Music: London animator Jack Brown used oil pastels to create an animation of a woman on a journey of self discovery for Doe Paoro’s The Wind track (+ movie).
The film depicts a story of an woman being carried through a series of situations by a blue-coloured counterpart.
“The story is of a woman who tries to find herself while the wind guides her through the dream like environment,” Brown told Dezeen.
“She experiences all walks of life in an abstract perception of earth, wind, water and fire”.
Throughout the film, the wind pushes the woman across many landscapes. She encounters an orange figure, based on fire, before falling into a pool of water.
The blue character is largely based on themes discussed in the lyrics, which were inspired by Doe Paoro’s experience of a hurricane.
Brown created the visual effects using just oil pastels on paper, and an old Nikon camera – something he describes as “proper old school”.
The video was his first project after he graduated from university, and took him three months to make.
“My desk was by my bed so I often woke up with oil pastels in all the wrong places,” he said.
This ambulance station in the Dutch town of Zeist features a curved wooden framework and sloping walls covered with climbing plants to help it blend into its woodland setting (+ slideshow).
Utrecht studio Architectenforum designed the ambulance station for a site on the edge of the town, which is adjacent to a hospital and flanked on its other sides by a forest.
The brief was for a building with a low carbon footprint, which makes use of renewable materials to complement its natural context.
As the ambulance station is not used by patients or the public, its street-facing elevation features a solid sloping surface that curves up and over the building’s roof.
“Because the building faces the road to the entrance of the nearby hospital, we decided to design a simple but interesting gesture,” said Architectenforum.
“There is no main facade, instead green sloping walls rise from the ground and transform into the curved line of the roof, blending in with the surrounding trees and the edge of the woodlands.”
The surfaces are covered in a metal mesh, supporting fast-growing climbing plants including common ivy that will eventually create the impression of the building merging with the surrounding greenery.
Vertical wooden boards clad the remaining facades, offering a further natural detail that emphasises the project’s sustainable credentials.
The wooded site designated for the building necessitated an L-shaped plan that wraps around an existing beech tree.
The tree’s canopy helps to filter sunlight directed towards a four-metre-high window lining a staff room that opens onto a shaded terrace.
The curved trusses that form the ambulance station’s structure are made from glulam – a type of engineered wood. This made it possible to create a large span that would be difficult to achieve using conventional timber.
“Glued-laminated timber lends itself beautifully to make curved beams in one piece, with minimal loss of material,” the architects told Dezeen.
“The beams were shaped in the form we needed to support the curving roofs.”
A garage space that occupies the front portion of the building incorporates transparent roller doors and circular skylights that ensure plenty of natural daylight reaches the interior.
A corridor with a curved ceiling on one side of the garage leads towards the locker room, office and staff room at the rear of the building.
The laminated shell is wrapped in a highly insulated envelope, with photovoltaic panels incorporated on the sedum roof contributing to a solar water-heating system.
An all-electric system with a heat pump and underfloor heating also aid the building’s ecological performance.
There was a powerful juxtaposition of Trending Topics today on Twitter. First came #KirkDouglas, with more than a few folks relieved to discover it was not because the 100-year-old actor had passed away. Rather, it was a byproduct of readers catching up on the weekend to the Oscar winner’s Sept. 19 Huffington Post essay.
Douglas’ warning about Donald Trump is amplified by the fact that the author is old enough to own memories of the German politician some have compared Trump to:
I’ve lived through the horrors of a Great Depression and two World Wars, the second of which was started by a man who promised that he would restore his country it to its former greatness.
I was 16 when that man came to power in 1933. For almost a decade before his rise he was laughed at ― not taken seriously. He was seen as a buffoon who couldn’t possibly deceive an educated, civilized population with his nationalistic, hateful rhetoric.
The “experts” dismissed him as a joke. They were wrong.
And now, as we write this item, #Hillary Clinton for President is trending, thanks to The New York Times blasting out its Sunday-print editorial endorsement of the 2016 Democratic candidate for President. The trending phrase is the NYT headline; it sits below the sub-headline ‘Our endorsement is rooted in respect for her intellect, experience and courage.’ In the very first paragraph, the Board stresses just how much of a cosmic disaster it perceives her opponent to be:
Our choice, Hillary Clinton — has a record of service and a raft of pragmatic ideas, and the other, Donald Trump, discloses nothing concrete about himself or his plans while promising the moon and offering the stars on layaway.
Le norvégien Martin Whatson, dont nous vous avons déjà parlé, allie dans ses oeuvres usage du pochoir et graffiti. Des personnages réalistes en noir et blanc y côtoient des inscriptions murales colorées qui viennent rompre leur rythme et leur style. Le résultat est à la fois insolite et impressionnant de maîtrise : un vrai mélange des époques.
Raquel Rodrigo fleurit la ville à sa manière, avec des installations en broderie qu’elle fixe par la suite aux murs. Elle prépare ses créations chez elle avant de les placer aux quatre coins de Madrid et de ses alentours. Une manière poétique d’ajouter un peu de vie à l’architecture urbaine.
In support of Based on a True Story, a new memoir released Sept. 20, Norm Macdonald this week dropped all kinds of great web and sound bytes.
He told Vulture he thinks the recent criticism of Jimmy Fallon for patting Donald Trump’s hair was “absurd.” (We agree.) On The Howard Stern Show, Macdonald told a nine-minute “street joke.” And check out this nutty tidbit, offered up to the New York Daily News:
“One time I was in a hotel room in Edmonton, Canada and my manager called and told me that on my Wikipedia [page], it said I was dead and I looked on Wikipedia and sure enough, someone had changed my Wikipedia and said that I had died of a morphine overdose in the very hotel room I was standing in,” he said. “Reading my obituary… it sounded very chilling. Even though it was a joke.”
Macdonald says that after laughing at the idea that anyone still uses morphine, he got to work.
“That’s when I decided to write the book,” he said.
The bulk of the Daily News @Confidential piece involves confirmation that Steven Seagal was indeed the worst Saturday Night Live host ever.
Dan Rather’s brand new weekly SiriusXM program, Dan Rather’s America, will debut the day after Monday’s Presidential debate. Live from Rockefeller Center in New York. While 88-year-old Vin Scully was honored with a special pre-game ceremony Friday night at Dodger Stadium ahead of his Oct. 2 retirement, Rather, who will turn 85 Oct. 31, shows no signs of slowing down. The program will air on Radio Andy (Channel 102).
“I’m pinching myself that Dan has agreed to lend his iconic voice to my channel,” said Andy Cohen. “Now more than ever, I’m hungry to hear his thoughts and reflections about what’s going on in the world.”
Cohen’s Radio Andy channel includes shows that cross the spectrum from news to pop culture, with a stable of hosts ranging from Andy himself, to Sandra Bernhard, Bevy Smith, John Benjamin Hickey, Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen, Jonathan Alter and more.
In July, Rather covered the DNC and RNC for Radio Andy. The one-hour weekly show will feature a mix of commentary, special guests and calls from listeners.
Steve Ramsey does a sponsored video for Kreg, running down their Automaxx clamping system:
Kids’ Kitchen Step Stool
The Wood Whisperer shows you how to make a sort of booster platform for kids, allowing them to participate with, or just watch, as you cook in the kitchen:
Chiselology
In this “Tool Talk” episode, the Samurai Carpenter runs down everything you need to know about buying chisels (with an emphasis on the Japanese variety):
Raspberry Pi Media Center
Bob Clagett makes a Raspberry Pi media center, rigging it up to look like a tiny version of his full-sized arcade machine build:
Ring and Hook Game
A short and sweet one from La Fabrique DIY:
Chipped Plaster and Brick Wall
Sandra Powell shows her skill at improvising distressed finishes by creating this faux brick-and-plaster wall:
Folding Brass Keys
Laura Kampf creates a wicked folding brass key set:
One From the Archives: Custom Toilet Tank Lid
This is hilarious. Ben Uyeda casts his toilet tank lid in silicone, then creates a concrete dupe that he embeds with arms to hold a variety of items:
It happened in Evanston, Ill., the backyard of one of the country’s most eminent media watchers. And Jim Romenesko, now semi-retired, is not impressed. In the comments to Robert Feder’s item this week about the decision to move longtime Evanston Review reporter Bob Seidenberg (pictured) away from that Pioneer Press weekly publication, Romenesko wrote: ‘Nobody knows, or covers, Evanston like Bob. Shame on Tronc for moving him.’
A spokesperson for Tronc has disputed allegations made by the Chicago News Guild that the transfer of Seidenberg to the purview of sister publication the Franklin Park Herald-Journal and other western suburbs is retaliation for the reporter’s decision to withhold his byline from a recent article, as permitted by his union contract. The transfer decision was communicated to Seidenberg shortly after he met with Pioneer Press boss John Puterbaugh and, subsequently, a local editor:
“The agreement specifically identifies rules for transferring an employee and we adhere to these rules,” said Tronc spokesperson Dana Meyer. “This was not retaliation. We simply had a need for a veteran Pioneer reporter on a strong digital beat that had gone vacant. Evanston is a vital town for us and will continue to be very well covered.’”
However, below Evanston resident Romenesko’s comment to the Feder item, an additional bit of information was relayed Thursday. It’s attributed to Mike Isaacs, a reporter at sister Pioneer Press publication the Skokie Review:
As someone who has been very close to this situation, there is more light to shed on the [Chicago] Tribune’s explanation for transferring Bob. Days before the transfer, Bob was handed off to a new editor. He was provided a list of new “rules” going forward as the Evanston Review reporter. (The list included moving the Review’s deadline up by an unprecedented four full days from what it had been for reasons having nothing to do with production schedule).
Bob pulled his byline — a contractual right — because he felt a rewritten lede by an editor who was brand new to Evanston was inaccurate. Then he got a management call…
So let’s re-examine:.. only days after the company turned Bob over to a new editor and gave him a list of internal rules going forward as reporter of the Evanston Review, he was told he will be transferred. I guess everyone can make up their own minds about the company’s assertion that there was no retaliation.
A change.org petition has been launched to try and reverse the transfer decision, which is due to take effect Monday. Tronc acquired the Pioneer Press group of local newspapers last year.
The Chicago News Guild frames the Seidenberg move within much a larger, concerning atmosphere across Pioneer Press. It has also filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board and as a result, a federal investigation of the Seidenberg transfer is underway.
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