A Phone and a Show

Monday night was the opening of the RCA's Architecture and Design School's interim show. After a really long week finishing my cell phone project (blah) and a long weekend hanging chairs from the ceiling, I'm happy to say that Monday night was a success. Now that everything is up we've been enjoying some good reviews. Also, I'm happy to say that our group won a prize for our cell phone interface. I hope you enjoy these pictures of construction, my cell phone and the giant fluorescent sun that we built. I've finally got a few days to relax, whew.

I Love This Photo

This picture was taken 4 years ago at my mother's xmas party. What a party...what a party.

This is Amazing

This project has me totally engrossed:

http://electricsheep.org/

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

What a Party

When you think "Papprazzi party", what do you think of? A Pantomime Horse of course. You might remember David and I in our Santa suits from a previous post. This costume was just as successful, but much warmer. Much, much warmer. To answer the obvious question, I was pulling up the rear. Three hours in the back of a horse, what a party!

Home On The Range

I'm back in London now after a very refreshing (but completely exhausting) holiday break in the US. I spent the first four days of my break recovering from my chair project (first two pictures above) with Laura (third picture). As usual, New York was great. After seeing a Christmas concert at the Guggenheim, and eating a lot of good food I headed back to Colorado. I spent a few days in Denver skiing on the front range and catching up with friends before I headed to Aspen for Christmas and New Years (fourth and fifth pictures). The skiing was absolutely fantastic, the party was as good as ever. New Years eve the party moved from the Pinkhouse to the top of Buttermilk for a bonfire and a moonlight descent. To bookend my US tour I spent three far-too-short days in Wisconsin with my family. My favorite cookies and Fleet Farm, my favorite store are shown in the last two pictures. It was a great break, but I'm glad to be back at school.