Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Barbed wires, prickly fences and mobiles

WEEK11- DAY3


1. Soundtrack of the day

Mr. Slinky

2. Places to go

DMZ or the “Korean Demilitarized Zone”

3. People to meet

Mikhail Kalashnikov “life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose”. Kalashnikov is the one who invented the AK-47It is a special object because it has a very strong symbolic value of protest and revolt. 

4. Question of the day


5. Inspiration

When we talk about storytelling, there are different factors of conduction, of transmission. It all depends on your audience, your tone of narration, punctuation and evidently the overall coherence. How do you address a certain audience? How do you reach them? How do you trigger their imagination?

Marshall McLuhan“The medium is the message.”

We say that “the community is the message”!

The Eames’ DKR (Dining Height, K-Wire Shell, 
R-Wire Base / Rod Iron Base) chair.

Bruno Munari - 
His Concave-Convex series of wire mesh hanging sculptures. His first spatial environment ever. And also, it is “one of the first examples of installation art in modern European art”! Munari was one of the first to create mobiles. Check out his Arrhythmic Machine series. They are related to chance, dynamics and spontaneous movements and things.

Another chap who made suspended mobiles out of wire -  
Alexander Calder. 

How-to create a Calder mobile? 


Kim Jong Un


6. Homework

Our goal is to find the most efficient ways for transmitting our stories. Today, you will design your own story with metal wires. By definition, wires are flexible. Think about it. Either choose a single strand or a mesh.





Mobile - Crazy silly thing called love - Youtube video


I went to my child memories again. This was something I learned when I was a kid. Get a glass, a wire, bend it, glue a cut out animal in thin cardboard in it and spin the wire. Lots os stories: dog after a ball, wolf after a rabbit...All I did was to adapt it to today's homework.


7. Extras

Seung Mo Park - wire sculptures from his site and here

Five from the ground - here

Kinetic wire sculture

Alexander Calder - sculptures

Alexander Calder - Circus

Luis Lopez- bird wire crafts

Monkeybyz - the site  (Something a bit different but I like it)

Simple and beautiful wire art

More wire, and more and more and more crafts and some more here!

A store online

Amazing crafts

Wire art Penang 2013

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