Ken Smith Conversation

full ken smith interview transcript is up... here

NZILA Xmas Party / Official xsection Launch Party

Big thanks to the Auckland Branch of the NZILA for letting us taking over their Christmas celebrations....

Grad show, xsection pre-release

ISSUU'd

For all those that can't make tonights launch party, you don't have to miss out.

Have a browse through our issuu version - packed full of links to contributor references + mentions.

We highly recommend the TED talk mentioned in the Daniel Irving article 'nothing revolutionary       (...yet)'

and its here....

excitement!
1500 copies of the inaugural xsection magazine were delivered to our office today....

come and see us at grad show for your copy

At the printers.....

Thanks to GEON for the tour of their massive facility out in Highbrook.

Heather doing the final 'press pass'

Proofs of the cover fold

Stacked up and ready for gloss and emboss finishing.....

wannacopy?

GOOD NEWS....

the inaugural edition of xsection magazine will be exclusively available from 5.30pm on the 1st of December at Unitec's annual gradshow

come down and meet the xsection editorial team, have a browse through the magazine.... and take one home.... FOR FREE!
we will be stationed in the library foyer straight through from the main entrance to building1.

in the meantime: here are some excerpts from a few of the outstanding contributors to issue one

"we move very quickly to computers, we don’t draw very much anymore but then we do a lot of visualisation..." Ken Smith



"the ability to communicate is core to ensuring an ongoing ability to influence positive change within our environment..."         Renee Davies


"the representational techniques we utilise yield new insights into the potential of a place..."   Sam Bourne


"...if anyone thinks that this can be done with pen and paper... give it a try" Nikolay Popov

"...it should not be assumed that the future of digital technology will be mostly recognisable" Gary Marshall + Claire O'Shaughnessy

ISSUE 1 - A Sneak Peak

Image by 2011 BLA graduate Meg Kane

Here it is... A sneak peak at the cover for Issue 1. We go to print this Tuesday, and can relax for a few days before the grand double launch. Once at Unitec Grad Show, then we put it straight into the hands of the professionals at the NZILA Christmas Party. Bring on the celebrations!

on submissions 2

excitement!
all our staff submissions are in, 1 or 2 other experts articles due very soon.
Issue One is building into something unexpected!
hope to have some sneak preview stuff for blog followers in the coming month....

stay tuned

Slowness

Slowness:

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.



Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time.

In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

Milan Kundera, Slowness (via thought-emancipation)