11 July, 2010

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Day Three Photos

Same city, another Palace.

11 July, 2010

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Day Two in Seoul

A Palace and the City.

7 July, 2010

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First Day in Seoul. 

After a torturous journey from Norwich to Seoul we finally made it to our hostel and found some morsels to eat. When I say torturous I only refer to the boring length of time and the fact I managed to burn myself with coffee with 3 hours of flying left to go.

Our initial impressions were confused. “This feels like it could be in Europe.” were our first thoughts, even riding on the underground we were amazed how ‘normal’ everything felt. (Aside from having our photo taken and being laughed/stared at within 30 seconds of getting on there.) However, upon departing the subway station and landing in downtown Seoul the differences became apparent quite quickly. Landmarks are harder to spot when you cant read anything. There are no road names, and a cute alley of shops and restaurants can very quickly turn into the entrance for an office buildings car park. Not being able to communicate is also proving to be a bit of a problem, with my current method of paying for things being just an action of holding out a palm full of money and hoping they only take what they need.

4 July, 2010

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Coming soon… :)

Coming soon… :)

2 January, 2010

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Starting the year off on the right foot. AODL web site updated.

Starting the year off on the right foot.

AODL web site updated.

1 January, 2010

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Top 50 Albums of the 00’s

Only one rule - One album per band

1. Kid A – Radiohead 2000
2. Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós 2000
3. Vespertine - Bjork 2001
4. Sea Change - Beck 2002
5. Funeral - Arcade Fire 2004
6. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens 2005
7. Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams 2000
8. Fold Your Hands Child, You walk like a Peasant - Belle and Sebastian 2000
9. Rounds - Four Tet 2003
10. The Campfire Headphase - Boards of Canada 2005

11. You are Free - Cat Power 2003
12. You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine – Death From Above 1979 2004
13. Chute to narrow – The Shins 2003
14. Since I left you – Avalanches 2000
15. Neon Golden - The Notwist 2003
16. White Blood cells - White Stripes 2001
17. Xtrmntr - primal scream 2000
18. The Creek Drank the Cradle - Iron & Wine 2002
19. Feels - Animal Collective - 2005
20. Bang Bang Rock and Roll - Art Brut 2005

21. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes 2008
22. Person Pitch - Panda Bear 2007
23. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco 2002
24. The Milk-Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom 2004
25. Supermodified - Amon Tobin 2000
26. Kill the Moonlight -Spoon 2002
27. Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol 2002
28. Digital Ash in a Digital Urn - Bright Eyes 2007
29. You Forgot It in People - Broken Social Scene 2002
30. Madvillainy - Madvillain 2001

31. Is this it? - The Strokes 2001
32. Gulag Orkestar - Beirut 2006
33. 23 - Blonde Redhead 2007
34. Cast Aways and Cutouts - The Decemberists 2002
35. Silent Shout - The Knife 2006
36. Rock Action - Mogwai 2002
37. The Moon and Antartica - Modest Mouse 2000
38. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 2007
39. Let’s Get Out of This Country - Camera Obscura 2006
40. Hospice - The Antlers 2009

41. Apologies to the Queen Mary - Wolf Parade
42. Ballad of Broken Seas - Isobel Campbell + Mark Lanegan
43. Stories from the City Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey 2000
44. Daisies of the Galaxy - Eels 2000
45. One Word Extinguisher - Prefuse 73 2003
46. Les Retrouvailles - Yann Tiersen 2005
47. Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom - Jana Hunter 2005
48. the mysterious production of eggs - Andrew Bird 2005
49. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver 2008
50. Smile - Brian Wilson 2004

2 November, 2009

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Paper Cuts. Nice bit of Monday morning inspiration from the inter-web.

Paper Cuts.

Nice bit of Monday morning inspiration from the inter-web.

7 September, 2009

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In praise of the sci-fi corridor - Den of Geek I feel the reason why these corridors are so well developed are because they are one of the first things a concept artist would draw. Its a quick way of defining the style of the environment to a confiend space. The scale and level of perspective required allows for lots of detail to be designed and refined. But maybe in the world of architecture we need to put in a similar amount of effort to our corridors. Any good real world examples anyone?

In praise of the sci-fi corridor - Den of Geek

I feel the reason why these corridors are so well developed are because they are one of the first things a concept artist would draw. Its a quick way of defining the style of the environment to a confiend space. The scale and level of perspective required allows for lots of detail to be designed and refined.

But maybe in the world of architecture we need to put in a similar amount of effort to our corridors. Any good real world examples anyone?

1 September, 2009

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Dieter Rams, designer - Cold War Modern on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Really nice little documentary (clip) about Deiter Rams. This man did wonders for product design and his work can be seen as the major inspiration for all Apple products after 1997.

23 August, 2009

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Synaptic Stimuli

Synaptic Stimuli