sunshine
Ahh, it's getting better. I think I have resolved my issue (see below). It seems to be coming together. The other night on SBS I saw a film by Marvo Ponti, Santa Maradona, now it's not a brilliant earth shattering piece of work - it's a comedy. It serves to illustrate just how shithouse Hollywood films are. This is a mainstream piece of Italian cinema, but it just seems so free compared to anything American.
The sun is also out, so I started some serious reading this morning. The Aspen Papers is a collections of papers from the Aspen design conferences held from 51' all the way through the 70's. It contains many different views on design, some utter crap and some really thought provoking.
What leaped out was a paper by Misha Black, The Designer and the Client - 1956. Which sort of further illustrates the point Soumitri was making the other week about design in corporations.
The sun is also out, so I started some serious reading this morning. The Aspen Papers is a collections of papers from the Aspen design conferences held from 51' all the way through the 70's. It contains many different views on design, some utter crap and some really thought provoking.
What leaped out was a paper by Misha Black, The Designer and the Client - 1956. Which sort of further illustrates the point Soumitri was making the other week about design in corporations.
posted by jfaelli at 1:02 PM
3 Comments:
hey julian, it's me, the wok boy.
some thoughts to start with -
don't see how kinetic power could in any way be made to actually cook anything. some kinetic devices i've seen require (for example) two minutes of vigourous winding to power a mobile phone for half an hour.
cooking requires a lot more power than mobile phones, so i don't think this one could work.
what was soumitri on about, i wonder, saying that it had potential but not in the way envisaged? oh, if only legal hadn't barred the perpetual motion machine, we wouldn't have a problem.
the colour bar indicator things would be easy enough - i would suggest a simple indication that the wok is too hot to touch would work, and be relatively easy to implement.
here's a secondary kinetic energy thought - perhaps you could coax enough energy out of a brisk walk? as in, you walk down the shops and back to get your food, then you can cook it with your kinetic battery charged off your leg or something. that way it's not just taking reliance off the gas and electricity infrastructure, it's impacting vehicle usage as well. not bad for a fancy shaped saucepan.
as to that fancy shape, i actually kind of like the idea of a square topped wok. i was coincidentally thinking of designing just such a thing a few days ago - kind of wierd. i like the surface interactions between rectilinear and curvilinear mergers. it could have a twisted form - imagine a rectangular prism twisted and formed into a small circle at the bottom? i'd quickly model it but my computer won't run rhino, and the one that does is in the shop.
i'm rambling, i'll stop.
anyway, some discourse will work well through here, or my blog at majendie.blogspot.com, or something. we'll figure it out.
- andrew
yo. julian. *poke*
have been playing with form. check out my blog.
poke again, see post above, also see blog.
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