http://www.lawrencelek.com Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:06:58 +0000 http://www.lawrencelek.com en http://lawrencelek.com/Rorschach3D http://lawrencelek.com/following/lawrencelek.com/Rorschach3D Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:06:58 +0000 Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 4817232 Rorschach 3D Trailer by Lawrence Lek from Lawrence Lek on Vimeo. Proposal for PushYourArt The aim of the project is to bring together our body’s experience of space with our visual perception of an organic form. In this way, I hope to bring together the technology used in projection screens with the tradition of object-based sculpture. The Rorschach inkblot test is a psychological test in which people interpret a seemingly random pattern based on their own subjective, personal viewpoint. I am very interested in this aspect of aesthetics – where there is no definitive interpretation of a form, but where people actively participate in determining the meaning of an artwork. However, there is still a rational mode of thinking behind this; because of the organic appearance of the shape, people often freely associate it with memories of natural environments or animals. By applying contemporary 3d technology to interpret the Rorschach inkblot test, we can transform the industrial aesthetics of technology into a way to question how we perceive nature today. This feeling of immersion into another environment is the spatial quality that I am looking to achieve. By projecting a virtual 3d form onto a sculptural projection surface, I will create a hybrid being that is both natural and artificial. I hope that in this way, people can actively question how their processes of perception operate, and of the role that technology has within nature. A symmetrical sculptural object, based on the Rorschach inkblot tests, will be used as a projection screen. This is made of bent-plywood or another lightweight material that allows it to be shaped easily. A video will be projected onto it. The video is of a 3d rendering of a slowly rotating glass figure. <img src="http://payload125.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4817232/IMG_6444 copy.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload125.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4817232/IMG_6444 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="25736421" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload125.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4817232/IMG_6428.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload125.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4817232/IMG_6428_o.JPG" data-mid="25736416" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload125.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4817232/IMG_6423 copy.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload125.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4817232/IMG_6423 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="25736404" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload125.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4817232/IMG_6425b.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload125.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4817232/IMG_6425b_o.jpg" data-mid="25736411" border="0" align="left"/> Bodhisattva Test Render 1 from Lawrence Lek on Vimeo. Bodhisattva Test Render 2 from Lawrence Lek on Vimeo. The screen itself has a complex geometry that is not perceptible from the front. As people enter the space, they only see this frontal view of the installation. As they are drawn inside, then the depth of the screen itself is revealed. An alternate projection uses a rendering of a glass Buddha head onto the object. The sculpture blends in from the front…. But as viewers move around the exhibition space, it is revealed to have a different depth to it. By bringing turning a flat two-dimensional projection into an animated surface, the project aims to create a virtual dimension, in-between a sculpture and flat projection. Whereas many projection projects use architectural geometry such as cubes or perspective to create the illusion of space, I want to use organic objects to invite people to interact with the installation. Ultimately, I hope that this project will also offer viewers the opportunity to experience space in a new way and experience a new sensation of their vision. To the person perceiving the Rorschach, their subjective experience of the world is altered. In being both visual screen and bodily form, the project creates a new artwork that is both self and other.po Rorschach 3D Trailer by Lawrence Lek from Lawrence Lek on Vimeo. Proposal for PushYourArt The aim of the project is to bring together our body’s experience of... http://lawrencelek.com/Unlimited-Edition http://lawrencelek.com/following/lawrencelek.com/Unlimited-Edition Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:24:20 +0000 Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 4092654 <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Image Luke Hayes_MG_1222 copy2.jpg" width="670" height="766" width_o="1971" height_o="2256" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Image Luke Hayes_MG_1222 copy2_o.jpg" data-mid="21846280" border="0" align="left"/> Designer in Residence 2012 Commission at the Design Museum Lawrence Lek is a sculptor and architect who experiments with processes of natural growth and industrial fabrication through sculptural objects and environments. His work employs modular structures which connect to create larger forms or experiential installations that define the visitor's awareness of the surrounding spaces. For the Design Museum's Designer in Residence 2012 programme, Lawrence has created Unlimited Edition, a series of bent-plywood modules that combine to form objects and environments that users can customize, including a pavilion and seating. Referencing psychological Rorschach tests, which ask subjects to interpret unfamiliar inkblot shapes based on things they already know, Lawrence channelled the element of subjectivity into shaping the organic structures that compose the project. Throughout the design process, Lawrence constructed numerous maquettes in paper and thin plywood to experiment with form before progressing to full-size pieces. Combining digital design techniques, such as computer controlled (CNC) routing and laser cutting with hand assembly, Lawrence can easily customize the modules to expand or contract. The full-size modules were made from a single cut of standard 8-feet tall plywood sheets, minimizing costly fabrication time. Each plywood module is soaked in water before it is bent and braced in place while it dries. Working with the inherent symmetry of the material, which bends along the grain of the wood, Lawrence was able to achieve a consistent molding of modules. The shell-like shapes provided rigidity while allowing them to be stacked for transportation and storage. When erected they create uncanny forms, spaces and tool-like objects that invite the user to nurture individual responses within an artificial environment. During the residency, Lawrence moved into a studio in the White Building, a new arts centre across the canal from the Olympic Park. He is currently evolving Unlimited Edition at two different scales - as a system for site-specific urban installations, and as prosthetic objects that modify both our bodies and mental awareness of surrounding Nature. <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Lek_Pavilion_Sky.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Lek_Pavilion_Sky_o.JPG" data-mid="29930199" border="0" align="left"/> Designers in Residence 2012: Lawrence Lek from Design Museum on Vimeo. <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Image Luke Hayes_MG_1225 copy.jpg" width="670" height="947" width_o="1917" height_o="2712" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Image Luke Hayes_MG_1225 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="21846285" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Image Luke Hayes_MG_1228.jpg" width="670" height="1004" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Image Luke Hayes_MG_1228_o.jpg" data-mid="21846299" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Image Luke Hayes_MG_1846 copy.jpg" width="670" height="1004" width_o="1971" height_o="2956" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Image Luke Hayes_MG_1846 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="21846303" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Image Luke Hayes_MG_1850b.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="1993" height_o="2990" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/Image Luke Hayes_MG_1850b_o.jpg" data-mid="21846306" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/LL_DMPavilion2.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/LL_DMPavilion2_o.JPG" data-mid="21465914" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/LL_DMPavilion4.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092654/LL_DMPavilion4_o.JPG" data-mid="21465917" border="0" align="left"/> Designer in Residence 2012 Commission at the Design Museum Lawrence Lek is a sculptor and architect who experiments with processes of natural growth and... http://lawrencelek.com/Prosthetic-Aesthetics http://lawrencelek.com/following/lawrencelek.com/Prosthetic-Aesthetics Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:14:22 +0000 Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 4092631 "Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times." Sigmund Freud The body is in a constant change of aesthetic and biological evolution. Prosthetic Aesthetics is a research project to document the expressive possibilities of the body as a site for installation. I've also started writing more widely about the it here: www.prostheticaesthetics.com <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/ProstheticAesthetics1200b.jpg" width="670" height="803" width_o="1200" height_o="1439" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/ProstheticAesthetics1200b_o.jpg" data-mid="22109252" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/AnatomyScan006b.jpg" width="670" height="893" width_o="1800" height_o="2400" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/AnatomyScan006b_o.jpg" data-mid="21466182" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/AnatomyScan027b.jpg" width="670" height="893" width_o="1800" height_o="2400" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/AnatomyScan027b_o.jpg" data-mid="21466207" border="0" align="left"/> Our body has evolved to perform. How does technology affect the body, and how does this in turn affect architecture? What are the spatial capacities and boundaries when both body and environment are constantly in flux? Can an artificial extension, a prosthetic, be a catalyst for a new body type to emerge? <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/LawrenceLek_ProstheticAesthetics_P1_Visual.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/LawrenceLek_ProstheticAesthetics_P1_Visual_o.jpg" data-mid="21466214" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/LawrenceLek_ProstheticAesthetics_P2_Balance.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/LawrenceLek_ProstheticAesthetics_P2_Balance_o.jpg" data-mid="21466222" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/LawrenceLek_ProstheticAesthetics_P3_Shelter.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/LawrenceLek_ProstheticAesthetics_P3_Shelter_o.jpg" data-mid="21466226" border="0" align="left"/> We challenge the extents of a body in space; through the application of artificial ‘clothing’ a human’s physical capabilities and architectural boundaries are modified. 'Cushicle' (Mike Webb), ‘Remote Control Dress’ (Hussein Chalayan), and the 'Cheetah foot' (Oscar Pistorius) are precedents of specific technologies and techniques that produce responsive, performative, and phenomenal effects. These garments can deliver generative surface methods for an architecture operated through the user. The research frames key parameters (cutting patterns, construction modules, programmatic applications, and operative field) and their respective characteristics and relationships. Thus, principles are derived and channeled with a conversion between digital and analogue modeling. -- A successful prosthesis has a symbiotic relationship with its user, in which a both human and technological artefact come to rely on each other. Prosthetics can be mapped according to ‘technologies of the body’ that range from restorative (replacing lost functions), over- normalizing (imposing new social or aesthetic norms) to reconfiguring (changing the contextual relations) and enhancing (increasing functions or properties) aspects. Here, the research also investigates the potential of these dynamic models to address the shifting cultural and programmatic context of architecture. <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_4_jump_36x36_superHW.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="670" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_4_jump_36x36_superHW_o.jpg" data-mid="21466354" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_5_flip_36x36_superHW.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="670" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_5_flip_36x36_superHW_o.jpg" data-mid="21466355" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_6_run_36x36_superHW.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="670" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_6_run_36x36_superHW_o.jpg" data-mid="21466357" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_FilmStrips-2XS.jpg" width="670" height="168" width_o="670" height_o="168" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_FilmStrips-2XS_o.jpg" data-mid="21466362" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_FilmStrips-3XS.jpg" width="670" height="168" width_o="670" height_o="168" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_FilmStrips-3XS_o.jpg" data-mid="21466364" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_FilmStrips-1XS.jpg" width="670" height="168" width_o="670" height_o="168" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/Lek_FilmStrips-1XS_o.jpg" data-mid="21466358" border="0" align="left"/> Eadweard Muybridge’s Studies of Animal Human Locomotion revealed the kinetic performance of the human body through photography. Similarly, this thesis documents the potential of prosthetic surfaces that react to the body within a dynamic system as it runs, jumps, and tumbles. The combination of techniques, methods, and effects in clothing and sports prostheses are used to identify concepts for organization, structure and detailing of form. The potential of prosthetic surfaces is to push the human body - faster, further, and stronger. Like sports training apparatus, how can we test our endurance? Hone our agility? Increase our strength? As technology progresses, how will the body simultaneously evolve? <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/IMG_2744_reprintb.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="1600" height_o="2400" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/IMG_2744_reprintb_o.jpg" data-mid="21466276" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://transit4.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/IMG_2832_editb.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="1600" height_o="2400" src_o="http://transit4.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/IMG_2832_editb_o.jpg" data-mid="21466279" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/IMG_2873_editb.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="1600" height_o="2400" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/4092631/IMG_2873_editb_o.jpg" data-mid="21466285" border="0" align="left"/> -- "Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and... http://lawrencelek.com/Screengazers-LP http://lawrencelek.com/following/lawrencelek.com/Screengazers-LP Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:32:59 +0000 Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 3970031 .Download.screengazers.lp.here.1. Terminal 2. Greenleaf March 3. Riding Together 4. Landor 5. Host 6. Chani 7. Casa 8. Screengazers .terminal {video}download.mp3 .landor [video by yearning kru] <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3970031/DSC_0622_o.jpeg" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3970031/DSC_0622_o_o.jpeg" data-mid="20752554" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3970031/RadiantDragonFader_o.jpeg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3970031/RadiantDragonFader_o_o.jpeg" data-mid="20752555" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3970031/RadiantDragonPreseli_o.jpeg" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3970031/RadiantDragonPreseli_o_o.jpeg" data-mid="20752558" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3970031/screenshot2_o.jpeg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1596" height_o="898" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3970031/screenshot2_o_o.jpeg" data-mid="20752800" border="0" align="left"/> .Download.screengazers.lp.here.1. Terminal 2. Greenleaf March 3. Riding Together 4. Landor 5. Host 6. Chani 7. Casa 8. Screengazers .terminal download.mp3 ... http://lawrencelek.com/Inner-Forms http://lawrencelek.com/following/lawrencelek.com/Inner-Forms Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:46:31 +0000 Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 3846452 <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Inner Forms View2.jpg" width="670" height="893" width_o="1800" height_o="2400" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Inner Forms View2_o.jpg" data-mid="20046322" border="0" align="left"/> The series continues my investigations into fluid wood sculpture and how we interpret organic form. The focus on each diptych is the dynamic space created by the interaction of two intertwined figures, like a Rorschach inkblot test caught in mid-air. Each piece is composed of twisting wood and steel elements, creating a suspended three-dimensional drawing. "Inner Forms" will also be produced at the architectural scale, as a series of pavilions that can be inhabited through the viewer's movements. <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Inner Forms View1.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Inner Forms View1_o.jpg" data-mid="20046319" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Rorschach Symbols 2.jpg" width="670" height="893" width_o="1800" height_o="2400" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Rorschach Symbols 2_o.jpg" data-mid="20046333" border="0" align="left"/> R O R S C H A C H . S Y M B O L . I . & I I . 24" x 24" x 108" <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Cycle I and II.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Cycle I and II_o.jpg" data-mid="20046315" border="0" align="left"/> C Y C L E S . I . & . II . 30" x 16" <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Rorschach Twins.jpg" width="670" height="1191" width_o="1350" height_o="2400" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Rorschach Twins_o.jpg" data-mid="20046337" border="0" align="left"/> R O R S C H A C H . T W I N S . 24" x 60" <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Body Double I and II.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Body Double I and II_o.jpg" data-mid="20046308" border="0" align="left"/> B O D Y . D O U B L E S . 8" x 20" <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Stellae.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/3846452/Stellae_o.jpg" data-mid="20046344" border="0" align="left"/> S T E L L A E . 11" x 11" The series continues my investigations into fluid wood sculpture and how we interpret organic form. The focus on each diptych is the dynamic space created by the... http://lawrencelek.com/City-of-Stolen-Voices http://lawrencelek.com/following/lawrencelek.com/City-of-Stolen-Voices Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:21:26 +0000 Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 364002 Open publication - Free publishing - More text Open publication - Free publishing - More text http://lawrencelek.com/Portals http://lawrencelek.com/following/lawrencelek.com/Portals Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:02:32 +0000 Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 2773882 work in progress 2011-ongoing - plaster, canvas, 240 x 120 x 30cm <img src="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2773882/Portal I Portrait.jpg" width="670" height="893" width_o="1500" height_o="2000" src_o="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2773882/Portal I Portrait_o.jpg" data-mid="14167596" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2773882/Portal II Landscape.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2773882/Portal II Landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="14167598" border="0" align="left"/> Portal is a new archetypal form/symbol that I'm playing with, along with sphere, wing, mask, portal, dune, passage. The word is a more evocative threshold/door because it suggests that you are entering into another zone, rather than just another cartesian space... I was also experimenting with new material behaviours when making it... first i made a wooden framework (trapezoid) and draped the 1ft wide canvas-gauze-with-plaster-inside down it, so it draped naturally along the sides of the trapezium, forming a structural base. The surface is kept 1/4" thin at the top bit, so it really looks likes it's floating in person, held up by an invisible force. When it's elevated cause it's just high enough for people to walk underneath. I want to develop a sequence of these within another space, with small changes in dimensions appearing to compress/expand the space below. So the viewer experiences a sequence of modulating portals that form a passage.. <img src="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2773882/Portal detail.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="1600" height_o="2400" src_o="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2773882/Portal detail_o.jpg" data-mid="14167592" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2773882/Portal detail2.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2773882/Portal detail2_o.jpg" data-mid="14167595" border="0" align="left"/> work in progress 2011-ongoing - plaster, canvas, 240 x 120 x 30cm Portal is a new archetypal form/symbol that I'm playing with, along with sphere, wing, mask,... http://lawrencelek.com/Rorschach-GIF http://lawrencelek.com/following/lawrencelek.com/Rorschach-GIF Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:09:14 +0000 Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 2396407 "The bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light." Plato, The Republic; (epigraph for Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes) Algorithms and advertising have taken the place of Oracles, Fortune Tellers, and Leaders. How to proceed? Make it up as we go along. -- Last night I made some of my own Rorschach tests and animated them. I see a guardian spirit, an aeroplane in flight, a queen with fireworks, an animal totem. I feel protection, presence, joy, animal kinship. What do you see? <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2396407/rorschach_01_hdr_edit.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2396407/rorschach_01_hdr_edit_o.jpg" data-mid="12075160" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9683152/1.gif" alt="animation1" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2396407/rorschach_02_hdr_edit.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2396407/rorschach_02_hdr_edit_o.jpg" data-mid="12075167" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9683152/2.gif" alt="animation2" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2396407/rorschach_03_hdr_edit.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2396407/rorschach_03_hdr_edit_o.jpg" data-mid="12075173" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9683152/3.gif" alt="animation3" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2396407/rorschach_04_hdr_edit.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2396407/rorschach_04_hdr_edit_o.jpg" data-mid="12075177" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9683152/4.gif" alt="animation4" /> "The bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the... http://lawrencelek.com/3033 http://lawrencelek.com/following/lawrencelek.com/3033 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:49:25 +0000 Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 2339251 <img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9683152/export3.gif" alt="animation1" /> http://www.mmmxxxiii.com ""A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress." Walter Benjamin, Passagenwerk (AKA The Arcades Project) <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2339251/screengazers3D_111129.jpg" width="670" height="390" width_o="1600" height_o="932" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/2339251/screengazers3D_111129_o.jpg" data-mid="12036513" border="0" align="left"/> 'Screengazers' is recreates an online world, reimagining Walter Benjamin's Arcades project through HTML. You need Google Chrome and Flash 11 to view it! Screengazers 3D http://www.mmmxxxiii.com ""A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly... http://lawrencelek.com/Radiant-Dragon http://lawrencelek.com/following/lawrencelek.com/Radiant-Dragon Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:11:51 +0000 Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 733669 .Download.screengazers.lp.here.1. Terminal 2. Greenleaf March 3. Riding Together 4. Landor 5. Host 6. Chani 7. Casa 8. Screengazers <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/733669/image1.jpg" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/733669/image1_o.jpg" data-mid="25736723" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/733669/image4.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/733669/image4_o.jpg" data-mid="25736727" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/733669/image5.jpg" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/27888/733669/image5_o.jpg" data-mid="25736749" border="0" align="left"/> Landor [video by yearning kru] Terminal {video}download.mp3 Walls - Gaberdine.(明龍 remix)out.on.kompakt.18/10/10 download.mp3 . Radiant Dragon - Overseas PtII (live), Visuals by Awe Ix Live at Rich Mix Cinema - October 2010, Filmed by Lightfoot.tv Gliese 581 Mixtape for GETME! .Download.screengazers.lp.here.1. Terminal 2. Greenleaf March 3. Riding Together 4. Landor 5. Host 6. Chani 7. Casa 8. Screengazers Landor [video by...