tagged craft – lucas did this

May 15th 2022
filed under hyperlinks, design, recources and tools

Self-publishing on the internet is a rewarding and powerful experience – you can very quickly produce work that is accessible to billions of people for very low cost.
Building websites is often seen as an uncreative, mathematics-based task undertaken by coders. This library encourages you to learn how to design and build interactive experiences and to consider this a tool in your design toolkit.

If you want to publish something online for the first time, this website is a great starting point. As a matter of fact, even if you’ve been building websites for a while already you might discover one or the other nugget –like the already linked idea of Web Design as Architecture– to pick up.

publishsomethingonline.com
May 10th 2022
filed under hyperlinks, videos, art, design

© Kirby Ferguson (via YouTube)

There is an element of explotation to all creatitvity, to appropriate is to take without permission —that’s creativity. You don’t ask others if you could do it, you just do it. Who would you ask anyway? It’s okay to take if you do it the right way.

As a foreigner very much into Asian –more particularly Japanese– culture, philosophy and design, cultural appropriation is a topic I’ve thought about quite a bit already —and even more so since I’m a father now, trying to be the best role model I can be.

Just like with his absolutely amazing series on remixing, Kirby Ferguson makes some valid points on this sensitive topic during his Farewell to Cultural Appropriation.

On a related note: Ferguson is bringing his 2020 series This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory to YouTube (for free). Episode one is available already, the other five parts will be released every two weeks. I haven’t seen it as of now, so I can’t tell you if it is any good, but given the recent track record of the filmmaker, I’m going to watch it for sure!

everythingisaremix.info
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

— Aldous Huxley on the Secret of Genius, filed under well said, May 6th 2022
If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto on having a vision, filed under well said, April 24th 2022
What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

I’m continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

When I work I forget all the rest.

— Collected quotes by Claude Monet, filed under well said, April 3rd 2022
February 12th 2022
filed under hyperlinks, videos

© Yuki Kawae (via Vimeo)

In traditional Chinese culture, the moon is a carrier of human emotions. The full moon symbolizes family reunion. Due to the Covid restrictions between China and the United States, my trip to see my family in Beijing, which was scheduled in early 2020, is on an indefinite hold. While waiting to go back for the past two years, I decided to create a video series with the general intention of bringing the moon down to me on the earth, inspired by a Chinese legend of the Han dynasty entitled, “The lake reflecting the divine moon.”
Every winter since 2020, I’ve filmed myself alone tracing moon patterns by dragging a suitcase on the snow-covered ground in the parking lot adjacent to my apartment building in Chicago, as if to create circular mantras suspended in a time of waiting. I also made two summer counterparts of the same ritual on a sandy beach by Lake Michigan. As long as I’m unable to go back to China, I will continue to film this same ritual in the summer and winter.

This installation by Yuge Zhou called Moon drawings reminds me a lot of the beautiful patterns Yuki Kawae draws in his zen garden —but in an entirely different dimension. Gorgeous, even more so when you know the background behind the piece.

yugezhou.com
The idea is to find yourself a posse of misfits who have the courage to not only question authority but the whole dominant reality, and create magic together.

— “Create magic together” (author unknown), filed under well said, December 31st 2021
December 27th 2021
filed under hyperlinks, videos

© ladelune / Haeri Cho (via Vimeo)

The idea started with my everyday repeating life, and I found the concept of ‘Repetition’ is a common ground between the pattern and everyday life.
So, what if the normal actions in our daily life could turn into rhythmical and enjoyable moments with patterns?
The entire goal of this thesis is to explore various moving patterns using various mediums and creating a short film with visual interests through those patterns.

— South Korean designer Haeri Cho about her beautifully crafted thesis project Routine Rhythms.

haeridea.com/routinerhythms
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

— Anne Rice about Kafka’s work ethic, filed under well said, December 27th 2021
December 23rd 2021
filed under hyperlinks, recources and tools

Better to know a knot and not need it, than need a knot and not know it.

— the motto of Animated Knots

Nothing fancy, just a well-structured website with a lot of different knots explained with neat little stop-motion clips accompanied by short descriptions. Bookmarked:

PS.: Why not wrap your Christmas Gifts with a ‘French Sinnet One’ this year for example!?

animatedknots.com/complete-knot-list
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

— Ira Glass “The Gap”, filed under well said, design, December 19th 2021
the process® is the practice. the artifacts are just the side effects.

— Virgil Abloh on process, filed under well said, art, design, fashion, November 28th 2021
The essential principal of business —of occupation in the world— is this: figure out some way in which you get paid for playing.

— Alan Watts on playing, filed under well said, November 19th 2021