Object I really like #design 101/006

by the way my favorite location in Berlin is as well showing in these pics.

My favorite object is my white Pentax camera.

I am usually taking a lot of photos to record my experiences. I also love to travel and make excursions to nature and I have as well a separate blog for my adventure pictures:
www.dayforadventure.com.

Open air party in Berlin summer

Squirrel and kangaroo

This makes me really happy. A baby book is born: Squirrel and kangaroo.

I made all the drawings and text is by Philippe Luickx. Its possible to order it from Blurb and if you order now there is still time to get it for christmas wherever you are.

Love and happiness,

Silva

Clown mama #design101/005

Design assignment for today was following: Make a mask representing yourself.
And then, make a second one for a friend of yours.

hmm what to do?

I made a "nose job" because I knew I would not have time to other things and this work should be  3D.

It was fun to cut one of my kitchen sponge for it and it was just enough for 2 noses..1 big and 1 small.

I was going to Mexican Toten Fest in Berlin and that is why I didint have time first.
After I finished the noses I found out my friend cancelled our date so this saddened me a bit. But then I realised I could take immediately also the pics and post my work in time to Iversity.

 (Party of the death will be still going until this Sunday: 1. - 3. November 2013, Fr/Sa 20.00 Uhr, So 15.00 Uhr
TAK-Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, Prinzenstraße 85 F, 10969 Berlin)

And so me and my friends set up a photo studio..I guess that took the most of the 1 hour time for the exercise. The hardest part was to take the pic with Romulus, the cat..he was really annoyed for a reason:) Lights were designed by djBlume and David Aguilera, Photos were made by David Aguilera

 Here is more about my messy nose job:

I needed following tools: 1kitchen sponge,  scissors, red pens, knife and a bit of duck tape for the smaller nose to keep it on.

cut in the back to keep it on the nose

final design

Here are many pics from todays photosession:

strike a pose - irony of modelling

and so my faithful  friend Romulus and me:

kukkuu

noo, don´t touch my paw

I want out of here now! crazy shit!whats happening

baby talk

angry baby

there there kiss kiss

baby calmed down

ah what a clown mama I am, 35 year old and I have just this cat

but he is so cool cat

thursday excercise part -2 Pumpkin risotto for Halloween #design101/004

This is my favorite pumpkin risotto for Halloween! Thanks to italian Giuliano who teached me this in one autumn.

The picture tells the ingredients and the order of applying them:

you need a little moose power to bring pumpkin first home

this is grana padano and you can also use parmigiano

pumpkin panorama

and I alway use the pumpkin seeds too

By the way this food challenge was just on Thursday that I consider a nice food day. In Berlin there is  a event called Street Food Thursday to test all kind of special food every Thursday.

Thursday exercise part 1 - Alice in Wonderland days #design101

The Cheshire Cat constantly grins and can disappear and reappear whenever it likes :)

Now we had a little coffee time because we were planning our design task. What is the better way to start the process than drink coffee. I love the designs related to coffee too.

cat and cup are both from Gent, Belgium.

Always Ready and in Focus:#design101/002

Here is my design process for the assignment I had on Tuesday in #design102 MOOC.

A friend of mine had to take a good potrait of me and after that I had to make a good potrait of myself.

There was a little mistake in the daily brief saying that we should draw a potrait from a picture that our friends took of us. So when I found a friend to take picture of me, sun was already setting and I thought is ok as I can always draw something when its darker. I also gave him free hands to make a picture of me. It was a good moment to let the other person express their feeling and impression about you so I let David freely choose where, when and how he took my picture. Its really nice to give that kind of control away sometimes as I usually love to plan my pictures and think about the details.

Here is the final picture he chose and I think its good that its expressive and not just pretty. The bridge is also nice symbolic background and that creative factory space behind and ofcourse autumn leaves against blue sky.

I also wanted to take pictures of David and this is my choice: He is artist so I wanted to give him a graffiti frame. You can see his work here:

David

Then it was time for my self potrait and as I noticed that the assignment was to take another picture and not make a drawing so I got a little panic.

The Sun had set and the one peace to hold the camera was missing from my tripod. So what to do. Don´t panic!, I thought and immediately start thinking my options. no light, camera no good when shaking, web camera stupid, photo automat costs and take time and last time even my picture got lost there even those are cool in Berlin. I could have run to that bar to complain about my last missing photo but most likely loose time and not get it anyway back. And then it hit me. I have a scanner! And after that I was like a child playing and experimenting as long there was time left as this assigment was just 1 hour. So I was pretty fast then scanning myself. It felt like victorian times photographer as I reached my hand to click the mouse and covered then my head with a big flanel shirt for the scan to start.

 

I also found some strange cameras like the concealed vest camera and love this slogan. "No Tourist Artist or Student, Amateur or Professional, should be without this Camera" .

here is one picture of the process with my cloth cover:

It was quite steamy under the cloth and you can see my breath in the picture!

and here is my final self potrait:

Romulus & Black Jack

Here is some more pictures of Romulus and Black Jack.