Midi Gun

This is sick.

Flatland

I've read "Flatland" written by Edwin A. Abott in 1884.

I've been struggling to somehow visualise 4th dimensional world in 3rd dimensional way in terms of design, but always ended up facing with the aporia that 4th dimensional world is 4th dimensional world because it's beyond 3 dimensional perceptions.
There are some intersting insight about 4th dimensional cube saying the net of 4th dimensional cube must consist of 6 cubes, as the same way as 3D cube. But we hardly imagine how it would works.

In Flatland, the main character (square) had a hardship to understand 2nd dimensional representation of cube, since they don't have a sense of depth, or height (so there's no shadows) in Flatland. A drawing of cube is merely a hexagon for them.

In exactly the same way, it's difficult to visually understand how 4th dimension are, but in 'Thoughtland', as expressed in the book, we can grab a bit of conception of 4th dimension.


On the other hand, Some physicists say (forgot the title of book) the different factors are represented as different dimensions. For example, when you ride a bike, your body conducts 10 different movements. That means, there are 10 dimensions when you ride a bike.


If you think in that way, 4th dimension of objects can be extra 1 factor added to (x, y, z).

I randomly chose book to start thinking about this issue. Apparently, book is 3D object, consists of a pile of 2D papers (if you ignore the thickness of a piece of paper). If decided to add 'Frequency' as a different dimension (don't ask reasons). What's the frequency of a book? This is a part of my brains storming.

Frequency →　waves of air　→　sounds → vinyl records
This get me imagine the utopia where people use noises instead of letters, to signify something.
It could be one of other possibility of human development in terms of many world interpretation, isn't it? (I know this isn't too logical, but wanna make it more fun to think about, for myself)

At this phase, I realised that 1 extra dimension wasn't frequency, but a history of books. We can't go other worlds even if many world interpretation was right. However, we can have an insight (not eyesight) into it.

I don't think it's too bad to take history as a dimension, because the time space is taken as 4th dimension in Relativity Theory.

White noise

So, the white noise is caused by photons emitted by Big Bang.
These neutrons and electrons have been cooled down throughout eras, forming atoms. But these photons are still too hot to settle down, moving randomly in the air. Thus, TV aerials catch these photons and show white noise on the monitors of TV.

In terms of it, TV is the machine to translate the random movements of photons into a graphical representation.

It's quite interesting that this mundane object shows a small segment fascinating history of the universe.

white noise

White Noise Machine from Yuri Suzuki on Vimeo.

"white noise"
White noise is a random signal (or process) with a flat power spectral density. In other words, the signal contains equal power within a fixed bandwidth at any center frequency. White noise draws its name from white light in which the power spectral density of the light is distributed over the visible band in such a way that the eye's three color receptors (cones) are approximately equally stimulated.

---Applications---
It is used by some emergency vehicle sirens due to its ability to cut through background noise, which makes it easier to locate.

White noise is commonly used in the production of electronic music, usually either directly or as an input for a filter to create other types of noise signal. It is used extensively in audio synthesis, typically to recreate percussive instruments such as cymbals which have high noise content in their frequency domain.

It is also used to generate impulse responses. To set up the equalization (EQ) for a concert or other performance in a venue, a short burst of white or pink noise is sent through the PA system and monitored from various points in the venue so that the engineer can tell if the acoustics of the building naturally boost or cut any frequencies. The engineer can then adjust the overall equalization to ensure a balanced mix.

White noise is a common synthetic noise source used for sound masking by a tinnitus masker. White noise is a particularly good source signal for masking devices as it contains higher frequencies in equal volumes to lower ones, and so is capable of more effective masking for high pitched ringing tones most commonly perceived by tinnitus sufferers.

White noise is used as the basis of some random number generators. For example, Random.org uses a system of atmospheric antennae to generate random digit patterns from white noise.

White noise machines are sold as privacy enhancers and sleep aids and to mask tinnitus. Some people claim white noise, when used with headphones, can aid concentration by masking irritating or distracting noises in a person's environment.

Pitagola Switch2

A cause makes a way for another event to be happened.

Clockwork & Fractal

The people in medieval era think of universe as like clockwork, machinery structured.
Thus, everything is programmed and predetermined. Pierre-Simon Laplace said;

We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.

(1814)

The recent science follows a different theory, that is chaos theory.
In chaos theory, the world DOES have order, which is the loop of cause and effect, or feedback.
However, a tiny error or difference causes huge effects in this loop, and these errors occurs irregularly.
Thus, the world has a pattern, but at the same time, totally unpredictable.

Pitagola Switch

There must be loads of ways to go from point A to point B.
It doesn't have to be the shortest one.
Process, is important.

Toys

Roland Barthes says;

"All the toys one commonly sees are essentially a microcosm of the adult world".
And that for instance, a girls doll is "meant to...'condition' her to her future role as mother" (Barthes, 1972).

So toys are for educating children to make them fit in the current system of society, in one sense.

I used to think that toys were tools to train creativity of human being, and I think that's also true.
When I went to V&A, I saw the old brick toy made in Britain exhibited there and found the caption, saying;

'various systems of building blocks were available after the war. The image of domestic blisson the lid of the Bayko (the company’s name) set contrasted sharply with the reality of bomb-damaged Britain.'

It could be taken that these brick toys appeals the mind of D.I.Y of children, encouraging them to be productive in order to develop the nation towards the next generation. In terms of it, toys are to be used to promote creativity.

I just like these toys, however, because they can have a pure function of amusing people, which can prompt communication among them.

I found the chair with a scanner equipped on its seat, scanning the images of visitors' butts.
It seems to be useless at a glance, but it's a lot fun and makes people laugh.

I don't like to sum up to say that toys have a function of amusing people, enriching their lives, or function is to generate communication.
I'm purely attracted by it's meaninglessness, but strong sense of existence as object which definitely have some influence on people.

Time

What is time?
It's hard to define or feel it as an actual existence.

There are some opinions about time.

1. The time exists as physical movement, and it goes one way with the same speed.
Since it follows physics, it CAN reverse backwards.

2. Time increase, following the entropy of physical phenomenon. Thus, time is relative existence.

3. Time is a parameter of a phenomenon happened in a space. Thus, time can't be separate from space.
That means time is the measure of phenomenon, not physical material. In that sense, time is one of the information that
belong to phenomena.

4. etc..

To visualise time, we invented the variety of clocks, such as water clock, sand clock, sun dial, analogue clock, digital clock, and so on.
Now we live in the community time, which is fixed by community. That make us a member of a organised community.
However, what if we could have a personal time?

Pin-hole camera

I love low-tech, analogue stuffs.
Specifically, the pin-hole camera is really fun because it feels like catching the lights, revealing the potential images hidden in the air.

Data on the internet

wind speed project 3 from Daiki Ichikawa on Vimeo.

There are data on the internet, they are merely the sequence of numbers on the net.
If you can translate these numbers into experience, which means that revive the data into physical life.
It's got so much potential in it.

Rules

There are natural rules and artificial rules,
Natural rules is based on the fact, such as math, physics, science and etc.
Artificial rules is based on the arbitrary decision of some human-being, such as law.

I used to study political science in Keio University in Japan, and especially interested in international politics.
I read the book written by Hedley Bull , "Anarchical Society" (1995).
He insists that the international state is basically anarchy, but the world order is maintained by the common benefit of each nations in the world.
Thus, we have a nature of trying to generate the order in the state of chaos, and the order is maintained by rules.

It's interesting that people started to believe in these rules as granted, and sometimes obsessed with them.
Artificial rules are essentially fiction and based on nothing.

On the other hand, natural rules are based on fact.
I found it interesting when I noticed that our body is ramified, same as trees.
The nature apparently have the order, and the order is not arbitrary. It's absolute, no exceptions.
I'm so attracted by its mystique.

Japanese artist Hitoshi Nomura observed the orbit of the moon throughout a year and found it forms the sign of infinity.
When I saw this work, I was so impressed to the extent of getting my skin crawled, because I felt that some god-wise figure exists behind the order of nature.

Invisible rules sometimes reveal a part of them.

Life

I talked a little bit about life in the last post.
I will try to leave a few comments to help me remember some thoughts about life.

The environmental issues, national issues, are one of the most common topics in our era.
These problems are to be solved in order to realise the better life for more people. That's great.

But if you push forward the benefit as a community too much, it's easy to ignore the importance of individual lives.
When your grandma is suffering from bad disease, you wouldn't care about environmental issues, or national health.

Being objective, and being critical may be important in design process.
Being subjective, and being emotional may be also important in living process as an individual.
And design is for better life.

Optical Illusion

I almost love optical illusion, either 2 dimensional or 3 dimensional way.
I Designed the sticker and was going to sell it somewhere, but I didn't.
Anyway, this sticker project is spin-off of my anti-social project in Goldsmiths College.
Because i was purely interested in the visual side of this project, then tried to utilise the aesthetic side of it.

These illusion helps us to escape from mundane visual life.

It's almost like having a dream while you're awake.

Some people insist the importance of better life, but not individual-level but national, or even earth-level.
We sometimes need to have small dreams in our lives, which make us aware of the benefit, or joy of being here.

Radio eats food

I got a present of radio from the colleagues in Sidekick Studios.
It looks cool, made of bamboo, sustainable material, and it's made by my favorite product studio, LEXON. The solid and simple shape, smooth surface, nice r curve.

This is the radio which you have to charge power by rotating the handle by yourself.
When I was rotating the handle really hard, I suddenly realised that THE RADIO IS WORKING BY FOOD POWER, or calories.
Because I'm moving on the power from foods, and I was rotating the handle based of that food power.
And this food power transformed into electric power, get the radio work.

I got sort of weird feeling because in that sense,the radio eats food, and moving.
Apparently, energy is invisible. But the experience of charging battery let me feel, or experience energy.

MAKE INVISIBLE VISIBLE.

This theme can be worth working on this year.

Sneakers

I like sneakers. I owned about 20 pairs of sneakers now.
I like it not only because of design but also the culture behind them.

Adidas is apparently get extremely hip since after Run DMC started wearing it.
it could be said that the sneakers are almost signs, signifying the status, sense, attitude of wearers.
It sounds too general since that's just all these fashion brand do.

Specifically, sneakers is one of the parts which is not often paid attentions.
It's almost like the secret self-satisfaction, or pleasure.
Because only the people who have the knowledge about the context of sneakers understand
how cool you are based on your choice of sneakers.

Sneakers are almost secret codes.

Surrealism

I like the dream, it's surrealistic.
The story is so random, and irrational.

The surrealism artists in the past are often inspired by dreams, and made art.
I'm surprised how creative we are in dreams. There's no limits of logics.
There's only thoughts, emotions and visuals.


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The Real Macoy's

I eat at least 1 packet of The Real Macoy's per day for these weeks.
I love it's hardness thank to its ridge cut. Favorite flavor is salt and vinegar as it's the standard.

I also like it's package since it's pop, like the art of warhol
I looked up it's website and found that they promote the brand as "man's crisps", like the crisp which always comes with a
pint of beer in nice and old british pub.

I also like the shape of crisps as well. Packages are same but the contents inside have different, unique shapes.
Sometimes you can find a heart, It's like finding the clover with 4 leaves on clover field.

Techno

I've suddenly got into making techno musics for these weeks.
I don't know why, but probably because it's easy, cheap (basically free), and really killing time.
And perhaps because it enables to create original-ish thing with less amout of effort, by using pre-made sounds.

I dealt with music in my past project, death, and came across these phrases basically saying music is like life,
because they are essentially meaningless.
It's quite interesting that human-beings feel happy, excited, and happy when they listen to a certain song,
even though music is merely chunk of noises.