Yayoi Kusama – An Inspiration

I’m surrounded by people buying and archiving tremendous amounts of design magazines. Their content and purpose of existence almost always feels like an end in itself and therefore just doesn’t work for me as source of inspiration.

Scientists of all fields (e.g. neuroscience, physics, mathematics, computer science), architects and artists do a way better job in that respect.
One of them is Yayoi Kusama – a fine artist from Japan. Her artworks are of a rather diverse nature and so are the different kind of media she utilizes to express herself. Ranging from paintings, over video montage to environmental installations, she even writes award winning novels. I had the chance to visit her exhibition “Mirrored Years” in February 2009 at the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) Sydney and liked it a lot.

Two small rooms simulating infinite space using only mirrors, light emitting diodes hanging from the ceiling and water in one of them have been particularly inspiring. Also the reoccurring use of spheres as main or complementary element throughout different artworks made me become very interested in that strange lady’s head space. Check out more or her work and biography here.

Gabor

Filed under: Visual Diary

Bad Boy

I have been neglecting my blog for almost two weeks again and it doesn’t feel good at all. One could think, things are kind of stagnating. Fact is, it is actually the opposite happening in my life right now. I’m running around in Sydney CBD having meetings, visit vernissages and design talks in Surry Hills and inspect warehouse design studios in Chippendale. I’m still programming my website, try to read about Arduino controllers and their programming syntax as much as I can, wrap my mind around a small, potential game development project and have an experimental, interactive – architecture project in the pipeline, which I’d like to present in its most basic form by the end of this month. Once my website will be up and running I will continue posting more frequently again and intend to cover topics dealing predominantly with:

1. Papervision3D
2. Blob tracking and processing for my DSI device
3. Small experimental projects with Arduino controllers

Until then, have a nice read on Arduino.cc, which is well documented and offers some pretty interesting inspirations for interactive projects.

Cheers

Gabor

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Memory Indicator Class

Hi. I am currently working on my new website which will be available soon through gaborzins.com.
In the course of building it, I came across Gabriel’s blog PixelBreaker.com. Here I found out about the System.totalMemory class and thought it would be useful to have a little panel that could be easily called, displaying the total memory used by the application running. I still have to make it become a singleton class, but decided to put it online. Singleton follows soon. 😉

IndicateMemory.as Download (4kb)

Cheers

Gabor

Filed under: Software