Symphony of Science

I'm sure that all of you area well aware of the autotune craze that has swept YouTube (I'm thinking specifically of Autotune the News: if you haven't seen it, you have a Google date in about five minutes). Via one of the most fantastic, aware individuals that I know, I bring you "Symphony of Science", featuring some of the most beloved scientists (of an astronomical ilk) of the past few decades: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, and, duh, Bill Nye.



As Laura points out, today would have been Carl Sagan's seventy fifth birthday. Rarely has an American scientist been so socially aware (leading the push for nuclear disarmament) or able to popularize his field to such an extent. Last year, I heard an interview with his widow, Ann Druyan, about the "ark of culture" that they had put together (actually, they each left their respective spouses for each other while putting it together, goops) and were sending through space in a gold capsule; a physical record of the existence of man.

How romantic, how fucking incredible is that? Astronomy has never appealed to me, but this is something else: this is bigger.

Here, when he says, "the beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together," I cannot help but think of all of you. This is why biology, poetry, and architecture go hand-in-hand: their relationship to form. And that's why I can't help but get a little teary over how amazing all of these things are. Continue

ode to bug....a long take

this is a bit long but i had quite an entertaining time harassing this strange looking bug with my camera. after i set the camera down, you will see the slow stalking of my camera by the insect. You cannot see the end attack, but i find it all very amusing. Sorry for the music, but i had to do something while i was waiting. I never knew bugs could be vindictive.

ps tried to make it short, but i might have failed....
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CV Lateness/Story of My Life

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1. What’s your multi? muse, graphic artist, hair cutter, cake baker, publisher, portraitist, interior alterator, loquacious barista, redeemer of the banal Local? Clemson, the South

2. Where were you born? Augusta GA Where should you have been born? four weeks later.

3. Which COLLECTIVE contributor are you afraid of? Kelly with a map. Like? Kelly with a bang/everyone when they’re eating.

4. Dirtiest job? laying sod (not dirty, just rather white and puzzling.)

5. Define Chaudy font? Too many fonts. Those, omg look at me I’m a graphic designer circa 1997 fonts.

6. What are you wearing? Jean Cut-offs, something torn, ripped, altered, salvaged, bought with a quarter, grey, volumes. Thin, thrift old man shirts. Reading? The God of Small Things over and over again, Italian rationalist essays, anything Brian posts on our stair wall, sicollective.blogspot. Eating? Beans. Aged Bread. Espresso with Equal parts whole milk frothed in a jar.

7. Color penchant? Acid Yellow, olives, mauves, putties, tone on tone on tone How do you spell gr_y? GREY

8. Most failed idea? (Mine) The Viral Water Bag-Bottle. (Theirs) Wall-to-Wall Carpet.

9. Software vice? Illustrator CS (lines; weight 0.1, sans LiveTrace; praise Jesus)

10. Most likely to play you in America’s Next Top Model the Movie? Janice Dickinson as Tyra, duh. Spice & Spice-Girl of choice? Hungarian Hot Paprika. Scary.

11. What did the most beautiful space you’ve ever been in smell like? Cold, wet dust on concrete being warmed by sunlight. Sound? The hummm of train engines, escalators, and shuffling feet. Feel like to the skin? Immense and distant.

12. Worst client? no clients, just collaborators.

13. Are you a visionary, shape shifter, doer, scavenger, or a thief? scavenger, thief, sometimes idealist.

Andrew Temples andrew@supermanicecreamcollective.com 1108 Tiger Blvd #130 Clemson SC 29631

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portfolio go!

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more nonsense

a day in the life of Patrick Wolf. love him.

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another

ps lets make more videos kids. im planning to do my australia trip! Continue

think renaissance

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daily dose of spirituality

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Chart.

quantity, not quality.

we are going to start doing this every month, so get to posting. (self included)

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scale

not a scale most of us think about...
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a posting about posting

START.
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a posting about thinking about posting.

STOP.
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Old Short Film By the Miele Brothers

So back in April, my brother and I made a short film. We did it fast and dirty because we wanted to enter it into a local short film festival. It is about a family picture, through the eyes of my younger brother mark. For your viewing pleasure Torrance Kalindarsky: A Definitive Autobiography

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in conjunction with diddlykins.

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station adverts

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va+dylan contribution

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news ps - news.

vale.  so every semester at metáfora, there is an exhibition that the school co-organizes with a gallery in the city. this term, the show is titled "reduce the unnecessary" and it will be held in gràcia in a small gallery called UntitledBCN. there are only 10 slots, so everyone submitted proposals to one of our profs...hungarian diva who normally tain't havin' it...to see who gets in. i got in! so the show, i think, opens 21 noviembre. i will definitely keep everyone updated with the piece, press release, etc...  i am still working on the concept/prelim drama. i want to create a large-scale map of my past month in terms of seemingly insignificant experiences in different parts of the city. i guess i concocted the idea when kells and i randomly saw an old man riding nude on a bike in the middle of my quasi family-oriented neighbo(u)rhood. i want these instances (and there be many) to be very small and beautifully illustrated on a large-scale "map". time will tell how this map chooses to represent itself. meanwhile, i'm playing with my walking/train routes this past week. i'm using the red line the most...is that weird? anyone? Continue

a preview

We Rot Together

When you speak your first words

I will remember how

my fluids filled your airways.

How our dying bones hooked,

tangled in some divine love –

partly sharp, partly soft wool.

We rot together.

When you go to die

I will give you

paper gifts, combs, and jars.

I will close the house,

keep the rooms still –

every cupboard open.

I will love you dead.

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paperdoll kaitlyn

I can't get it to show up as black and white...it has this weird gold tone. Anyway you get the idea. Continue

Dylan,

my phone died, sorry. I'll look up those concepts/people and let you know if I buy the book. 

-Andrew 

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glos.sa.ry: D

Dead Work:  1. work that is not longer processual or in-process, not related to your current line of thought.  2. Bad Ideas or ideas that were dead on arrival (furry pipe-cleaner models, blind-bar code models, sticks with shiny bangles on them).  3. some student work  4. ideas, design or construction methods that were over your head at the time of origination.  5. Stagnant, possibly promising, streams of thought that may eventually gain new currents.

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"The word ‘contemporary’ ... means current, alive and present-day (i.e. Frank Lloyd Wright is not contemporary.)" -- from Cranbrook's application information page
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"trial and error implies doing and undoing, implies as few strict rules as possible, as little precision as possible. Indeed, these are the characteristics of poetry."
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spare time hair time.

i've commenced face mapping, would love some pointers on new methodologies/abstractions. this seems a little too literal/reductive (let's map each follicle!). i thought it was sort of funny how cartoony things become when you take out flesh. weird.

i am excited about seeing all of these next to eachother!
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past genius...

^a willin' guilllen shed, spring 07
judging from virginia's face (below), you never would have thought this one would have been a hit.


^strikingly similar to the Barcelona International Convention Centre by MAP architects ('04).

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Collective Christmas

What are you doing for the Holidays? PP and Ted will be around for New Years. If you're in SC and want to get together in Clemson post-Christmas, RSVP to a yet-unplanned gathering. Secret Santa anyone?  Indoor forest building with salvaged trees? Let's start planning. 

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Task: Implode the Memory/Explode the Meaning

For your thoughts:

Because people just don't remember, especially in our culture, we have an explosion of information, but an implosion of meaning. It is like Casablanca where Humphrey Bogart said, "A long time ago, last night." People don't remember last night. -Felix Gonzalez-Torres

also: who has used uprinting.com? looks pretty useful.

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on our spare time...

so lets map our faces! i think some of us remember martha talking about this in class. i want to map and catalog my dreads. maybe these images could be our new photos on here =p
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the book of longing: model

Taking Dylan's suggestion, I decided to play up the underlying structure and extrude these three "shells" from the backdrop. Photos with better lighting to come. My critique is tomorrow/in seven hours.

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