reconstruction

the following flurry of posts will attempt to reconstruct the last four months of my life...

beach house_weekend

this past weekend i fled the city to a small summerhouse on the northern coast of zealand with a few of the other scan design students studying here in CPH. the trip was a fantastic departure from the norm... cycling along the coast, wandering around fishing villages, cozy company and red wine.

FABRICATE! london

as if i don't have enough to do in the BIG studio, i have also decided to team up with a few colleagues/collaborators (rob corser and scott crawford) to continue development on my recent masonry installation. our first project was to submit several of our recent works to an upcoming conference and publication in london. the brief called for built projects/prototypes with a focus on disseminating similarity and difference in digital fabrication. our projects convey the codependence of repetition and variability... the machine and the hand... the digital and the analog. introducing... the collaborative research project: Digital Jigs - Parametric Armatures for Manual Assembly

work work work

much of my last three weeks has been spent in the studio working on a presentation model for the new maritime museum in helsingor. the project has been in the office for several years in various stages of stagnation, and has recently regained its momentum. my task was to join a team of 5 others charged with finishing a massive model which had been in the works for months already. we presented the model on friday at the groundbreaking ceremony, which received extremely positive support from the minister of culture and community members alike. a party followed...

all of the work to wire 300+ led lights really paid off...

wed/thurs

first all-nighter in the BIG studio

mandag!

highlight of the night... shawn pointing out via skype that the moondoggies set from bumbershoot was streaming live on KEXP!

the week's end

the weekend brought beautiful weather and deambulations through the city. drinking by the canal at nyhavn and christianshavn, department 8 party at the royal danish academy, and cycling. the highlight may have been stumbling across a free outdoor concert featuring the mouritz horslev projekt (the danish equivalent of beach house?).