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doublestupid · 2 years
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hey what's up0:04so uh0:07um0:08i posted a transcript of what i said0:12um0:15and then uh rob robert o'neill0:19interview with sean ryan0:22and uh0:25that that feeling man0:28um just0:31so good0:33but i'll tell you what0:57[Music]1:05[Music]1:13like when it's all said and done1:17um1:20you know1:21uh1:25[Music]1:28this is what it's all about man i'll1:29tell you what it's all about1:31about this1:32this1:33[Music]1:34from this1:38um1:40it's just1:43uh1:45i don't know how to describe it1:51i'll tell i'll read it to you1:55i'll read it to you a little bit1:59um2:07[Music]2:18so2:36so this is this book here2:41um2:42[Music]2:47dafa2:59shi3:01chuang shi3:09zhu de zhi huiso what it means um3:12what it means is3:14great3:15law3:17is3:19start3:20world3:22head3:24of3:26wisdom3:28and so on and so forth i'll3:32bring it back to what i'm reading3:39[Music]3:44zhe zhu3:46you3:48zenshanren3:51jejong to shinda3:55is exactly is3:57[Music]3:59has4:01zhenshanren4:03this4:05kind4:06special4:07nature4:10uh4:11and and it's a whole you know4:13book um4:15but it's just so awesome you know um4:19yeah4:21that about sums it up4:23um4:26like4:27life is good man life is amazing but4:29tell you no matter as good as it feels4:34like4:35you know i spent the whole4:38last four days4:40just you know4:42going hard you know4:44chewing dip4:47drinking coffee4:50just working4:54and4:54uh4:56so this morning um4:592 3 a.m i woke up and i had to finish5:01watching sean ryan5:03and you know i'm tired but i just5:08yeah finish watching the interview5:11then i gotta leave the house around six5:13so5:15i didn't get much sleep and i'm just5:18spent you know5:28it's kind of like5:29dj shipley you see he said that when he5:32got electrocuted5:34he he got like superhuman vision5:38kind of going all out5:40past your limit all the time that's how5:42you are all the time5:44that's how you are all the time5:49and and still no matter what at the end5:51of the day5:53it just comes down to that to these5:55words you know5:57like it's nothing compared to these5:59words however and it6:01in itself it's it's beyond belief like6:05you can't describe how and how6:08um6:09just6:12just how6:13you know6:16um6:20and you know how6:24how much there's to it6:28how magic things are6:31you know6:33but it's still6:35yeah6:39that's that's awesome that's pretty cool6:45excuse me6:47so i'm a little hungover so to speak but6:52it's nothing you know
hey what’s up0:04so uh0:07um0:08i posted a transcript of what i said0:12um0:15and then uh rob robert o’neill0:19interview with sean ryan0:22and uh0:25that that feeling man0:28um just0:31so good0:33but i’ll tell you what0:57[Music]1:05[Music]1:13like when it’s all said and done1:17um1:20you know1:21uh1:25[Music]1:28this is what it’s all about man i’ll1:29tell you what it’s all about1:31about this1:32this1:33[Music]1:34from this1:38um1:40it’s just1:43uh1:45i don’t know how to describe it1:51i’ll tell i’ll read it to you1:55i’ll read it to you a little bit1:59um2:07[Music]2:18so2:36so this is this book here2:41um2:42[Music]2:47dafa2:59shi3:01chuang shi3:09zhu de zhi huiso what it means um3:12what it means is3:14great3:15law3:17is3:19start3:20world3:22head3:24of3:26wisdom3:28and so on and so forth i’ll3:32bring it back to what i’m reading3:39[Music]3:44zhe zhu3:46you3:48zenshanren3:51jejong to shinda3:55is exactly is3:57[Music]3:59has4:01zhenshanren4:03this4:05kind4:06special4:07nature4:10uh4:11and and it’s a whole you know4:13book um4:15but it’s just so awesome you know um4:19yeah4:21that about sums it up4:23um4:26like4:27life is good man life is amazing but4:29tell you no matter as good as it feels4:34like4:35you know i spent the whole4:38last four days4:40just you know4:42going hard you know4:44chewing dip4:47drinking coffee4:50just working4:54and4:54uh4:56so this morning um4:592 3 a.m i woke up and i had to finish5:01watching sean ryan5:03and you know i’m tired but i just5:08yeah finish watching the interview5:11then i gotta leave the house around six5:13so5:15i didn’t get much sleep and i’m just5:18spent you know5:28it’s kind of like5:29dj shipley you see he said that when he5:32got electrocuted5:34he he got like superhuman vision5:38kind of going all out5:40past your limit all the time that’s how5:42you are all the time5:44that’s how you are all the time5:49and and still no matter what at the end5:51of the day5:53it just comes down to that to these5:55words you know5:57like it’s nothing compared to these5:59words however and it6:01in itself it’s it’s beyond belief like6:05you can’t describe how and how6:08um6:09just6:12just how6:13you know6:16um6:20and you know how6:24how much there’s to it6:28how magic things are6:31you know6:33but it’s still6:35yeah6:39that’s that’s awesome that’s pretty cool6:45excuse me6:47so i’m a little hungover so to speak but6:52it’s nothing you know
hey what’s up0:04so uh0:07um0:08i posted a transcript of what i said0:12um0:15and then uh rob robert o’neill0:19interview with sean ryan0:22and uh0:25that that feeling man0:28um just0:31so good0:33but i’ll tell you what0:57[Music]1:05[Music]1:13like when it’s all said and done1:17um1:20you know1:21uh1:25[Music]1:28this is what it’s all about man i’ll1:29tell you what it’s all about1:31about…
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nandirealestates · 9 months
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There are various house designs in Kenya, ranging from simple and affordable designs to more elaborate and luxurious options. The cost of building a house in Kenya can vary depending…Continue reading3 Types house designs in Kenya and Cost
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Creating Contacts
This chapter is about the importance of contacts in film photography. There are indeed some useful information to know about how to work in a dark room. I use to think film photography is out-dated, but now I think it’s a great skill to have after a semester of classes. This information helped me to understand why it is so essential to make contact sheets. According to the article, the purpose of making contact sheets for David Hurn is to recall the moments, use them as teaching methods, organize with purpose and learn from others. I agree with what he said about it’s necessary to be well prepared before shooting and take time to look over the contacts after shooting even though all photographers use different myths and preferences for their own work. In addition, the other fact makes contacts so important is because we don’t see our work objectively; I can definitely relate to this because the images are taken by ourselves involved with our personal feelings so that we lose our ability of evaluating them correctly.
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dearfoucault · 4 years
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Reading III Intro by Aliisa
Reading III (The New Materialism of Design) 
Intro by Aliisa 
9/10/2019
In this Intro I will cover standardization, a relationship between humans and nonhumans and the definion of ‘nonhumans’. I also try to reflect these to visual communication design.
Standardization
Workers of the World, Conform! was interesting opening to standardization and how it is used in everything we do and are. The essence of its is to connect and communicate with other humans over language, culture and society: the most important duty of standards is liberate humans from ‘the burden of information management. 
The idea of standardization was very noble: less waste, higher moral, cultural and linguistic neutrality and freedom. However, standardization for example ended up to be used by right-wing extremists, Nazis. Where standards were supposed to free humans they ended up in this content to marginalize and define design and especially culture, society, religion and all in all human rights and freedom. 
Nazi Germany was known from  standardization and I wonder if this is why the article did not mention Bauhaus which was also highly oriented to standards and from Germany: I wonder if the author wanted to avoid the misunderstood connections between Bauhaus and fascism. However Bauhaus has still very big influence in design and has a big role in standardization. It is also interesting how standardization ended up to Switzerland and created its own school and how this way visual communication design is tied to standardization. 
This also lead to how standards spread from design to politics and society and how dangerous standards have become in nowadays' society and this leads back to the talk of freedom. Even if standards are wanted to see liberate they are limiting and we do not even need to go back to fascist Europe but observe our own time and society: standards always leave something out and this way center authority and this makes standards so dangerous. 
Standardization: Language 
Societies have always had standards and standardization where both verbal and written language are good examples. In order to work language has to be same to everybody: we need to use same words, grammar and orthography to understand each others. However we cannot understand the other languages with our own language (in most of the languages). The interesting example is Chinese. In China there are actually more than one language but they are all called Chinese like they are dialects together when they are actually their own languages as far as French and German are from each other. However, all the Chinese languages have the same notation. Written Chinese is one of the biggest creations of communist China: the problem with many different languages was solved with the same written language: one shared notation enabled one strong national identity. I see this very interesting example of the power of communication and standards.
Standardization: Comics
Language also makes me think comic as storytelling and how comics especially in Japan use these standardized symbols ‘internal effects’ (not sure about translations, in Finnish: sisäiset tehokeinot). These are visuals that means always the same things like feeling, emotions and reactions. In European comics the most known are f.e. starts over the head when the character is hurt but in Japan this has been taken to the next level like the whole meaning of the comic. However, there is no dictionary nor grammar to these effects but everyone who has read comics will understand them at the same way no matter the culture or country. We do not even have to go to comics what it comes to standardized visuals: we need to find the nearest EXIT sign to understand how standardized our visual language is even there is no clear structure to everything. 
Now when I am talking about one of my favourite topics, comics, I also want to mention standards and reiteration. In the earlier reading (do not remember a name of the text) there was one sentence that has left haunting (not straight quote): the director ends up doing the same film over and over again: every film is just a new version of the same idea. I see this happen a lot in comics and especially in Japanese comics that are directed to teenage girls: there is one standard plot with standard characters. If these comics were put next to each other there would be visible and clear similarities in dialogue and visuals. Of course this is also seen in anything mass produced like super hero movies but these shōjo comics have especially catch my attention. 
Standardization: Waste
I also paid attention to the comment of waste and this very minimalist idea of standardization: ‘actions that minimize waste are good, those that unnecessarily cause waste are bad’: at the same time standards were supposed to ease mass production but also use materials wisely and economically but nowadays mass production is one of the biggest problems in our society and actually is especially the waste of material. ‘Quality control’ is also interesting output of standardization but how this is more like ideal than reality when we observe mass production: most of the objects are badly produced without no ‘quality control’. And this leads me to ‘nonhumans’ (I liked Bruno Latour’s term ‘nonhuman’ to objects so I am going to use nonhuman when talking about objects, material and technology).
Nonhumans 
Object-oriented ontology seemed really interesting theory and how the term ‘object’ also contains material like stories (Harry Potter) and electrical files. Even if nonhuman means something that is not human I felt like it gives something humane to the term and this way makes the connection between humans and nonhumans. As Latour said: ‘we cannot understand how society work without an understanding of how technologies shape our everyday lives’ we have no history without technology and this way we are tied to it forever. 
When talking about nonhumans, I was thinking about visual communication designers all the time: ‘here they are, the hidden and despised social masses who make up our morality’: this was like straight from the essays about the identity crise of visual communication designers: at the same time we create the messages and language but also deliver it: we are not the messengers but also something else, designers with authority. However, it seems like we do not really know where our authority lays and that way we seem like lost. 
Between nonhumans
The essay also made me think how tied nonhumans are also to each others. To have one nonhuman there almost every time needs to be another different one. This is ongoing circle what is really hard to break and shows how tight we are connected to nonhumans and also how tight nonhumans are together. I am going to use my new phone as an example: i bought iPhone 7 Plus from Swappie (used phones). However, even if the phone is used it is almost like new (and expensive) and that is why I want to protect it as well as possible. This means I had to buy protective glass and also protective covers: so instead of one thing I have bought three things. These connections makes me feel anxious: having one more nonhuman make me need another nonhuman and another one and another one… Of course this also makes me think what I actually need and what I simply want and how capitalism and mass production is connected to this. 
I am really interested in minimalism and all in all the Eastern philosophies (minimalism as itself is not Japanese but American philosophy collected and merged from Japanese philosophies, religions and aesthetics) and how these cover the relationships between humans and nonhumans. 
Graphic design and nonhumans 
‘When humans are displaced and deskilled, nonhumans have to be upgraded and deskilled’. This made me think how sometimes there is conversation about how all practical works are replaced by nonhumans so humans can concentrate to other things like, I don’t know, thinking? Being happy? This also means that visual communication design would change more like giving different kind of orders to nonhumans. In the softwares all the tools are basically orders to the program to do what we want but still we are the ones using the tools: however, in the future we do not even have to use the tools but some other ways of communicating and getting out the practice we want. 
In general, I feel many designers do not want this: this is basically being AD giving suggestions and orders instead of working themselves. At first, I also felt this repelling but now I have started to think what kind of possibilities this gives us? We would not have to know how to do it by ourselves but we could use this nonhuman to do it for us but even better and clearer and easier. For what kind of things we would get more time?
However, this is again ethical question as we have seen in nowadays’ technology where we try to program nonhumans to communicate with humans: there was a time when Snapchat’s face recognising tool did not recognise other than white people and also how this same tools is used in armed practices. The same programming problem with algorithms is happening in Instagram right now: Instagram is programmed to censor automatically all the violating material. However, this has been started to censorship especially the body parts of women like nipples, even if it was a picture from the picture or illustration. Even if this is always justified as “human mistakes” it is always a choice, a tone of speech: how we want to connect with humans with nonhumans. Nonhumans do not make the decisions, humans do. 
This arise the question how ethical it can be to try to create communication between nonhumans and humans without content, emotions and other social aspects, like Latour pondered how to prevent people getting bloody noses while going through the door. Not forgetting that every nonhuman is created by human somewhere in the world and what kind of ethical questions this arise about working and human rights.
This is also why I see visual communication can never be completely made by nonhumans: we would need very complicated nonhumans to design messages to as complex creatures as humans that have physical, social and mental ways of thinking and communicating. 
Empathy towards nonhumans 
As social creatures we want to connect with each others but also with the world around us. We are very self-centred and this is why we always try to see someone like us in everything we are watching (Scott McCloud has really interesting theory of this and how it is used in comics and more accurately in caricatures). Like Latour said himself he talks to his computer: we try to humanise things that are nonhumans. I think this is also connected to materialism. I have always seen myself as very materialistic person: I get attached to material (and that is why I cannot throw anything away or it is super hard) and I try to fill my own personality with nonhumans (about this little bit later). However, I am not very good with taking care of my nonhumans: they get broken, dirty and messy very easily. My computer’s filing system is a disaster and I have too much stuff in our apartment. And I am pretty sure that I am not alone with this: it can be seen for example in KonMari method and how popular it has come. 
In Konmari method you give away the things that ‘does not spark joy’. You hold every  thing you have one by one and try to feel does it spark joy. If it does not, you thank it and give it away. Marie Kondo herself also greets and thanks her apartment every time she comes home. She connects with nonhumans and appreciate their existence. Many people had said it goes too far to greet and thank objects because they are not humans or even living things. However, in my opinion this is the most important and practical part of the method and should rise awareness more: when we appreciate what we have, we start to take care of it and kill the need for new things. I see it is very important to think nonhumans as spiritual creatures to understand our problematic ways to consume. 
Cyborgs
In this content I use ‘nonhuman’ to describe something that is intentionally created by human.
Latour said: ‘We believe that there exist “humans” and “nonhuman”, without realizing that this attribution of roles and action is also a choice’. I find this very interesting thought: like I said, I have always seen myself very materialistic person like nonhumans are the extension of myself and my personality. But like Latour also said we are nothing without our nonhumans: they are supposed to be part of us. This way I am not actually that materialistic as anybody else but I think, see and pay attention more to the connection with nonhuman. 
We are not much without our nonhumans. My classmate made this very interesting work about utopia where normal people are designed like brands: they have rules, personal features and coherent whole of personality and lifestyle. This was a lot based on relationship between nonhumans and humans. I found this very fascinating  because this has actually been something I have tried to achieve for a long time: the complete and perfect relationship with my nonhumans to understand myself better. 
Cyborgs are half machines and half humans. Cyborg robots are often primarily machines but also primarily human cyborgs exists. Cyborgs are often shown that part of the human is replaced with machines like leg, eye or hand. Cyborgs were ones this interesting utopia but nowadays everyone of us is somehow cyborg. Without technology and machines we cannot survive: they are the permanent parts of us. 
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Summary, Reading iii : The New Materiality of Design, Lari, 8.10.2019
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Some of the topics we had in our discussion when we met at Amelie's place • “Death of God” meaning God created the world but anything is as valuable as god • Design hacks : a sofa that is also / turns into a bicycle • Barbapapa as “The New Materiality of Design” • Stanrdazation vs. biodioversity • Standardization can lead to monopoly (e.g. Apple)—link to dictatorship • Decreasing attention span • “Scenius” • “It’s easier if we give the authority to the user of the object—maybe in this case the author is dead” about Gill Sans • “Even the dreams can’t be original because it’s something you have seen” • “What you make is the product of the environment so the environment is the author” Wrap up : Oxbridge Philosophy - John Cleese & Jonathan Miller
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