La semaine de Ms. O

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20110822

Ms O. ll

Fotografe: Ellen Lootens

Model: Sarah De Grauwe

20110818

CLOUD CAMPING

This is another little project of mine, I didn't spent alot of time on it, so its not really finished.

Based on this creation of Zebra3 Buy-Sellf and on the clouds of pjcr.be/clouds, I designed my very own caravan. I would love to do some roadtrips with this cute little thing! On 10m2 you got everything you need for a nice and relaxing trip (with your head in the cloud(s)!), don't you think? Since I owned a Fiat 500 oldtimer, I should do some research on light-weight materials, I don't want to get pulled down if I'm driving up a moutainside! (or even a bridge, last year it took almost al its power to drive up one)

Can't wait to build this in real-life!

20110605

Bachelorproef architectuur

Bloed, zweet en tranen heeft het gekost, maar ik ben best wel trots op mijn bachelorproefproject! Opdracht was in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, op een vaste site 35 woningen ontwerpen, met publieke functie.

Vanuit de analyse bleek dat heel weinig mensen in de buurt een eigen kwalitatieve buitenruimte hebben. Aangezien er hier ook heel wat culturen zijn die vooral buiten leven, heb ik gekozen voor gemeenschappelijke moestuinen in serres, verspreid op een aantal wastelands in Molenbeek. Op deze manier leren de mensen elkaar beter kennen door samen te werken, en kunnen ze ook genieten van een 'tuin', zelfs in de winter.

Deze moestuinen/serres komen ook terug op het ontwerp van de site zelf.

Meer uitleg later!

20100817

Tea Sub

20100808

Vintage cocktail chair

Lately I'm kind of obsessed by this type of '50s cocktail chairs. They look so nice and adorable! Ouh, must sit so comfortable, with that big big cushion, seems like you will sink in it when you sit on it. Unfortunately they're quite rare I think, I don't really find much of them on the internet, and I also discovered that they're quite expensive (and actually I don't have any space left in my room, but that's not a big issue, I want them so bad I could easily make some space :D). Kind of a shame that I couldn't find any pictures of the chair when standing in a nice living space, maybe that's another reason I should buy a pair of these!

20100807

Norway/Sweden

Back from holiday in Sweden and Norway. Had a lot of fun, especially evening swims in the lake nearby. Our little house was really in the middle of nowhere, very quite and completely surrounded by nature. Of course this also meant that we spent a LOT of time in the car everyday, to get to places where there was something to do.

We also went to Oslo (for my birthday) for a day, a little bit short, what a BIG city! Or maybe it just felt that big because we were already not used to it anymore, after a week of separation from everything.. I was sooo looking forward to find some nice design shops -I love Scandinavian design!- but at the end of the day I only saw two or three little shops and not really what I expected, quite disappointing. Maybe I needed to plan it a little more, look them up on the internet before we went to Oslo.. Now back in Belgium, happy to be back -to be able to look things up on the internet, to talk to friends again- but a little bit missing the beautiful landscapes (and actually the beautiful weather too, it's raining in Belgium) and the peaceful, quite little villages.

Sweden

20100728

Polaroid Impossible Project

Earlier this week I decided to try the new polaroid films of the Impossible Project (www.the-impossible-project.com). Their mission is to make new polaroid films, since the old ones are not made anymore, however it's still in a quite experimental state, I noticed. Six of the eight polaroid pictures that I took came out really crappy, blurry and not very beautiful. Of course I wasn't very happy about that, these films are quite expensive. So I went back to the shop I bought them, they said I needed to change and rechange the adjustments of my camera, until the pictures would come out nicely. In the end I decided to buy an other type of polaroid camera, since mine has only one slide button (for light adjustments) and there's not really anything to 'experiment' with actually :D, so! Yesterday I bought a Polaroid Close up 636, hopefully I will now be able to take some sharper pictures.. Excited to try it out!

Well, I guess in some weird way I actually start to like these pictures

20100723

View-master

This week my latest vintage find: a View-master! When I saw it, I instantly had flashbacks of my childhood, when I used to play ALOT with these things. I just love the 'old' colors and nice pictures, I was wondering if it would work out if you took a picture of it, and it did (well, not in 3D of course, but it's nice enough to me)

Now I want to make my own pictures, so I can look at them with my view-master. I really thought it was kind of impossible, but then I found a machine that actually makes a view-master reel with your own photos. Wauw, another thing I want to have..