great ideas from germany, i think.

This site was brought to my by Matt via StumbleUpon. Its a german website for a book that is basically a bunch of cool ideas, some are better than others.
Atelier v (I have no idea what this or means).

Highlights:

Cool Idea, similar to another one I had, I'll post it up here eventually.

and this one is awesome.

burnt hair

this idea is simple i just wanted to post it up. the above pictures are of hair strands placed a little above a flame, the heat burns it slightly and causes it to curl up tightly. it mightbe cool to see it in a gallery, maybe with a magnifying glass.
not much concept though... DNA comes on hairstrands. ... thats I can think up.

warped LPs

I had heard about this idea a while ago and did some research and decided to try it. Its really easy-
>Vinyl in Oven, make it hot and it wont take long
>It will get very pliable (and not that hot- you can touch it with your hands!)
>press it into a bowl

-My above trial was into a weird pot that we had in the kitchen in the dorm, so it looks weird.
Ideas:
>sorta obvious, press more centered into bigger bowl
>Try cutting into small circles and press into smaller cups to make vinyl shot glasses.
--------used middle of CD as coster set- laminate?
>try pressing into full glass or vase
>try cutting when its pliable, it will make a smooth bowl with overlapping parts
------maybe melt flaps together with fire or soldering iron?
>try poking legs into it- like in picture (not my picture)

creative earings

Unconventional Earings

On , they have a tutorial of how to make the actual earings, using pre-bought earing peices. Thats probably easier than making my own. But as for ideas for subject matter (actual dangly part...)

>Foreign coins, broken zippers, gummy bears, sim cards, etc

pixelated TV- not my idea

TP TV

Are you sick of looking at your generic TV screen? Maya Berger suggests transforming the boob tube into a pop-art showpiece. Start by collecting a bunch of toilet paper rolls (you'll need 70 for a 19" screen, and the ones lined with white centers work best). Find a cardboard box that's approximately the same size as your screen, and cut out the bottom. Cover the box with a heavy vellum paper by taping it to the sides. (You can also build your own box out of vellum.) Fill the box with TP rolls, and place the whole thing in front of your screen. Dim the lights, turn on your set, and let the pixelated show begin.

from: http://www.readymademag.com/feature_22_remake.php

Using Smoke to Paint...

This idea I picked up one some website a long time ago (i think it was a WikiHow)- and never thought about it until i had to do an artmaking project and i was trying to do anything except paint. So i experimented with a small tea light and a peice of paper- it worked but it was that great- the flame was too small, the paper was too weak and difficult to handle. I used it in one artmaking project, which I probably post up here next post (im still backlogging ideas and projects).

Two ideas changed the project into something awesome:
-making use of an oil candle i had build in ceramics that had been a failed project at the time. It was failed because I did not create any mechanism to seperate the flame from the oil reserves, so the flame got too big and let off ALOT of smoke, which doesnt work as a nice little oil candle. However, it does work for this project, which needs smoke.
-I gessoed a peice of cardboard to use a canvas and tried it for this idea and it was also a success- 1) because the gesso doesnt burn as quickly (it would probably take a while to burn it) and 2) because its easier to hold the cardboard over the flame, move it however i want- really use like a canvas.
------interesting idea- this is like painting where the paintbrush stays still and the canvas moves- but its 3d because the canvas must move on more than 2 axises because the angle at which the flame hits the board changes the final product totally.
-things to note: -must use fixative when youare done or you can easily brush away the smokemarks. (i was lucky enough to find someone with a whole bottle that they didnt need)
-also, you can't do this indoors because theres alot of smoke, but outdoors the wind makes it difficult to control the marks- must use in isolated outdoor area, or foundry/metal shop.

Possible ideas:
-try smoke on glass- this has cool potential. Especially on glass of a glass coffee table. Maybe do it on the underside of glass table.
another idea:- do it on glass table, and then spray paint white over it, then flip the glass over and it might look awesome.
-or, do smokemarks one side and paint the otherside, then use smoke-side up.
-should try these ideas soon.

Where ideas go to die...

Did you ever have a sculpture or art project that failed miserably? Or perhaps you were distracted or annoyed at it and you could not finish it? Or maybe even it never made it past a drawing or sketch but it had the potential to be great but you know that it could not be met?
We all need closure, and this is where ideas, hopes, and dreams go to be put to rest.

The idea is an installation/sculpture peice- take over a plot of land- demarcate the land with a fence (chicken wire painted black? green fence from my house painted black?)- (idea- make cool entrance like gateway for it)
-vaguely mark out grave plots for sculptures- start out with one of mine- put it there, make a gravestone-
gravemarker/stone- either styrafoam or cardboard or something
------reids idea- make it very small to play on the idea of an idea being small..?
------have person make their gravestone- that is only rule to having your stuff in graveyard
-graveyard is like a gallery but of broken ideas, dead dreams, failed projects
-but gallery is like one last attempt at their success before they are done for
-viewing of body.... before burial :: gallery opening ::graveyard

-advertise- maybe make a website- make facebook/myspace info on it
-photograph its creation- document carefully

maybe when its done have a gallery closing- or viewing- or burial- etc...
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crackled CD clock

This idea is basic, no concept behind it- use crackled cd (microwaved) for background of clock.
-used basic clock components from some crappy clock thing
-problem: to mass produce would need cheap, easy to get, clock parts
-hands- cutouts from magazine, too floppy, dont hold shape- cross paths
-solution: need firmer material
-i think it runs incorrectly time, need to be more careful with arm placements
-hanging possibilities: use picture hanging thing, or fishing wire, or floss, or paper clips

how did you get to this party? connections

i had this vague idea at a party once- i was looking around- all these people- with their unvierses, their own friends, family, socks, drama, pencils, desks, emails, and universes- and they all collide at parties. before the party, i was in place x. and in my personal narrative- i was in place x, then went to this party, and saw all these people. but before the party- everyone was somewhere- doing something.
i had the idea of photographing people at a party, then getting a bunch (maybe 10) of them involved in this photoessay or photonarrative, in which i traceback their steps to what they did before the party, how they heard about it, how they got there, etc.
Coincedences, random instances, etc would enhance project. This may need words, but thats okay- it can have captions.
The final product would be photos of a party and branching out would be how those people ended up there- the branches could be backwards chronologically from the party to maybe how they first heard about the party or how they came to find out about it. then trace it backwards more- they saw a flyer for it? in what building? what class did they have there? why did they take that class? why are they that major? work backwards and backwardser.
why? based on the idea that if one could know everything in the universe (the placement of each atom in the universe) and you could have this ideal/incredible calculator - then you could predict the future. if you didnt want to major in taht- you would never have ended up that party.

the party where universes collide.

process of making sandals mine

idea: to get a brand new pair of sandals in the beginning of the spring/summer- photograph them on a plain repeatable background- wear them all the time, everywhere, and photograph them daily/weekly whatever is necessary to show the process that one goes through in wearing in sandals- at first sandals are puffy, impersonal, plain. slowly toes and the balls of my feet start to make their own grooves in the sole (soul). more and more, the grooves go deeper, the sandals become more specific to me and my foot and my toes. slowly they wear in, maybe too much. the fabric may begin to wear, slowly tear. the sandal eventually falls apart (rain, weather help process along.
concept: makign something mine, personalization, individualization, uniqueness, getting used to something, getting comfortable, wearing it, but what does it mean that this all leads to the destruction of the object and starting again?
end photo esay with picture of new, different sandals.

Oil candle apple

Use apple or other fruit (or any object) as vehicle to hold lamp oil and wick (with wick head/holder that are obtained from work-place garbage)
-Use knife to remove apple in correct side as to fit wick holder in perfectly
-Use foil to hold oil inside apple
Problems: apples/fruit decay.
More ideas: use potatoes and roots will look awesome eventually
-other objects? Anything~ doll heads?

Vacuum hose + parking cone

Music Instrument-
Based losely on blue man's wackophone or drumbone- instead of using different lengths of tube or tubes that fit into each other and lengthen- use a material that expands- vacuum hose.
-Use cone to amplify sound
-Use soft foam material to smack hose
-it produces little sound when physically contacts hose lip
-gets good contact, good sound

Blog rebirth as idealog

This blog shall now be devoted to ideas- it is an ideablog or idealog.