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Wednesday, 4th of January, 2006 @ 8:00am
The PSP Design Club exhibition was held on 28th November at the Victoria Miro gallery. Click the links below to see photos from the exhibition and the work of all the participants.
David Adjaye
Julie Linke Bank
Jeremy Boxer
Fibre
Martí Guixé
Ben Hooker & Shona Kitchen
Sami Khan
Onkar Singh Kular
Siro Micheroli
Chris Ofili
Shubhankar Ray
William Rowe
Barrie K. Sharpe
Monday, 28th of November, 2005 @ 11:11am
An advent calender made by granny for my girls. The sweets and goodies are mysteriously disappearing.
Liz x
Thursday, 24th of November, 2005 @ 10:06am
Filled with bits & bobs.
Dave B
Thursday, 24th of November, 2005 @ 8:44am
Consecutive woodcut letters, given to Melissa and I from an incomplete alphabet purchased in Norman Road, St Leonards on Sea.
Nathan
Thursday, 24th of November, 2005 @ 8:28am
The Concise Oxford Dictionary, i’m rubbish at spelling so it’s always close by!
Liz x
Thursday, 24th of November, 2005 @ 7:13am
An Interlocking stencil pack found in the studio, brought in a flea market in New York.
Vik
Thursday, 24th of November, 2005 @ 5:51am
From Tokyo.
David
Thursday, 24th of November, 2005 @ 5:46am
£3 at Angel antiques market
Dave B
Thursday, 24th of November, 2005 @ 4:45am
Balgowan Primary School Harvest Festival 2005.
Liz x
Tuesday, 22nd of November, 2005 @ 12:42pm
Chick pea yahini with rice. Mild.
David
Tuesday, 22nd of November, 2005 @ 5:26am
My mum’s carefully organised collection of spices.
Vik
Monday, 21st of November, 2005 @ 12:01pm
Saturday, 19th of November, 2005 @ 11:54am
SCALE: x Nine Zeros
Thursday, 17th of November, 2005 @ 12:52pm
The afro as an icon of creativity and freedom of expression offers limitless possibilities - The potential to design a new icon that contains creativity, expanding into an eclectic range of information…
Thursday, 17th of November, 2005 @ 12:51pm
Thursday, 17th of November, 2005 @ 12:50pm
Thursday, 17th of November, 2005 @ 12:49pm
Thursday, 17th of November, 2005 @ 12:48pm
Thursday, 17th of November, 2005 @ 12:37pm
Thursday, 17th of November, 2005 @ 12:30pm
Thursday, 17th of November, 2005 @ 11:15am
Collected on my travels, re-arranging passes the time whilst waiting for the kettle to boil.
Dave B
Thursday, 17th of November, 2005 @ 4:11am
This is me enjoying a nice cup of tea at the Kit Kat Cafe.... 6 years ago, it’s been up on my mirror ever since.
Liz x
Wednesday, 16th of November, 2005 @ 4:23am
Always open for a hot chocolate, whatever the weather. Camber Sands, East Sussex.
Nathan
Monday, 14th of November, 2005 @ 5:20pm
the world’s two largest screen audiences are in india & china
Monday, 14th of November, 2005 @ 5:16pm
Monday, 14th of November, 2005 @ 6:30am
Monday, 14th of November, 2005 @ 6:27am
Monday, 14th of November, 2005 @ 6:21am
Monday, 14th of November, 2005 @ 4:30am
we used to move to food to survive. in the western we all survive so now we move to the screen.
when you watch tv you see an image move around the screen but nothing really moves.
Monday, 14th of November, 2005 @ 4:08am
Sunday, 13th of November, 2005 @ 7:29am
A restaurant with more that 9 Kitchens
check details at http://www.foodfacility.org
Sunday, 13th of November, 2005 @ 7:19am
Sunday, 13th of November, 2005 @ 7:15am
Friday, 11th of November, 2005 @ 10:12am
While I am not yet sure what form my final project will take, I do have two ideas, images of both shown below. The first is how you explore the city/urban areas, how you can move between the virtual space and the real. This could be a sort of a game or a new kind of tourist map/guide. My ideas come from my fascination of the possibilities it gives to be a part of a never ending network, where you do not know the others in the network, you have something in common and together you can influence this network i.e. a game, a guide, an image of ongoing changes.
The second idea comes from the same fascination of how multiple players can, together in this network, create one image. I call it a ‘Mod Map’. All of this information will together create one image telling the mood of one actual place, one city, one country, one continent. This image will change during the day with the changes in people’s mood. The outcome might not be an image, but could also be an object in the public space showing the changes.
Thursday, 10th of November, 2005 @ 8:24pm
Every teabag in the US comes individually wrapped. Make mine a Double Bergamot Earl Grey.
Wednesday, 9th of November, 2005 @ 3:49pm
Wednesday, 9th of November, 2005 @ 6:28am
A majority of games are designed around real spaces; for example San Francisco Airport. PSP Structures could be site specific and allow Passionate game players to experience both virtual and real spaces in parallel.
Wednesday, 9th of November, 2005 @ 6:18am
A South London wall advertisment.
Vik
Tuesday, 8th of November, 2005 @ 7:18am
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine recently and we were talking about ideas that we had that never materialized. One of mine was using a light box as a way of presenting some of my photography. I was going to make my own lightboxes that will have been customized depending on the picture. We happened to be in the Tate Modern coming up on an esclator coming up from the turbine hall. Infront of us was the Jeff Wall exhibit which was all based on light boxes. So I will be exploring using a light box as well as the contact sheets.
below is my favorite from the show
Tuesday, 8th of November, 2005 @ 5:21am
Position 2 is made of 2 psp glued together, one reversed
Tuesday, 8th of November, 2005 @ 5:12am
The PSP turns into a ticker displaying the name of the person who you are waiting for.
Tuesday, 8th of November, 2005 @ 3:54am
Down the back streets of Bankside, a decaying Tudor Rose mural.
Dave B
Monday, 7th of November, 2005 @ 10:39pm
Prototype packaging design
With the pill releasing trillions of microscopic robot machines into the bloodstream therefore negating the need for a physical PSP device, the corporate branding would revolve around the packaging design. Designed to stand upright for placement in the retail environment, the front screen would be dedicated to advertise the contents of the unit and also display animated instructions for the product.
With technology becoming micro-sized, products will still need to relate to the physical world or human scale. Hand-sized packaging gives a tactile and visual presence required in the physical retail environment.
Monday, 7th of November, 2005 @ 2:56pm
1st BUILD TO SEE IF BIKE RIDES AS GOOD AS IT LOOKS.
EVERTHIN’ COOL!
NEXT THE BIKE HAS TO BE STRIPPED, SAND BLASTED AND POWDER PAINTED, THEN REBUILT.
AS YOU CAN SEE THE FRAME HAD BEEN DESIGNED IN THE SHAPE OF ANY EYE.
Monday, 7th of November, 2005 @ 2:13pm
This is the wallpaper in the toilet on the top floor of our house in St Leonards. We’ll get round to redecorating at some stage…
Nathan
Monday, 7th of November, 2005 @ 3:37am
... the strange, and sometimes beautiful mix of the electronic and organic.
Monday, 7th of November, 2005 @ 3:23am
From our many orbits of London, driving in and out of the city limits, we have become enthusiastic connoisseurs of the landscapes created where open country rubs up against pockets of suburbia and the city’s transport networks. In terms of scale, texture and animation, these places are unique. They contain unregulated tracts of land, put to eclectic use, which present intriguing vistas full of brutal thresholds. And although these are lonely places, removed from the city proper, they are populated (albeit transiently) by the thousands of people who daily speed through them in their vehicles. But what happens if you leave your vehicle? Outside our car – unshielded, un-power-assisted – exploring hard shoulders, climbing motorway embankments, standing under flight paths, we found ourselves exhilarated. It’s thrilling to be so out of scale with the massive shapes and high velocities of these frontier environments, to feel free of the city and yet reconnected to it in a way that is raw, visceral.
The turbulent, wreckage-strewn perimeter of the city demarcates more than just its physical edges. It also represents a transition in the landscape’s invisible characteristics: a change in its air chemistry, its temperature, and the density of its electromagnetic space of media channels and data networks. Approaching London, a dormant car radio will crackle into life as the city’s radio stations come within range – the pop and hiss of the patchy radio ‘landscape’ analogous to the fragmented texture of the visual landscape beyond the windscreen.
Sunday, 6th of November, 2005 @ 5:24pm
A plugin allow to use the PSP as a safety light
Sunday, 6th of November, 2005 @ 5:23pm
SO, WE HAVE MAN/MACHINE/PSP..... What about location. Site specific games. Structures which can move into extreme demanding locations. Real Experiences combined with virtual. Psp structures strategically positioned according to game type.
Sunday, 6th of November, 2005 @ 5:05pm
The virtual world is a beautiful place.... but just not quite satisfying enough. Nothing beats the real brutal beauty in hard core functional machinery.
With the psp a direction which combines both is manifesting..................person/machine/psp
Sunday, 6th of November, 2005 @ 5:03pm
The position 01 is made of 2 PSP glued together, in this way you play virtual and real in paralel.
Friday, 4th of November, 2005 @ 11:25pm
The concept of ‘freedom’ within gaming suggests the creation of alternate identities and the ability to immerse oneself in imaginary worlds. The convergence of technology necessitates the need to look beyond digital realms and how future devices will add functionality to the real world.
Current developmental trends in mobile technology suggest the future has finally arrived. But rather than the PSP brand becoming the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of electronic devices, being a pocket device with all manner of peripherals and software add-ons combined for extended functionality beyond entertainment, reduce the technology to its simplest form.
With consumer electronics strapped to our bodies or always within an arms reach, the physical integration of mechanical and biological has always been theorised in Science Fiction. With NANO TECHNOLOGY, by sending particle components into the brain to augment the senses and integrate with full electronic functionality, physical consumer devices become obsolete.
With nano scale, technology becomes invisible to the naked eye,
All you need is a simple over the counter PILL.
Thursday, 3rd of November, 2005 @ 10:36pm
Corner deli with flower stand.
David
Thursday, 3rd of November, 2005 @ 3:33pm
Contact sheets are usually ways that you select what you will use from a roll of film. I am drawn to contact sheets in this increasingly digital world. As we move closer to a film-less society will contact sheets still serve the same purpose. I have also becomeinterested in the way that symbols are used in the marking of the contact sheets.
I have often thought that shooting something in order or recreating the order of a contact sheet can bring new meaning to the format.
Not sure which direction this will go.
Here are some examples i have found
Thursday, 3rd of November, 2005 @ 6:38am
Been quietly busy progressing our PSP Chromo™ project ideas and have some working prototypes to see here. Still much work to do, but will be meeting with the PSP guys next week to trash out some software issues as well as get a handle on some hardware hook-ups. I’ve made some rather nice PSP wallpapers based on some of my Chromouflage™ designs.
Wednesday, 2nd of November, 2005 @ 10:14am
The PSP sucks you in; you forget time and place all of a sudden you are in undiscovered areas.
The map changes and new routes are created, you have to find a new way back or are you lost?
Wednesday, 2nd of November, 2005 @ 9:25am
...and into the red nothing in this game for two in a bed. Super, smashing, great.
Liz x
Wednesday, 2nd of November, 2005 @ 3:45am
401 Union Street’s Dot Matrix door number.
Vik
Monday, 31st of October, 2005 @ 8:38am
Bang in the 155 nails (template provided, nails not provided) to create your ‘Thread Sculpture’ (thread not provided). © Copyright reserved 1975.
Nathan
Monday, 31st of October, 2005 @ 5:22am
Monday, 31st of October, 2005 @ 4:14am
Formaggio parmigiano typographico
Dave B
Sunday, 30th of October, 2005 @ 5:09am
What if you were to press one button on you PSP telling which mood you are in, every time you turn it on? What are the possibilities, what kind of use and power does this give…will it have an effect on sales market, politics… what can or will this generate?
Friday, 28th of October, 2005 @ 10:50am
Friday, 28th of October, 2005 @ 10:39am
A favourite treat of those furry little critters.
Matt
Friday, 28th of October, 2005 @ 10:14am
The grace of Tokyo, the hidden tradition in its modernity, the considered wisdom in its audacious, world conquering economic dreams has struck me so very poignantly this week. I wonder how Sony became. Who breathed life into this ‘Corporation’. It is undeniably a modern god, but as with Buddhism, did it start with one man? What were its original aspirations? What were the personal experiences and beliefs and experiences that formed it. Was it formed from wars fire? Was it always intended to breed collective riches, or has it only lately been usurped for the benefit of the elite faceless ‘many’. As much as huge corporations are intended to scare us, I find myself seduced by Sony. Drawn in. I fetishise the black hardware that softly digests my studios space, that eats square feet of ‘home’.
As I drove through early morning sun back across to Narita, across what passes for countryside in Chibas shadow, between valleys sides and rice field spread, through deep fields of sea mist, I felt it. I felt its benevolence, and I felt more content than ever before. Better Japans corporate gods that bow courteously as they steadily close around you warm and tight, than the American, burger scented corporate scum that say ‘fuck you’ as they annihalate your culture and make you gag on their own vile, empty, worthless greed.
Thursday, 27th of October, 2005 @ 5:37pm
From Alexander Graham Bell to Skype.
David
Tuesday, 25th of October, 2005 @ 11:07am
Tuesday, 25th of October, 2005 @ 5:06am
Celebrating the first call by Alexander Bell in March 1876. I wonder who he called?
Dave B
Monday, 24th of October, 2005 @ 3:07pm
An invitation to a children’s party, filed conveniently… in the roses, I saw this at no 70 when visiting for tea.
Liz x
Monday, 24th of October, 2005 @ 2:00pm
Silent film star Tom Mix was killed in a freak auto accident on 12 October 1940. Famous for his high-living ways—including his love of fast cars—Mix was speeding across Arizona in his 1921 yellow Cord when he unexpectedly encountered a bridge under construction. Braking and swerving sharply, Mix dislodged a heavy suitcase from the luggage rack behind him. The suitcase crashed forward into Mix’s head, killing him.
Monday, 24th of October, 2005 @ 9:00am
Red envelopes, widely used in Chinese festivities such as weddings and New Year to wrap cash or jewellery as gift. Photographed on studio floor. This translates as “Double Love”.
Vik
Sunday, 23rd of October, 2005 @ 7:18pm
Telegraph posts in our neighbourhood, TN37, are adorned with numbers and letters.
Nathan
Sunday, 23rd of October, 2005 @ 11:43am
Image no.1: Fly-By-Community. A community so passionate about
flight they make it their home.
Image no.2: Gasworks. It was not until i was 15 that i realised a gas container
grew and shrank depending on how much gas it contained. I am still
in awe whenever i see one.
Image no.3: Oil Rig. A structure built specifically for one function and to withstand
the brutal environment it has placed itself within.
Saturday, 22nd of October, 2005 @ 2:04am
[image 1, artist unkown; image 2, Vito Anccoci; image 3, webcam image]
Thursday, 20th of October, 2005 @ 4:47pm
Neighbourhood Watch, upstate NY style.
David
Thursday, 20th of October, 2005 @ 9:09am
In just a few days I return from Japan, and then I hope to be able to show the very first technical tests for this project.
Thursday, 20th of October, 2005 @ 6:56am
Wednesday, 19th of October, 2005 @ 9:04am
Wednesday, 19th of October, 2005 @ 4:12am
Mrs Miggins @ No.43, the human CCTV camera.
Matt
Tuesday, 18th of October, 2005 @ 10:40am
Dave B
Tuesday, 18th of October, 2005 @ 9:01am
Tuesday, 18th of October, 2005 @ 4:27am
This Anti-war protest sign is in my laundry room, it was found discarded on the streets of Soho after a drunken night out a few years ago, we decided it needed a good home, among the knickers and cat food!
Liz x
Monday, 17th of October, 2005 @ 7:19pm
had to get the car fixed
Monday, 17th of October, 2005 @ 8:57am
Monday, 17th of October, 2005 @ 6:40am
A mantle piece museum showcasing ‘The mobile phone’ throughout the years.
Vik
Sunday, 16th of October, 2005 @ 3:11pm
We don’t have a cassette player in the house, but we do in the car. Occasionally a cassette will finds it’s way into the house. Grace Jones - Living My Life (1982) was a tape called a 1+1, a pre-recorded album on one side with the ability to record another album of your choice on the other side.
Nathan
Saturday, 15th of October, 2005 @ 8:34am
Wednesday, 12th of October, 2005 @ 5:21pm
A different country, another attic. We found this cassette of Donna Summer’s greatest hits when we moved in. We hadn’t unpacked our music so we played it on a borrowed boombox and danced around the empty house. It found it’s way to the attic where it became covered in sawdust while the house was re-roofed.
David
Wednesday, 12th of October, 2005 @ 5:42am
Having a good ol’ dig around the attic, I stumbled across my Dad’s reel to reel player. These things used to be the dog’s business back in the day… or so my Dad says. None of these little devices that store thousands of tracks… this beast uses 2 reels for one album!
Matt
Tuesday, 11th of October, 2005 @ 11:37am
Tuesday, 11th of October, 2005 @ 6:12am
"Most of the world sees nothing above but the sun, [...] They know not the horsehead nebula, the collars of Saturn like metal coils around the neck of a Benin princess, the vast black sinks of imploded matter like drain holes in outer space, the throbbing light of pulsars, atomizing suns, dwarf stars heavy beyond belief, red giants, the uncoiling galaxies. I am not talking about the jingoistic bus ride to the moon or the doggies woofing in weightless capsules among the planetary detritus, the petty and costly face slaps of the pudding powers. [...] No, the study of space unwraps the strangest and most exotic realities the human mind can ever encounter. [...] Nothing seems impossible in space. Nothing is impossible. All is strange and wondrous in that nonhuman void. This is why astronomers do not seek the company of any but their fellows, for no one else has seen the mysteries as they have. Theirs is a ghastly joy felt in exploding stars, in galactic death. They know the dim light of a star filtering through our filthy, polluted sky has been on its way to that moment for a thousand years. [...] Look into the sky and you are looking into time and nothing that you see is now – it is all so remote and ancient that the human mind quails and shrinks as it approaches. Listen, extinction is the fate of all species, including ours. But before we go maybe we’ll get a quick look at a blinding light.”
from ‘Poscards’ by E. Annie Proulx
Tuesday, 11th of October, 2005 @ 6:03am
This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon—the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft—was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA’s Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth. The Moon is at the top of the picture and beyond the Earth as viewed by Voyager.
Tuesday, 11th of October, 2005 @ 4:59am
...with my little i pod. Took some coaxing but managed to get the little (or rather big) fella to walk across my ipod.
Dave B
Tuesday, 11th of October, 2005 @ 4:51am
Playing with the psp, our sensations are limited to the strain of ones eyes and brain… a few erratic muscle twitches. But nothing that can account for being aware of ones physicality, both in oneself and against ones opponent. A real future of unused bodies does not seem that far fetched really!
What if we combine 2 games: psp v psp + human v human
Monday, 10th of October, 2005 @ 3:04pm
THIS LI’L POEM IS FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO VALUE OUR LIBERTY & FREEDOM >>>
LISTEN TO HER SINGING DON’T LET HER SING IN VAIN
IF YOU LISTEN CLEARLY YOU’LL SURELY FEEL THE PAIN
SINGING FOR HER FREEDOM SINGING FOR ANOTHER
IF YOU’RE PURE AT HEART YOU KNOW YOU WILL DISCOVER
WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS THE SADDEST SONG
HER SPIRIT ONCE FLEW FREELY THE JOY OF A NEW TOMORROW
HER HEART NOW IS CHAINED HER MIND FILLED WITH SORROW
SINGING SONGS OF FREEDOM SHE SINGS AWAY HER FEARS
IF YOU’RE PURE AT HEART YOUR SURLY TASTE THE TEARS
OF THE CAGED BIRD WHILE SHE SINGS THE SADDEST SONG
RAINBOWS ARE FOR DREAMERS SOMETIMES ANGELS FALL
YOU CAN MOVE A MOUNTAIN YOU CAN STILL STAND TALL
SINGING OUT FOR YOUR FREEDOM SING FROM HIGH ABOVE
IF YOUR PURE AT HEART YOU’LL SURELY FIND PURE LOVE
STILL THE CAGED BIRD SINGS THE SADDEST SONG
SHARPEYE
1-01-02
Monday, 10th of October, 2005 @ 6:54am
In the 1980s, a ventriloquist named Keith Harris was a nationally known name in Britain. He had his own TV show, largely aimed at children, on which he co-starred with his two ‘talking’ soft toy creations, Orville and Cuddles. Eventually, his career began to wane, and he fell back on live appearances. But nothing could bring him back to his former glories, desperate remedies were required. Harris finally joined a touring bill of look-alikes. The twist was that Harris went on stage as a look-alike of himself.
From ‘Fame – Stripping Celebrities Bare by David Gritten’ 2002
Monday, 10th of October, 2005 @ 5:29am
...climbed up the water spout. Taken at my mates birthday party. A fab afternoon of live music, Stella and young men!
Liz x
Monday, 10th of October, 2005 @ 3:32am
Place yourself in a different environment -
a imaginary world, dream world, wishful thinking…another world.
Monday, 10th of October, 2005 @ 3:31am
A comment to Onkar’s Loaf Me Tender recipe. Try to replace the white bread with pre-toasted bread found at London Borough Market.
Monday, 10th of October, 2005 @ 3:28am
This table/record player - record player/table was found over the weekend at Crown Hill tip in Milton Keynes, it’s amazing the things people throw away.
Vik