Tale of How

Lina also showed is this AMAZING video :D it fills me with gleejoyeggs! The tale of How by the Blackheart Gang.

Lina Kusaite

Lina Kusaite who led our drawing workshop does lovely lovely drawings. Creepy and beautiful and illustrative and sort of melancholy. She kind of reminds me of Kiyoshi Nakashima.

Drawing Workshop with Lina Kusaite

Relaxed drawing at the workshop :) Nice to have the pressure eased. I am a small triangle hugging round spiky Stuart. I also had a dream I was washing a sheep with no legs. But it was ok, it had legs, they just hadn't popped through yet....

Arduino Workshop

Arduino workshop was a little confusing but quite fun. I understood enough to be interested but not enough to feel confident doing electronics alone. I want to understand whats happening a bit more and how it would be done without a computer. I'm thinking of my rotating lamps. I don't need a computer for that but I'd like to understand what I'm doing a little better. We got one more Arduino session tommorow but I think I'll get Electronics for Dummies or something and do that on my own time. Doing stuff with sensors (heat/light etc) is pretty interesting though...something to think about.

Do I just want to make things look pretty or do I want to do something more?

Mmmm Smart Yogurt

BT Technologies is intriguing. Researched predictions on what the future holds. Smart yoghurt eh? Not sure I understand but I like the image. Kaleidascopic flowers. Cyberwar. Embedded smells. Emotion detection (which sounds very intrusive to me). Video clothing. Things that caught my attention.

I always imagine a Brave New World type future. Been a while since I read it but when I did I know I felt like we were already on our way. Where everything is super efficient and shallow and emotionless. Fear.

Lots of drawing was done last week. All these sort of experimental drawing excerises. Looking at an object then drawing without looking. Visualising. Concentrating on each sense. Dancing and drawing with feet. It was like being allowed to play and not pressured. I feel kind of better for it. Aint drawn in a while.

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