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Craig from Kickstart garage built this off road XS650 and got it all tied up and took it out for a shoot. kickstart-garage.com/
The stuff that keeps me away from flickr..!
..architecture studies ;)
This might become a case of tl;dr, but if so, don't ask me what it is ;)
Normally when we do photography, we "find" our subjects. Or they are "given", or presented to us. Not so often do we create them. Photographing architects are among those who have that rare pleasure.. But even then the subjects are usually made for an entirely different purpose and the photos are just representations of them. In the previous semester in my architecture studies, I had the rare pleasure of exploring photography as a tool in itself. to -not take- but actually create photographs that was just that -images. This was done in combination with physical models in cardboard, plastic and similar. Sometimes the model served the photo, other times the opposite.
The course I participated in was called Studio B3, a highly abstract, experimental, pedagogic and philosophic course. The main aim is for the students to explore their own creative process -to discover where the ideas come from and how to develop them. To kickstart this they usually have a main theme; in later years a series called "The New Collective"; a search for a new relationship between architecture, nature and culture, through one specific subject -this time; Garden, previously; network, market, scene, dwelling, workplace etc..
So what are these images? They are photos from some of the 15 physical models I made only for the sake of translating the vague images in my head into a format I could communicate. Some of the photos are just representations of the models, but which I enjoy as photos nonetheless. Most of them however, are as close as I could come to the images that intuitively emerged from my imagination when discussing "garden" in a wider sense.
Now. If you don’t know who Ed ”Big Daddy” Roth is, then you shall Google it. This man is the single biggest inspiration for me. My art, cars, drawings, paintings, MOCs, whatever is strongly influenced by what this guy did. This whole world of Hot Rods, Kustoms, Choppers wouldn’t be the same without that man.
The Rat Fink is surely one of his most notorious characters, and was a kind of anti Mickey Mouse, a figure that I can’t stand, therefore it’s easy for me to like this filthy green rodent.
The build was a pain. It took forever. This guy was literally years in making. I knew pretty long time ago that I’d use the BELVILLE plates for ears, I had those green safety rings set aside since I developed the SPONGE BOB FLYING DUTCHMAN, feet were lying around since early 2010 and so on.
The actual kickstart for building it was the appearance of a pic of a new LEGO Line, the Mixels. The eyes on my R.F. were for quite a bit made out of lever bases and looked awful. Now, one of those Mixels features a printed voodoo ball as eyes, and that seemed more than obvious.
I just drew two dots on a plain white ball, and went from there.
It took the better part of three months to build his face, half plate offsets, “bending” bricks, uneven connections, all that just to get the face “right”. The Rat Fink has something about thim, the silhouette, the slightly tipped head, I don’t know exactly what the hell makes him “Fink”… In the end it seemed to be slight things like blacking out the bricks in the mouth, shortening teeth in the front, adding a “tilt” to his ears, shortening the snout, lowering the head as much as I could, and trying to get the eyes as close to each other as possible…
I did’t entirely succeed in building the expression on his face I intended. I mean he’s fun, there are a gazillion drawings, sculpts, toys, compared to them he's as R.F. As he can be or more, but I have this one from Revell on my mind, and although he seems fine to most people he's not exactly the way I wanted, but for now I feel I did the best I could with the elements given and ideas I had.
The eyes from Mixels are not available yet.
My plan was to wait until April, but since I painted the dome for his belly anyway, I figured I do the same with the eyes, the base was spraypained using a mask, just a plain dot basically, and then the I added different blue shades, and a black dot using a brush and acrylics from citadel. At the end a spot with a white Edding, done. One set of the eyes features some bloody veins, but I don’t know about that just yet. Might be an overkill, then I could have also painted the hair on his ears and whatnot. The dot and the R.F. are in places LEGO elements would be printed anyway...
I also spraypained quite some elements again, the Rat Fink can’t be built in any known color as far as I am concerned. Best would be this “middle green”, but there are no bricks avaliable I could use, and it's odd when I paint an entire surface without at least mixing in some elements in actual color...
Some bricks were spraypainted over white, they seem to match the original colors way better. Actually to the point where you can’t tell what was painted, especially on the green guy because the spray has more shine to it, but stuff like the hinges and those BELVILLE plates I had just in very dark colors, what made me spray them many times, and therefore this strange dark shade.
Because of the painting the Hands on the green guy can’t be moved without damaging the surface. I tried Bricklink for strange colors, but the voodoo ball in green is something that will have to happen. Of course, this ain’t gonna be taken apart anytime soon, and I will try to replace the bricks as they come out. Maybe.
There are many literations of the Rat Fink, I made two. The green is the most popular, the grey version is inspired by the box art of the Revell kit from the 60es. I made that one because it seemed easier to find a certain “feel” of his face while using gray bricks. The green seems too dark, so I couldn’t really decide on contrasts, especially with the “grin” where that mudguard piece makes this finky curve. Funny enough, I had one in dark grey that was spraypainted just on the outside sitting there for forever, and so the inside of his mouth was dark. For the pics I painted a white brick very thorough and this shade disapeared...
That's it... I guess. I never write so much about my stuff because I never care. Built. That's it. I don't do notes, writedowns, it's rare that I even think while building. I laugh at people who talk about flow, shapes, balance, beauty and stuff like that. I build toys.
But this one was important enough to share some thoughts...
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Ever since I launched the Kickstarter campaign for my new book, Another 1000 Days of Drawing, I’ve had this old Motley Crue song stuck in my head. Did I mention I have a new Kickstarter?
Prints and more available through Society6. / Daily Drawing #2003. / Support this daily drawing project on Patreon!
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Cas Public: Symphonie Dramatique, Deloitte Ignite 2015
Québécois dance company Cas Public make their Royal Opera House debut with their new work Symphonie Dramatique – a contemporary reimagining of Romeo and Juliet set to a new soundtrack drawing on the music of Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Prokofiev and Berlioz: part of Deloitte Ignite 2015, the annual festival that kickstarts the Royal Opera House Season. Linbury Studio Theatre 23-26 September 2015.
Credits:
Choreography: Hélène Blackburn
Music: Martin Tétreault
Lighting designer: Émilie Boyer-Beaulieu
Video: Samuel Theriault
Dancers:
Nicholas Bellefleur
Alexandre Carlos
Roxane Duchesne-Roy
Cai Glover
Daphnée Laurendeau
IsaBelle Paquette
Marc-André Poliquin
Mickaël Spinnhirny
photo - © Foteini Christofilopoulou
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
This is a poster I created for SSM using one of the shots from the photo shoot with Rikki. I think it paints a pretty clear picture. Prints will be available soon.
Short workings of the Redcar to Stokesley service were introduced with Kickstart funding, making Redcar to Guisborough half hourly.
3013 N513XVN was a rather tired 12 year old Prisma on such a duty in Guisborough
Creative Financing to Make Small-Scale Farming Technologies Affordable for the Rural Poor
Small-scale farming is the principal source of livelihood for many in Kenya. Agriculture provides 71 percent of employment and accounts for over 25 percent of Kenya‘s GDP. KickStart International’s shallow water irrigation pumps can increase annual net-farm incomes for these farmers by an average of $700 per year. Despite the relatively low cost of KickStart’s pumps, however, they are still beyond the reach of many poor farmers who often have irregular incomes and find it difficult to pay the large up-front cost of the pump. With support from DIV, KickStart is testing two innovative financing mechanisms to increase access to these products and help break down critical financial barriers.
Read the full project description: www.usaid.gov/div/portfolio/kickstart
Photo credit Esther Havens
Creative Financing to Make Small-Scale Farming Technologies Affordable for the Rural Poor
Small-scale farming is the principal source of livelihood for many in Kenya. Agriculture provides 71 percent of employment and accounts for over 25 percent of Kenya‘s GDP. KickStart International’s shallow water irrigation pumps can increase annual net-farm incomes for these farmers by an average of $700 per year. Despite the relatively low cost of KickStart’s pumps, however, they are still beyond the reach of many poor farmers who often have irregular incomes and find it difficult to pay the large up-front cost of the pump. With support from DIV, KickStart is testing two innovative financing mechanisms to increase access to these products and help break down critical financial barriers.
Read the full project description: www.usaid.gov/div/portfolio/kickstart
Photo credit Esther Havens