Jerry Juarez recently released her super resistentes project via F.A.T.Labs; they help the wearer by offering “extra-protection from surveillance, power, copyright and greed.” I was so moved by the project that I made some fan art! get the wallpaper sized image here.
this weekend Jamie and I headed over to Insadong, the “art market” of Seoul according to wikipedia. there we saw lots of very bad paintings and uninspired shows but also some really nice finds. Insa art center had a great couple of shows; one on Vic Muniz, a group show titled “Orient Sprit” featuring a couple of pixelated paintings by Jung, Myaung-Gook, which you can see below, and Eco Flow by Kim Tae Sue. while looking at this show this guy that was next to me cordially gave one of his book catalogs to the owner of the space and after doing this he signed the good wishes book by the entrance and left. oh and all catalogs are priced at 3000 won (around $3). Also the Gana art center had this great show about an artists whose name I can only write in Korean and can’t begin to pronounce, but very nice sorta Nara inspired paintings by way of pop and a bit more personal.
Insadong is also home to Millimeter Milligram, one of the best paper, notebook, awesomeness stores I have ever been to. Their mission is to “make products with joy, which is useful for the notes about your private senses in your life” in short, they make some of the best designed and minimalist paper products with a sensibility geared toward personal customization and individuality. Most of their design comes from circusboyband a.k.a. Hyunsuk O; needless to say I really love his style and I bought so many of their stickers/
also the screaming females keep the good news rolling in, this time they released a video for their new single Bell produced by none other than the lovely Biz Lynch of courtlandtland.com. it debuted as a must-see-feature of the daily swarm - enjoy:
this weekend Jamie and I headed over to Insadong, the “art market” of Seoul according to wikipedia. there we saw lots of very bad paintings and uninspired shows but also some really nice finds. Insa art center had a great couple of shows; one on Vic Muniz, a group show titled “Orient Sprit” featuring a couple of pixelated paintings by Jung, Myaung-Gook, which you can see below, and Eco Flow by Kim Tae Sue. while looking at this show this guy that was next to me cordially gave one of his book catalogs to the owner of the space and after doing this he signed the good wishes book by the entrance and left. oh and all catalogs are priced at 3000 won (around $3). Also the Gana art center had this great show about an artists whose name I can only write in Korean and can’t begin to pronounce, but very nice sorta Nara inspired paintings by way of pop and a bit more personal.
Insadong is also home to Millimeter Milligram, one of the best paper, notebook, awesomeness stores I have ever been to. Their mission is to “make products with joy, which is useful for the notes about your private senses in your life” in short, they make some of the best designed and minimalist paper products with a sensibility geared toward personal customization and individuality. Most of their design comes from circusboyband a.k.a. Hyunsuk O; needless to say I really love his style and I bought so many of their stickers/
also the screaming females keep the good news rolling in, this time they released a video for their new single Bell produced by none other than the lovely Biz Lynch of courtlandtland.com. it debuted as a must-see-feature of the daily swarm - enjoy:
I live in Seoul now. Korean buildings present themselves as culture signifiers. they are logically built and numbered chronologically, numbers which are painted on the most visible and highest of points. text in the subway is written in helvetica. there are no street names or house numbers; you find an address by context. this is a car culture; pedestrians come second. sidewalks merge with roads and simply become paths, which move the city. always in motion and with self respect.
I am still settling into my new environment and catching up with life; read about a great group show at the Nam June Paik Art Center near Seoul and visited the National Museum of Korea which really got me excited about cartography and typography again. I have been trying to keep up with America by slowly digesting google reader but I am starting to feel a world away from myself. saw this over @ the screaming females blog the other day:
last night NASA was launched via a fundraiser party; it all went smoothly and we are very happy with what was achieved. the night started with us turning down a TV station spot because of internal issues but it ended with the cops never coming around so its all good.
so i drew on people again and arranged a retro gaming installation:
people seemed to enjoy the selection of games and didn’t mind having to play using a keyboard; i ran out of time and couldn’t figure out how to compile and create a module and driver to use my xbox 360 controller with ubuntu hardy heron…. but that will be fixed soon.
check out the bicycle powered waterfall, hair cutting madness, sweet VJing and everything in between here:
so the Global Game Jam challenge is over and it was quite a trip; lots of soda and coffee, very little sleep, new friends and klish. we named the game after click and push, those being the main actions taken by the user during gameplay. at the end of the event our team was awarded the “most polished” award, for being the most polished I guess; we made a very good five minute game with only 48 hours so we deserve it.
other stand outs of the night:
Are we there yet: great game about driving and keeping an eye out for your parents as you try to beat up your sibling.
Twelve A.M.: “Twelve A.M is a game about life, romantic relationships gone wrong, personality quirks, and video games. Particularly it is about our relationships with video games.” total stand out and full of promise, would love to see it finished.
Gandhi Gandhi Boom Boom: a “casual real time puzzle game” about Gandhi and what Gandhi hates the most; British imperialism in the form of a fat hamburger. this was the winning game of the night and congrats to the team, they are a friendly bunch.
