I still don’t have a soldering iron yet. Thinking of buying a soldering station, but the price makes me think again. I kept thinking I might be able to get something cheaper in Indonesia. I am thinking and thinking. And not only about soldering irons. I also thought about toy 2. So I opened toy […]
One day last September I participated in a one-day toyhacking workshop held by tinker.it and onedotzero. Yes, electronics – almost 24 years after a failed attempt to build a radio from scratch in grade 7. I was a bit reluctant when the workshop started, but the facilitators practically got our feet soaking wet within the […]
I feel shitty. Like the consistency of that thing I expel. Liquid at full throttle. Splatters around. The historical yellowish white bowl. Not so pristine. Although so black of Norit. Eight times today. Nine. A world record of self pity. Type seven on the Bristol stool chart. Alas, here goes another one.
You can always come in. Come in, make yourself at home. Home. Come in! Come on, press the buttons, click. Press the buttons, and click click click with us. Click and slurrr go the little strong lights on the railings on the ceiling. Slur. Slurrr they go and change positions and “they form a pattern, […]
In Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, I started with a bed of mixed flowers. I have previously made a draft image that showed the shape of India and its 28 states arranged with the four colours of the flowers that I have chosen – orange Marigold, yellow Marigold, red Hibiscus and white Tuberose. Looking […]
I drove a car from Digha Ghat to in the Hanuman flower market in Patna this morning. Perhaps it is fair to say that it is quite an achievement? You can ask Arvind and Naresh for their accounts. The rest of the day was spent working on Nous ne notons pas les fleurs. Open day […]
The flowers have arrived! Arvind was really kind to buy them in the Hanuman market for me. Yellow and orange marigold, red hibiscus, and white rajnigandha. The whole day today, I prepared my site. I started with marking the outer edges of the video screen on the floor, and then simply pulled each flower out […]
– Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, dit le géographe. – Pourquoi ça! c’est pas joli! – Parce que les fleurs sont éphémères. from Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It has been 4 days since I first started working with these flowers. When I thought of the idea, I began to check whether it […]
The highest point of the Terra Incognita, et cetera mural in Centraal Museum, Utrecht, is about 360 cm from the floor. I started painting the blank dymaxion map on 11 October, and finished it on 13 October. The next day, on 14 October, we had press coming, and I also started taking care of other […]
Preparing Terra Incognita et cetera for the Centraal Museum, Utrecht. Chris sent me this photo that he has taken for me before I went to the site at Centraal Museum, Utrecht. From previous correspondence with Meta Knol I did imagine that the wall would be quite big and that excited me. When I came to […]