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How Do I Know / Here We Go Magic
I love the dancing…
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BAUHAUS 2.0
Material for our first workshop was scrap metal, wood and glass. We chose one piece each, then were asked to design ‘equilibrium’ with the supplementary pieces and tools. Students in the foundation course at the Bauhaus did a similar exercise. The motto was something like, ‘The act of building is the goal for all.’
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BAUHAUS 1.0
Goethe. Listz. Bach. BAUHAUS.
Weimar, Germany (pop. 65,000) is the first home to the most important modern school in design history, which started here in 1919. Thanks to CAL’s Cultural Fund, I’ve arrived for Type Camp Bauhaus.
Over the next week I will be workshopping within the same walls as my design heroes; under four typography and design gurus, with eight other type campers from all over the world.
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DOCUMENTA 13 | Hello KASSEL
Held over multiple venues in Kassel, Germany, Documenta is a modern and contemporary art exhibition held once every five years. Unlike the biennale, Documenta aims to make visible the roots of contemporary artistic production in all major fields, it’s also about historical reference to contemporary art. Here are a few of my faves.
A diagonally cut A1 sheet of MDF and the compound word GHOST/ WRITER for the Terrible Twos Melbourne exhibition at No Vacancy in Melbourne on June 7. I was fortunate enough to collaborate with Nick Hallam from Positive Posters on this project by The Design Kids and Desktop Magazine. My 3D pixelated typewriter is made from hand cut balsa wood.
Sweet indie-pop swaying in marble wash denim. The Drums totally blew it out of the water at Sydney Laneways.
ACCA did a great show to end 2011 with. Pipilotti Rist keeps it simple, but does it really well.
I’M OK, YOU’RE A PSYCHOPATH.
‘One in 1000 people are psychopaths’, says Jon Ronson @ Festival for Dangerous Ideas.
His book, The Psychopath Test tracks him doing Hare Psychopathy Checklist on possible psychopaths:
Personality traits on the checklist are:
- Glibness/superficial charm
- Grandiose sense of self-worth
- Pathological lying
- Cunning/manipulative
- Lack of remorse or guilt
- Shallow affect (genuine emotion is short-lived and egocentric)
- Callousness; lack of empathy
- Failure to accept responsibility for actions.
Remind you of anyone?
Jon Ronson also wrote Them and Men Who Stare at Goats.
