Not All Artist are Starving

Unfortunately I was not able to attend the talk by Victoria Monsul so I must write about being a creative professional after graduation. Well I went to the Not All Artist Are Starving event held by HAGA and I thought I would write about that. The event consist of a collection of creative professionals who were there to share their experiences in the "real world" in a more conversational atmosphere. It wasn't a lecture really it was more of a group of professionals talking about what they do.

One of the key points that I got from them was how fluid life as a creative professional is. That is to say that you can't really plan your life out to be a certain way because opportunities arise that might steer you away from your set path into something you didn't originally picture yourself doing.

Another point is that as a creative professional you really have to market yourself and your work. The more people you know the more opportunities you have to make contacts that will last and might even someday help you in life. A lot of people were telling me how Victoria had this thing about "ringing her bell" and how that helped her meet unexpected people who would offer her jobs. I guess as a creative professional, if you want to be successful you have to be outgoing and open to let others help you.

The event was very successful and it was good to hear other people speak about post college life as a creative professional because it is a difficult career to be involved in. I learned a lot from it and am looking forward to next years.

Future Garments

The world of fashion is always fun. Although I am a girl but I think its interesting all the different looks you can create out of different fabrics and the different personalities you can take through those cloths. Unless we become a dictatorship I'm pretty sure fashion is always gonna be a profiting business, fashion will have a future.

New technologies can even make a shirt feel like a hug. When your friend wants to send you an embrace they can just call you and the shirt replicates their hug! The shirt was invented by CuteCircuit but is not completely tweaked yet.

Population Control

Population control, I'm pro it. Increasing in population means rapid decreases in food, habitat, work, etc. Maybe if there were such things as live in space station, expansion to other worlds or hydropolises. Oh wait, someone's already designed those! Giancarlo Zema Design Group has designed a series of ocean habitats so that we could expand. I wonder how they overcome tidal waves and hurricanes such...

Work

As I am getting older I am not looking forward to applying for a job... But eventually I must... So what does it mean to work for pantopicon? Strong designer DNA making you think with both your hand and your head... Ah I might look into that, maybe traineeship... sounds fun!

Patrick Gyger

Last semester I established a website for people to speak about inventions that were imagined in fiction before they were even thought of as realistic concepts. Searching thru Pantopicon I saw an interview with Patrick Gyger, director of La Maison d'Ailleurs in Switzerland. He was also one of the co managers of the European Space Agency's study on Innovative Technologies from Science Fiction for Space Applications. He had some pretty interesting things to say about the history of the future.

London Bridge is sinking

Well design is used to create things that help something else. So, the first part is to find a problem... Or to imagine one. We have to look at the future so that we can create solutions to problem that could pose problems. We all know that the artic and antarctic are melting because of global warming and this will cause Venice, London and other cities that are at sea level to flood. We have to find a solution for this.

Or, just live with it. Squint Opera came out with images of the future of London town. They were exhibited at London Architecture.

Optimistic Future

If you bring together a design future-storyteller, a biotechnologist, a policy advisor, a permaculturalist, an educator, a civil servant, an urdan designer and an architect what do you get? The power of 8. They together created Acres Green a magestic world that fits all of what they believe would help the future blossom. The project consists of imaginitive animal and plants which would each have a speficic job to do which furtherd the development of this world.

Making of the Beamer Bees from Superflux on Vimeo.