| paniq exhibition |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|10:54 pm] |
I would really suggest to pop in to this exhibition:
the event and the place are very inspiring.
Plus, I made some "product placement"
see here for details: http://www.guerrillazoo.com/panic-movement/
Open to public Sat 14th – Sat 21th Nov
11am - 7pm, Every day (one week only!)
The Old Abattoir, 187 - 211 St John Street, Clerkenwell, London EC1V 4LS
Entry - Donation
being a big fan of Roland Topor's work, (gluondufou is a credit to the "telechat" serie) I am very honoured to be part of the show :-) |
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| an event I would recommend |
[Jul. 30th, 2009|10:33 pm] |
a 3 days festival, details here:
http://iconographyofmask.blogspot.com/
I manage to "gate crash" as a "model" for monsterlune hoods. I am very far from having the slightlest skills to model but because I will wear a hood, I guess it's a no risk job.
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| going nowhere |
[Jul. 21st, 2009|08:56 pm] |
the past month has been very stresssssssfull, including the very last minute works to be ready for nowhere festival (like building a roof rack for the car etc... ).
nowhere festival was a nice experience, a kind of "burning man" but with less than 400 people. To me it was a total brainwash holydays, very much needed. I would really recommend this festival to any people wanted to confront / to experiment any creative ideas / expressions / sculptures / etc... Imagine having a blank space (outdoors) at your disposal for 4 days. When leaving, anything has to be brought back.
it takes place a few miles north of Zaragossa (spain). The landscape is a kind of desert (no water) with dramatic sunsets, and oven temperatures for the siesta.
because we were in a rush, we just made this scabby wharehouse door. The exit sign was illuminating during the nights for a tripping experience.
we where sleeping in my geodesic dome just dismantled from my workshop. Covered with a parachute, it was large enough for the 4 of us plus guests. It brought us shadow, coolness, in short: a 4 stars hotel ! On the minus side: it took 6 hours to mount it...
( see more... )
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| playing the fool |
[May. 19th, 2009|10:47 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  recumbent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | SITD mortal radiation | ] |
TG birthday ball started very badly, an endless queue at the entrance, then for the cloackroom, and finally at the bar, being served frelated horrible and expensive beer i felt like Mussolini having lost his credit card. And then, wearing those red goggles everything went smooth and at the end very funny. I spent the night having monochromatic hallucinations. Perfect.
this dental-NHS-fetish-gizmo is supposed to give me this facial expression astronauts are experiencing in their rocket (a few Gs of acceleration never hurts, and that"s good for the wrinckles too)
all machined from chirurgical steel and zobium last week, flying helmet by freyagushi
and here, in action !
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| un bien qui t'appartiens est un soucis qui te retiens |
[May. 15th, 2009|11:27 pm] |
being very wealthy I wanted to experience the thrill of earning a few pounds from personnal memorabilia sold on ebay.
[it would be usefull though, because my last year bonus has not been that big, massive yes, but not huge]
so here it is:
a few LPs, back from the 80ies, and most of them being really like new, because I am a f*** maniac psycho fetishist, all my vinyls have been played only once to be recorded on a tape, And now 28 years after I am offering them to YOU !!!!!! at a very low no reserve starting price wohoooooh yooohahaahhhhh !
( the link to gluondufou as an ebay seller.... )
link to ebay
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| the velomobile project is finally taking off |
[Apr. 21st, 2009|11:25 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | happy | ] |
eventualy the rear steering system has been successfully tested on real on open road ! it was a quick ride: I broke a vital part (from the vehicle) but it was just enough to validate the stability. This mock-up prototype has been built from scrap materials, and I just need to build the proper first prototype now. But things are very very encouraging. it seems that I am one of the first ones to have successfully implemented a rear steering device (I am such a dick swinger), since the birth of the automobile craft it has been like a kind of graal quest, where brilliant engineers such as Gabriel Voisin (France) or Buckminster Fuller (USA) broke their teeth on. The failure of rear steering development is due to inherent instability. Here I just took the pbm by the other side, that is to say trying to adapt the 1 degre of freedom pendulum mechanism to a rear steering application, plus a 4 bars linkage to mimic a virtual pivot "et voilà" . But still plenty of other variables to adjust, the definite result will be achieved when the fuselage body will be mounted. it will have an influence on the steering too (via the sum of the aerodynamic forces located at the position of the center of pressure ), and if the whole assembly doesn't work alltogether my invention is useless.
so by now being enthusiastic I have been playing a bit:
( half nudity content )
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| london-berlin |
[Mar. 10th, 2009|10:22 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | jubilant | ] |
| [ | music |
| | death in june, we drive east | ] |
london berlin = 1075Km (avoiding motorways), that's a 3 days journey by velomobile. if only I was able to complete the first prototype by the end of this summer....
since november 2008 I have been working solid all my spare time on it, including christmass and new year's eve, and the only result is a mock-up version that still cannot roll.
since 2004 it has been like designing a "too-gigantic-jigsaw-for-a-stand-alone-engineer" with every part being a technical challenge for me really.
if it works, well, that's cool :-) I can travel for free all around europe.
if it fails, i will work on it again, that's the lesson watashiwa teaches me everyday.
and at the same time, i am longing to give birth to my medical-industrial-steampunkish project... ready for april ? |
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| kaiser beer |
[Feb. 9th, 2009|10:05 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | amused | ] |
I don't know much about the goth/metal/industrial band "hanzel und gretyl" but those guys are really nice customers and this photo they sent to me made me laugh and cheered me up :-)
( the nautilus goggles hereafter )
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| winter sport in London |
[Feb. 8th, 2009|09:12 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  cold | ] |
what a thrill ! Monday when I realised the pow was going to stay a while I decided to swap a day of work for a day of back country ski in Hampstead Heath park. I was unsure how to get here though, at the end the best option was simply to attach the pair of skis on my bike.
the guys at http://veloski.blogspot.com/ were right, that's feasible.
( (a few more) )
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| trumpetting |
[Jan. 23rd, 2009|11:07 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | grateful | ] |
yepeee ! thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pinkindus who knows nina_kate , (now I am part of a mafia) I have been given the opportunity to feature my goggles in the last issue of bizarre magazine. I really like the result, a bit disapointed though that they didn't pick the shot where Kate was wearing her fox with the cute little goggles specially made for him. One can see them during a split second in the video here
http://www.bizarremag.com/bizarre_girls/videos/7657/nina-kate-steampunk.html
( goggles overdose... )
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| finally some news |
[Sep. 11th, 2008|12:42 am] |
| [ | music |
| | DM enjoy the silence | ] |
since my -not-so-recent move to London, time has been running speed light fast...
Despite having many hobbies I am still a proud goggles maker (in fact and to my happy surprise, it's my only income). I have done tons of new stuff in the past months, just a little glance after the ( Read more... ) |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 20th, 2008|09:55 pm] |
after the lj-cut a video directed by Samppa, it has been made for the band THE WILDHEARTS, track " destroy all monsters" . simply amazing work, not only because some of my goggles can be seen :-) but truly it's very impressive and beautifull alltogether.
I must say I am a bit proud to be a micro tiny part of it....
more in the future should come, we already have been spending long hours in the past weeks designing and machining various props,
( Read more... ) |
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| discret update |
[Nov. 1st, 2007|06:37 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | barnet ! | ] |
| [ | music |
| | NON in my head | ] |
Finally my situation in London has settle down a little, thanks to pinkindus I am living in an amazing space :-))))))))
my workshop is now enclosed in a geodetic dome, a very low budget self built construction (dome structures are the most efficient way to enclose a space: it requires the minimum amount of material ).
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| back to civilisation |
[Aug. 19th, 2007|10:41 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | exhausted | ] |
| [ | music |
| | arvo pärt lithany because i am worth it | ] |
august has been like a storm. sorry for my late replies to all your emails.
i have been trying to build a kind of small stock for my stall at infest, including some silicone bracelets/jewellery, plus the ongoing orders to pay the rent, PLUS the big change in my life since my installation in the northumberland: the planning of my move to LOndon just the week after infest :-)))
i have been living like a monk in the north penines, i will try to live like a monk in London.
and now i have to pack a high volume of junk/machinery/prototypes/furnitures and a dog into a 20cubic meters van.
plan B if no money: no plan B
plan C: no plan C at the current edition time |
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| new machinery for a shiny hippy bright future |
[Jun. 26th, 2007|10:35 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | as always and again | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  anxious | ] |
| [ | music |
| | bbc4 because i like to hear about floods | ] |
how to lift a 150kg weight of cast iron and put it on bench without any help, just your hands , no tools, no crane, no muscles (i am a kind of prawn suffering from malnutrition), no pulleys, no ropes, no neighbours, no money, no donkey, no magic, no hope. I got inspiration from the pyramid builders (even if their secret is still well kept, there are a few theories around it) and i can tell it works !
( hereafter is a picture of my workshop with my new toys ) |
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| maintenance |
[May. 27th, 2007|07:39 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | anxious | ] |
I am deeply sorry i am facing difficulties with my webhost, => no website+ no ebay pictures + no myspace pictures + no Lj pictures + no orders + no emails etc..it will be fixed within the next week (unfortunately i am away from home at the moment, it couldn't be worst i guess, oh, may be my house is burning, i will check that next week when i am back) |
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| some furniture wander by mistake |
[May. 6th, 2007|06:58 pm] |
i am leaving in such a mess i can't decently post any photos of my home's interiors but here are a few stuff i have recently done: (i mostly work with aluminium and resin/fibreglass)
( a lamp and more... ) |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 25th, 2007|08:57 am] |
| [ | music |
| | imminent starvation, nord | ] |
(X-posted in industrialfashion, because, ahemm, i think it has that sort of light "industrial" touch)
here is a massive belt buckle i have recently done for a guy. it's all machined out of a thick plate of aluminium alloy, all hardware in stainless. The buckle can be open to store any kind of junk (credit cards, used condom, cigarettes, cut ears and 2 fingers, cash). I have tried to be intelligent enough to design something that couldn't be accidentally opened -even if the opening bolts are released- (could be a nightmare if it opens on a packed dancefloor or in the bathroom).
ok it's really a one-off because there is about 30 hours of work in it.
( a few more... ) |
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| a chick repellent for free |
[Feb. 25th, 2007|10:03 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | content | ] |
| [ | music |
| | premature ejaculation | ] |
what a lovely sunday !
for this achievement many thanks to:
-the russian team who hacks softwares for punk users;
- Flabel and his book "design and analysis of aerospace vehicle structures", he gave me my true first experience of shear calculation last year :-))
- D. Gay (no kidding) "composites materials" my bible since 1991;
- all the US taxpayers, making possible the NASA to edit highly valuable technical reports online trough the Langley server;
- the fanatics that keep alive the spreading of priceless documents, such as the ANC-18 (1951) or the VALLAT (1946), the old school way is the best !!!!
- the eng-tips forums (aircraft engineering and nastran to name a few), the only forums where yobs entries are banned;
-my brother who is always enthusiast about my shit,
- and a lot more...
( the full story here ) |
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| friday's joke |
[Feb. 23rd, 2007|06:09 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | in my shoes | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | worried | ] |
| [ | music |
| | stabat mater (vivaldi) james bowman | ] |
war on terror ?
who benefits from the slaughter ?
(you don't have to read the full news, the link by itself is explicit)
http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/missiles/Raytheon_profit_rises_on_higher_missile_sales160010272.php
and just a pure coincidence: barclays bank announced last week a profit of 7 billions of pounds.
my bomb costs just £120, weight is under 2Kg without the hot spicy filling (can be easily sent overseas), and i am now working on a lamp with the same shape.
(i have done that one as a stand for extrememetal)
I am now a member of the highly select club of "weapons dealers" and my business bank account is currently hosted by barclays.
(I will keep you update with my profits) |
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