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.

Generalist vs Specialist

I had a talk with the director of Sidekick Studios.
The chat made me think about generalists and specialists.

For me, designers are generalists. They research, think, and come up with ideas.
These ideas are discussed and passed over to specialists in order to realise them.

I think I'm a designer who always long for being a specialist.
What I do at Sidekick is pretty much about bridge specialist and designers.
I discuss ideas, and visualise it by drawing, rendering, and rapid prototyping. Then pass them over to specialists to
produce them in a proper industrial way.

I love prototyping because of the fact that we can discuss ideas forever, but these prototypes clarify actual issues, and at the same time, develop or even expand ideas.

When it comes to taking a job, however, there are a binary perception.
Designer, or Specialist. There seems to be nothing in between them.

Twitter_LED project

Since I'm interested in connecting the internet with physical objects. I want to figure out the way to on/off a LED by
a certain kind of twitter's comment. (like "on" for turn on a LED.)

This is probably easy, for others, but since I'm new to Arduino. I'll start with basic stuffs ( like serial.read()).

And this is what I've done today;
On/Off a LED, by typing a word "d".


But in this program, Arduino only reacts to one letter, not a word(a sequence of letters).
In the next step, I'll try to how to get Arduino react to a word.

Sidekick Table, 2001

Made a film for Sidekick Studios in London, just to show off their amazing massive 12 seater table with random open drawers.
Switch the button, then open the drawers randomly.

And obviously, this is represented in Kubrick's style.

http://vimeo.com/13189496

This is me, director's cut. Yes.
But the formal one is on their website.

http://sidekickstudios.net/blog/

Enjoy.