basic ergonomics

here

bodylog

edition 1 bodylog (blog)
edition 2 tuesday.

tas?

pdf on tassie
car hire
map
distances
rmit hols: 13-19th april
MU: 14th - 23rd
(but i could skip 2 days - unless i have something due...)
not $30 each way!

for brandon and ben

http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/4908/
http://www.universaldisplay.com/foled.htm
http://www.sarnoff.com/products_services/displays/oleds.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oled
http://www.oled-display.net/technology.htm
http://www.oled-display.net/products.htm

check it

especially you julian!

civil

interesting article on tijuana architecture and the divide between usa and mexico

ok, another view....

finally. a thrown figure

this is probably the best view (and i worked from the picture in rhino)
but the others views are not as great. that twisty bit on the end is really hard to work out, but ti is like whiplash.
4 hours later.....

kate you were right.

i am modelling that 5 minute free sketch in cad and it is infinitely more beautiful than the cylinder
like a signature

lace samples

hmm, like little clover petals. maybe ok, but a little granma
this isnt hot, but its not bad, sexual little orchids. repetitive, could look good when lit from behind..
well, this goes to show. i thoguht this was the most granma, but haley thinks its the sexiest. just goes to show how much i know about lingerie
hmm. a bit slutty perhaps. a bit suspenders, fishnets, highheels and 'how much for pretty lady' - for me thankyou.
you cant really see this one, but its not white at all, thats just the reflection of the flash.

oh i dunno...

i find it really hard to determine whats sexy. well, at least which one of these laces is sexy - for the sex lamp. i dont want to make it a slut lamp, or a skank lamp, just purely for sultry and sexy atmostphere. i also dont want to use granma lace - but i haev trouble determining what that is.
anyway, i thought i'd put the photos up, i'm having trouble with photobucket flash. so here are the photos. feel free to make comments on which one you think is the most appropriate, think to yourself 'which would my granma wear?' and then assess 'why?'
oh, and i love grapes atm

oh and heres the picture

its hard to squeeze grapes

health for lok

instructions:
copy this text into word
reduce the margins so that the page is 80mm wide
fully justify
print
cut out closely to the words while leaving a tab on the end
stick so that it makes a small tube
you have a semi rhizomatic brief
my brief:


diagnose. Examine the benefits of self diagnosis eg. to maintain general health. Find the weaknesses Diagnosis of mental health – help with denial?. Examine current diagnosis websites, their accessibility, cost, knowledge and questionnaire technique. Perhaps design a course for self diagnosis, building a greater bank of self knowledge, and improving the average community medical knowledge. In a country where community is key, reduce the strain on professional doctors and try a community health place, similar to childcare. What are the ethics of self diagnosis? Is it socially acceptable to know your own body and health, and to treat it accordingly. How far can self diagnosis go? Should partial self diagnosis be required in some clinics (i.e a health log?). If medical knowledge of the greater community increases to a point where doctors become less revered will curing health lose its cloak of magic? Will the medical profession become more specialised with less GPs? How will that change the social structure? Examine the role of the doctor, and its ‘elevated’ status as the giver of medicine and the bearer of knowledge. Examine the education of Australian Doctors and how this culture is instilled in them. Understand how doctors can understand patients with a very brief questioning of their lifestyle. Recognise that patients do not know which parts or incidences in their lives relate to their ailment. Learn how we can improve the education of the patient, to be a patient. Examine the role of the patient, and how they are treated subjectively and objectively. Increase connection between doctor adnd patient, look at the local regular doctor/GP. The Patient or practice debate. See how education can be shared by patient and doctor to better both. How the doctor’s knowledge can be passed on to the Patient. How the patient can learn from a doctor, or a medical institution, or in more informal way to partially self

countryside

sometimes its beautiful to get out in the country, see inside people's back yards and be under that big open sky. then you know youre really in australia. whats all this bullshite about tourists trawling over the sydney harbour bridge. they should go out to open spaces...

back to work...

some extra joys

thrown things

try here

confabulation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Confabulation is the confusion of imagination with memory, and/or the confusion of true memories with false memories.

what a fantastic idea - a great album name?

sex lamp - why not

I didn’t intend this lamp to be my major project, and I still don’t. I have something else in the works which will hopefully give me an opportunity to branch out more. So, this Luminaire project was always about identifying my process, the weaknesses, strengths, shortfalls and time wasting tactics. So in tandem with actually researching, polling, drawing, mind-mapping and designing I was keeping a note of my progress and ‘design process’.

Initially I jumped into the project too quickly, thinking everything through in my head. Due to my finite memory some ideas were pursued more whole heartedly as I couldn’t get all my ideas down on paper. That initial fervour was lost because the best apples were picked out of the basket, and the others were lost – what I mean is the peripheral ideas which might have seemed stupid at the time were discarded. In future, I think it would be better to have a piece of paper with me there when I get the project, because then I can get down my initial reactions straight away instead of pondering, dreaming and troubling myself over it. In this way I can take the ‘rush factor’ out – the desire to think of something quickly which solves the design problem in a complete way. This rush factor usually leads to obsessively interesting results but requires a fair amount of post-rationalisation.

My initial ideas revolved around the idea of a fun or quirky lamp. The two which stood out to me were a brooch which was lit by an LED and had a slot to house a slide. The slide would be lit from the inside, and though could not project, would light up and show a scene from a holiday etc. The slide is also changeable.
The second concept was the combination of a basic Compact fluorescent on a standard wire with a fan attached so that the light would spin in a circle after it had been on for a while. This contraption could be housed in a semi translucent bowl to diffuse the moving light and limit the change in light. It could also break health and safety regulations!

In the second week of the process I reassessed my ideas, and decided to start from scratch and take a more studious approach to designing. I blocked out previous thoughts and brainstormed from the centre idea of a lamp as stated in the brief. From this I extracted the idea of a lamp which could crudely be described as a sex lamp. I mean it to be a lamp which excites, is tender and calming, provides luscious light, is about intimacy and is a bit racy as well. These definitions are from different ends of the spectrum, and I made an effort in the next design exercise to bring them together.

In Studies we have been talking about rhizomatic structures. Rhizomes are non hierarchical, interconnected, non linear, non random structures. I took this thinking and mixed it with some IDEO/playgroup policies of not restricting ideas. With this in mind, and an overall idea of how I wanted the lamp to look, and the kind of process I wanted to use I began. The structure of the brainstorm I ended up with was not rhizomatic because it is hierarchical and semi linear, but involved piggy backing ideas on from another one, and taking ideas on a kind of journey. It forms an excellent map of the way I put together different factors of the lamp, to create the first concept in the ‘home straight’ of the design process of the lamp.

What I hadn’t included was research – which Kate correctly pointed out was essential. To tell the truth, I hadn’t really defined who I was designing for, and as I analysed the features the lamp had, they weren’t always ones which were totally suitable, they were generally just the ones I liked. Hence I came to the conclusion that I was designing for me, not a specific ‘target market’. I could have completely different ideas of intimate light than a girl for instance.
So, I embarked on some very informal questioning with people around me. They are all between 18-25 and both male and female. My method of questioning was quite direct, and in hindsight I planted ideas in their heads before letting them think originally. My original suspicions of colour, mood and function were quite accurate, but the research uncovered that the idea and practical function of the lamp was excellent (i.e the research subjects agreed that it would be both intimate and sexy) though the form wasn’t fully resolved. Some thought that my lamp was unfortunately quite phallic, which I had done intentionally, but the majority thought was too tacky. They suggested that I take a more conservative approach, and I agree that the form should not be the most important thing. It is a functioning purposeful lamp, not another light in the room.

So I set about new form studies, taking the need for a solid ‘base’ which could house a touch sensitive switch/battery for the LEDs and also the lace screen. I took into account that the form should take second place to the function, and not take too much attention. I was determined to keep it as an innocent lamp when off, and a sultry lamp when on.
I quickly played around with shapes with thumbnail sketches, keeping a basic lamp shape, but taking the ‘phallic’ symbol away. I started to form a short stump lamp which looks like a hanging skirt similar to Phillipe Stark’s Rosy Angelis.

I then went on to CAD to model up a simple shape. But really its not important, I have what I wanted – a demonstration of the process which suits me – now all I have to do is try to make it more efficient.

who am i?

maybe i'm out there, out that window in the outside world. not stuck in this train hurtling along the tracks it always travels. taking people on identical paths.

quite abstract, quiet abstract

i'm not sure what to write for my studies abstract, it seems to hard to define a project so early in the semester. i want to explore stuff (about health) and then choose somehting from that!
brooding
maybe i'll do a interpretive dance.

lets go fly

at night the wind flows like a rapid through the streets of melbourne. wouldnt this be a perfect place to fly a kite? is there space in teh network of congestion and business for a useless symbol of play? of course there is - but maybe at night. i just haev to remind myself to avoid the tramlines.

confused 1.01

wish that i was somewhere else.
i am finding it really hard coming back to a place where there are actual laws and rules to bind me an my daily day. a month ago i was running around like a chook with no head doing what i liekd when i liked (well, slightly guided by moral convention). and i was in another country. now i'm grounded, left bewildered in a place where people expect things from me other than to meet me at the pub in 2 hours or to have fun and be relaxed.
i dont know, i'm finding it hard to relax.
in other news, first week back at the U-ni has been reasonably uneventful, according to my more moderate drinking rather than full blown alcoholism. I've also been attending all my classes, paying attention, and actually liking some of it too (god forbid!). i think this year will be hard, harder than last year. so i'm thinking of taking some of it in another country, possibly in central america. but you knwo what? i dont think it will hapen in the end. if i was analysing myself from someone elses point of view i'd say that i've just got the travel bug and i dont want to stay too long in one place. global nomad maybe? not quite