Wednesday 24 April 2013

INTO SPACE

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating 
in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do 




Space travel is a lot different now than when David Bowie released Space Oddity. It was 1969 and the man had just landed on the moon and here on earth people didn't know much about the Hows and Whys but it was all very marvellous. 

Now we have developed technology and the internet at a point that everything in this world is at a close reach to us and even out of space.

Canadian Space Agency have their super charismatic astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield at the International Space Station (ISS) and had this brilliant idea of recording youtube videos of their day-to-day lives and how they manage to do ordinary things with NO gravity.

Its super interesting to learn how exactly it is to be an astronaut in space and really share the experience with them, Chris Hadfield speaks from space to a conference at the Canadian Space Agency and answers questions from the select audience. Other than that he records the hows to things like sleeping in space, shaving, excersizing, wringing out water from a clothes and even crying! It is a great ideas to make people get curious about science.


Here are some videos that definitely need to be shared!









Wednesday 17 April 2013

AN INSPIRATION

Tim Flach is certainly an amazing photographer, not only for the quality of his images or how amazingly detailed they are, but for how he show us the animals he shots.
His latest published work is "More Than Human" which gave me a new view on these animals, a more profound understanding and I could really see how much more than humans they are.

Tim Flach gave them a voice but without sound or words, in these images they are like us ... It made me wonder how we can possibly not respect them.

"More Than Human"




















Cheers!

IDEAS I LIKE

Doesn't matter if is on trend or past trend or some designer already used it. Long boots are awesome and Waders are in that category.

Here are some examples of awesomeness and people exploring the idea of waders.










WHY NOT?



DAVID BOWIE IS...

I had the pleasure to go to the "David Bowie Is..." exhibition and was really delighted.  I guess, initially, I thought that everyone was going there to find inspiration from him, in a kind of way, to study David Bowie's history on visual creativity (as I expected to get inspired the same way).
However I learned something else - I saw what inspired him and how he reacted to what happens in the world around him. He is indeed a big visual sponge but he transformed, evolved. 

Summarising: It was refreshing to see him get influenced! 

"David Bowie Is..."  
Up until 11th August 2013, at the Victoria & Albert Museum. London.






Cheers!