers, nails and skrews, staplers)
– Shrinkwrap anybody?
– Carsounds; music for the exhibition
– Graphics, invites logo and a short text of who and what where.
(finished = printed before Milan to promote it over there!)
We have to split tasks, write your name behind yours. And what else do we need to think of?
This list is up in the studio notice board.
OK NEXT WEDNESDAY;
– everybody needs to have a scale model of their car 1:5, make this as accurate as possible to prevent unwelcome surprises.
– also figure out how many square meters of cardboard you need
– written down what you personally want to gain for at this exhibition
– think on how much electricity you need (light, music, laptop)
Comrades,
I propose the next platform8 trip to be to Venezuela. The mission to contribute through design to the flourishing of one of the worlds few democracies. Thanks to a healthy oil reserve Venezuela has had the opportunity to disregard to the unjust structures and harsh economic regime imposed by a capitalist west orientated trade agreements. President Chavez has initiated a fantastic social, healthcare and education service, as well as tackling poverty. The good man also generously offered the
nice fucking site bass.chingford is marked below on the map (red pointer) . also marked GAA (west) is the field in west ruislip where my friend peter from ireland is playing gaelic football, an irish national sport next sunday at 2.30. Everyone is welcome to come and whatch its a deadly sport and i gaurentee uv never seen anything like it, unless your irish.
http://www.setanta.tv/gaa/index.asp?dest=http%3A//www.setanta.tv/gaa/default.asp
Chingford that’s the place!
Or, we could recreate parts of Mac Donalds interiors and transform it or just put it in a different context. After all there is something very interesting and wierd about this old post modern aesthetic seemingly frozen since some time in the mid 80th…
Picking up the kebab thing, it would look nice to build a kebab resturant complete with serving desk, chairs and tables. We could design the ultimate kebab joint with a copy of the Times on each table. We could bring up the topic what is good design seen from a kebab perspective…? If not kebab it could just as well be fish and chips or anything really…
Car boot sale
Living room
Taking off shoes
Cover the floor with something
A market
A Fountain (with beer)
Party
Height of space , suspend
Dynamic, moving
Material, small to big, henny bubble
Optical
Beautiful rather than interesting, partitions
Maze, amazing
Wow factor
Relax theme
Car boot sale
Bingo
Have a market there
Sleep in exhibition space
Generic
Falafel
2012 London Olympics
Disguise
Ron Arad
A history of shit ideas
Themeless
3 Vans
Guinness book of records
Set new design records
Design awards
Lectures (given by us)
Meat has been bought and sold at Smithfield for over 800 years, making it one of the oldest markets in London. A livestock market occupied the site as early as the 10th century.
Approximately 120,000 tons of produce pass through the market each year. As well as meat and poultry, products such as cheese, pies, and other delicatessen goods are available. Buyers including butchers, restaurateurs and caterers are able see the goods for themselves and drive away with what they have bought. Bargaining between buyers and sellers at Smithfield sets the guidelines for meat and poultry prices throughout the UK.
The market has recently undergone a £70 million refurbishment to equip it for the future and enable it to comply with modern hygiene standards. The ancient meat market has been transformed into the most modern in Europe, possibly even the world.
If you wnat to see it its every week day from 3.00 till 9.00 in the morning, but better be early!
Smithfield Market, Charterhouse Street, London EC1A 9PQ
For a owfull lot of extreamly interesting stuff to read!
http://www.wfs.org/specfeature.htm
