Posts filed under 'visual experiments'
Some rough mock ups of an idea I have been thinking on for ages (like about 2 years). It derives from the bus stories blog which gathered 73 word stories (more or less) about the No.73 bus. I placed these stories on the seats of the bus where people said they were sitting (generally) and now the bus is full (over full actually as some stories are standing…). So I’m working up a set of cards – 73 in total – consisting of an upper deck and a lower deck and there are four suites of images on the reverse side – inside the bus, outside the bus, in the bus garage and textures of travel.
I’ll post more and better pictures as I tighten up the design (and clean the camera lens!). I’ll also be putting them onto the (new and improved) 73urbanjourneys website which is still offline at present – soon, soon…..
August 15th, 2005
Following on from the last post, this is for all the people who do buy tickets (or did, pre-oyster). Adele sent me a link to her website and upcoming show. This is some blurb from her site.
How to Make a Bus Sculpture is an exploration by London based artist, Adele Prince. When we are sitting on the bus, we often fiddle with our ticket, rolling it and folding it between our fingers, scrunching it up and then discarding it. Adele considers these paper creations to be quite beautiful, and has been documenting her own ‘Bus Sculptures’ photographically.
Adele Prince likes to examine the things we do in our everyday life, often without thinking about it, she likes to focus on the little gestures and rituals we perform on our day to day journeys and pick out the repetitive actions that can easily go unnoticed. She has exhibited widely, and worked in a variety of media, including interactive websites, video, performance, print and neon. How to Make a Bus Sculpture is an ongoing project, with an exhibition of Adele’s explorations at The Chapman Gallery, Salford University, from February 7-18th, 2005.
You can submit your bus ticket sculptures to Adele via her website.
January 31st, 2005
January 9th, 2005
Some paper playing and folding experiments. I have been thinking through spaces created by people’s movements on the bus. It’s an idea. Not sure exactly where it’s going, but it’s somewhere. Still thinking.
More quotes from Folding Architecture; Spatial, Structural and Organisational Diagrams.
This way of folding is more radical than origami because it includes no narrative element. The fold is a sort of affectionate space. More than just reason, meaning and function are involved here. The fold alters the traditional viewpoint.
The first fold must thus be viewed as sounds that only much later become words. It is a new language, at least for the student, which must be learned.
January 6th, 2005
I am unusually fond of origami anyway so a warm reception greeted this particular Christmas treat – Folding Architecture; Spatial, Structural and Organisational Diagrams by Sophia Vyzoviti. Whilst modelmaking is a standard process in architectonic design, Vyzoviti introduces paper construction techniques and theoretical investigations by way of working design studio practice in the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Amsterdam.
Hans Cornelissen, the design studio course director explains;
The D10 design studio project is an example of an architectural design process with a circular nature. In contrast to a linear proces, it allows one to encircle a problem and understand and confront it in all it’s relationships – in other words, it is a kind of exploration. It results among other things in an expansion from the logical to associative coherence. The effect is investigative design and attitude formation. In this context, the fold is more important for the development of the methods to arrive at a new architecture, than it is for the development of an individual architectural form.
The tiny book features short essays, images of folded forms, process images, generative sequences and drawings. All are aesthetically pleasing, creatively stimulating as well as theoretically warming. Each image is accompanied by a transformative list of instructional verbs – score – cut – unfold – knot – hinge – wrap – rotate – pierce – weave – extrude – pleat – compress – balance – crease – which are referenced more as additives/ingredients implicated in the folding process than as detailed didactic instructions.
I find the process of folding paper and constructing (re)presentations of research findings or data or ideas in visual form greatly assists in the development of connections between thoughts, new reflections on old ideas and loosens up my mind when it gets stuck in corners. It’s quiet, contemplative and computer-less. And it is often in the making and re-making of something in a completely different form that it becomes easier to see it for what it is or could be as well as what it was.
I write this post as I think through passenger mobility on the bus. I am hoping to experiment with folding expressions of my scribbles of circulation flows. May work. May not. But even if it doesn’t, I’ll end up with a lot of mess and a few funky looking models to stick on the wall. Either way I can’t lose.
January 5th, 2005
The routemaster bus of stories is almost full. I have just updated the floor plan on the website with stories posted on the 73 Stories blog and excerpts from various interviews. There are about 8 seats left. So if you have a story to add, post it here.
November 11th, 2004
Time: 13:40 – 13:45
Date: 26.05.04
Location: Stoke Newington High Street (heading south)
Orange: enter route
Pink: exit route
Red: stationary or movement on bus
Thinking about circulation on the bus again. This time I recorded the time and location of the mobile narrative and also denoted entering, exiting and stationary passengers via coloured lines. The annotated mobility on the floor plan is dense despite the short period of time and curiously it felt that it was a very quiet period of travel. I began to imagine how the interwoven threads might appear on the bus when travelling through Oxford Street or Kings Cross.
May 28th, 2004
