First post of the year! I’m not taking resolutions this time, except I need to either post more often or rethink my post strategy. It will probably be the later, soon as I get around to thinking about it! In the meantime, here’s my second collage on treehouses. It’s another tea house by Terunobu Fujimori, an unconventional Japanese architect whose work is playful and clever.
As far as small structures go, tree houses are my favorites. Walking in my neighborhood the other day I saw one up in a tree, and I suddenly remembered how much I liked them when I was a kid. My brother, sister and I would gather whatever pieces of wood we could find, nailed them against each other on four sides, put a cover on top, added a few pillows inside, and it became our sanctuary. Never mind that spiders would find it just as comfortable as we did.
This is Where We Live by 4th Estate on Vimeo This short film is so beautiful I couldn't resist posting it here, even though it's been out for a while already. The other reason is that it resonates nicely with my current state of mind: enjoying the leisure activities of summer (at the expense of my blog). The music, warm tones, and fun little characters all contribute to the summery feeling of this unique miniature world made of books. To me it's a wink to those many summers of my childhood spent devouring as many stories as I could. A clever idea produced by Apt Studio and Asylum Films to celebrate the 4th Estate publishers' 25th anniversary. Check also the film's site for production stills and time-lapse videos.
A conversation with friends around Sunday brunch inspired this week's weekly-mini. We were talking about the biggest story in the news right now, the disastrous BP oil spill. When I got home I decided to take a closer look at the personal reaction of marine life coming face to face with the spill.
No one will deny painting is a great way to experiment with colors, but there's nothing like collages to reconnect with the childhood pleasure of cutting with scissors and gluing things. I get my colored paper from Color-aid, they have up to 314 colors available in various sets and sheet sizes.
At some point after making a project out of japanese paper I was left with scraps of triangles, squares, rectangles and half circles. They accidentally overlapped and that gave me the idea for these cards.
