WEEK10 - DAY 5
Just starting over - John Lennon
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Weil am Rhein, Germany
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Frank Gehry was probably the first to have introduced cardboard as a material to make objects and furniture.
“One day I saw a pile of corrugated cardboard outside of my office – the material which I prefer for building architecture models – and I began to play
with it, to glue it together and to cut it into shapes with a hand saw and a pocket knife.”
Frank Gehry wiggle side cardboard chair.
The fruit bowl
How to make the fruit bowl?
Hippocrates - “the life so short, the craft so long to learn…”
- “it takes a long time to acquire and perfect one’s expertise and one has but a short time in which to do it”.
Mr. Isamu Noguchi - lamps and vases and again vases. The link to Nogushi org
Yaacov Kaufman - the “studies” section of his website and the “personal exhibition” part.
Mr Kaufmann - a fantastic vase.
Kazuyo Sejima’s Hanahana!
6. Homework
This is Holdmykey. An object to protect furniture made of wood from scratch! I will put it near my street door so I can leave my key there everytime I get in the house. I had a few problems doing it. I was out of corrugated cardboard halfway so I went to my neighbour's house and he gave me a box. The cardboard was different and thinner! Next time I want to use just one kind of cardboard. I aslo did not plan it fully and I had to adapt along the way. Next time I'll know better. I wanted it to look kind of organic, like a sea shell or a shell of an animal.
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Weil am Rhein, Germany
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
Frank Gehry was probably the first to have introduced cardboard as a material to make objects and furniture.
“One day I saw a pile of corrugated cardboard outside of my office – the material which I prefer for building architecture models – and I began to play
with it, to glue it together and to cut it into shapes with a hand saw and a pocket knife.”
Frank Gehry wiggle side cardboard chair.
The fruit bowl
How to make the fruit bowl?
Hippocrates - “the life so short, the craft so long to learn…”
- “it takes a long time to acquire and perfect one’s expertise and one has but a short time in which to do it”.
Mr. Isamu Noguchi - lamps and vases and again vases. The link to Nogushi org
Yaacov Kaufman - the “studies” section of his website and the “personal exhibition” part.
Mr Kaufmann - a fantastic vase.
Kazuyo Sejima’s Hanahana!
6. Homework
7. Extras
Cardboard for the homeless - Cardborigami ( Suggestion from Priscila Cortez)
This was my second piece made of corrugated cardboard. My first one was a hammer. Not thor's hammer. This hammer.
For those who aren't Portuguese, we have a huge street festival in Portugal, it's called S.João, it's in June. We eat roasted sardines and drink, we dance, we watch fireworks. One thing we also do on the crowded streets is hammering eachothers heads with colorful plastic hammers. They make a squeak sound! Oh, yes, it's weird and lots of fun. (Yeah, you don't believe me!!) So this cardboard hammer was a participation in a creative contest of S. João's hammers. By that time I was living in the city of Oporto and I found homeless persons sleeping on the streets on cardboard every night. Winter nights are cold in the second biggest Portuguese city. That affected me deeply. I called this hammer The homeless to honor those people. S. João is a night where homeless people are not alone in the streets because everybody is on the streets! I hope you don't mind me sharing this story but I really liked doing this hammer even if I knew he would not stand a chance at that competition.
This was my second piece made of corrugated cardboard. My first one was a hammer. Not thor's hammer. This hammer.
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