Accident Designs

bamboo competition

Along with ten other wonderful projects i was accepted for the next round in the Design for an Eco-friendly Community architectural competition about sustainable bamboo constructions.

With no experience as an architect i have come along way. From believing bamboo resists gravity, to actually understand the materials properties in the real world. I have read a great deal about bamboo, its structural properties and different uses. Bamboo is the steel of nature, and the ways in which it can be used continuously amazes me.

For my project i have worked mainly with woven bamboo. Sophisticated weaving techniques allows you to weave bamboo in all imaginable shapes. For the framework i utilize heat bended bamboo. The structure positioned in the treetops of the jungle is supported by long structural elements of four black bamboo canes connected with steel knobs. The structural elements are mounted in a concrete foundation in order to avoid moist damage to the canes. Several of the elements are inspired by the prototypes presented by Bamboo Lab a research project on bamboo as a building material.

I have tried to investigate more sophisticated ways of handling bamboo in order to showcase its potential as more than a Tiki Hut material but a beautiful element in contemporary architecture.

Accident Designs just enlisted in this competition arranged by arcspace.com and ecolandnow.com, in collaboration with INBAR - International Network for Bamboo and Rattan.

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Bamboo …!

The competition is a great opportunity for me to unite my interest and ideas regarding architecture with my expertise in Second Life. I am looking forward to be a part of it and i am sure i will learn a lot in the process.

The code behind virtual moves released open source.

This friday we had the last reception on the Danish National Gallery where the final two artworks were launched. I have spend some time organizing and refining the scripts which i have developed for the installations in Second Life. Jacob Sikker Remin submitted his work in Arduino and Processing for memory SLot. I have encouraged all of the artists to submit there own work as well.
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There is only about a week to the next job convention at Power-Match, this time featuring Grundfos, Termax, Institute for career development, SKAT, Saxobank, Hartmanns, TDC, Børsen, IBM, FLSmidth and more. Futhermore Grundfoss will be arranging a debate targeting engineers during the convention.  Be there Tuesday, February 5th, 2008, 19:00 - and bring your friends! 

Art in Second Life.

Through the past few weeks i have been occupied with the implementation of VIRTUAL MOVES in Second Life. An experimental art project by Tagging Art investigating the virtual universe and its uses as a platform for education, art, and culture. Some of the works will take on physical form in the u.l.k. exhibition rooms at the Danish National Gallery. But the artworks primarily exist in Second Life. If you can’t make it to Copenhagen, do come by as your avatar!

Learn more:

• Virtual Moves at the National Gallery
• Follow the project on taggingart.org
• Teleport to on grid location!

With new and very much improved search in Second Life, SEO will get a whole new meaning within this virtual world. Now objects on parcels can be listed with title description and even price if set for sale. This will also redefine commerce. Now networked web integrated vendor systems as apez and onrez systems are widely popular. But none of the objects sold through theese systems will be indexed by the search engine. Perhaps the such services can span Search Engine Optimizing through rezzing example objects for sale from the inventory.server used on grid.

The new search really ads some possibilities to get yourself indexed in varius ways and it ads a new meaning to the way content is managed in Second Life. Suddenly it matters what you name each prim in a project you want indexed.

Search also creates some prim specific issues since for each prim oriented entry you would need to rez it, and keep it rezzed. Perhaps there would be future possibilities to SEO without the need to use unwanted prims.

The new search is definetly a huge improvement and i am looking forward to have SEO in SL as a point of focus in my next project.