Art, funny word that really. Three letters long, one vowel and after much testing appears to only take one second to write, yet this word means and stands for so much. So many interests, disciplines and hobbies come under this heading from Picasso to a large bunch of people all stopping dead still and the same time in a specific public building!!(http://www.break.com/index/200-people-freeze-in-grand-central.html)
More to point now after that insight into the word art.
This blog is about a piece of art that I have been seeing frequently in the Roland Levinsky Building here in Plymouth. I've past it on the stairs to the first floor, it's against a glass panel and it taunts me so, I love it and don't know why. It's not that it's a bad piece of art or anything it's that I want the damn thing . I want it now I wanted it when I first saw......god damn it I want that piece of art. But how, how would I go about getting it, would I just walk into their studio and yell out a price? would the creator think I was having em on? would they even want me have it? Knowing a few art students, they can be rather protective of their work at the best of times. But it will be mine I tell thee!!
Anyhow I shall try and get a photograph of it and post it on here for all to see.
-tomi
Saturday 23 February 2008
Friday 22 February 2008
Football or Footbawl?
Recently......no no actually its worse than that, let me start over_
For roughly the last 5/6 months me, my housemates and some friends down here at uni have been yelling out the word 'FOOTBALL' here there and everywhere...literally. Bars, houses, streets, shops and public buildings you name it we yelled it. For some reason shouting football is so satisfying, seriously try it, there is something about this word. Like an untapped resource of anger and testosterone release. I think the fact that you in turn are neither shouting a player or a teams name also makes it slightly obscure and personal.
However I've noticed that the word football to me and my friends has independently evolved itself. Basically the pronunciation has become slurred and slightly un-audible to the local audience. Like the english language this word has evolved to better suit our needs so it is less effort to say. I personally think this is GREAT!!
-tomi
ps. History of the word 'Football' at a later date
For roughly the last 5/6 months me, my housemates and some friends down here at uni have been yelling out the word 'FOOTBALL' here there and everywhere...literally. Bars, houses, streets, shops and public buildings you name it we yelled it. For some reason shouting football is so satisfying, seriously try it, there is something about this word. Like an untapped resource of anger and testosterone release. I think the fact that you in turn are neither shouting a player or a teams name also makes it slightly obscure and personal.
However I've noticed that the word football to me and my friends has independently evolved itself. Basically the pronunciation has become slurred and slightly un-audible to the local audience. Like the english language this word has evolved to better suit our needs so it is less effort to say. I personally think this is GREAT!!
-tomi
ps. History of the word 'Football' at a later date
Thursday 21 February 2008
Thoughts on a Robbery.
Sometimes my mind often slips into a sense of deep thought whilst I come to a conclusion about how to do something. This time as I stood in the large sun light atrium of the Drake Circus Shopping Centre with my buddy and housemate Carl I realised how easy it would be to rob boots and Virgin (refusing to refer to as Zavvi!).
Picking up on the security guards weakness of blindly following anyone who runs out of the shop in question and I realising that the two shops in question are directly opposite each other I slipped into one of my deep thought productions.
ACTION PLAN
15:45_Gather a team of about ten or so robbers, set four of them in each of the shops and have one other in each shop assigned to blatantly steal something.
15:50_The 'bait' (as will be referred to) will leave the shop and run making the guards chase them straight into the opposite shop and vice verse. Whilst this is going on the eight other men casually help themselves to some spoils.
(Preferably make the bait aged under 18 and they will just get a warning.)
14:00_Meet up and have Starbucks
If anyone for some reason tries this please let me know how you did
-tomi
Picking up on the security guards weakness of blindly following anyone who runs out of the shop in question and I realising that the two shops in question are directly opposite each other I slipped into one of my deep thought productions.
ACTION PLAN
15:45_Gather a team of about ten or so robbers, set four of them in each of the shops and have one other in each shop assigned to blatantly steal something.
15:50_The 'bait' (as will be referred to) will leave the shop and run making the guards chase them straight into the opposite shop and vice verse. Whilst this is going on the eight other men casually help themselves to some spoils.
(Preferably make the bait aged under 18 and they will just get a warning.)
14:00_Meet up and have Starbucks
If anyone for some reason tries this please let me know how you did
-tomi
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Torture or Liberation?
Recently there has been some concern over weather a project set to the Kent School of Architectures 5th year students has pushed the 'world of project setting' too far!
The task was to design and construct a fully operable torture device, yes I'll repeat that 'torture' device. Oh what a taboo, rearely talked about and rarely written about. Well I thought it was about time I wrote something of value so I wrote a letter to AJ (Architects Journal).
I noticed soon after I read the article concerning the Kent School’s torture device project that many readers had a very negative response to the idea as a whole. Did they really mean to have this view or did they just hastily jump to the decision that it was not a reasonable task because it contained that dreaded word, ‘torture’? At first glance it does appear to be a very extremist idea, and one certainly modern society tries it’s best to ignore. Torture is a not very often talked about topic in this era that we live in and rightly so, it is a nasty practice which is unacceptable. However when I take a step back and look at the task from a distance I see that the device, not the practice, is focused solely on the human body. Architecture also is always trying to better itself at meeting human demands, and as we use and inhabit a building we must feel connected to it as well. This then brings me to my point, I’m not saying that torture is right, just that perhaps sometimes these sorts of ‘radical’ projects is what’s needed to get ones mind working at a level you can not usually reach with a project with no real morale ground – perhaps if we just renamed it a ‘liberation device’ everyone would be a lot happier?
So there we have it, liberation device, yeah that'll please the old yanks and hell maybe they could go ahead and occupy something at the same time.
-tomi
The task was to design and construct a fully operable torture device, yes I'll repeat that 'torture' device. Oh what a taboo, rearely talked about and rarely written about. Well I thought it was about time I wrote something of value so I wrote a letter to AJ (Architects Journal).
I noticed soon after I read the article concerning the Kent School’s torture device project that many readers had a very negative response to the idea as a whole. Did they really mean to have this view or did they just hastily jump to the decision that it was not a reasonable task because it contained that dreaded word, ‘torture’? At first glance it does appear to be a very extremist idea, and one certainly modern society tries it’s best to ignore. Torture is a not very often talked about topic in this era that we live in and rightly so, it is a nasty practice which is unacceptable. However when I take a step back and look at the task from a distance I see that the device, not the practice, is focused solely on the human body. Architecture also is always trying to better itself at meeting human demands, and as we use and inhabit a building we must feel connected to it as well. This then brings me to my point, I’m not saying that torture is right, just that perhaps sometimes these sorts of ‘radical’ projects is what’s needed to get ones mind working at a level you can not usually reach with a project with no real morale ground – perhaps if we just renamed it a ‘liberation device’ everyone would be a lot happier?
So there we have it, liberation device, yeah that'll please the old yanks and hell maybe they could go ahead and occupy something at the same time.
-tomi
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