Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Ministry of Fire and Miracles

When working on the WEEK 10 brief, I visited the MFM church round the corner where i live. It's housed in a dingy old warehouse next to the Mr. Bagel factory.
I was doing some archiving and decided to have a look at their site: They're based in Lagos, Nigeria and their HQ is called MFM Prayer City - look at the amount of people there in the image below! Also, check out their proposal for a future HQ. I guess that's what cathedrals look like these days...

About MFM


Banner outside MFM in Hackney Wick




SketchUp style renders of the planned new MFM HQ


Picture of congregation at MFM Prayer City

Thursday, 24 January 2008

Newham Site Flythroughs

I guess they're maybe not worth posting, but I'm chuffed they happened at all, so here goes: First up just the extruded structures that face the site (Stratford High Street).
Second flythrough features a initial proposal on the site.
Sorry about the jerky camera movement...It'll get better.

Tokyo Summerland

It's Bollard Time!

Joe, maybe some inspiration for you...

Giuliani upsetting NYC pedestrians in 1997?

Hackney being liberated of public space barriers?
DIY traffic control? (In your case, replace cars with humans...)
A socio-physical study towards building barrier free urban environment in Iran? (Use it in reverse - implement all the problem areas they have detected...?)
Makers of street barriers in the UK?
A historical perspective on pedestrian policies in Britain?
And there's more...Yay!!!

And finally, a Channel 5 test of the SP1000 anti-terrorist uber-bollard from the unstoppable (haha) ATG Access AKA "The Bollard People". Enjoy!




Wednesday, 23 January 2008

M CORPORATION launches website

Yep Denis...Post 135.
But just wanted to share the fact that M CORPORATION have launched a beta version of their upcoming M SPACE website. You can visit it here.

Monday, 21 January 2008

responsive space

Friday, 18 January 2008

Thursday, 17 January 2008

Monumental Archipelago

An early and crude but extremely time consuming
attempt at dropping some Maya models into
CryEngine2 and blowing shit up...

Wednesday, 16 January 2008

Newham Site Proposal & Geotagging

I've created a gallery of images for my site proposal:
The idea was that it would read as a simple "photographic
reference map" at street level from each axis point going
in SE direction.
I really wanted this to show up automatically in GE which
I thought was do-able from my Picasa Web Album, but it appears
it's not so straight forward (if you want to do this, consider using
Panoramio, which asks you to geotag when you upload - the
geotagging interface is much cruder than Picasa's though).

In order to view the images I've taken and tagged, go to
my Newham_Site_Proposal album here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/inter7.hh/Newham_Site_Proposal

And click the link "Watch in Google Earth" at the bottom left hand
side. This will prompt you to save a .kml file which you can load in
GE (just double-click it, where ever you saved it to)

OR

Move your cursor to the bottom of the slideshow below, and higlight
the little yellow person icon, and then click the link which will
take you to the gallery and the option to view in GE or GM.

BTW, the site is approx. 1.4km of main road called High Street
in London E15.

I hope this also might help some of you who have been
thinking about doing the same. It has, believe it or not,
taken me HOURS to get this going. Shame we don't get much
credit for wrestling with technology...

Tuesday, 15 January 2008

Hi Everyone, I think I've found something useful.

I found the website of list of monument and some of them with photographs.
I hope this can be any help.

Here is the link.

http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/index.htm

Sunday, 13 January 2008

Saturday, 12 January 2008

Thursday, 10 January 2008

Wednesday, 9 January 2008

Conversation between Paul Virilio and Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The monument is primarily a signal, a sign, an appeal. A monument thus is not bound to refer to past, to an historical or other event. It is primarily a moment of stopping or pausing in the habits of everyday life.

more?

>>> http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/urbanaria/txt/e/virilio.htm

Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Shenzhen


Still image from Shenzhen Biennale