Piranesi: Architect for Dreams

By HP-Time.com;A.T. Baker Monday, Sept. 18, 1978

"I need to produce ideas on the grand scale, and I think that if someone asked me to design a new universe, I'd be mad enough to undertake it," wrote young Giovanni Battista Piranesi to a friend. Nobody asked him. In fact, nobody asked him to design any major building at all, though he always signed himself Architetto. Instead, he became known to his contemporaries as "the Rembrandt of Ruins."

Yet in his way, Piranesi did indeed design a universe. For in his etchings of the ruins of Rome he imagined a grandeur that the city itself never achieved. Horace Walpole marveled at his "sublime dreams" and the way "he piles palaces on bridges, and temples on palaces, and scales Heaven with mountains of edifices." Piranesi's etchings sent a generation of leisured Europeans to Rome to see the real things. The richer among them went home and built readymade garden ruins of their own.

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Vapor City -Aeron Alfrey

Although this is not the original work of Piranesi, it is inspired by him and is truly mind-blowing.

 Piranesi in 3D this site is dedicated to the reconstruction of Piranesi works and there is a very nice computer animation of Piranesi's world in 3D which I, personally recommend checking out :)

TED Talk: Personal Robots

 Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

This episode on TED talk was truly eye-opening. We are in a time when technology is rapidly forming, having already robotic dogs, furbies, computerised pets on a ipods. Cythia Breazeal talks about the resolving issues of communication to people overseas, Adding a physical element to digital interactions is an incredibly useful thing for more meaningful interaction, thus strengthening communication between people who may be emotionally close, but geographically distant. Perhaps even allowing people who are geographically distant to become more emotionally.

Postcard designs

 

I've always wanted to create one and finally i found out how to. I got three images and stiched them together to make panorama, rotated it 180, then polarised it. Then blurred and fixed up any rough spots (there always is a couple).

This one i used background image design entitled Jellyfish by linn Olofosdotter, check out her amazing designs here, then added the train tracks but using magic eraser got rid of some of the colour creating a mad effect, then i found a image of millenium train (couldnt be bothered finding one without the graffiti on it HAHA but i think it enhances the image a little right? Interesting fact, once i changed the exposure you cud see the train driver sitting inside) saturised it and paint bucketed yellow, and then i got a photo of Central, saturised, contrasted, filtered a spherize warp and paint bucketed with a light grey.

Ikea Houndstol doggy high chair

Newest Ikea Furniture-Dog highchair (video link)

LOL i love Ikea- this is their April Fools prank hahaha i reckon people would actually want one of these, its so cute n funny