why so long ?!

Well i haven’t posted up any thing for ages mostly because my work has consumed most of my time im in my final year of uni now and hopefully ill be geting round to putting up some stuff from that soooooon the more eagle eyed of you may have noticed the blog has changed from the frenz design blog to the golem design blog after alot of research and soul searching i felt it was a more accurate pseudonym for me . any way this post was just to let y’all know I am still alive .

Lators DXX

{DONT LOOK AWAY}

The Eden Project

 

What’s it about?

Eden is all about man’s relationship with and dependence upon plants. Much of our food, our clothes, our shelter and our medicines come from the plant world. Without plants there would be no oxygen for us to breathe, no life on earth.

The Eden Project is a showcase for all the questions and many of the answers. But Eden is not a worthy, over-serious, guilt-ridden place; nor does it preach. It is about education and communication of the major environmental issues of the day, always presented in an engaging, involving, even humorous way.What’s in it?

More than 1,000,000 plants representing 5,000 species from many of the climatic zones of the world. Many of these can grow in the mild conditions of Cornwall, others need greenhouses and that is where Eden’s two gigantic Biomes – the biggest conservatories in the world – come in.

In addition to the plants, art is central to Eden’s messaging, and the site is liberally peppered with fascinating, thought-provoking works and installations.Whose idea was it?

The idea was primarily Tim Smit’s, working with horticultural gurus Peter Thoday and Philip McMillan Browse, and Cornish architect and co-founder Jonathan Ball.

The more Tim found out about plants the more he wanted to tell the fascinating story of their importance to man, but it needed a much broader canvas than Heligan.

Along the way Tim gathered many others to help flesh out the vision and make it the reality it is today. His book Eden tells the full story.How many visitors does Eden get?

Our initial business plan was based upon 750,000 visitors per year, but in the first year we welcomed nearly two million. Since then it has settled down to one and a quarter million a year. By mid-2006 more than 7.5m people had visited Eden.How big are the covered Biomes?

The Humid Tropics Biome has an area of 15,590 square metres (1.55 hectares), is 55 metres high, 100 metres wide and 200 metres long. It is the biggest greenhouse in the world and is high enough to hold the Tower of London or eleven double-decker buses piled on top of one another.

The Warm Temperate Biome has an area of 6,540 square metres (0.65 hectares), is 35 metres high, 65 metres wide and 135 metres long.What are the Biomes covered with?

The Biomes are made up of hexagons of various sizes, the largest of which are approximately 9m across. The frame is galvanised tubular steel glazed with a triple layer of ETFE (Ethylene TetrafluoroEthylene Co-Polymer) foil.

ETFE is a transparent, recyclable foil and should last for at least 30 years. It is anti-static and therefore self-cleaning. It is very strong, transparent to UV light and is not degraded by sunlight. The whole structure is guaranteed maintenance-free for at least 25 years.Are there any animals?

Since the opening of the Eden Project in 2001, what was a sterile china clay pit now teems with wildlife. In the covered Biomes there are insects, butterflies, birds and some lizards. These function as biological controls for pests, and there are no plans to introduce any more animals.How is the climate maintained in the covered Biomes?

The covered Biomes are incredibly well insulated to conserve heat and therefore energy. The three layers of ETFE foil within the hexagons are blown apart by air forming an insulating pillow.

The climate is controlled using sophisticated computerised systems for automatic ventilation and heating. The back wall acts as a heat sink absorbing heat in the day and releasing it at night and the plants themselves help to control the climate (when it gets hotter they give off more water which cools the air).Where do the plants come from?

The plants are grown from seed and cuttings and brought in from nurseries, research stations and botanic gardens all over the world.

Eden has its own nursery a few miles down the road where our plants are nurtured before they move to the main site.How does the Eden Project affect the economy of the local community?

By 2006, five years after opening, Eden had – according to independently verified figures – contributed £700 million to the local economy. Eden uses local suppliers wherever possible, employs local people and supports local businesses in Cornwall and the South West.Isn’t it all just a big green theme park?

Eden is unashamedly entertaining but the real difference between it and a theme park lies in the scientific integrity and talent which underpins the whole Project; the academic excellence on site and beyond with the many partnerships we have set up with institutes, universities and individuals right across the world. Unlike theme parks Eden is a charity, and all the money raised at Eden goes back into our mission to explain the relationship between people and plants.Is it all finished?

No, and we hope it never will be. Obviously plants are constantly growing and changing with the seasons and Eden has expansion plans beyond the two covered Biomes, outdoor landscape and The Core.

Plans for The Edge – Eden’s fourth climate zone – are underway, as are those for the Fertile Crescent, a meeting place for conversations that just might go somewhere. Beyond that, who knows, but you can rest assured that Eden will continue to break new ground and further expand its horticultural, educational and artistic endeavours.What is The Core?

The Core is Eden’s new education centre, encapsulating our commitment to education in its broadest sense. Not just for students or scientists, The Core is open to everyone and contains a whole host of thought-provoking, enlightening exhibits.

 

Propoganda

The aim of propagandism is to influence people’s opinions or behaviors actively, rather than merely to communicate the facts about something. For example, propaganda might be used to gather either support or disapproval of a certain position, rather than to simply present the position, or to try to convince people to buy something, rather than to simply let them know there is some thing on the market.

What separates propagandism from “normal” communication is in ways by which the message attempts to shape opinion or behavior, which are often subtle and insidious among other characteristics. For example, propagandism is often presented in a way that attempts to deliberately evoke a strong emotion, especially by suggesting illogical (or non-intuitive) relationships between concepts or objects (for instance between a “good” car and an attractive woman or a sex symbol).

 

An appeal to one’s emotions is, perhaps, a more obvious and common propagandist method than those utilized by some other more subtle and insidious forms. For instance, propagandism may be transmitted indirectly or implicitly, through an ostensibly fair and balanced debate or argument. This can be done to great effect in conjunction with a broadly targeted, broadcast news format. In such a setting, arguments using “red herring” and other ploys (such as Ignoratio elenchi) are often used to divert the audience from a critical issue, while the intended message is suggested through indirect means.

Constuctivism & Art in the revolution

As much as involving itself in designs for industry, the Constructivists worked on public festivals and street designs for the post-October revolution Bolshevik government. Perhaps the most famous of these was in Vitebsk, where Malevich’s UNOVIS Group painted propaganda plaques and buildings (the best known being El Lissitzky’s poster Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919)). Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky’s declaration ‘the streets our brushes, the squares our palettes’, artists and designers participated in public life throughout the Civil War. A striking instance was the proposed festival for the Comintern congress in 1921 by Alexander Vesnin and Liubov Popova, which resembled the constructions of the OBMOKhU exhibition as well as their work for the theatre. There was a great deal of overlap in this period between Constructivism and Proletkult, the ideas of which concerning the need to create an entirely new culture struck a chord with the Constructivists. In addition some Constructivists were heavily involved in the ‘ROSTA Windows’, a Bolshevik public information campaign of around 1920. Some of the most famous of these were by the poet-painter Vladimir Mayakovsky and Vladimir Lebedev.

As a part of the early Soviet youth movement, the constructivists took an artistic outlook aimed to encompass cognitive, material activity, and the whole of spirituality of mankind. The artists tried to create works that would take the viewer out of the traditional setting and make them an active viewer of the artwork. In this it had similarities with the Russian Formalists’ theory of ‘making strange’, and accordingly their leading theorist Viktor Shklovsky worked closely with the Constructivists, as did other formalists like Osip Brik. These theories were tested in the theatre, particularly in the work of Vsevolod Meyerhold, who had set up what he called ‘October in the theatre’. Meyerhold developed a ‘biomechanical’ acting style, which was influenced both by the circus and by the ’scientific management’ theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor. Meanwhile the stage sets by the likes of Vesnin, Popova and Stepanova tested out Constructivist spatial ideas in a public form. A more populist version of this was developed by Alexander Tairov, with stage sets by Aleksandra Ekster and the Stenberg Brothers. These ideas would go on to influence German directors like Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator, as well as the early Soviet cinema.

Private military companies

BENI-TAL “security”

Following the recent Blackwater incidents P.M.C’s have become more known to the civilian populous but what few of the them don’t know is that there are well over a hundred organizations operating outside of the law . . . scary right .

the final showdown . . . Bury the hatchet

My final choice

and a publication that came a close second

i think id like my magazine to be an amalgam of the two .

приветствовать

Welcome indeed to the post apocalyptic retro future how are you going to survive ?

Are you fortunate (rich) enough to have been born and live in the Utopian cities or are you a worker who has had to toil and now fight for your right to exist . . . .

MAGAZINE QUEST

So i went back to Manchester the other day so i visited the magma bookshop and picked up some of their

awesome magazines

Also i picked up a jacket whilst i was home i thought the tag was kinda cool because it says design unlikely futures on it
thought it fitted our brief quite well it was a weird moment …

HALO3

Completed HALO3 the other day well chuffed did a lil painting to celebrate

THERE ARE MONSTERS HERE

well the page is looking a bit blank so lets see what i can post all up in here : ) .