What makes a man?: Inspiration

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Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Sambuichi

I had the great opportunity to participate in a one and a half day seminar lead by the great japanese architect Hiroshi Sambuichi.

Yesterday he held a lecture to tell us a little about his work and filosophy. I find his whole thought about making architecture part of the cycles of nature extremely inspirational.
Sambuichi tried to learn us that the earth consists of inert and moving material in a mutual influental relationship and that we should consider all the possible ways we influent the movements of air, water, etc. But it's not as much taking natural phenomenons into account as it's about controlling them and using them to your advantages.

For this short seminar my co-student and I seeked to use and intensify the howling winds at the western coast of jutland. Basicaly our structure consists of a big funnel that leads the winds into a giant organ pipe. We found that leaving the mouth of the pipe the only opening facing south creates a concentration of light at the flue. This emphazises the small space where the sound is actualy generated and makes this a very special area to experience. I can't imagine it's a very pleasant place to stay, but it was really fun and educational to make.

And please excuse the grimey cell phono photos.

Our model

Sambuichi seminar

Sambuichi seminar

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Artist's Conception

First of all, let's be clear that I am not an artist. But what do you do when you have a lot of ideas, but lack both workshop, tools and skills to carry them out? Not to mention money. I'm always planning a lot of modifications I'd like to do to the GT500. So I tried to mock up some of them in a drawing.
I love working with watercolours and I know a little on the technique, but there's still a lot to develop. I think the next thing for me to work with is layering. That should make the chrome and other shiny stuff come out better.
For this rendition I traced the base drawing to a piece of paper directly on the laptop screen using a softish pencil and a light hand. I taped that drawing to the light table and added my planned modifications on another piece on top of that. Lastly i fixed the watercolour paper over both the other layers and started colouring it in. I do one colour at a time and one area at a time and make sure not to start a new one before the one directly next to it is completely dry.

Sketching

Adding colour

Artist's conception of a custom Suzuki GT500

Friday, 5 August 2011

Visit at Wrenchmonkees

I am privileged to live in the same city as Wrenchmonkees. So yesterday a new friend and I went for a ride in the sun and a visit at one of the worlds finest custom motorbike shops. Everybody were busy doing office work, but still took the time to make a cup of coffee and have a quick chat.
We snooped around and had a good time kicking tyres and admiring the very impressive craftmanship. Unsurprisingly the machines were so much more interesting and beautiful in real life. What makes this outfit really stand out is the great taste that goes along with the good craftmanship and attention to detail.
It was very fun to recognize the feeling of being totally star struck. Who knew there was such a thing as superstar motorcycle mechanics?
When we finally got the suzuki started we took a detour around the airport. And apart from Henrik running out of gas and having to pillion to a tank and me blowing one of the new exhaust gaskets, the trip home went hasslefree.
You can follow the Wrenchmonkees' work on their blog.