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BOOK: FISH CASTLE
Books are linear. We read them from cover to cover, in which we indulge ourselves in the narrative exactly as the author has devised. A book, after all, is unknown territory until the author leads you by the hand, revealing essential elements at the author’s whim.
WHERE WE’RE GOING, WE DON’T NEED ROADS
Went out with my film nikon on a real moody day in Hongkong. The clouds were so low they were obscuring most of the skyscrapers. The haze and lack of sun gave an appealing (if somewhat unheimlich neotokyoesque) accent on the sharp lines.This is a selection. (flickr)
DILEMMA: HOW DO I MAKE THIS MOVIE?
Do you know that feeling where you heard a story somewhere and you tell your friends, “Hey, someone should make a movie out of that!” Well, it happened to me. Only the feeling was so strong, that I said to my wife, “Hey, I want to make a movie out of this!” But I’ll be damned if I know where to even begin.
TYPE: JAPANESE WEATHER (DOWNLOAD)
I’ve finished scanning the handmade letter and it’s ready for use. Please find the full version on my flickr stream here.
It’s under CC license, so do with it what you like; but please let me know if you use it.
TYPE: Japanese Winter (preview)
I’ve been working on some typography today, with simply a pair of scissors and a nice pattern sheet. Besides being incredibly therapeutic, I am very pleased with the result. I will scan the letters later and upload them for your own use: they’re available under the CC license so feel free to play around with them. If you do use them, please be so kind as to let me know what you did with it. Just for my own curiousity. I won’t sue you. Probably.
Japanese Winter has all the letters of the alphabet in capitals, all the numbers and some symbols : ?!@#&
PROJECT: INSPACE
inspace from David Wieland on Vimeo.
This is a conceptual exploration of my final project: inspace. Inspace is a nonlinear platform for any form of new content. It’s incredibly intuitive in use and should yield to plenty of successful representations of future projects, articles and opinions of users.
Music: Drivin’ North by Remus (www.humanworkshop.com)
EXPLORING UNSPACE
Eric Sanderson defines unspace as the empty abandoned areas of the world. (Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall)
I found these empty, abandoned areas in Hong Kong by accident: they are the staircases of Causeway Bay station, one of the busiest metro stations in Hong Kong. They are abandoned for a simple reason: they are not in the path of the traveler. Right next to the staircase is an escalator.
I will continue to explore and document unspace.
This is the first set.
New base: Hongkong
For the coming six months I live, report, create and procrastinate in my other hometown Hongkong. The differences between the country I have grown up in and the country I’ve grown onto are so mindboggingly vast that it’s hard to imagine they’re both on the same planet. I will already miss the sheer convenience of Hongkong once we are moving back to the slow-paced Legoland: The Netherlands. I will write more on this later: first I am going to celebrate the fact that my application for a Hongkong ID card came through.
PROJECT: DISPOSITION
Disposition from David Wieland on Vimeo.
Disposition is a film project I made at the beginning of this year. I had no storyboard at all for this animation. I simply allowed each drawing to be influenced by my creativity, more or less based on each previous drawing. It became a visual stream of consciousness which took me somewhere I never realised I would end up. It was a very entertaining project.
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